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today whether you're an existing Cruiser you know who's cruised before cruised a
few times or you're brand new there are certain things you need to know about
cruise ships that are unique to cruise ships and I thought today I would give
you a little rundown of some of the things to kind of keep in mind when
you're going on a cruise ok first one just to kind of give you a heads up on
is if you're on a cruise and the cruise stops you know
after the second day it stops for the day and important call you go up there
and enjoy yourself you know with your friends or with your better half keep in
mind one very important thing if you're late
coming back to the pier they might leave without you hush cruise ships do not
stick around because the passengers didn't return on time there's a limit as
to how long the cruise ship is allowed to stay at a pier and it then must move
on otherwise it is pain serious penalties
thousands of dollars and power or by the minute to stay longer this should
because other ships have booked that same pier for later that day there are
instances where a cruise ships will drop you off in the morning will then leave
the pier go out into the water wait there and
then either come back to the pier to pick you up or only pick you up via
tender ships like boats to take you back to the ship that's out in the harbor
that's how precious and valuable pier space and pier
so if you're out there on your own you didn't take a ship tour and you went out
on a shopping spree or a lovely excursion right to the cab rented a car
went later on to golf and you come back to the pier too late you're not getting
on that ship and even if the ship is 10 feet off the pier it barely just left
the pier they will not stop the ship bring it back 10 feet bring out the
gangplank and let you get on again no way
once they've untied the lines that ship must leave the harbour master is
basically saying to the captain you're gone and that passenger it has to fend
for themselves and God help you if you didn't take your passport with you when
you left the ship you didn't bring your wallet with all of
your ID and your credit cards because you're possibly marooned on another in
another country most likely say the Caribbean you're in Jamaica or you're in
not you're in San Martin or or what-have-you
sounds great sounds romantic but oh it's not fun if you're there without
reservations at a resort you have no passport you have no idea
and now you need to find an airplane right at a moment's notice to get off
that Island you're paying top dollar it's it's a bad situation so be on time
don't be late coming back from a from an excursion on a cruise ship okay
other points your medications those of us who need meds not mean necessarily
I'm kind of healthy thankfully but you know if you're if you take daily
medications say high blood pressure pills or diabetes medication or you know
whatever the ailment or you know whatever it is you need it for prescribe
meds you have got to make sure you bring them aboard the ship in a carry-on bag
don't leave your meds on in your suitcase luggage just like being on an
airplane when you take an airplane flight to say go on a cruise you might
you might be close enough to the port city that you're departing from where
you may take say a Southwest Airline flight
say from let's say it's from Las Vegas to Los Angeles real quick flight 45
minutes likely likely thing is you'll leave the morning of the cruise
departure day you've got a flight every 45 minutes so if your plane is
mechanical issues you'll just take the next one you'll get to the cruise ship
that day and then from there you'll go from LAX or whatever port every airport
you're landing at to your ship and you'll make your ship visit departs at
4:00 in the afternoon even on a flight like that short as that is your meds
have got to be in your carry-on you'd be crazy to leave it in your suitcase
because if your suitcase goes missing especially if there's mechanical delays
and you have to shift planes the bag may not arrive until hours later and so you
need your meds with you to take on board the ship so you have them with you at
all times okay if you're on a cruise and you're
now going for a day trip you know onshore for a tour you know have you
make sure whatever meds you need during the timeframe that you're off the ship
you have them with you because how much space does a you know a couple of
bottles of pills take one bottles a pill shouldn't take shouldn't be a problem so
keep them with you at all times so that you have your meds I would also
recommend that you have a list of the meds that you take on a on a separate
sheet of paper or at least take up the take a cell phone photograph like a
smartphone photo of all your bottles of meds before you even leave the house so
that you have a visual record of the kind of medication that you are taking
and it's not for you to remember necessarily but if it's for a loved one
who's with you to remember in case something happens to you if you're the
one taking the meds and you stumble and fall and and you hurt your leg badly and
and you know you're on shore and you're in a hospital or in a clinic and you
know your meds have gone missing for whatever reason or Eve been robbed or
you know what have you on on onshore you have a record
with that cellphone and if you've shared that photo and this is the other tip
here sharing that photo of your meds with a loved one back home so just you
know like a text message and send the photo to them they have it now your your
traveling companion or whoever's with you or you yourself can utilize someone
else's cell phone to contact your loved ones at home send that photo of the meds
to you to the email address or whatever your going to give them digitally where
you are now and the hospital staff or the clinic staff that are looking after
you will know exactly the meds you're taking the kind of meds you're taking
and then it can help you stay on your regimen so these are little tips
especially if you're talking to a doctor say in part of a Arta about your
medication you want to show the doctor that you had prescribed meds from a
doctor so show the picture of the of the medicated pill bottle showing the dates
when you got the meds and when they're good for and this will save you a lot of
explanation and also with the language barrier medication is medication sort of
internationally and that's just a little safety tip for you to keep in mind is
this stuff you have to think about of the sort of the worst-case scenario
things okay always taking minutes with you on on the planes and on me on the
ship on the carry-on why was I gonna tell you - yeah you know when you get
off the ship like you're on it you're on a cruise ship when you check in at the
at the on embarkation Day the first day which is all exciting you're bringing
your passport with you you've already checked in online for
your cruise and you you checked in with your passport online already the cruise
ship has your passport information but you have to physically bring it along
with you anyway so when you arrive you've got your passport with you you
get on board the ship you get to your room inside your room is a vault
it's an electrically controlled vault and you set the pin number on the vault
so you keep it there for safekeeping and your wallet and and anything else that
you don't need to carry with you and enjoy the ship and have a good time all
the charges to your room will be done on your ship card or on a wristband that
they've given you that type of thing so you don't need your passport on the ship
but if you're going to go off the ship say on day three or day four for a day
excursion take your passport with you it's a good idea because again if you
get left behind because you were late to get back to your ship that's one number
two you're on a excursion and everything goes wrong the bus breaks down you know
you're stuck 20 miles from the ship there's no way you're gonna get back
you've got your ID you've got your passport a good idea to
have your wallet with you as well I guess a this is the kind of stuff you
have to do to take along with you even though you're on a ship excursion say in
Jamaica somewhere you want to have it with you now if however you're gonna be
say on a private island like a private like labadie in Haiti with Royal
Caribbean that's a private run beach area with the zip lines and all the
rides and stuff that the cruise line operates all in-house you're not gonna
need your passport because you're not leaving the lappa D compound as it were
you're still on cruise ship property and the ship won't leave without you because
you're there you're right there but if you are
disembarking the ship and you're going on a private tour get away for half the
day or you've got friends that live on the island you're gonna get to go with
them all proper and all good intentions aside what if something screws up
somewhere and now you have problems getting back your travel companion has a
stroke and you now have you're in a hospital tending to their needs and you
can't get back to that ship no matter what you contact the cruise line you
tell them what happened but you know there's there's not much more you can do
but if you've got your passport and you've got your ID with you you've at
least solved that problem the cruise line might be able to find a way to get
there your luggage to you they may not I'm not sure what the rules are on that
one but emergencies can happen any time and you have to
your ID okay so take your passport with you when you leave the ship at all times
smoking rules on a cruise ship they're very strict about smoking rules if you
don't follow them properly you can literally get kicked off their cruise
they're serious they don't kid around with this stuff
there are certain areas on the ship where you're allowed to smoke I believe
that these are interior smoking rooms follow the lead of the cruise cruise
line they'll guide you and keep you straight but don't break the rules and
expect no mercy if you get caught breaking these rules smoking on a ship
is a big no-no if you're not allowed to do it in certain areas because fire is
them is a major enemy of cruise lines okay here's a common-sense tip don't
ever threaten the staff member of a Christian no matter how mad you are no
matter how frustrated you are don't ever threaten a Cruise member don't ever you
know pick a fight like a verbal type type don't do that
these folks are there to look after you as best they can they'll make they'll do
everything in their power to keep you happy
however certain things happen at certain times that just may not be the fault of
the cruise line it might be mother nature we don't know what causes certain
things but storms bad weather port cancellations the captain calls the
shots the captain's the boss you're not the boss you're the you're the passenger
you're not the captain and the captain calls the shots and if a hotel manager
on the unboard hotel manager has an issue with the passenger they'll go to
the captain and tell them what the issue is and it's a one-sided story it's their
side the captain won't come to you and ask you for your opinion on what
happened you're on the wrong you're either gonna get kicked off the cruise
and if it's serious I mean a serious breach a physical assault or anyway
you're in the brig they have a brig onboard and they've got big security
officers to take you there don't pick a fight with the crew Steph be a lover not
a fighter because you're on a cruise enjoy it thankfully I've never had that
problem pace yourself with shore excursions
if you've got you know a 7 8 9 10 day cruise and you've got five or six or
seven stops don't make a plan to stop at every single port with the full-blown
eight-hour excursion day all planned out like with military precision you're
gonna hate the cruise you're just not gonna like it very much
cruise ship vacations are designed to be really relaxing times there's party time
yeah we see the brochures we see the videos we see people jumping into the
pool and we have the you know the cannonball contest or sometimes it's a
bit of a booze cruise but really you're there to unwind and relax and forget
about your troubles back home and so with a with a regimented schedule that
you've put together it might be too much for either your companion or companions
and even for yourself being on a cruise is a different animal than than being on
a land holiday because keep in mind the ships always moving when it's at sea and
if you're trying to walk down the hallway and you're sort of you're moving
a little bit not too much but a little bit you're Fighting Gravity all the time
and you're using muscles in your body and your legs and your shoulders and
your arms your abdomen did you don't normally use or you're stressing more
than you would normally stress it come 8:00 9:00 10:00 at night you might be
really tired that you hadn't thought gee at home I can say wait till midnight on
a cruise ship boy 30 I'm wiped if you've got too many short excursions
booked especially you know long bus ride type deals you may find on the third or
fourth day you're just barely hanging on and you're not getting the value that
you wanted out of this cruise and short excursions can be expensive so be
careful of that so don't over booked it take it easy maybe you know they the
first port port O'Call yeah you take the excursion second port O'Call just go for
a stroll look around yourself third third port O'Call take a take an excited
tour you know something like that and whatever don't take the cheapest deal
that you can find on a cruise for the cheapest room that you can find at
cruise know what I mean by that as like is
thing like this you're looking for a seven-day cruise in the Caribbean in the
middle of the winter time you want to get some sunshine and some you know want
to see the blue tropical water and all it great excuse to get a cruise and now
you're looking for a deal who isn't looking for a deal you find a
deal you find a deal for 449 or something like that plus you know other
charge taxes freeze tips that type of thing there might be some room credits
offered who knows what but the deal if you dig into it now alright look into
this deal before you just say oh I'm gonna buy it find out where that room is
what kind of a room are you really talking about there are rooms on the
cruise ship that can be as low as deck four inside inside interior rooms where
three rooms down is the sick bay that's the that's the medical room and just
ahead of you over here are the freight elevators for all that heavy Freight
that the staff moves up and down the ship all the time the towels the bedding
the dirty laundry dirty dishes that type of thing lots of noise lots of commotion
lots of grinding and banging sounds on deck for deck five you may not want to
be on that 449 cheap room for the week because you're not going to get what you
wanted what you wanted was a relaxing idyllic type cruise to get away from it
all and what she ended up with was a hectic pace of activity all around the
outside of your room and behind your room and you know over here where when
you got out of your room and you went up to deck eight and decadent and you're
surrounded by all the buffet eaters and all the folks coming and going with the
buffets and the restaurants and the photography department and the internet
area and you may find that it's not a relaxing ship at all might be nothing
nothing relaxing about it and that deal you found for 449 had you dug in a
little further you may have found that an ocean view room which might have been
on the same deck or a couple of decks higher was only 50 bucks more for the
whole week per person and but it had an outside view
and so you saw sunshine you saw the blue tropical water you want it to visit
you've got to see you know some of the sights of the harbor or surprisingly for
maybe 70 80 $100 more not a lot more but a hundred you could get the basic
balcony room now I can tell you right now the difference between a an inside
room on deck four or five and a balcony room no matter what you take the balcony
every time you just do because now you have this outside space that gives you
the fresh air it gives you the the first thing in the morning view it gives you
the stars in the evening view it it gives you the all day or I'm just gonna
hang out on my balcony for an hour to read a bit of my book or my eBook
because I got my own lounger out here and I got a little table I got my
mini-fridge over here with my colas in there I can relax on my own little
balcony now you do have that downtime that quiet time and you have views
you've got the sea views that might be the better way to go so when it comes to
you know discount cruise I'm all for saving money believe me you know if you
know my channel if you watch my channel you know I love it I love a
disconnectors but it might be better off for you to really consider that kind of
anyway those are a couple of do's and don'ts for newbies I have more I'll
bring out more a little later but Fred thanks again for watching today I'll
kind of wrap it up here a lot of what I'm talking about is common sense stuff
but you you got to think about this stuff when
you learn specifically when you're on a cruise this is Bruce with traveling with
Bruce and thanks for watching we'll see you next time