hey everybody how you doing it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce today is
my sixth daily sixth daily today is November the 29th 2017 and I'm going to
talk to you today about how you can survive this cold weather we're
beginning to experience and motivate you through it because there's a reward at
the end of the rainbow listen to what I have to say I think you're gonna like it
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the cold weather to motivate you and get through to the other side I have
something for you and here it is I have been looking on the net today and I have
found three examples that you can look at to escape the cold weather and get
some warm weather into your bones okay and this is because I have found three
cruises that you can consider taking and I'm gonna show them to you and I'm gonna
have you consider why you would look at each one and at the end of this video
there's probably one that might be the the leader for you two
sitter and why don't give me my reasoning why you want to consider this
number one I wanted to compare three cruises for cost on a per day basis I
wanted to consider the cruises for departure time I wanted them to sort of
leave around the same timeframe I wanted to make sure they could they left from
the whatever port they left at they came back to makes it easier for flights well
they give you three different locations and different cruise lines and different
options but the dollars are kind of the same so this gives you stuff to think
about now you can really compare more apples to apples okay the first cruise I
came up with was a cruise that departs New York City and then put my glasses on
now so I can read my notes it departs New York City on January the 13th 2018
today is November 29th so we're talking December 29th until January the 13th
we're looking at six weeks from now this is a lot these are last-minute cruises
they're close but they're not too close you've got time to plan this if you can
find a little bit of time you can take advantage of this deal and here it is
it's a departing New York City January the 13th for ten nights you're going
with Norwegian cruise lines on the Norwegian Gem beautiful ship all three
ships I'm going to describe to you are about the same size they hold about
2,500 passengers they're 950 feet long roughly about 120 feet wide with
stabilizers there within 10 15 years of age state-of-the-art everything
fantastic ship to be on you're leaving for 10 days the the cost for 10 days is
540 bucks for the cheapest room available which is an inside room
balcony of course is more that type of thing but I want to be again compare
apples to apples just the lowest rate 540 bucks or 54 dollars a night per
person before your taxes and fees which might be about eight to ten dollars a
day more in total per person excuse me and then tipping everyone charges
tipping you can't get I'm gonna guesstimate about 13 bucks a
night so it's $130 a person so roughly if you want to take this cruise and add
the taxes and fees people out $100 more tips will be $130 more so two hundred
thirty plus five forty seven hundred and seventy dollars for 10 nights 77 bucks a
night you can't get a hotel room in New York City for 77 dollars a night you
can't get you can probably get a decent steak for 77 dollars a night but that
includes tip and taxes and even then you might be a little low so 77 dollars a
night not a bad deal the trick of it is though you're leaving New York City on
January the 13th and you're heading down to the Caribbean all right the first two
days out you're in cold weather the day of departure of course the first full
day at sea you can't be outside in your bathing suit lying around the pool it's
too cold it'll be the third day and beyond that you'll actually be in warm
weather and then coming back the last day at sea coming back you're coming up
through the Carolinas past Pennsylvania New Jersey it's cold you're not gonna be
on the pool the last day really what we're talking about here is a seven-day
cruise in warm weather and three days in cold weather just so you know and the
other risk you take leaving New York City is a winter storm if you're if
you're going south and a winter storm is coming north you might have to deal with
that so I want to just caution you so the price is right but the price might
not be the price you want to pay just so you know deal number two is January the
7th departure so about six days shorter sooner it's a seven day cruise
it leaves San Juan Puerto Rico and comes back to San Juan Puerto Rico and you're
going with Royal Caribbean Greek Cruise Line on jewel of the Seas great ship
seven nights 358 bucks or per night 51 dollars three dollars cheaper than the
New York deal it sounds great because seven days from San Juan back to San
one hanging around the Caribbean you got warm weather all seven days so that's
equal to the New York trip seven warm days there but on a 10-day cruise here
are seven nights it's all warm the trick though is getting into Port of Puerto
Rico and getting out of Puerto Rico finding a flight that is affordable and
reliable to get you in and out now if you're flying from say oh I don't know
let's say you live in Miami okay but if you live in Texas or you live in Denver
you live in New York you live in Seattle to get in and out of San Juan Puerto
Rico it's probably a multi connection flight will be direct service from
Seattle to San Juan and you're gambling whether you can get in and out of there
so that 358 dollar price that sounds great but boy the risk that you're
taking getting in and out of there on time to catch the ship and then get up
on the day you want to get out may negate the whole deal and I have been
warning cruisers about this it is a big deal about getting in and out of and
reliably and it says I'm sorry to say San Juan today November 29th is still
dealing with the Hurricanes hurricane herma hurricane Maria it's still a mess
electricity is still spotty there's just all kinds of problems there so even for
January six weeks from now five and a half six weeks from now you may not want
to take that chance okay third crews to talk about departs January the 13th it's
a ten nighter 10 nights January the 13th departure from Fort Lauderdale back to
Fort Lauderdale and you're on a cruise line called Costa Cruises Carnival owns
Costa Cruises by the way the ship is called the deliciosa I love the name of
that deliciosa and again 2500 passenger ship less than 15 years old
state-of-the-art everything you're talking ten nights out of Fort
Lauderdale for five hundred and twenty dollars that's fifty two bucks a night
the New York cruise was fifty four the San Juan Cruz was fifty one a night and
the the Fort Lauderdale cruise is fifty two dollars a night
close the iron price but here's the deal you got 10 nights on a Fort Lauderdale
warm weather guaranteed all 10 nights number 2 you're guaranteed guaranteed to
get in and out of Fort Lauderdale reliably by air is really good
the only trick you have to worry about is that you're flying on a Chicago to
get to Fort Lauderdale the only glitch you have is getting out of Chicago not
arriving in Fort Lauderdale okay getting out of Fort Lauderdale the day of the
they have the cruise of the day after your cruise
no problem Fort Lauderdale you'll be on time but getting back to Chicago or
Buffalo or Pittsburgh depending on where you're from if you're from a winter area
you're always taking a chance nothing new then we all know that but we do know
airplanes still take off and land in winter weather in Detroit Chicago
Minneapolis Indianapolis it doesn't matter but this deal here has a lot
going for it because you've got ten days in the Caribbean departing from Fort
Lauderdale coming back to Fort Lauderdale you have ten days of warm
weather where the New York crews you've got about seven on the the San Juan Cruz
was Royal Caribbean you got seven days of warm weather you have a reliability
of the airport you have the you have a wonderful cruise line no problems there
with taxes and fees these all come in at the same cost roughly on a per day basis
there's really no difference in price so now you gotta ask yourself well am I
gonna am I gonna take the New York deal or the San Juan deal or the Fort
Lauderdale dealer and I don't want to mislead you these are just three
examples of dozens of examples that that are out there you can look at seven-day
cruises from each of these places ten day cruises twelve day cruises you can
look at departure ports like New Orleans Galveston Tampa Miami Port Canaveral I'm
not even sure they think Baltimore still has a few cruises as well there are a
number of cruises to a myriad of places of course there's also the last minute
cruises of Las down to the Mexican Riviera and back I
am only giving you these three cruises today because I'm trying to compare
apples to apples when it comes to a per day cost roughly the same departure
point these depart between January the 7th and January the 13th we're talking
six days difference and same area of cruising the Caribbean at large so there
you have it three cruises to think about if you're living in New York City or in
New Jersey and you can take a quick bus ride over to the port and get on the
ship there you might have a deal that's unbeatable you know you're from even
from Buffalo you're driving down to New York park your car down in the port area
there might run you a hundred bucks to park for the week or under ten under 20
bucks for ten days so what you don't have to fly in and out doesn't matter
and that's a great deal for you but you're down to a seven-day cruise in
warm weather not not the 10-day cruise however I have seen Norwegian offered
twelve day cruises out of New York where you actually end up getting nine warm
days instead of seven so you can look at it that way as well pay a little more
depart but get couple extra days at sea so there's that so if you live in New
York area going out of New York might work and it's a very popular cruise it
has worked out very well for a number of cruise lines the San Juans situation it
will become much more reliable as we go forward in time but it may not be this
winter season that we can rely on it it might have to be next fall next winter
next year in 2019 we need we need to give San Juan more time to recover and I
hate to talk business out of San Juan they need all the business they can get
I really feel for them but you know a number of these cruises that depart from
Fort Lauderdale from Europe they visit San Juan during the day so you get a day
trip into San Juan anyway you go to old town San Juan frequent the t-shirt shop
that's run by an individual entrepreneur stay away from the chain stores help the
individual business person in San Juan by a nice latte and
dependent coffee-shop that kind of thing help local businesses absolutely but
you're only there for a maybe an eight or a ten hour stay and then you're on
your way and you don't have to worry about the infrastructure the greater
infrastructure of San Juan getting in your way to get in and out
the third option as I said coming in and out of Fort Lauderdale or coming in and
out of Miami or Tampa you've got the the comfort you know deep down inside the
the reassurance that Southwest Airlines American United all JetBlue they they
have reliable service in and out of these locations and you know you could
do a scenario where you could fly into Tampa Bay in the morning grab a ship in
the afternoon or four to I don't know for that matter of Miami and then on the
way home same thing you depart the same day that you get to the to the port you
could play that game I don't recommend it for those of us coming from the
northern part of North America I recommend if you're coming into Fort
Lauderdale for a cruise that leaves on a Tuesday arrive on the Monday and you've
got the next 24 hours just in case safety coming home oh and by the way
coming back from Fort Lauderdale or Miami or or or or Tampa Bay you're
flying back to Chicago or New York or to Seattle or Denver wherever if you cut
the extra day keep this in mind when you're at the gate and they're asking
for volunteers who want to be bumped for compensation and you've got the time you
might want to take the compensation deal maybe you'll take 400 bucks cash and
take the flight three hours later or the next day because they'll put you up in
the hotel there's a way to get four or five hundred bucks back you know for
another compensation per person that's eight hundred dollars a couple that goes
a ways to paying for your cruise I'm just saying if you've got the time you
might want to take them up on their offer to get bumped from that flight
back to New York City but if you've got to go to work you got to go over it I
get it it told understand while I'm talking to people my age being 62 if
you've got time time is money baby and if you're older and you've got the time
to offer yeah you take you take a bump for
500-600 eel is if you try to get a cash deal or or flight coupon vouchers hey go
for it you can always do that that's up that's another topic for another day
today was about last minute cruising here are three examples for you think
about it I hope you enjoyed this video hope you found it informative if you
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to talk to you tomorrow this is the end of the sixth daily tomorrow we'll be
dealing number seven have a good one everybody it's Bruce saying goodbye from
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