hey everybody how you doing today welcome to traveling with Bruce this is
Bruce here and welcome to winter what do you think of this scene is this remind
you of what we heard Christmas seen as snow is gently falling down
big pine tree outside my front livingroom window is covered with snow
and just looks like I should put decorations on it it's ready to go
Christmas just around the corner hey everybody how you doing it's Bruce
here with traveling with Bruce welcome back to my channel this is December the
19th 2017 and today is daily number 19 and I'm telling you folks I keep
forgetting you know I could use the fingers of 19 times mile 19 dailies it's
fantastic I want to welcome you all back if this is your first time you've ever
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nasty comments oh that's great and I'll try to keep improving today it is so
dark outside with the snow coming down it's pretty to
look at but when you're trying to film you know my this face when you're trying
to film this you need all the help you can get so I got lights on me all over
the place to try to brighten up this area so I don't come off like I'm in a
cave it needs to be so much easier but it is just nothing today I wanted to
talk to you folks about the cruising business the cruising industry we are
nearing the end of 2017 and I thought I would tell you a few statistics and a
few trends that are coming in the cruise ship business a lot of you out there who
are subscribers of mine I know are following me because I talk about crew
shipping all the time but cruise ship holidays I've got as your regulars know
I have cruise videos out there about how you can find a good deal on a cruise how
you can find a deal on a repositioning cruise what is a repositioning cruise
secrets on how to pack for a cruise how to get ready for a cruise I got all that
stuff and more coming but today I wanted to talk to you about what you can expect
to see going forward and I just found some information today about cruise ship
deliveries and that type of thing one of my glasses here so I can read my notes
first of all between 2015 16 17 we just finished 17 new ships who are delivered
to cruise ship companies and that represented 41,000 more passengers being
accommodated on cruise ships over the year or two before that's a nine point
one percent increase in capacity and its massive
I mean if American Airlines were to increase seat capacity by nine percent
in one year it would make CNN I mean this would be news like you wouldn't
believe they'd have four place orders for airport aircraft in the hundreds of
billions of dollars it would just be crazy so nine point one percent increase
in the cruise ship capacity just in the last year year or two that represents on
an annual basis over two million passengers being accommodate
on cruises additional passengers for 2017 the the stats are now coming in
twenty five point eight million travelers who will have traveled on
cruise ships in this past year that's more than two million a month going on a
cruise or a half a million a week you think about the logistics of this if you
got a half a million people a week going on a cruise
that means you got a half a million people a week getting off a cruise
because - in order to change from one to the next you got to get them out of the
room to get them back in the room and in between the time frame you got to clean
the room so think of the laundry being done the bedding being arranged the
towels being done half a million people a week out and a half a million people a
week in on average in the current cruise ship environment worldwide it is truly
phenomenal it is growing wonderfully actually for 2018 the numbers now
already with cruises booked they are estimating the the cruise ship industry
and the Association they're estimating twenty seven point two million
passengers that's another one and a half million additional or about five percent
more growth again in actual bookings of passengers it is a growing area and
because of that more and more cruise ships are being delivered to Cruise
Lines more and more cruise ships are being ordered by Cruise Lines and the
numbers are are truly staggering for 2018 this coming year twenty seven new
ships will be delivered to cruise lines now this is in this is a combination of
ocean liners for like the carnival's of the world Hall in America Royal
Caribbean Norwegian MSC and then there are river cruise ships coming and that's
a sector that's really exploding and then there are specialty ships being
delivered now I'm hearing I've seen Press reports and releases about cruise
ships that can hold four to five hundred people only in five six star luxury out
of my price range that will take you to the Antarctic for for you know an
expedition there you know the kind of stuff we used to read about in history
books that the explorers used to do now it's becoming more
reachable for those with the kind of cash you need to book a cruise like this
we're probably talking a thousand bucks a day two thousand dollars a day per
cabin that type of thing very expensive but they exotic and you got it you got
it off for something for those who have that kind of money I just wish I was one
of those people between now and 10 years from now or nine years from now until
2026 ninety one cruise ships are on order right now ninety one additional
cruise ships are on order worth fifty eight billion dollars the
build-out and the money involved is staggering 239 thousand additional beds
which translates into an additional 11 million passengers a year of capacity
for the cruise lines now assuming that all ships sailing today will still be
sailing then which isn't true because certain ships will be retired but you
just do simple math you add ten million to the 27 million we have now projected
in 2018 to go on a cruise 37 to 38 million passengers are expected to be
cruising within a decade this is how this business is is tracking it is just
phenomenal I also read today that a half excuse me half of all cruises that are
being taken now are being taken by people who drive to the Seaport to get
on the ship they don't they don't fly only half the passengers actually come
in other than in their car now in Europe probably a number of them take rail by
the North America the other way to go if you don't drive and you're probably
flying in and that was I found an interesting stat so I know that I
personally took a cruise with my wife out of New York City sorry out of a lot
of Sanders near as well but in Los Angeles in particulars just think about
this we left Los Angeles on a Mexican Cruise and we had driven to the United
States from Canada and we had taken a two two and a half week trip overall and
it included a one-week cruise to Mexico and back and I had researched it that it
paid it just made sense to park the rental car literally the rental car
in the parking lot beside the cruise ship for the week and paying $115 to
park the vehicle for a week was a bargain it was security 24 hours a day
security around it we got back a week later nothing no problem whatsoever with
the vehicle little dusty on the windshield obviously because it's
sitting there for a week once you wash the windshield wipers off you were fine
to go and we had our vehicle and the beauty of this was that we were able to
bring onboard awkward big suitcases because we drove to the ship rather than
flying on an airplane when you fly on an airplane
you got those darn baggage fees and you have those weight limitations which are
getting smaller and smaller and smaller so you got to be careful with you know
how many bags you take and how heavy they are with a rental car or a vehicle
of your own you brake the big suitcases and cruise ships don't charge you for a
70 pound suitcase versus a 40 pound suitcase they may care but they don't
say anything they just take in you're good to go
so that's something to keep in mind if you you know down the road if you're
thinking of a cruise and a little extended holiday nothing wrong with
flying to Orlando and then renting a vehicle and driving down to Miami for a
few days and then getting on a cruise from Miami park your car nearby may be a
little cheaper than a hundred fifty in a week if you can find it and your car is
waiting for you when you when you get back but anyway that's another topic for
another day new trends in cruising for 2018 these are some of the new gimmicks
that are being introduced this year to the cruisers this one I think I'm would
look forward to this myself this is electric go-kart racing on the Norwegian
bliss this is a new ship that Norwegian is bringing out it's biggie and they're
gonna have a 1,000 foot long track go-cart track which is a dual story
go-cart track you get into the car on the lower level in the shade and then
you drive up a ramp to the upper level and you're racing around this twisty
windy course and then you come back down to the lower part race around one time
and then come back to the pit area and you change out of your car let the next
person in electrically operated however they've got speakers in the in the
go-kart right by your ears that mimic the sound
of an of a gas engine so you feel like you're racing a go-kart with a motor
whereas in reality it's just an electric motor so from an environmental point of
view it's clean you won't be surrounded by those fumes
I hate those fumes of these two-stroke engines in a closed environment so you
won't have that issue at all so that sounds like a pretty cool thing
we'll see how successful it is another gimmick coming Royal Caribbean is
introducing outdoor laser tag after sunset certain ships on Royal
Caribbean's line are going to be fitted out with the right kind of software
Wi-Fi systems whatever they need to do here to allow certain areas of the upper
levels of these ships to be designated as laser tag zones in the evening hours
and they're building out all kinds of obstacle courses and sets and all kinds
of neat tricks this should be a lot of fun and you could sure see how Royal
Caribbean is going after the family adventures
adventurous family market let's say this sounds like a pretty fun pretty round
gig the first underwater lounge is going to be debuted later this year on a
Mediterranean line where patrons who want a cool one will go below deck into
a room a large room that will have several windows looking out into the
water under the waterline that are sort of a fisheye type windows they're super
strong in other words and well I guess dim the lighting on the inside of the
lounge and then probably have some outside lighting to help you see even
better depending on the sunshine and that type of thing and I guess how close
you are to a reef system in this sort of area it's gonna be a bit tricky for the
cruise lines because you know you want to show people fish you know underwater
schools of fish going by you're gonna have to be near reefs well reefs are
kind of bad for ships they sort of tear them apart and they you know leak water
when they when that happens so you're gonna have a bit of a delicate balancing
act and going forward on this I don't know how successful this ultimately be
but a crew is giving it a try and they feel that
they have the itinerary to make it work now for those of you who either know
someone that has done well and likes you you know that's the secret they like you
or you done well like you won the lottery
you got an inheritance you know a windfall has come your way I got the
deal for you a two-story suite is going to be
available later this year on one of the new ships I believe it's a Royal
Caribbean I'll look into that a little further forty thousand dollars a week
you can rent this this suite and it can hold up to eight family members and
here's what you get inside a $40,000 a week fun suite for the family it's a
two-story suite first of all it has a slide a tube-type slide from the second
floor down to the to the living room it has an air hockey game it has a Lego
wall so you can play endless Lego with this in this thing it's got a videogame
corner I don't know what that quite means but it's got a videogame corner a
popcorn machine of course I mean you gotta have a popcorn machine and as a
private deck with its own whirlpool that can hold eight family members at a time
so everybody can jump in and it comes with a 24-hour seven-day-a-week Butler
just to take care of those little things you need taken care of like my drink is
a little low my coffee's getting cold I'm kind of hungry
they'll take good care for 40 grand a week
you two can enjoy some of the luxuries at sea starting later this year 2018 so
you know there's something for everybody as you folks know out there I delight in
finding cruise deals and letting you know about them and one of my hobbies is
if I can find a cruise on a five-star type of line high-end cruise line for
the price of a four or a three star line that's oh that's a winner to me I I
don't mind being the poorest guy in a nice neighborhood I don't mind that it's
okay by me because the staff on board doesn't know that I'm the poor guy
because I don't dress in rags necessarily and so you get treated like
everybody else on board and if the staff thinks that you're paying you know 3,000
a week for a cruise and I got in there for six hundred and twenty five dollars
I'm the winner I like this deal so that's what I love to do and you
regulars out there you know what I'm talking about anyway today that is my
topic but what's been going on in the cruise line industry and what's coming
up exciting changes exciting developments so a lot of development
going a lot of bill out going on and I'm sure when there are a lot of additional
announcements as the year goes on for deliveries in 2019
and beyond as well it's gonna be summer this is an area of the cruise business
that is is I don't want to say booming but it is growing this strongly and
repeat cruisers are coming back first time cruises are discovering it
Millennials are discovering cruising them they were starting to reach that
age where ten years ago they went only old people go cruising and now they're
sort of reaching that middle-age area where my dad started cruising when
they're in their 40s and I'm kind of 38 now maybe I should look at the
millenniums are coming most interesting its poverty fall it's great anyway
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