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12 Must-Have Items And Gifts For Cruisers. What Do They Need?
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Jan 28, 2025
These are my suggestions for 12 must-have items and so perfect gifts to give anyone who is going on or loves cruising. These are all gifts that I have seen and know cruisers use, love and will be pleased to receive from you. Perfect for Christmas, birthdays, special occasions or for a first or next cruise. Many of these I wish I had been given before cruising (and had to buy many for myself!). So this list is also 12 things you should take on your cruise too! The links below will take you to the products, some of these are affiliate links and will cost you the same but I may get a small commission: Cruise Luggage Tags (by Highwind) USA: https://amzn.to/2Dhyg59 UK: https://amzn.to/2QCaiFI Cruise Lanyard USA: https://amzn.to/2K14FP2 UK: https://amzn.to/2T8i63v International Travel Adapter USA: https://amzn.to/2DyGNlj UK: https://amzn.to/2RO9UnK Power Strip Extension Cable (with USB ports) USA: https://amzn.to/2Q48Orw UK: https://amzn.to/2zyKDHC
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hi I'm Gary beverage and this is another
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of my tips for travelers in this episode
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I'm going to give you 12 fantastic gifts
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that you can give someone who loves or
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is going cruising whether it's their
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first cruise a special event or perhaps
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for a birthday or Christmas for all the
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gifts that I'm going to give you in my
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video you will find links in the details
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below so you can actually go and order
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them directly and of course many of them
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are affiliate links so if you do yours
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are helping the channel first one I
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would suggest is why not buy them
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something that gets delivered to them in
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their cabin as a surprise
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now most cruise lines will have a
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special store we can go online and order
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for something to be delivered it could
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be alcohol chocolate dipped strawberries
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I'm on board credit or some credit
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towards photography excursions all you
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have to do is once you know what cruise
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line they're on and the date they're
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going just go to the particular cruise
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line and look for their gift page and
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you can pre-order that and it gets to
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live it to their cabin as a nice
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surprise a second great idea is perhaps
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give them a prepaid debit or credit card
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with the currency of the place they're
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visiting so if they go into the
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Caribbean dollars or perhaps euros if
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they're heading to Europe in that way
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once they get on to land they can use
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that to perhaps buy hop on a bus or
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souvenirs or go and eat something so
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that's a nice flexible gift that you can
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give them you can get prepaid currency
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cards at most banks or post offices or
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you can actually order them online
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another great tip is luggage tags now
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there's some really great ones
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specifically designed for cruisers your
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friends can basically print out their
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luggage tags and slide them into these
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little plastic folders it also means
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they don't have to carry things like
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staples or sellotape to then attach the
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luggage labels perhaps and they've flown
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somewhere and arrived somewhere they're
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very easy to apply they're very strong
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and stable and they're not very
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expensive and they're a great gift and
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whenever I've seen people using these
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tags people have always asked them where
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they've got them from so this is a great
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gift and it's relatively inexpensive now
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some people love them some people hate
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them but whenever you go on a cruise
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you'll see lots of people wearing a
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lanyard where they can then put their
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cruise card the cruise card of course is
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on a cruise because it's your security
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pass get on and off the ship
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it's your dorky and also it's the card
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that you use to pay for and buy things
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on board the ship so a lot of people
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don't want to carry them with them also
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the dangers often if they get next to
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your mobile phone they can be
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demagnetized so I don't people like to
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wear lanyards when on a cruise one of
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the things you can therefore do is buy
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your friends or family a lanyard
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you can give very simple ones do two
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very glitzy and you know extravagant
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ones now when it comes to electronics is
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a really great series of gifts that I
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recommend one of which is to buy an
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adapter
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ideally one of these multi-purpose
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adapters most cruise ships are either
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have a u.s. two prong or a European two
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hole type adapter so it's really great
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to have some sort of adapter so no
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matter where they're traveling from no
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matter what ship or configuration they
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have they're able to plug in their
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electronic devices one of these
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multi-purpose ones where you can adapt
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it for whether it's us or European
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whatever toilet plug is a great idea
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nowadays people have lots of devices so
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you have multiple phones you're gonna
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have cameras you can have tablets
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whatever it is to be charged and the
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often not enough plug so one of the
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great gifts to give is a extension cable
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which has multiple plugs now one of the
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great things to do is to choose one of
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them that actually has USB adapters
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because nowadays you can charge many
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things phones and even some cameras and
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other devices with a USB charger so
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that's another great gift to give
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another fun thing to give if people are
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heading off on a cruise which is going
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to be in the sunshine is these clips
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which holds tiles onto recliners and
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lounges they're great to use on a ship
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because obviously this wind particular
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on sea days and also when people are out
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on the beach and the Caribbean or the
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Mediterranean
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lots of people swear by them and love
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them and you can buy lots of different
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types with fun shapes or just very
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simple ones another fun thing to do is
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to buy people a t-shirt you can often
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personalize these t-shirt there's lots
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of different sites that you can go on
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and perhaps do a personalized cruise
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t-shirt particular there's a group all
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or a whole family traveling and you want
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to give them the same shirt but maybe
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buy them a nice t-shirt with a cruise
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theme and there's a whole range of
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different
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you can go and buy that and personalise
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them now one of the gifts that I would
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love to be given but ended up having to
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buy myself is a bag for going on
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excursions but not any particular type
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of bag if people are going on a cruise
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which you know is going to involve them
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going for example to the beach or pools
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one of things obviously if you go out
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swimming is you worry about leaving
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valuables on the beach when you head
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into the sea or you jump into the pool
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so any things that you could buy is and
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again it's relatively inexpensive our
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waterproof bags these are small discreet
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bags which will hold enough things like
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money and for a couple of phones and
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they're completely waterproof and so
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when people go swimming they can just
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take that little bag with them and go
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swimming it doesn't get in the way when
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they're swimming and they can have a
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great time and not worry about leaving
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valuables up on the beach a popular gift
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for cruises is to buy walkie-talkies
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cruise ships are very huge and
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particularly they're traveling with kids
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or friends and family one way of staying
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in touch is to buy a walkie-talkie
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they're relatively inexpensive and
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invite little sets of them and then once
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people are on a cruise they can keep in
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touch with each other make arrangements
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or arrange to catch up or just check
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where each other are many of these
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walkie-talkies will work on even very
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large ships so they are a great choice
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you're off to fine on a cruise
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lots of people using walkie-talkies to
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keep in touch another very popular gift
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which a lot of people have suggested to
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me before is to buy a Brita water filter
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that way if people are going on to land
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or even if they don't like the taste of
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the water on a cruise ship they can
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filter it and carrot with him square
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ever they go with us to the gym or on
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excursions so it also saves our money in
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terms of buying bottled water one things
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I like to travel with and I think it's a
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great gift is a little clock with a low
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light to look at the time at night one
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of things you do if you're in a cabin
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whether it's an inside cabin Buckland
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cam whatever type of Cavan even if you
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get up the night to go to the bathroom
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and you wonder what time it is if you
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use your phone is very bright and can
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disturb whoever you're sharing a cabin
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with the advantage of these little
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clocks with relatively low light is you
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can just touch them and it tells you the
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time it gives you enough light to sort
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of see your way around the bathroom but
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doesn't actually light up the whole room
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so it's a great alternative of course to
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using your phone if your friends or
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family are the
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type they'd like to go self exploring or
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quite inquisitive one of things that I
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strongly recommend you do is buy them a
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guidebook so of course on cruise ships
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they'll maybe talks or lectures or
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things where they help people understand
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the ports but there's nothing beats a
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great guide and you get guides covering
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whole region so you can get a guy to
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cruising the Carribean guide river
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cruising or perhaps cruising the
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Mediterranean if none of those 12 gifts
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appealing you're still looking for
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something I have another suggestion
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which is why not give them my book which
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is the cruise travelers handbook it's
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available either as an e-book or a
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paperback book and covers all types of
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cruising and is packed full of loads of
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cruising tips so that's another great
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suggestion and again links are in the
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notes below all of these are things that
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I know people love and use on a crew so
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if you're looking for great gift ideas
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please consider those and again links
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are in the notes below if you have any
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other suggestions about great gifts for
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cruises please leave them in the
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comments and help other people if they
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are still looking for great gifts to
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give it to cruises and of course as
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always if you found this helpful please
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watch many more of my tips of travelers
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videos because they're designed to help
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you make much more of your precious
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travel time and money
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