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Dubrovnik Vlog : Tour & Review of Hotel Komodor, Lapad
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May 13, 2024
Review of my stay at Hotel Komodor in Lapad, Croatia in September 2023 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegeordieg... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegeordiegr... Blog: https://www.thegeordiegrandma.co.uk #dubrovnik #croatia Email me: [email protected] Disclaimer: All products were purchased by me unless otherwise stated. These are my honest opinions. This video may contain affiliate links, which means when you click on one of the product links, I will receive a small commission. Thank you so much for subscribing and watching my videos - truly appreciate it :-)
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Hi everyone, it's Karen from the Geordie Grandma. Welcome back to my channel. I've just come
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back from the most fantastic week's holiday in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Absolutely beautiful
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place. I took lots of video footage so I decided I would split the videos up into four, I'm
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thinking four different videos. So I've got a hotel tour for you here. That's today's
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video. So a tour of the Commodore Hotel in La Paz in Dubrovnik, where we stayed. And
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then later on, I have a video tour of the resort, the La Paz Resort. So what's there
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to do? A lovely cave bar there. So you can see all that. Then I also have a video of
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the Dubrovnik Old Town, which is a, it's in like, it's a fortified, I think it was like
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a fortified castle within city walls type of thing. Beautiful place. If anybody is a
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Game of Thrones fan, you will know there was a lot of Game of Thrones scenes filmed in
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Dubrovnik. So you'll see where some of those were filmed during my video. I also have a
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video of, I don't know whether I'm going to put this with the Dubrovnik Old Town video
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but it is a, you can walk the city walls, which takes about an hour and a half. Fantastic
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walk. So I've got video of that. And I've also got a video of Lochram Island, which
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is just a five minute boat ride from Dubrovnik Old Town. Absolutely beautiful island. You
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would never expect to see what was on that island just from looking at it. Absolutely
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spectacular. So those videos are coming up. But for today, we have the tour of the Hotel
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Commodore in La Paz, Dubrovnik. So watch that now. So this is our room at the Hotel
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Commodore. We're on the first floor. As you come in the door, we've got a wardrobe. Lots
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of shelving space there. It smells nice in here. It's the wardrobe, got some hangers
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some spare pillows. Place on the bottom to put things. Got a area to put the cases and
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the shoes. A little desk and chair with a mirror above it. A small TV, but probably
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won't be watching TV here. This is the bed. Nice big double bed with a, looks more king
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size than double. It's a little bit dated in here. The room's smallish, but we're not
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going to spend much time in here. That's where you hang your coats. The bed looks clean
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The room looks clean and it does smell nice. A little bedside tables with some bedside
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lights. Turn them on, they do work. And we've got the bathroom. A small bathroom, but it's
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got a nice shower in it. Nice size shower, not too cramped. Loo, places for your towels, sink
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shelf to put toiletries on. Nice big mirror with a light. Shower looks nice and clean
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There's no rain shower, but we've got the main part, so we just need to put that on the hook
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up there. That looks fine. And this, we do have a terrace room rather than a balcony. When we
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first come in, we thought, well, where's the terrace? But the curtains were closed. So behind
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the curtains is a door, sort of French doors. An outer one and the, sorry, inner and outer
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And we just open our door here and we're straight out onto the pool. How fantastic is that? I think
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this is really lovely. And we can even see the sea. I'm really chuffed with that view. I wasn't
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expecting to be able to see the sea as well from our bedroom. But yeah, I'm really pleased with
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that. So we've got a little table and chair out here and some little planters kind of
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cordoning off each sitting area. And then back into the room. Yeah, I'm very pleased with that
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I'll show you a bit more of the hotel later. So I was looking all over for a hairdryer and then
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Warren said it's in the bathroom. I've never seen a hairdryer like that before in a hotel
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Interesting. So this was the view from our terrace. As you can see, there are quite a few sun beds out
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there that people came down and took advantage of. Some little table seating areas. There was quite a
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few balconies on the hotel, but I think we were quite lucky to have a terrace room. There was only
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six of them, but I don't think we would have actually used the pool as much if we'd had a
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balcony room and had to come down to use the pool. It's nice view to the side there with the mountains
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And it had the sea to the front. So that's La Parde you're looking out onto there, which I'll go into in a video later on
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Yes, the view was really nice from that terrace. It was quite quiet as well. There wasn't very many
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people used it in September when we were there. This is me using the pool. The pool isn't heated
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so it is quite cold. It did take your breath away when you got into it. But it was a lovely little
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pool. I could stand up in it where the steps were, but it did get quite deep at the other end
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But there was a ridge around the bottom, like a ledge around the bottom of the pool where you could step onto if you needed to. But yeah, it was definitely a shock to the system when you got in
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there. And it took a minute to kind of warm up. But when you did get out the pool, it was, you know
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20, 29 degrees. So it was warm and you warmed up quite quickly. It did have a really nice feel to
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it at night as well, sitting outside on the terrace with a bottle of wine. We did that a couple of
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nights. Very quiet, just really nice, just a nice feeling sitting out there
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This is the outside dining area of the Commodore Hotel, which I thought was quite nice
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I preferred to sit outside rather than inside for meals or a drink if I was there
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A little bar area as well. Really nice view from the dining area, which I think that was one of the reasons I liked
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sitting out there. That view was really nice, very pretty. The food was included in our hotel stay
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so we did make use of it. It was adequate. It wasn't the best food I've ever had and it wasn't the worst either
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Pastries were nice. I didn't really have the cooked breakfast at all. Warren tried it a couple of
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times and he wasn't that overawed by it. I did have the hard-boiled eggs quite a few times. That was useful
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They could have done with some covers over the food actually, because there was a few
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They could have done with some covers over the food actually, because there was a few
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flies around, so that would have been nice. There were some cereals there, four or five
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different cereals with some milk. They even had soy milk, some jams, some soft cheeses, butter
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ordinary cheese, some meats. They had a selection of fruits. There's some cottage cheese there
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They did have the melon every day, which was nice. Some yogurts. They did have some fruit
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juice machines. They've got some ordinary fruit there, some fruit juice machines, but the
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orange juice was very tangy. They had a couple of coffee machines with quite a good selection of coffees
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in there. That was nice. They did have a selection of herbal teas as well and they've got the toaster
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there if you wanted some toast. The breakfast was served from 7am until 10am in the morning
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It never seemed to be really, really busy, but we were always down there for about 7.15, 7.30
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because we are early risers. It may have got busier later, but they did keep restocking the buffet
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so there was always plenty there to eat. They also did an evening buffet at the hotel from 7pm
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at night until 10pm at night. That was a buffet evening meal, like I said, and that was 20 euros
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if you wanted to have that. We didn't eat in the hotel on evening at all because the restaurants
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in La Paz were just so close to the hotel, so we always went out to eat. The hotel had free Wi-Fi
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and the cleaners came to clean the room every day. They'd change the sheets and clean around
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and empty your bins and change your towels and everything, so that was good. They were really
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friendly, the cleaners as well. So nice, really nice ladies that we met there. The hotel staff
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were a bit abrupt, I have to say. They were friendly enough and helpful, but they were a
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little bit abrupt and they were a little bit slow. So there was one night we did ask, we were going
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to have the buffet and we went and sat in the dining area and asked for a drink and we'd been
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sat for about 10 minutes and the lady had said she would bring us the drinks menu, but she didn't come
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back, so we just didn't bother. So they were a little bit slow. The hotel was dated, it was built
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in 1935 so it was quite an old hotel and you could tell it needs, the rooms especially, do need a
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little bit of maybe updating, maybe a bit of paint. It didn't, like the sockets looked old
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you know, the plug sockets looked old. The bathroom, the shower cubicle leaked
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You know, you go in the shower and you put your bath mat on the floor and you expect to step out
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onto a dry bath mat. I opened the shower door and it was soaking wet, but there was a drain
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in the middle of the bathroom floor. So I'm not sure if it was meant to leak and then go down
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this drain. I don't know, but it wasn't good that you kept getting out of the shower onto a
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soaking wet floor because it didn't look like a wet room. So I'm not sure what was going on there
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The bed is very, very firm. Now I don't like a firm bed, I prefer a softer bed and I found this
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difficult to sleep on. Warren didn't have any issues with it really, but I found that really
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firm. So if you don't like a firm mattress, I think you might struggle with it. The full length
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mirror that's next to the bed, it was very handy for when you're getting dressed and stuff like
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that. But I did have to pull the curtain across it for through the night because I thought if I wake
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up through the night and turn over and look in this mirror, I'm going to think there's somebody
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in the room with us. So I had to close the curtain across it. The room does have air con
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which was really useful because it was very hot while we were there. It was between, I'd say 26
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degrees and 30 degrees every day, very hot. So the air con was really useful and it did work fine
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The vents that they use for, you know, when the air con comes through, they did drip a little bit
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but it wasn't really an issue. If you're looking to style your hair, using that hair dryer in the
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bathroom, you're out of luck. That hair dryer wasn't very good. I don't really do much with
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my hair. I just kind of, you know, run the dryer over it just to dry it and it was adequate for
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that. But if you're wanting to style your hair, I recommend you take your own hair dryer because
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that hair dryer attached to the wall, just, no, it wasn't very good at all. The website does mention
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a pool bar in the hotel. I definitely didn't see a pool bar. Whether going in mid-September or late
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September, maybe the pool bar wasn't open anymore, but it definitely wasn't there when we were there
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There is a couple of sister hotels to the Commodore. I think it's the Adriatic and the
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Uvula. Now I didn't see where the Adriatic was, but the Uvula hotel is just a little way up the
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road from the Commodore. You can use their spa. They've got apparently a really nice spa there
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with treatments and everything like that. And I think the other one, the Adriatic, has tennis
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courts and snorkeling lessons or something like that. We didn't use them, but they were there to
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use if you wanted to. I did really like the hotel. I thought the room had a nice rustic feel to it
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I loved the terrace. I loved the fact that we had that terrace room. I hadn't expected it to be like
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that because when the travel agent sold her the holiday, she was like, oh, well, there's only a
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terrace room left. And she kind of sold it like it was a bad thing, but I was actually pleased we had
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the terrace room. I just thought that was so much better than having a room on a higher floor
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with a balcony where you had to come down and use the pool. So I was happy with the terrace room
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It was a three-star hotel, and I would say, yes, it is a three-star. I wouldn't give it any more
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than that. I found the location of the hotel fantastic. It was within walking distance
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to the restaurants, the beach, the bars, everything like that. And the bus stop into
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Dubrovnik Old Town was literally round the corner from the hotel. They run every 20 minutes from
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five o'clock in the morning until about 10 o'clock at night, and it was only two euros each way to go
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into Dubrovnik Old Town, which we did on quite a few days because there was so much to do there
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So I thought the location of the Hotel Commodore was perfect for us. And it's only a 40-minute
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trip from the airport, which was, I don't even think it took 40 minutes. We were expecting to
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get on a coach when we got into the airport, but we actually got into, it was like a
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people carrier that took about six people. So it was probably quicker than if we'd
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gotten on a coach because we only did three stops, and I think we were the second stop. So I think
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it only took half an hour to get from the airport to the hotel. So yeah, I do recommend the
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Le Pad area, and I do recommend the Commodore Hotel, but just be aware that it is not as
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it is not as luxury and modern as some of the other hotels that you could stay in there. But
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for the price, I think we paid, I think we paid £1,700 for seven nights, obviously included the
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flights, the transfers and breakfast. And I thought that was a really good price for Dubrovnik
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So yeah, I would definitely recommend it. So I hope you enjoyed our tour of the Commodore Hotel
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And as I say, we'll have the other videos coming very soon. So if you haven't already subscribed
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you'll be able to watch those too. So thanks so much for watching. I'll see you again soon
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Bye for now
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