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video is called 15 myths about cruising you should know
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myths of cruising that you should know about a lot of people I think that these
are true things that actually are going on on cruises not really here's number 1
people think that cruises are crowded they think that cruise ships are
absolutely jam-packed with people and that you're stuffed into the thing like
a sardine or something like that let me tell you folks today's modern cruise
ship not uncommon for a ship today to be at least 900 feet long if not more than
a thousand feet long that by the way is three football fields in length cruise
ships have up to 20 decks or at least 10 or 12 that you can go on think about
this 12 decks long each one the length of three football fields and upwards of
120 to 180 feet wide there is no way you're kind of feel crowded on a cruise
ship you will find instances where there are lineups from time to time mom look
if you're all going to the eight o'clock show you know Jersey Boys or or Greece
or whatever the Big Show is in the main the main auditorium it can hold up to
800 people yeah there's several ways to get in there but there'll be some
lineups to get in but you're not gonna feel crowded even inside the auditorium
you're gonna be amazed of just how gigantic these things are it's really
number two myth it's for old and stuffy people you're gonna be just surrounded
by people that are on their last legs and waiting to die I don't think so
there's a lot to do on a cruise ship for all ages no question there will be
senior citizens on these cruises but they'll also be 20-somethings they'll be
kids of course there'll be families they'll be people of all ages
honeymooners you name it those of us who've been on cruises we know that
cruises just are not for old stuffy people next one I'm gonna be stuck on
board you know I I just I'm just gonna be trapped on board a ship I can't I
can't do this well think about it this way folks if you're on a seven-day
cruise out of Miami into the Caribbean and back you're likely going to have
three days where you're going to be getting off the ship the first day let's
say first day Sunday that full day is taken up with the check-in process
getting on board finding your cabin unpacking all your stuff then you're
going to figure out whether you're gonna do the spa package or not so you can go
check that out you're gonna check out the specialty restaurants you're
probably go to your main dining room area figure out your dining times uh
you'll have dinner walk around the ship a little bit and I
can tell you right by 9 10 o'clock at night you're gonna be done you might
spend a few minutes or half an hour in the casino if you can last that long
you're not going to read what the first day this the the Monday there might be a
C date on that C day there are going to be probably 50 things to do in ten hours
of time you can't do it all you'll be booked right up the next day maybe
Tuesday you're at an island Wednesday you're at a stop Thursday you've got a C
day again 50 things to do the next day is another C day then it's Saturday last
C day on the way home and Sunday you get off the ship there is no time to get
bored on a cruise ship with 15 restaurants 12 bars the main dining room
comedy clubs karaoke bars discos trivia questions bowling alley so many ships
have pumper gars ice skating rinks you can't
possibly be bored um I'm gonna get the normal virus that's another myth I'm
gonna get sick I'm gonna be in the bathroom all the time I'm not true ships
aren't kept incredibly clean you have to understand if you're on a cruise ship
with 4,000 passengers you're on a cruise ship with 1,600 crew to look after you a
1600 crew there's got to be an army of a hundred people that are all over that
ship at all times vacuuming the floor working the disinfectants on the
handrails constantly replenishing the hand washers were the buffet and the
restaurants are cleaning all the public toiletry areas taking away the garbage
then there's the 1,500 others that are working on your rooms keeping your
staterooms clean doing the laundry preparing the food it just goes on and
on there's an army of people you're not gonna get sick on the norovirus the odds
of you catching a tower very low very rare cruisers are dangerous well let's
see if a cruise ship were to leave then go right into the middle of a hurricane
I guess it could be a bit bumpy but cruise ships don't do that cruise ships
have radar systems onboard and they have their head office meteorologists telling
the captains and navigators at all times what areas of the ocean to avoid they
know the itineraries of every ship constantly monitoring satellite
positioning they know exactly the wave heights of the waters that they're going
into they know the wind speeds they know them the systems that are coming through
cruise ship cruise ship itineraries are not dangerous at all they're quite quite
boring generally speaking although it makes for great medium when you can get
a nice wave going beside a ship it always makes for good media because it's
rare another myth everybody's drunk on a cruise no that's not true now if you're
going on a spring break a long weekend cruise with a bunch of college kids you
know you're gonna be started by a lot of young people getting drunk I will give
you that but not all cruises are like that at all
typical cruises go from 4 days 7 days 12 days 2 weeks and they go to a bunch of
different places through the itinerary and people just can't keep up that kind
of pace there might be one night where a few folks are putting one on but I
decided the next day there trying to sleep it off and it's nice and quiet no
they're not drunk all the time with cruise ships holding up to five six
thousand people that would be impossible to monitor and it's just not the case
I'll be bored as another myth I'm gonna be bored to tears being on a cruise
nothing to do sorry you're not gonna be bored you're gonna have lots to do lots
to see lots to enjoy you're gonna be fine the other options the opposite of
that one is I'm gonna be too busy III this is too much to do on a ship I can't
do it all so I'm really not getting my money's worth because I'm gonna be too
busy no that's not the case either a cruise is basically what you make it if
you want to be a busy person on the cruise you can be a busy person on a
cruise if you want to be lazy and just take it easy cruises are made for you as
well then there are the shore excursions which you can either take with the
cruise line or discover a cruise destination on your own or with your
travel friend there are a million ways to enjoy a cruise and it is in effect
your call what you want to do when you want to do it how you want to do it it's
absolutely perfect that way a cruise is not a cultural experience okay let's say
you're taking a three-day bender going to one stop and back well okay you're
not gonna get a lot of culture you get a lot of alcohol a lot of partying but if
you're gonna take a 10-day cruise in the Mediterranean starting in Barcelona and
working your way to Rome and Naples and Florence and other European stops you're
gonna get a lot of culture now the only way you're not getting cultured is if
you're not paying attention you're gonna be surrounded by it so pick the cruise
that you want for what it is you want from it another myth too many kids
there's just too many kids on these cruises I can't stand it well uh yeah
there are ways to avoid cruise with too many children go on a cruise
line that doesn't allow anyone under 18 on board Viking ocean cruises as an
example adults only no children whatsoever the other way to avoid kids
on a cruise greatly would be to take a cruise that takes place when the school
year is on when kids are in school that's when you go on a cruise if you're
gonna go on a cruise an Easter weekend yeah there's a lot of families out there
taking cruises with their children you may want to avoid that time of the year
another myth I'm gonna gain a lot of weight um well you know what people tell
me that they gain weight when they go and visit their relatives at
Thanksgiving people tell me I gained weight over
Christmas hanging out at my house because of all the food we were making
you're gonna gain weight if you abuse yourself of course but on a cruise it
doesn't have to be that way you can use the jogging track on the top of the ship
you can walk around the ship like crazy on the promenade deck just watch your
intake but hey if you're gonna have three big meals a day on a cruise ship
because after all it is included and you're gonna drink like crazy because
after all you're on a cruise ship and then you're gonna have ice cream and
desserts every chance you get you can a gain weight that myth might not be a
myth that might be a reality it's up to you to control yourself though it
doesn't have to be that way I'll get seasick that's another common myth
people are convinced that the minute they got on a ship there's gonna get
seasick that is not true it is not often anymore that people are running into a
really bad stormy seas these ships have stabilizers the ships are in effect
looking for the comest waters to sail on you'll find that after a couple of days
you're having a tough time even noticing that the ship even moves at all keep in
mind of course when the ship is sailing you're sleeping it's the middle of the
night you're gon wake up the next morning you don't realize that you're
already docked at your next port of call and the ship isn't moving whatsoever
yeah a whole day out on the on land coming back in the afternoon you're
slowly coming out of the dock at 3:00 miles an hour then into the calm waters
it's unlikely you'll get seasick but if you do feel queasy don't worry in the
core in the stores onboard the ship they have all kinds of remedies for motion
sickness you can eat always visit the Medical Center on board they will take
care you you're not gonna have a tough time or that uh I have to get dressed up
this is another myth I don't wanna go on a cruise because I don't have a tuxedo
and I don't want to wear a suit and tie and the women are saying I don't have
enough evening gowns to handle all this stuff not true cruise ships today are
not like the kind of cruises we see from the movies you remember the movies when
people went on a Titanic when you saw the guys in black black suits with the
with the black tie events and the butler's everywhere folks
today's cruise ship vacations are free for all do what you want when you want
how you want you can eat casually every night you can eat and especially
restaurant every night and for guys you want to go into the most expensive
restaurant they have you can go in a jacket and a polo shirt and a pair of
slacks you're good to go just don't wear flip-flops ladies you do not have to go
all out although you know guys generally don't mind if you do but you do not have
to go all out to go out every night especially depending on the kind of
dining you're going for if you're heading for the pizza stand or you're
heading for the buffet go casual enjoy yourself think about Vegas you dress on
a cruise ship like you dress for Vegas sometimes in Las Vegas you are just
hanging out the casino hanging out in the hotel lobby area and what the slot
machines other times when you're in Vegas you're gonna go to a show you
might get up you might get dressed a little bit but that's exactly what you
could do in a cruise ship it's exactly the same kind of dress code it's very
casual it's very easygoing I have to eat dinner with people I don't know that is
a myth that for some reason just won't go away
if you're a single traveler you could travel on your own if you're a couple
and you want to be by yourselves you can go into the restaurants any of the
establishment restaurants any of them and say to the to the person who's going
to seat you we just want see sit by ourselves now it's possible
that at the exact moment in time you come into the main dining room and you
want a table for two there aren't any available at this
moment in time but in the next 15 20 minutes one will open up they'll give
you a little tracker one of those little things that you hold in your hand if the
lights go off when it's time to go on in you can sit on your own or with the two
of you if you like or you can go the opposite direction and say no no we do
want to sit with other people we want to sit with six other people and hear
stories and stories you will hear no question about it it's totally up to you
and the last myth is I can't cruise alone that's not true
even though cruise lines do offer a lot of their fares as a double occupancy
thing a number of cruise lines are now building specialty cabins just for solo
travelers and they sell them only to solo travelers at a special rate it's
not uncommon now for Norwegian to have ten or twelve solo cabins as a cluster
of cabins where they have their own little Lobby and they have their own
coffee making area tea making area iced tea iced tea snacks all that kind of
stuff but know you can sail alone uh but it is true that in the older ships it
used to be that you had to take a room for two people pay double the fare
because you're after all taking up two spots when there's only one of you doing
it but nowadays no a lot of cruise lines are offering the cabins on a single fare
basis you just have to call the cruise line talk to them directly and let them
tell you what they've got otherwise do what I do call the travel agent call
amber and travel you'll see the link below we have a travel agent for this
channel Chuck talked to the gals at ambient they will help you if you're a
solo Cruiser if you're also a handicap cruiser you have disabilities they can
also handle any disability cruise you're looking for for motorized scooters or
wheelchairs or that type of thing give them a call they'll take good care yeah
there you go 15 myths that have been proven to be
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