hey everybody its Bruce here with Travis Bruce how you doing today I just heard
some news here I've been getting rumors for the last couple weeks
finally it's coming out it looks like it's official I think we're about to
hear the announcement being made by the major cruise lines but so far I have
already figured this one out I have heard through the grapevine that
Royal Caribbean is going to be announcing this deal shortly it's called
the 3 for 4 deal it's the 3 for 4 what is it well basically gotta give you some
background ok in the last couple months there's been a lot of talk a lot of
chatter regarding the Department of Homeland Security the story goes that
they're going to start restricting in flights of people from certain countries
that are coming into the USA but are going to be working on cruise ships now
what I'm talking about here is some for example we have a lot of folks from the
Philippines and from Indonesia that are flying into the USA they land in Miami
they go right to the cruise ship and start working now getting on the ship
not a problem once you're on the ship you're on an international vessel it's
got a it's a flag not even a US flag its flight from the Bahamas or a flag for
anyone from Liberia but the trick of it is you got to land in the u.s. get
through US Customs Homeland Security and then get on to the ship now the story
goes that Homeland Security has been telling Morell caribbean region Carnival
all the guys that going forward the paperwork is going to become a little
more onerous with regard to background checks and the problem is there's about
a two to three month delay to get these people cleared whereas in the past it
was just standard paperwork done at the head office in Miami or elsewhere and
within a week or two you know the folks will be waiting at home they get the
green light that you're good to travel and then they would be pre-cleared and
by the time they landed in Miami they had their paperwork and DHS had all
their records but the story now is that under the new rules it's gonna take
until probably June or July until all this is fully implemented so here's the
dilemma folks like rel Caribbean they've got they're gonna have shortages of
workers on their cruisers and they're trying to figure out how to get how to
work this out so what they're doing is they're shifting workers around they're
shifting workers from some of the ships to some of the other citizens so the
number one priority is they want to get workers on cruise ships that are where
the cruises of seven days long or twelve days long or fourteen days long and
they're taking workers from a shorter cruises so the cruises that are three
days long and four days long namely the Mariner of the Seas of the Miami and the
navigator of the Seas these guys are running three and four day cruises from
Miami on these two ships they are taking staff from those two ships and
transferring the workers over to the other ships where at the end of contract
people go home for a month at a time and they need to cover them well this leaves
a shortage of workers on the two ships what are you gonna do this is an
opportunity for someone like you the story goes that they're offering a work
three deal to get a four day vacation other works are offering you free cruise
you want to be on the Mariner of the Seas you could be on ER for seven days
for nothing you out you volunteer this is the term now you know you know
working for you're a volunteer for three days the first three days you're in crew
quarters and you're working on the cruise ship like it like any other crew
member they'll tell you what to do and what to clean or whatever and at the end
of three days you get up for Kruse for free and if your work three
days you get a four-day cruise in an inside me if you work the four-day
cruise as a four-day volunteer you get a three day cruise for free but in the
balcony room so what do you want you want an inside room for four days or
would you like a balcony room for three days to you now some of the advantages
here is you get to see everything behind the scenes because we're going to be
behind the scenes get fear a cruise ship really works you get to meet all kinds
of crew members we've never ever get to see you'll get to see parts of the ship
you've never ever get to visit to the past and then the other advantage is and
I've been reading about this I haven't sent this on my channel but I've been
reading about this apparently the sex life on a cruise ship is unbelievable
the story goes that people who work on cruise ships have got as much sex going
on they're down below like in college even more than in college so if you're a
guy like me and you want to get away from the wife for a while have a little
bit of fun I'm thinking hey sign up for this volunteer deal take a three-day
work assignment with with the company and have your fun downstairs for three
days and then relax for the other foreign recovered it's a thing
I'm tell you who would know I mean who would know I mean it's not like these
people work with you or from next door they're not from your hometown or
anything like that these are people you're never gonna see again they're
from all over the world I'm telling you this is one heck of an opportunity
there's all kinds of things you can learn all kinds of things that can
happen you just never know where it'll end up anyway there you have it thank
you Department of Homeland Security apparently this deal is available to
anyone because again it's a volunteer position that you're signing up for
they're not gonna tell anybody where you're from they're not good
you know haven't paid any money you run through what benefits or anything like
that you worked your three or your four days and at the end of the thing into
the deal you got your free cruise and at the end of the cruise you come off the
ship like a tourist and it's all good time I think we got something here this
is really something worth exploring I kind of wonder why don't they do this
all the time I think this could really open up a whole new playing field for
all kinds of people in all age groups they could experience stuff that they
would not normally have ever experienced for the rest of the lives great
opportunity for young college kids to see what it's like great opportunity for
bored housewives to get on a cruise ship for three days and have some fun and
then weren't you know enjoy themselves for four days great idea for husbands I
mean you know they're tired of their wives and all at Nantes that this is
really shake things up this might be a good therapy for couples as a whole yet
one of the spouses on the merit of the Seas the other spouse is on the
navigator of the season you don't tell each other what's going
on it's like being in Vegas whatever happens on these ship stays on these
ships you get your four-day cruise after that or your three-day cruise you meet
each other at the end of the weekend you don't tell each other what happened this
is fantastic III can't I cannot I cannot understand
how this wouldn't be a big big success anyway there you go the announcement is
supposed to come out in a couple days April the first they are gonna announce
this deal it's gonna go global I think this is gonna be a huge hit and I got to
tell you I get a look into it myself so there you have it folks the latest
update from traveling to Bruce your buddy
as to what's going on in the rural truce world I tell you I'm looking forward to
giving this a whirl I got a I don't know if I should tell Jen about it anyway
what do you think I'd be curious to know what your comments are we'll see what
happens I guess a it's one of those things that just could really explode
everywhere but I think the cruise lines might be on to something here we'll kind
of take it from there anyway join me Monday to Friday five o'clock Eastern
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