everybody it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce today's video is about the
ten most dangerous cruise ports for cruise ship passengers I thought I'd
mentioned this because thirty million people are expected to go on a cruise
this year 2019 the number is growing by five to seven percent a year and the
families and travelers or you know always wondering well what cruise is the
best cruise to go on you have to decide what's the right cruise line for you
then you have to figure out the right ship and you have to figure out the
itinerary and the itinerary can be a make or break for a good cruise cruise
with happy memories or cruise with not good memories whether you're a couple
like these guys look into it to enjoy themselves a little getaway or it's a
family it's not easy to sometimes make these decisions but they're necessary
and I'm going to talk about what cruise lines are doing to combat some of the
worst cruise ports out there how to keep the business rolling and how to keep the
families and travelers coming in because they have armies like this of the staff
and crew ready to pamper you and spoil you rotten now let's start with the list
in reverse order the number 10 most dangerous port or cruise travelers
believe it or not is st. Lucia beautiful place gorgeous island but man if you
walk off the beaten path you are in trouble people are getting
mugged in daylight by armed robbers with guns it's not good it's a third-world
scenario just a couple of blocks away from where the cruise ship docks El
Salvador well not a surprise for a lot of us to hear this news El Salvador for
years has been a very unstable country and it's almost impossible to find
photographs of a cruise ship coming to visit El Salvador people and cruises
have been avoiding this area for a long long time this next one surprised me
st. Thomas si US Virgin Islands this is a US Protectorate Americans don't need a
passport to come here but if you end up in the wrong part of town you might find
yourself in a bit of a pickle unfortunately for st. Thomas they had a
terrible hurricane visit a couple years ago with
Irma and Maria and a lot of the island got wiped out so there's a lot of
desperate people there ya wanna stay on the beaten path do a tour go up here
we're like I did on the cable car and grab some of these great photos but make
sure you're on an escorted tour and you should be fine number seven on the list
is Antigua another gorgeous Caribbean island with resorts everywhere and that
type of thing if you're going to one of these resorts are you coming in on the
cruise ship and you're going to take a tour you'll be fine
but if you're just walking around in the daytime and you a head into the wrong
part of town you might be in trouble and there have been incidents Saint Kitts
and Nevis is number six unfortunately another area of the Caribbean beautiful
topography great geography but again you've got to be careful where exactly
you're headed when you get off the cruise ship hanging around here is okay
these are the the hots tourist spots there's security here you'll be fine but
a couple blocks from here you might not be number five is Mexico Mexico has
always been on the list as one of the most dangerous areas for cruise
passengers but keep in mind to be fair to Mexico
it's a fake country this footage here is taken in Mazatlan and Mazatlan itself
has been a great place to visit then Cruise Lines boycotted it for a while
because of gang violence now they're coming back to it this is my own
personal footage of masa lon I love it here it's great never had a
problem being here now a couple of times but again if you're in the main streets
you'll be fine but if you're gonna go off into the borough's you aren't asking
for trouble because if you come off looking like a you know a bit of an
overweight well-to-do tourist you're an easy mark so watch yourself and that
could be true anywhere of course it's even true in Miami and San Francisco in
Los Angeles I mean it's true everywhere but you know just watch out for yourself
cities all across Mexico are investing heavily in security the Mexicans know
how much tourism means to them and they want the cruise ships to keep coming
with those thousands and thousands of tourists and so you gotta watch yourself
and you'll be alright the number four country on the list is Guatemala
there's no surprise we're hearing about so many people trying to get out of this
country gang violence and that type of thing it's rather unfortunate but it is
you know a fact of life not very many cruise ships visit
Guatemala these days again you know it's just too scary to go there and so cruise
lines avoided number three country unfortunately Venezuela and it's only
going to get worse the political unrest there the rampant inflation the hunger
desperate people Venezuela what more can I say I think
I've already said enough not very many cruise lines go anywhere
near here number two most dangerous is Honduras
this is Roatan here Roatan itself this area here you should be okay there
really no incidents happening exactly right at that spot but interior of
Honduras and just out of town oh you're taking your life in your hands it's
really third world desperate people at desperate situations and you just have
to govern yourself accordingly the number one country the number one place
that is most dangerous for cruise ship passengers this is a shock it's the
closest to the USA it's the Bahamas here's a shot of Nassau with Paradise
Island over there on the left and downtown Nassau on the right Nassau
Bahamas a lot of incidents of pickpockets and robberies muggings all
depending on you know what time of day or night Cruise Lines love it because
it's handy but you've got to watch yourself now what are the cruise lines
doing about it well in the Bahamas right here Cruise Lines are spending hundreds
of millions of dollars building their own private island getaways where you
won't run into the locals it's a sad state of affairs but it's true cruise
lines throughout the Caribbean of like MSC on the first set of photos and now
here Royal Caribbean with Coco Key Disney Norwegian Carnival they are all
span during hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to develop and build
out their own private island getaways and that way the family can enjoy the
beaches without being hassled by any beggars security keeps
everyone in the perimeter and this area here becomes a family playground mom and
dad can relax honeymooners can relax and so on this is the way of the future
cruise lines have seen it for decades they've already invested they're gonna
continue to do so because they want your vacation dollars and they do not want
you worrying about what's gonna happen to you if you get off the ship and there
you are those are the ten most dangerous ports what the cruise lines are doing
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