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bahamas i am bringing you live from my room right now and i want to share with you in today's video
both what this experience has been like and what it's like on this cruise right
now because it's actually really interesting so right now i'm at port i'm at freeport and i am
on a bahamas paradise cruise line and i'm on the grand classica cruise and we are in
our ocean view stateroom right now a little bit of relaxing going on
and what's interesting about this cruise is that it fits 1680
passengers as guests not crew and guests just guests 1 680 but right now there are only 117
people aboard this cruise line right now which is very very interesting in terms of an experience
because there's quiet peaceful there's quiet creepy and eerie and there's quiet ghost town
and this definitely feels like the ladder although to be honest it has felt peaceful at times as well
but it's gonna be interesting when i take you out on a live tour walking around the
boat after i share some interesting fun facts with you so aside from it being very very empty
today we are at port in freeport and i was fascinated by what is there to do
at this port because the boat itself only offers half a dozen excursions it's basically swimming
with dolphins swimming with the pigs or going to one of the other hotel properties to go to their
pool beach club etc and those are really just the only options and so that was really interesting
to find and so we didn't really want to opt in for any of those and so we just went to go venture out
and what was interesting is the port area like the village completely empty unless there's a larger
boat like a royal caribbean or a carnival cruise or something like that at ports all those shops
all of those restaurants senor frogs all of the stores they do not open i was talking to
the guard that was there and she's like oh yeah you're welcome to walk around
but everything is closed and so it was really interesting to go for a long walk over there
and see what that was like check out my other video for that and so i was also wondering well
what if we just get driven around the island because there are taxi drivers outside and i
was talking with one of the taxi drivers and if you look at information online generally
it's five dollars to get from the port to downtown which is about a 15 minute ride but i just asked
i well i separately asked hey how much would it cost if you just drove us around for like an hour
because i don't really know what there is in freeport i did all of my research on tripadvisor
i looked on google satellite i went to see what was around it didn't really seem there's
a whole lot aside from just strolling around the downtown a couple of excursions and then also
some of the beaches which today is not the nicest day and so i was like ah maybe we'll
skip the beaches but the taxi driver quoted us at 80 dollars for one hour to take us around
and that is really expensive and and he said well to be honest you will likely be the only business
that i have today and i'll take you around for 60. but he was also very honest in saying that
things will likely all be closed downtown in other words it's pretty quiet around here and so we just
opted to walk around the quiet village and then we came back on the boat we've been hanging out
and after we take you on this tour we are going to get in the jacuzzi so that's my afternoon
probably with a whole lot of drinks i would say a couple other interesting things to know
this boat um this boat is something that we got as a black friday deal we got a steal
and guess in the comments below what you think we paid for a two-night three-day two-night cruise we
left out of the port of palm beach and it took us over to freeport and we're here for one day
before we go back tomorrow and so this cruise has been such a steal in terms of price which is why
i really came with no expectations we're having a fantastic time but i will say what's interesting
is that the people we've been talking to and the people we've been meeting on this cruise
they are people who have flown in from far and wide new jersey texas texas and minnesota where
some of the people that we were talking to on the boat and uh for us it wasn't it was a 45 minute
drive to get here so it was really really easy but a lot of people are coming in from far and
wide far and wide to get on this cruise um and a lot of them are really disappointed by how quiet
it really is we enjoy the quiet so ready for the tour let's do it are you ready
yeah yeah all right first let's look at the room because the room is room's actually all right we
have an ocean view room and we have our little refrigerator oh it's messy right now you're
getting a little warning about that and we got our closet space we got our super tiny tiny i mean
a cruise bathroom is every ever large right but we have our little bathroom over here and then
we have our towel friends and we got we got lou just laying on the bed we have the view that you
already saw out there in freeport all right let's do it oh you know what we got to put our masks on
and then we got to go out what's interesting also is that their high season is february
to september so we're actually here during the low season i thought it would be busy right now
but with the pandemic they require masks indoors and then the other thing about it is they allow 50
capacity so 50 capacity on the boat got all your stuff we're gonna go walk you around the boat so
you can see everything and then we're gonna end at the jacuzzi because why not all right let's do it
oh you know we should go to the lobby actually
so there are 11 11 stories floors on this boat we're staying on the
fifth floor which is also the floor where the lobby's in oh let's talk about the activities
there's still a decent number of activities uh we did the merengue yesterday and they had a
couple game shows and stuff there was actually a decent um karaoke going on last night and all
kinds of stuff all right we're gonna take you upstairs so one thing about cruises what do
we do every time we cruise we take the stairs we take the stairs so we only take the stairs
headed to the encore lounge which is where all of the activities happen at
they have one of the biggest bars there and then all of the entertainment always happens here
so i was surprised if they do have specialty restaurants on this boat i did zero research
before coming here and i didn't know what to expect so we did not do a specialty restaurant
last night but the main dining room was super nice but this is one of the main this is one
of the main specialty restaurants see the menu i want to see the menu so this menu for appetizers
salad you get a salad entree and then um a dessert and it's 49 per person and then they
have like various add-ons but it's actually pretty good value but i was surprised because
the regular dining room's actually really good um we had a great dinner last night what did you eat
it was really good oh we both had the prime rib yeah i knew the chicken marsala oh i thought
it was totally it was delicious i really enjoyed it um but there's eight restaurants
on this boat which is like seven more than i anticipated there being so here's the entrance
you have a casino back here then the nightclub on the other side
but on this side there is shopping on the boat
interesting is usually buying alcohol on these types of boats really cost effective but not
on this boat i was surprised by that this is one of the other specialty restaurants
but even when you order a la cart it's very very inexpensive like dishes are 12
for example for some of the pizzas for example this is where lou got me coffee this morning
oh yeah an ice cream it's interesting a lot of things you buy are all a cart here's the alcohol
store at 3 pm when this opens later 30 off all alcohol and they have all the photos and stuff
let's go upstairs and then there's another theater on this side which i don't think they're even
going to open that the time that we're here i mean i don't know if you've noticed how many
people we're running into while we're out here how many people have we run into uh so far staff
which by the way the staff are awesome they're really really awesome they have really good
service on this boat really good service we're coming up to the deck that has the pools
oh yeah they have salon and spa actually the gym is really nice too
towels for the jacuzzi
so one thing that's interesting is i'm going to show you the the port and you're going to
see how empty it is but this is where we were walking around earlier today so from this boat
we disembarked and then we walked around this area and then through and over into here and
i'll flip the camera so you can see it but you'll be able to see how it's completely closed um but
another thing is uh in terms of mandates right now when you're on the cruises so when you get
on they require um showing your vaccine card and then your 48 hour pcr or antigen test this cruise
actually allows people to get off and stay on the bahamas and then come back on a later date on
this cruise to get back we are one of the few who are just doing the cruise for two nights and then
coming back um but if you stay on that means you have to get um a test to be able to get back on
but for us since we only spent a day here we are not required to test again to be able to get back
but in case rules change because traveling is so complicated right now i packed a test that
i can do over wi-fi with a nurse and so that was how i just in case was covering my butt in
case things changed while we were away it was so easy to social distance because you can see
how many people are hanging out at the pool behind us actually even for activities like last night
they had bingo and they ended up canceling it because i think only two people signed up but they
just don't have enough people even at the mourinho class we did i think we're the only ones dancing
you can see there's one other cruise ship out there but i don't know what that means
he kicked my butt yesterday i lost oh he's like he's happy about that i totally lost
i get you tonight it was only because i was drinking which by the way figuring out their
whole drink package on this ship has had i have been scratching in my head about this so hard
that i've lost all the hair on this side of my head it's very very confusing here's a here's
a preview of that they do drink coupons which is weird so you have to hold all these coupons
um and the coupons will generally cost you nine dollar per coupon
but drinks are often nine dollars it's confusing you may as well just buy them one off each time
so where we're at now is the adults pool and we're making our way to the back of the ship where the
jacuzzi is at we're about to go but let me give you a oh actually i like this part of the ship
top this up here is the jogging track oh let's do one more view without the window over here
we got the jam-packed pool there's nowhere to sit nowhere to sit
i do think this setup is very strange
there's like so many chairs everywhere so little pool here's the back of the boat
and this is the other specialty restaurant right here that is where their burger place is at
all right team there's your behind-the-scenes live stream fully edited video coming next week
we are getting in the jacuzzi thanks for joining me for this one and i will
see y'all in the next adventure ciao