it's Bruce here with travelling with Bruce the video I have for you today is
what happens if you miss your cruise ship and it sails away from you and
you're left standing at the pier what happens to you what happens to your
stuff it's a interesting story stick around for it thanks for subscribing my
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Ambree and travel thank you for joining me folks on my upcoming group Cruise
December 2020 on the harmony of the Seas if you want to join us for a one-week
cruise out of Port Canaveral check the link down below amber and we'll take
good care of you alright let's talk about what happens to you and while your
stuff on the ship if you miss your cruise ship when you're out on a
excursion it isn't pretty let me tell you that the hope is that when you left
the ship you left the ship with ID hopefully your passport hopefully you
left with a credit card or two and some cash because once you come back like
these stragglers here and your ship is already 5 feet off the pier or 100 feet
or half a mile away you're on your own Captain Stubing he knows the captain
knows you missed your ship everyone at the gangplank knows you
mister ship because they have the computer printouts telling them how many
passengers have not come back on board and who are they that captain will not
only know but he'll inform his team the security officer
he'll also inform everyone in the hotel division at guest services they all know
you didn't make the ship and what happened was while you were still on
land they had already called your name out on board the ship they were asking
for you to contact guest services they would have tried twice waited five
minutes each time and then they would have sent in the security officer and a
hotel manager into your cabin and they would have been looking for telltale
signs that you are basically still on shore not on
the ship they're looking for your passport they're looking for any credit
card stuff you've left behind they're inside your cabin looking at your safe
because they have the master key to check if you took that with you if you
took your passport with you your wallet with you or if you took your meds with
you the medications you need every day they will breathe a sigh of relief if
you did not they will gather all this up they will gather up your passports your
wallets your your credit cards your medication they will bring it down to
guest services down to the gangplank and they will then hand it off as they are
getting ready to on more of the ship but they've take the lines away they're
gonna hand all that information off to this person right here hopefully you'll
run into this gap or you'll run into the port security officer who will hopefully
take good care of you as well they will hand you your stuff all the rest of your
luggage will stay on board the ship and you'll have to deal with that later
first thing you got to do get on a horn get on a phone ASAP dial the 1-800
number of the cruise line let them know you're alive and well you didn't die
anywhere you just missed your ship and now they will begin to work with you
along with staff at the pier hopefully to get you to where you got to go if
you're in Europe like in Rome or something like that I have good news for
you easy to get from Rome to the next port of call easy to find accommodation
easy to find food anywhere in Europe here it's easy to move around if however
you've been stranded at say the Cayman Islands right here first-class place to
hang out but very expensive they do have an airport they do have hotels but they
might be all hooked up or a room might run you three to five hundred a night
just to stay there if you're in Jamaica here in Felmy well you've got some other
issues to worry about personal security getting to the airport finding a hotel
getting the heck out of there anywhere in the Caribbean it varies some some
Caribbean islands are much safer than others
you might get lucky in some of the Caribbean nations to be able to stay at
a place like the Holiday Inn Express get a decent rate not too outrageous but you
might be well fortunate or unfortunate to have to stay here in a place like
Nassau Bahamas the Paradise Island facilities here Atlantis or here in
Cozumel at a private resort here you might be you know you might be having to
pay two three four five hundred a night minimum certain number of nights I don't
know it all depends on where are you in your cruise itinerary you might be able
to go here in Nassau right to the airport
grab a flight to the next stop the cruise ship is going to and catch up
with your ship you might just stay here in the terminal and wait it out but in
other cases you might have to fly back to where you came from because it's the
second last day of your cruise or the third last day and it just isn't gonna
work out so you'll grab a one-way flight maybe
back to Miami in Florida if that's where your cruise started from if it's a
Caribbean cruise that started from this area or Fort Lauderdale Miami that kind
of thing if it's Europe well you're gonna have to fly back to where you're
you boarded your ship and likely reclaim your luggage there because the ship will
have it and then fly home from whatever airport you were going to fly home from
out of Europe the cruise line will pack your luggage for you once they have
directions and instructions from the folks at head office because the cruise
ship has also informed head office you didn't come back and you'd never made it
back to the cruise so kiss goodbye all of this luscious food that you could
have had kiss goodbye the beautiful views from the ship all the desserts
mind you you know maybe you lose some weight with all this running around it's
good for you not fun one more thing to caution you on let's say you're on a
cruise and the weather gets nasty after all in the Caribbean you can have
hurricane season in northern Europe you can have some serious gales you may find
that yeah the ship in two days is going to be at a certain port well that was
the itinerary but that's not where the ship is going to be in 48 hours because
these weather systems could screw up the entire remainder of the itinerary and
now you don't know where your ship is going
and in effect your cruise is over you're now gonna have to make arrangements to
really get back to the homeport where this whole thing started because that is
likely how you gonna get home from with regards to return airfare if you flew
into the port city so you just never know what these kinds of things
hopefully you know it won't happen to you but these kinds of pictures here
this is the reason right here one of the reasons why cruise lines are producing
these or developing these private island getaways because you can't get lost here
you can't go very far everyone who comes onto these private islands makes it back
to the ship on time it's the stops where you get off the ship and don't take the
ship tour you take your own little tour or you decide you want to buy a nice
diamond ring at cutthroat prices at a duty-free shop in a Caribbean island
that's where people get screwed up because they tangle so much and shop so
much they forget the lack of time or they've got the wrong time on their
watch versus ship time they get back to the port too late and they miss their
boat and this is what the folks on board are looking at open water and you are
not part of the cruise so anyway be careful being mindful that's what
happens if you miss your ship it's your responsibility to get back on time it is
up to you to figure out a way to reach the ship or get back home and it's at
your expense even if you have travel insurance you
may or may not be covered depending on the exemptions personal screwing up
might not be covered under your policy look for the fine print anyway I hope
you enjoyed the video if you did please give it a thumbs up thanks for joining
me today everybody's Bruce with dropping of Bruce saying talk to you later
everybody bye for now