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Orlando, Walt Disney World & Cruise: The Ultimate Magical Adventure
I'm Martin, your friendly cruise guru, and I'm thrilled to be your guide on this incredible journey of combining land and sea adventures. In today's episode, I'm going to share some exciting insights on how to plan the ultimate vacation that combines the magic of Walt Disney World, the thrills of Universal Orlando, and even a visit to the amazing Kennedy Space Center, all as part of an unforgettable cruise holiday.
Now, let me break it down for you. We'll discuss the best ways to structure your trip—whether you want to start with the land activities and then hop aboard a cruise or prefer to set sail first and then enjoy the on-land adventures. I'll share some nifty tips on how you can make the most of your time at Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, and the Kennedy Space Center while enjoying your fantastic cruise vacation.
And speaking of cruises, we'll dive into some of the top cruise lines that offer these incredible itineraries. We'll explore the family-friendly experiences of Disney Cruise Line, the exciting offerings from Norwegian Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean's thrilling adventures, the luxurious journeys with MSC, the stylish experiences aboard Celebrity Cruises, and the innovative voyages offered by Virgin Voyages.
So, whether you're a fan of Mickey Mouse, seeking epic thrills, or dreaming of reaching for the stars, I'm here to help you choose the best options for your cruise. Get ready for an action-packed episode filled with valuable insights and tips!
Book your Disney Cruise and Stay Holiday Package with Orlando Insider at www.orlandoinsider.co.uk
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Orlando, Walt Disney World & Cruise: The Ultimate Magical Adventure
I'm Martin, your friendly cruise guru, and I'm thrilled to be your guide on this incredible journey of combining land and sea adventures. In today's episode, I'm going to share some exciting insights on how to plan the ultimate vacation that combines the magic of Walt Disney World, the thrills of Universal Orlando, and even a visit to the amazing Kennedy Space Center, all as part of an unforgettable cruise holiday.
Now, let me break it down for you. We'll discuss the best ways to structure your trip—whether you want to start with the land activities and then hop aboard a cruise or prefer to set sail first and then enjoy the on-land adventures. I'll share some nifty tips on how you can make the most of your time at Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, and the Kennedy Space Center while enjoying your fantastic cruise vacation.
And speaking of cruises, we'll dive into some of the top cruise lines that offer these incredible itineraries. We'll explore the family-friendly experiences of Disney Cruise Line, the exciting offerings from Norwegian Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean's thrilling adventures, the luxurious journeys with MSC, the stylish experiences aboard Celebrity Cruises, and the innovative voyages offered by Virgin Voyages.
So, whether you're a fan of Mickey Mouse, seeking epic thrills, or dreaming of reaching for the stars, I'm here to help you choose the best options for your cruise. Get ready for an action-packed episode filled with valuable insights and tips!
Book your Disney Cruise and Stay Holiday Package with Orlando Insider at www.orlandoinsider.co.uk
Listen to more Orlando Holiday Planning Podcasts at www.orlandoinsider.co.uk/orlando-podcast
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Is it possible to seek a Walt Disney World
or Universal
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Orlando holiday
and a cruise in the same holiday?
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Is it possible?
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If it is, how would you go about?
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Is there a better way of doing it?
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Lands in sea, Sea and lands?
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Or is there a third way of doing it?
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Well, stay tuned.
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We're going to be talking all
about the best ways of combining a cruise
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with a trip to Orlando.
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Let's jump straight into it.
Is it possible?
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Yes, of course it is.
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Well, actually, it's
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more than possible because Port Canaveral,
which is about an hour away,
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45 minutes away from Orlando, is
one of the busiest airports in the world.
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So many people go and do a Orlando holiday
and then take a cruise afterwards,
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or do they do beforehand
or even in the middle.
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So US will be talking about
Plus also, you've got the ports of Tampa,
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which certainly about an hour away, and
you can also fly down to Miami as well.
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So if you want to add on a cruise
to a trip to Orlando, to the theme
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parks, there are plenty different ways
of doing it.
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So firstly,
why would you want to do a cruise?
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Okay, If you've done a great before,
that's going to be a hard questions to do
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because you just
don't know we're missing out.
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Crazy is a
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fantastic
because you get to wake up to a new place
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every single day without you
having to unpack or do anything else.
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You get your food all included.
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So which is completely different
to being in the theme parks.
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Even if she had to dine in Chinese to go
Pikachu, it isn't salt
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and you just relax in the level of service
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and quality you're going to get on
a cruise ship is second to none.
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Say in the theme parks
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and they've got hundreds of thousands
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of people per day
that need to see these just don't
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get that level of personal service,
which you do get that on a cruise ship.
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So what's the best way of doing it?
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Is it to do land first or sea first?
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Well, I think this very much comes down
to what you want to do
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and your level expectations.
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So this is sort of talk
through the different cruise lines
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that you can go with.
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So from Port Canaveral,
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the first was going to come to Miami
Disney, because you could because, well,
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Disney World.
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So Disney as a cruise line
goes and out of Port Canaveral,
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they have the Disney wish,
which is based there all year round.
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And that's free of full night cruises
for the majority of the year.
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Okay. Next one is Royal Caribbean.
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And Royal Caribbean is massive cruise line
that everyone's heard of
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is the one with the wave rider at the back
seeing the surfing.
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It's called the Aqua Park
who that kind of stuff.
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And they're absolutely huge ships.
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So they go out of Port Canaveral as well.
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Norwegian Cruise Line is one
that people may not have heard of.
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The Norwegian Cruise Line is a fantastic
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they are smaller
than the Royal Caribbean ships,
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but they have so much to do and so much
increase in their fares as well.
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And MSC is the Italian cruise line
that also go out of book
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an Africa with certain times of the year.
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And then you've also got Carnival
Cruises as well.
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A lot of people think these are party
cruises, but they're not always,
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you see, to double check
as to which cruise you go onto.
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Okay. Take some of the crew.
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I mean, there's sort of three or four
nights is sometimes a seven line
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cruises
as well would talk a bit more about why
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some people would just do a friend
a four night cruise
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and why some people would do a seven night
cruise a bit later.
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Not if you go times to Miami,
get a bit more choice.
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Seek all those ones of all dimension.
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Plus you will get celebrity cruises
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and celebrity
really get it to the Florida Keys.
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So if you want to combine a trip
to Walt Disney World, we do.
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Doing the Florida Keys.
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Probably the best way of doing
it is take one of the celebrity cruises
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because they're going to take you down.
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Do you go to visit
all the popular places down along the Keys
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and then one of the islands,
as well as maybe Bahamas
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or Barbados, putting
what's on your itinerary.
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And it's so much better
value than drive in.
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That one is always tried and true.
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The Florida Keys itself to
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hotels along that kind of area
are really, really expensive.
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So you can go off
and go and explore for the day,
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then get back onto the ship in the evening
and then all your food
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and that can still sort of be
included as okay and lasting definitely
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by no means
least Is virgin voyages a virgin voyages.
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Quite new to the game
and they are an adult only cruise line.
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We're talking
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all about the different cruise lines
including virgin voyages a bit later on.
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So what's the best way of doing it?
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Land first see, first sea, first, land
first, or then have a way of doing it.
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Well,
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personally,
I think it comes down to your expectations
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and what you want to do
and which Christine and what you can be
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the moisture in the land. So
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from a personal point of view,
which is what we so recommend to
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our clients is we say do land first
and then see afterwards.
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She reasons for this. Okay.
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If you all could do the land, first
one gets to use the time difference.
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Okay.
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Most people that we book are from the UK,
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so you know,
they have a nine hour flight to get there.
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And then you've got nine hour flight
to get home as well.
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You also got to account for the
the jetlag full time difference.
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That is something that's quite
become a big,
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if you will handle before
you will probably waking up
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about 4:00 in the morning,
maybe 4:00, if you're lucky.
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So if you're doing that, you can't really
kind of like to the cruise.
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When you lands,
you will land at between sort of six,
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seven, eight, 9:00 in the evening
sometimes, but only if you
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the five endings, for example,
they land before for what, the afternoon
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will you cruises into the next day
because you can't land on the same day.
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It's like cruise in the same day,
which means you're going to have to go
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from from Orlando International Airport
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out to Cape Canaveral or lands
at Miami Airport and then probably
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stay there, stay for a night
and then go on the cruise the next day.
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So you probably will even be
getting on the ship until 1:00.
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So that means that you've say, for
example, you do to is ending its flights.
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You land at
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4:00 in the afternoon,
you're at Cape Canaveral
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by six, 630, depending on
how long it takes you to to get there.
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And immigration that cost
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you then got the evening
sorted out and relax that kind of stuff.
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But then
what are you going to do the next day?
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You then kind of like going on to the
you go on to the first show and again,
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you will be up at 4:00 in the morning
and the rest must do around the cruise
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terminal area. So in the space coast.
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So it's a bit of a kind of a wasted day.
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Plus, also, the crew had worn axes.
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So when you want to do that off,
you've had to turn off the theme park.
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So we recommend is you theme parks first.
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So you go into.
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So, for example, Walt Disney World first,
you can then go before your morning
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or do rope job in the stuff,
tie yourself out because
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go into Walt Disney World,
even though you might have been there
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loads of times,
it's still pretty exhausting to go and do.
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It's a lot of walking around.
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It's a lot of standing in queues.
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Plus also from a mindset point of view,
when you're on board a cruise ship,
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you really pay for your food,
the fruits included.
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So there's nothing to pay even here.
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The Disney dining plan washable
Disney World,
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you still got to go up
and go and tap your magic band
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to pay
for it and then pay your gratuities.
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Until now, imagine
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going free nights four nights
and having as much food as you want
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on board the cruise ship and then go
catch them to pay for something like okay,
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characters as well.
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If you're going to go to the Disney
theme parks and queue for carrots,
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you might queue up for an hour
to go meet a princess
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when you're on the cruise ship.
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When they do, for example, the princesses,
they generally use a come back time.
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So you get a reservation
and then you come back and so on.
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You might queue for about 5 minutes
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and then you're going to be free
or full princess at the same time.
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So if you in 15 minutes
you could call me free for princesses,
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whereas an hour in Orlando
you made me one, maybe two.
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So again, if you do the cruise ship
first or queuing for so long, like
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a cruise ship you just don't keep
things is pretty simple.
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Apart
from maybe getting on and off the ship,
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depending on
what time you get off the ship,
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the the getting better
at managing the crowds.
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You don't queue for things.
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The thing pops can be absolutely rammed.
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You know,
he can hold about 100,000 people.
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So you got a really busy day.
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It's going to be really,
really, really, really, really busy.
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Cruise ships aren't as busy as that.
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So majority of the flights that come from
the UK can be landing
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at four, five, six, 7:00 in the evening.
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And then they're also you mean leaving
around six, seven, maybe eight at night.
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So the trouble is that when you've done
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your cruise, if you're doing land
first and sea afterwards,
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you're going to have this kind of problem
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of if you're going to get off the
ship at 10:00 in the morning,
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then from 10:00 in
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the morning,
you can then go to the airport,
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sea off, going to some Miami airport
or Orlando airport.
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And then from there, you're going to be
waiting around for your flight.
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And Orlando and Miami airports of Nice,
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but they're not eight, 9 hours
hanging around doing absolutely nothing.
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Kind of nice.
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So there are a few things you can do.
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For example, if you have done your tickets
correctly, what you can do
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is with the 14 day tickets for for Disney
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actually work over an 18 day period.
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So the 14 days in the park,
but you got a 18 day window to use them.
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So if you use a monday on your second day,
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you land on,
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go into the theme parks
is then go and take off those days.
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Hopefully if you for example,
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if you use anything about Disney,
about for ten days,
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you then get that time at the end
to go and use
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an extra day in the park so you can
then head straight to Walt Disney World,
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go to in the possible Walt Parks
and then go to the airport afterwards.
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So you can do that if you wanted to.
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Likewise should be universal.
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So they have a 14 day ticket for the UK
market
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14 days from the day you use it.
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So if, for example, your state of things
up and your state off sites.
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Now most people that we booked do
stay on site, 85% of people stay on site.
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But for people who stay offsite,
maybe staying in the villa,
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maybe you're staying in
apartment or another hotel.
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The day that you start
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using that universal
Orlando ticket is when that 14 day starts.
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So if you want to go another two weeks
today, redo in ten months beforehand
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and a four night cruise
if you haven't it, that universal ticket,
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as always, have to use it
for the first couple of days.
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You actually can go
and use it in the last day
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and then go to the airport afterwards,
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dump the bag somewhere,
go drop the bags off by the theme park
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and then go to the airport
afterwards as well.
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That's a really good
if you got a later flight,
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if you got a 5:00 flight,
you kind of maybe cutting it a bit fine.
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You probably not going to get
a huge amount of times in the feedbacks.
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That's why actually the absolute
best way of doing it is to to land.
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See that now if you're a bit of a budget,
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the best way of doing
this is to do your theme parks first
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the cruise and then one night
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or maybe two nights on the space Coast,
this next to the Kennedy Space Center.
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Okay.
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This is actually one of the best places
to actually go inland.
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I absolutely love it there.
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So what you can do is you can be
off the ship by 9:00 in the morning,
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pick up a car.
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This is the time to pick up a car.
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You don't need a car, Yolanda,
But you do need a car to do this.
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You don't pick up a car.
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You drive straight to the space center.
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You leave all your luggage in the car.
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Then afterwards, when you're done there
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for five, 6:00 in the evening,
you then drive to your hotel.
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I've room on the coast or you drive
to Orlando and what you want to do.
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So what you could do is then go
and do your one night in Orlando.
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And if you got Portuguese
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left on the last day,
you can get anything booked as well.
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If not just total
the space coast, you're on a beach.
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So the next day when you wake up
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just the beach for a couple of hours
and then drive to the airport
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and dump the car
and then you get on your flight.
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So sounds like a really nice space
engine holidays.
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You don't do cruise.
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You go to the Kennedy Space Center
and then you have a day at the beach
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after you finish at the beach.
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Identify Practices UK.
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What a great way of doing it.
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If you've got a bit more money
and a bit more a bit more time as well,
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then what I suggest is doing
one last thing in staying on site
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if you can possibly at one
lot of parks cruise and then the second
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the so you might do what Disney World
Cruise Universal Orlando afterwards.
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This is a great way
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especially if you staying on site
because of the extra benefits
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you get to stay in the airfield park
entry transportation kind of stuff.
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Brady is worth looking at staying on site,
especially universal.
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The endless summer, for example,
is not that much more in the staying
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at least National Drive
and the benefits would really outweigh.
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It's a really great way
of going to go into Universal.
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So if possible,
this is the best way of doing it.
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So land so Walt Disney World Cruise
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then universal at the ends
so think about that you land in the plane
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and then you go to Disney On the day
you check out of Disney,
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you already have to check out
until you know to leave the kind of area.
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And so and that's it.
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Then he gets the cruise ship
go and check in country You cruise
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if you're off the ship at DIFC
in the morning, you can be back in Orlando
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by no later than 1030,
which means you can be
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in the theme park realistically by 11:00.
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And then you've got three, four nights
at the end to go to explore whichever
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theme park.
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So you could even go back to the same park
if you wanted to.
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But recommend doing that
if you stay at Disney,
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if you have the free dining credit offered
because it messes up the office
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and so you wouldn't actually
get any dining credit over the next one.
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So that's why we could recommend doing
Disney and Universal do them separately.
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Also, the miles apart from each other,
it costs a fortune in taxes
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to get between the two of them
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to stay on site every event or close by.
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At least don't try and go to Universal
whilst staying at Disney's ABC.
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Not worth it.
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That's all.
That is the absolute best way of doing it.
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It's a savings if you're going to go down
to Miami as well.
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So what you could do is that you do
your theme
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parks first, fly down to Miami,
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then from Miami, you go into,
you cruise, then they come back
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and then you might do two free
couple of nights in the Miami area.
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You go to the beach,
you chill out and relax.
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You don't see theme parks,
all this or tiring stuff.
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First relax.
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Then you cruise
and you go to the beach as well.
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And you might also spend
some time at Miami.
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Or you could
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some people did fly down to Miami,
decreased on their flight back to Orlando,
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and then do some more theme parks out
there as well as you can do
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a miami cruise
in the middle of your Orlando trip.
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Don't think that you have
to just go from Port Canaveral.
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You can fly down and back up as well
and we can help with those flights.
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Okay. Speak to one of our travel experts,
maybe out to help.
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So to a little bit
about each of the different cruise lines,
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Disney is the one that's
probably in the spring to mind the most
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when you think about doing it
with a Walt Disney World holiday.
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And if you can afford it because Disney
tends to be the most expensive,
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that this is the one to go for,
this is great for younger kids
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and they want to go meet the characters
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and bother them to see them
while you're in the theme parks to it,
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whilst you're on the cruise
and with food included.
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So you can do the rotation
dining shift on a free night
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cruise, you'll go to each of the three
restaurants.
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The crew will go around with you as well.
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You should really great
because they then get to know you.
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So you have the same service
every single night whilst you're on the
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cruise ship and you will go to Castaway,
which is Disney's own private island.
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Pretty cold, isn't it?
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You know, not a lot people have their own
private islands.
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You get started.
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Just things private.
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I like wish
it could be Mickey Mouse on there.
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There's lots of things to do in the water.
Chin out. Relax.
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Where you can go to the beaches as well
if you wanted to.
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So it's a great way of relaxing
after a year, the more intense
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time that you get inside the theme parks.
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Next is Rio, Caribbean.
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Royal Caribbean is the become of the big
one that a lot of people know.
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And they have these massive, massive,
massive ships,
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the ones with the way right
as the surfboards at the back.
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Chances are it's
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the families who go on these cruises
actually don't actually go onto them.
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The big sort of stuff is come
find all that to look at.
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They are already well known
for the family of friends.
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So they have amazing kids clubs.
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They have amazing sets
for the all the families.
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Now, great thing about all the cruise
lines is when you have a kids club
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is that you put the kids into the kids
school because you have been with the
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the 24 hour day
while Sherri Disney or maybe Universal.
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Now this is your time to let the kids
go do their own thing.
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You go and do your own thing.
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See, it's
the kids got the well looked after.
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They probably will actually
leave the kids up.
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Then you can just relax and drink
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to whatever Royal Caribbean
and go really great kids clubs.
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And so it's a Norwegian cruise
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on Norwegian Cruise
Line is one of those cruise liners
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that a lot of people
haven't really heard of. NCL
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They are really, really good.
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They offer, you know, a lot of fun things
that you would get on the cruise lines.
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It ships in three smaller
than the Royal Caribbean cruise ships.
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Lots of stuff includes.
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So you eat buffets
and you got you sort of main dining
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and you could also deal with free sea.
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The freight sea is an extra charge
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and you pay a little bit more
and that's going to increase.
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You open bar
for the first two people in the cabin.
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So that means you can have pretty much
any drinks you'd like.
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It's about $15 charity dining.
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You also get things like a wi
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fi package as some credit towards
an excursion luxury.
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One of the poops as well.
So lots included.
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Plus there's more than two of you
in the cabin.
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The extra people only pay the pope
taxes and charges.
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Not the not the Chris there.
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So there pay impressive enough
to be in that cabin with you.
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Now, the downside of it is that they don't
get the specialty dining
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and the don't get the drinks
package included.
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So sometimes it's better to have
two separate rooms, indicate two rooms.
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You've got young kids
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because then everyone
if it's a family of four, two people
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in the first cabin tunes,
a companion will get that if you can
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was buy drinks package for the
for the younger ones as well
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or you could just pay as you go to read.
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So it depends on how much that kids tends
to get this sort of
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like two four years
old, four years old for another drink.
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A huge amount, probably not worth
buying a drinks package for.
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A next is MSE.
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MSE is Italian cruise line,
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so they do tend to cater more
for different nationalities.
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So this is the one where it's not just
going to be English speakers on board,
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it's going to have a
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lot of Italian and French and German
as the food is a bit different
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because it has to cater for lots
of different nationalities was sampled.
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They tend to be a bit cheaper then,
so they have a cruise lines
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and nice ships and nice itineraries.
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But the same probably the thing
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that's not quite as good
as some of the other cruise lines.
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Carnival is the last one
we talk about, and Carnival
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has a bit of a reputation of having
just party cruises, and that's not true.
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It's so raw, a few party cruises
and we can help you sort of
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weed out those ones who don't want to be
on that kind of stuff.
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Again, the fantastic ships.
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So the newer ships have got all the water
parts on bottles like you can
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they get on NCL
when on Disney and Royal Caribbean
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and they've got some really great
itineraries.
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My thing is to the rarity,
they are much cheaper than
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a Disney cruise.
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So if you do one of these relaxation
of being but your budget
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doesn't stretch to a Disney cruise
carnival, NCL
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really great alternatives to you
so you can change things up.
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Don't have to just keep come with
the Disney fee
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have been to Walt Disney World
for however long
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it takes you outside that Disney bubble
just a little bit.
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Okay.
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If you are going from Miami
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and you always have a choice
of Celebrity Cruises, which is fantastic
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between the Florida Keys
and they've got Virgin voyages
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and this is an adult only cruise,
one of my favorite cruise lines.
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The great thing I love about
Virgin Cruises is they take them things
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I don't like about the other cruise lines.
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Typically, there's no tips.
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They just pay the crew
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an actual proper way to start with
so they don't have to rely on tips.
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Soft drinks.
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Soft drinks are included not just in the
restaurants, but also at the bars as well.
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So, you know, if you just treat sort of
soft drinks, absolutely fun.
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Okay, why fight? Why flies included?
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Unlimited Wi-Fi is included.
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So you will be connected if you want to
be, as opposed to with the cruise lines.
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You have to pay to use the Wi-Fi.
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So the things I really don't like
about Cruise Lines
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Virgin have eliminated
pretty good atmosphere on board.
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It's for the young at heart.
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So when I was on board,
there were people on there from sort of
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21 was AC 85 years old.
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Everyone was having a great time,
pretty at restaurants
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with friends at Gum Bay,
which is the Korean barbecue Barbecue pit.
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And let's go to the wake,
which is the steak house on board
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the Mexican Test kitchen.
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And a lot of the menus are actually
created by Michelin star chefs as well.
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So it's brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
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Really modern kind of ship as well.
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Okay.
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As we explained, the best games,
if your budget allows you to do land, sea
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and then lands again, if not,
there are different ways of doing it.
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But the main thing is to make sure
that you have allowed yourself enough
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time to get those flights
and allow for anything to go.
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Okay, So if you need any help booking
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your future cruise or holiday,
please get in touch.
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