hey everybody its Bruce here with
traveling with Bruce how you doin today
and my never-ending search for updates
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I have to talk again about this one
hurricane Florence right now they're
calling a tropical disturbance or
tropical storm Florence but she is going
to become a hurricane and of course the
popular notion is that cruisers a novice
cruisers think that cruise ships are
going to be into this kind of nonsense
and that's just not going to happen
cruise ships do not go to areas like
this when there's a hurricane going on
they have void it like like the plague
these are the pictures a you and I see
on our televisions because it makes for
great news coverage and great ratings
and of course we get the satellite shots
too from outer space where we'll see
shots like this they'll show us the
hurricane and where it might go and not
go right now Florence is heading west to
the US it may turn north just before it
gets there but we do know this it is
impacting right here Bermuda already of
this storm has not even touched Bermuda
it's still sunny in Bermuda but cruises
are being canceled and diverted away
from Bermuda they're heading here to
Nassau they're heading to great stirrup
key in the Bahamas cruise ship lines are
experts at avoiding hurricanes and
giving travelers this kind of an
experience if you're on a cruise ship
this coming week you're going to be
looking at this kind of environment
clear skies calm seas warm weather
absolutely what you bargained for it it
may not be exactly where you thought you
were going to be but it's going to be in
the Caribbean or somewhere safe and
you're not going to be exposed to the
wacky weather that we're going to be
watching at home on TV for the next week
or two a couple of bits of news today a
carnival came out with announcement that
the pride cruise ship has changed its
itinerary and it they have also offered
all passengers a 25% onboard credit or
actually a future credit against a
future cruise good till March 7 2020 so
if you're on that ship
you're you're getting a 25% discount on
a future cruise your choice good until
2020 on the grandeur of the Seas that's
the Royal Caribbean cruise they're
they're doing I think a pretty good deal
here if they're offering a 50% onboard
credit for what you paid for your base
fare on the crew so if you were taking a
balcony room for 600 bucks for the week
you and your traveling companion will
each get a $300 onboard credit to spend
on the ship as you please and on top of
that they're throwing you another 50%
credit against the future cruise in
other words it's a free cruise enjoy
this one even though it's not going to
where you thought it was going stay on
it for the cruise and next time
here's 50% off again what you paid for
this cruise will apply it to your next
cruise we are sorry the cruise line
doesn't have to do this it's not the
cruises fault that there's a hurricane
in the Atlantic but it's their gesture
of goodwill to their passengers and
believe me this goes over big time with
cruisers they love it
more cruise line should be this
aggressive with with credits other
cruise lines being shifted around the
carnival horizon is moving its itinerary
a little bit this week so as the
Norwegian dawn and the Norwegian escape
I'll keep you posted on updates as we
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everybody we'll talk to you soon bye for
now