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7 Best Cruises For Your Return To Cruising
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Jan 28, 2025
What are the best cruises you should consider for your return to cruising, once you are able to or want to. For many that will be 2021 or later. In this I explore what you need to consider is likely to the most likely cruise itineraries that are available, and why, and then the 7 best cruises based on that to focus on. These are the best cruises that I am also looking at for those reasons. Other Videos in my Cruise Shutdown Series: 1: What should you do with bookings: https://youtu.be/Bp4xA21bsY4 2: Cancellations and refunds: https://youtu.be/BEadOjDRwAA 3: Cruise Lines Finances and refunds: https://youtu.be/E5Uco5H3CYU 4: When Cruising Will Really Start Up: https://youtu.be/3A4ZxXa-l8o 5: How cruising will change: : https://youtu.be/bamjq0pT8FU 6: Will people cruise again: https://youtu.be/mF_fKOmAmxg 7: Best Cruises For Return To Cruising: https://youtu.be/srqQ4upSv4k SUPPORT THE CHANNEL BY: Buying my Cruise T-shirts: http://bit.ly/TFTStore Booking your next cruise with CRUISEDIRECT.COM: http://bit.ly/TFTBookCruise Gary Bembridge's Tips For Travellers aims to help you make more of your precious travel time and money on land and when cruising the oceans or rivers of the world. To help you, in every video I draw on my first-hand tips and advice from travelling every month for over 20 years and 77 cruises at time of making this video. Follow Tips For Travellers on: - Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/garybembridge
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what are the best seven cruisers for
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your return to cruising in 2021
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I'm Gary beverage this is another of my
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cruising tips for travelers I want to
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talk to you about the cruises that I
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think you should be thinking about if
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you're thinking of going back cruising
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in 2021 I did a survey amongst various
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people watching the channel got loads
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and loads of replies and without the
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shadow it out by the vast majority most
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people were talking about returning to
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cruising in 2021 because that's when
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people felt that Christmas is going to
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be back and running procedures in place
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and it was kind of safe to go cruising
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again so I thought let's think about the
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best cruisers that you should consider
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or have on your list to look at to go
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cruising in 2021 and I must admit these
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are the ones that I'm looking at myself
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because I think they're the right ones
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to do so how did I choose these seven
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cruisers well first of all I took a look
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at what are the big cruising regions of
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the big popular regions historically and
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the reason I did that is first of all
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because there's lots and lots of cruise
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lines and ships servicing those regions
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so what's important about that is you
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can have lots of choice so this will
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also no matter what your budget is all
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type of cruising you like your party
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cruising more sedate cruising big ships
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small ship there's likely to be an
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option for you within all of these
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cruises secondly these are destinations
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regions and ports that are very good up
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to tourism so they are more likely to be
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up and running have procedures in place
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and make sure that they have got back to
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operating in a safe efficient and a good
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way they're like really fully fully
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staffed and just running really slickly
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and then I also took a look at cruises
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that I still think other must use any
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one sort of cruising portfolio the
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cruises that I really think are really
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really worth doing this should almost be
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on your wish list or your bucket list so
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let's take a look at those cruises
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starting with this one
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I do think looking at a transatlantic
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cruise particularly a crossing on Kanade
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Queen Mary - should be on the list the
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reason I chose this is first of all of
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course it's a big iconic trip it's a
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famous trip that Queen Mary 2 is the
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only full ocean liner design to ship
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every other ship is a cruise liner but
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also importantly if you're nervous or
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worried about going out cruising the
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advantage will
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with a transatlantic treaty on the Queen
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Mary - if you only have two ports you
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have South Hampton although you can
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actually go from Hamburg as well but
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largely speaking you have South Hampton
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and you have New York so the rest of it
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is days at sea up to seven days at sea
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so in terms of worrying about different
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ports and all the complexities of that a
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crossing is going to give you a
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magnificent cultured very unique
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experience lots of dressing up and lots
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of entertainment and all sorts of things
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to do but it's also gonna be the one
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that involves limited words it's also
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two really big well-established
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invocation and disembarkation ports so
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it's really going to be the least
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stressful in many ways crossing on
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Kamino - in 2001 is something definitely
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that I will be doing the second cruise I
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recommend you look at is a Caribbean
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cruise now you actually have three
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options here you have an eastern or
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western and a southern the reason I
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chose the Caribbean is the Caribbean is
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the biggest cruising region in the world
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before the shutdown and it will be again
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so it's again a region that's gonna be
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really fast to gear up they're really
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going to the so reliant on cruising and
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I believe that we're gonna find that
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this is one of the earliest regions to
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get up and running again because of its
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importance its closeness to the big
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cruising ports Miami
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poor little glades Port Canaveral and
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it's also a place that people want to go
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to you know sunshine beaches and you
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know it's true holiday region so I think
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this is one to consider now there's
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three different itineraries but if
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you're feeling a little bit cautious why
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not consider actually going on a shorter
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cruise so you get these little for now
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to finite or sometimes five night of
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cruises out of Miami or Fort Lauderdale
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largely and these will tend to either
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just go to the cruise lines private
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island and perhaps a little stop on the
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main part of the Bahaman Islands or they
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might combine just going to the Bahamas
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with sea days so again it's a relatively
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it's a shorter trip it's a very kind of
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lockdown trip where the ports will be
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really controlled everything be
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controlled so you might wanna consider
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that but there is the Eastern Caribbean
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which is a great itinerary only seven
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days itinerary that's gonna include
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place like San Juans and Thomas and
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Kitts and Lucia st. Maarten if you go on
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a Western care
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which is really popular cause you know
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the Mexican ports like Cozumel for
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example but you what we gonna go to
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places like Grand Cayman Belize City
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places like that the Southern Caribbean
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will often be slightly longer cruises
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but you're going to go to places like
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Barbados and lucious and kids so lots of
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choices in the Caribbean and it's
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definitely one to consider great
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sunshine holiday to head back out to sea
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and again it really will get locked down
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because it's such a big important region
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if you're looking at cruising later near
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so in the middle of the year so a lot of
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cruising action shifts from the
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Caribbean around about April time switch
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about September October time of course
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you can cruise the Caribbean all year
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round but a lot of it shifts to Europe
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and so the next bunch of cruises I want
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to talk about are really linked to the
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sort of European cruising experience one
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of those that I would have very high on
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the list and strongly recommend you
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consider is the Norwegian fjords so
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Norwegian fjords cruise is a phenomenal
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cruise and again should be very high on
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your list of places to go the reason for
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that is you are gonna have very long
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days because it gets dark barely at all
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in the peak season all the time that
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you're sailing you and me selling
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through a phenomenal beautiful scene we
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go really far inland so it's a
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magnificent way to spend seven days you
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can do those out of various different
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ports around Europe for example out of
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Southampton the UK you have a Dead Sea
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you'll go to various places whether it's
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Bergen Flom Karanga fued various places
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like that and you'll have a sea day
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coming back really really it's a
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phenomenal fantastic place to go the
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other cruise that I think you should
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consider and Guinness is particularly
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true if you're perhaps more UK pound or
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you're including the UK as part of a
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bigger trips or a lot of Australians
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will come to Europe and spend time in
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Europe doing some land-based things but
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certainly if you want to do a fantastic
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cruise I recommend you do around the UK
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and Island cruise in the season there's
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lots and lots of choice to do this and
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you will normally head out at 10 some of
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them will head out of Dover someone
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actually head out even out of London so
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out of Greenwich or Tilbury some of the
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ports near London and some of the got a
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smaller ports like Dover or Portsmouth
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or what's like that and you're basically
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cruise around the UK you
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normally : at least into Dublin
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sometimes some other ports you'll head
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ride around the top of the UK you'll go
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to places like Edinburgh you'll get a
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chance to see the beautiful and amber
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castle and you're called various
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different ports along the way so you
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might come to places like Newcastle or
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places some Wales and so this is a great
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great cruise if you also want to go
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somewhere that see lots places you
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haven't seen before but again close to
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home or you want to be based out of
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London around the UK and Ireland is
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becoming really really popular Cruise
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and I would have it higher on the list
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because it's definitely a great wave
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scene the UK and Ireland the next
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suggestion I have is the Mediterranean
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and the Mediterranean is actually the
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second biggest cruising region so
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certainly a lot of the ships will move
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from the Caribbean into the
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Mediterranean and they're the first of
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the Mediterranean cruises I recommend is
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more than the central Mediterranean
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cruises Noora these will go out of
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Barcelona or they'll often go out of
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Rome the port design of Rome to jevetta
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the advantage with these is you get to
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see a great slice of Europe so you'll
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you go to Barcelona see all the
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beautiful Gaudi buildings you often go
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to laverna so you can I head off to
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pizza see the leaning tower of pizza or
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go to the beautiful city of Florence and
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of course in Rome you'll get to see all
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the beautiful parts of Rome and you'll
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normally have other places we might go
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to Monte Carlo or go to Marseille so
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you'll get to see a slice of different
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countries here Spain you'll see France
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you see Italy that definitely is a great
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cruise to do and the reason that I think
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it's worth considering is both Barcelona
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Rome our major cruising ports and
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although both those countries suffered
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really badly through the whole virus and
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the pandemic
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they will have a lot of focus getting
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those up and running and being ready to
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receive tourists again in 2021 and no
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doubt will also be very grateful for the
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support that they get during that time
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and there are magnificent beautiful
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historical places to go and see so
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definitely that's one to consider my
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next suggestion is also linked to the
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Mediterranean this is one of the most
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magnificent cruises which is actually
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the cruiser goes between Venice and
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Athens all obviously though around
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Athens to Venice it's really popular so
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there's ginn lots and lots of choice
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here you get to see a different side you
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obviously it's the really historic and
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important city of Venice you can see
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there very historic and important city
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of Athens so pre stays either is very
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important but you also get to cruise
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down the sort of for the
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call the Dalmatian coast you'll get to
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see places like Dubrovnik which
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particularly if you're a Game of Thrones
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fan some of it was filmed there we might
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get a split you'll go to kotor which is
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in montenegro which is a magnificent
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beautiful historic city and you'll get
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to see some of the amazing greek islands
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like Santorini and Mykonos this is a
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really really great option a great thing
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to choose because you do get to see some
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really beautiful and important slices of
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Europe so what then is my seventh cruise
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Alaska Alaska is a very fast growing
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really popular cruising region in 2020
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the massive disruption to the whole
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Alaska season with lots of ports being
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closed and it's only at the time of
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recording so we don't even know if it is
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going to be an Alaskan season Alaska is
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a magnificent absolute must-do place to
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go you can go out of in fact from a far
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away as San Francisco which of course
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was closed to all cruises in 2020 you
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can go out of Seattle you can go out of
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Vancouver and lots of lots of different
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ports and choices to go to I would
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recommend if you're going to let's cover
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the first time take a look at the inside
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passage cruise could you go to all the
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famous places like Juneau you may go
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into clacey Bay or good it's the other
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glacés depending on your cruise you'll
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go to Skagway get Transco on the
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Magnificent Skagway train so depending
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on your cruise you may go to some
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slightly different places some smaller
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places more out-of-the-way places if
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you're going on a small ship for example
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but definitely Alaska would be one of
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those to think and plan for doing in
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2021 as you look at heading back
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cruising so those are my tips around the
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seven cruises to look at as you head
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back cruising in 2201 a lot of you
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watching this will probably be looking
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at how do you use your future cruise
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credit those are the ones that I would
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focus on those are the ones that I think
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will be up and running B smoothly
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running we really set up and organized
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for cruising as we head through 2021
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hopefully actually I'll see you on many
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of those cruises because a lot of those
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I'm looking at planning doing myself I
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have loads more videos about cruising so
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why don't you watch another one of those
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