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when booking a cruise have you ever
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wanted a way to reduce the cost but
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without dropping a cabin grade
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on every cruise ship there are some
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cabins that you can book for a reduced
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price
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but the cruise lines rarely advertise
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them in this video i'm going to tell you
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everything you need to look out for when
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booking a cabin
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so that you can get the best cabin on
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your budget hey guys it's emma here
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here on this channel we're all about
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saving you money so that you can make
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the most out of your budget
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and ultimately cruise more often if
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the first way that you can dramatically
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reduce the cost of a cabin and i'm
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talking hundreds possibly even thousands
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of dollars
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is to book what is called a obstructed
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view cabin
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a lot of people run and they hide when
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they hear the phrase obstructive view
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and if you're one of those people i
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don't blame you
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but it can be a brilliant way to save a
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lot of money
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and some of the cabins aren't really
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obstructed at all
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an obstructive view cabin
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an obstructed view cabin is basically a
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cabin where there is something in front
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of your window or your balcony
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this could be a full lifeboat blocking
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everything you can see from the window
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or it could be the tiniest bit of
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machinery that's on the deck
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below your balcony i like to think of
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obstructive view cabins as those seats
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that i always buy in the theater
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where you've got a bit of a pole in the
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way maybe a bar in the bottom third
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that's pretty much what an obstructed
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view cabin is booking an obstructive
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view cabin doesn't just mean that you
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get the cabin you want cheaper it also
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means that you could possibly afford a
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cabin grade that you wouldn't be able to
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afford before
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if you're somebody who's used to
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cruising in inside cabins i know i
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am having an obstructive view ocean view
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or a balcony
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is a real treat there are a few things
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that could be obstructing the way it
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could be a lifeboat it could be
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machinery
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or it could be something a little bit
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more strange some cabins are actually
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obstructed by
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whirlpools some have kind of crew
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passageways that go between the window
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and the outside of the ship
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and technically that's enough of an
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obstruction that that cabin cannot be
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sold at full price
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if you're somebody who has one of these
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obstructed views that basically isn't
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obstructed at all
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it's a really really really good way and
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it feels so good to be in one of those
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cabins and know that everybody around
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you
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your carried neighbors they paid way
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more than you and you know they're just
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one meter further over it feels so good
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there
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are obstructive view cabins on every
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cruise ship and cruise lines tend to be
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very careful when it comes to
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obstructive views they would much prefer
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to sell a cabin
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as an obstructed view and the passenger
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gets there and they think this is
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amazing
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as opposed to they sell it as a standard
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cabin and there's a little bit in the
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way somebody complains
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they don't want to have to deal with
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that so they definitely are on the side
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of caution
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and they call a lot of things obstructed
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when really i don't think they are
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when it comes to obstructed cabins the
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absolute cheapest cabin you can get is
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an obstructed ocean view
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and these are usually the same price as
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an inside cabin
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if you're used to cruising in an inside
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cabin you'll know that one of the
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weirdest things is waking up it's pitch
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black
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you don't know if it's 3 a.m or 3 p.m if
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you're able to get an obstructed ocean
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view you at least have light
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even if you have a full lifeboat that
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covers the entire window you don't have
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to worry about waking up in the dark
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and if that's the same price as an
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inside cabin or even a little bit more
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i would definitely pay just for the
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daylight a friend of mine vinnie
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actually managed to get an ocean view
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cabin an obstructed view ocean view
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cabin
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that's difficult to say for cheaper than
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he would have paid for an inside cabin
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so in that situation
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it's a no-brainer at least to me to get
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that obstructed view
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because you weren't going to have a view
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anyway so you might as well look at the
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lifeboat
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the amount of obstruction within an
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ocean view or a balcony
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cabin can vary dramatically some are
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completely blocked like these ones on
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the msc preziosa
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and some are not really blocked at all
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if you have a look here at the
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msc preziosa you can see this deck where
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the windows are behind the lifeboats
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the most common type of thing to be in
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your way is lifeboats because cruise
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ships do need to have lifeboats
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there are benefits above and beyond just
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the cost saving of getting an obstructed
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view cabin
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the obstructed view cabins often have
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the best locations because they're right
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behind the lifeboats a lot of them
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they're right in the middle of the ship
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i know some people do care more about
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the location than they do the view from
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the balcony
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so if you're somebody like that getting
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the destructive view in the middle
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can be a really good way to get that
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location that you want but without
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paying the premium price
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it can be tricky to find the right
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obstructed view cabin and basically the
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more research you do into the cabins the
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better experience you're going to have
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if you're booking through an agent
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you're definitely going to want to work
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with them
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and let them know that you are open to
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obstructed view cabins
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then they can have a look and you can
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chat about how obstructed you would like
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to go
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if you're somebody who really is into
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researching your cruises looking at deck
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plans
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you can find out how obstructed each
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cabin is and find out
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which ones you'd be happy with if you're
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booking directly through the cruise line
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or through some agents you can see deck
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plans where you can see
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which cabins are obstructed view there
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are various pictures on the internet of
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each cabin and the view
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so the more research you do the better
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chance you have of getting
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a good one a really really good one a
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friend of mine saved almost
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1 000 by doing this just from switching
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from a regular balcony
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to an obstructed balcony and her balcony
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wasn't one of these where you couldn't
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see anything
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there was just stuff below a thousand
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dollars
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it's important to note that the only way
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that you're gonna get an obstructive
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view cabin is if you book an obstructive
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view cabin
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the cruise line can't assign you an
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obstructive view if you booked a regular
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cabin
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some people do worry about this but
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unless you specifically said
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you are happy with an obstructed view
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you're not gonna get one
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this brings us on nicely to point two
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and this is what i do
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every single cruise i book what is
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called a guaranteed cabin
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when you book a guaranteed cabin you are
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guaranteed to at least get
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that cabin so i tend to book guaranteed
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insights guaranteed ocean views and i
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have on occasion booked a guaranteed
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balcony
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a couple of years ago i took my first
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cunard cruise and that's where i got the
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idea to start this youtube channel
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actually
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because i'd never been on anything like
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a cunard cruise before
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i actually booked a guaranteed balcony
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cabin and it was absolutely
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amazing i'm very used to cruising in an
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inside cabin and it wasn't much more for
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a balcony
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if you're somebody who's used to
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cruising at a lower cabin grade
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you don't care where your cabin is i
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don't anyway
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if you're somebody like me who's used to
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cruising in inside cabins ocean view
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cabins
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you probably don't mind where your
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location is of your balcony because
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you're so excited to be in a balcony
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i think it's important to note that when
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you book a guaranteed cabin you are
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guaranteed at least the cabin that you
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have
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but you do get assigned kind of at the
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last minute you do end up with the
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leftover cabins
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i have never ever ever had a bad cabin
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or regretted the idea of not picking my
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cabin location
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but if you're somebody who particularly
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wants to be really near the buffet or
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near the kids club or you have a reason
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to be in a specific location
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a guaranteed cabin probably isn't right
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for you if you're somebody like me who
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is just
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very very excited to be in an ocean view
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or a balcony you're very happy to be on
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a cruise you don't mind where you are
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guaranteeds can be a brilliant way to
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save loads of money
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the brilliant thing about choosing a
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guaranteed cabin is that if you had
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chosen that cabin which you could have
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done you would have paid more so you
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feel like you're kind of getting
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something for free
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and for me i don't mind where my cabin
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is so it's a really good option
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not all cruise lines offer guaranteed
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cabins some don't give you any discounts
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even if you don't pick
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your own cabin if you are booking on a
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cruise lines website you'll probably see
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two massive boxes one of which will be
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i'll pick my own cabin and the other one
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will be
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i'll let you decide and depending on
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which one you pick that is how much you
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will pay
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if you are booking through an agent just
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let them know that you're flexible on
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cabin location
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and you can save a lot of money by doing
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that a guaranteed cabin
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isn't a great option for somebody who
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really wants a specific cabin grade
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just because you've booked a guaranteed
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inside cabin that means you're
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guaranteed to at least get an inside
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cabin but you could get an upgrade to an
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ocean view or a balcony
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or a suite anything could happen you
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might think that is fantastic why would
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anybody not want an upgrade
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but what you've got to bear in mind is
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this is what the cruise line thinks
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is an upgrade so you might think the
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middle of the ship is the best place
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they might upgrade you to say an ocean
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view with an obstructed view
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but it might be right at the front of
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the ship and you really don't want that
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but because you've agreed that you're
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not going to pick the location you're
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stuck at that point you have kind of
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taken a lucky dip and that's what you've
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got
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it is quite common if you've booked a
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guaranteed inside cabin to be upgraded
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to
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a obstructed view ocean view or if
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you've booked an ocean view to be
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upgraded to a obstructed view balcony i
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don't know about you but this is
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really tricky to say this is quite
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common because these cabins are often
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left until last some people are scared
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of booking the obstructive view cabins
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especially people who are first-time
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cruisers or they're not very confident
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in looking through deck plans
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and working out what all of the symbols
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mean it is quite confusing
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i don't blame you if you are scared of
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that stuff but it does mean that these
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cabins are often left until last
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so when the guaranteed cabins are being
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assigned
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there's normally a lot of space for
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people to get upgraded into the
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obstructed view cabins
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if you're cruising as part of a group
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you've got multiple cabins and you book
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all guaranteed cabins
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you are not in any way guaranteed that
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they're going to be close together
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when i took the cunard cruise that i had
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a guaranteed balcony on i was cruising
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with my parents and my brother
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and we were very lucky we got a lovely
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balcony on both sides we both got
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guaranteed balconies one on one side one
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on the other
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if one side was a bit boring we could go
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across and look at the good view and
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then go back
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and it was absolutely brilliant i did
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the same thing on a costa cruise that i
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took
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last year i had a guaranteed inside
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cabin and i cruised with my parents on
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that cruise too they were in a
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guaranteed balcony cabin
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and i was about three miles away from
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them walking from one cabin to the other
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i think it was up four flights of stairs
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and across the other end of the ship
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they were very far cabins away which is
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completely fine i'm an adult
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um i don't need to be that close to my
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parents but just bear in mind that
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you're not guaranteed to have cabins
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that are anywhere close to the other
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cabins
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even if you've booked together saying
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you're a family of five and you're going
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on a cruise
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you go on the website you type in five
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people and it comes up with a handful of
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cabins
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there are cabins for families of five
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but these are usually limited they might
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be called something fancy like a
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family balcony or something like that
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but there's less cabins that accommodate
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five people
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as opposed to three or four people one
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thing that
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is worth doing which does go against
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everything that you probably think
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makes sense is to have a look at getting
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multiple cabins
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if there's only a few cabins left on a
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ship that hold five
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people the cruise line can pretty much
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charge whatever it wants
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if you are able to cruise into cabins on
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occasion it can be cheaper to get two
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adjoining cabins rather than one cabin
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for five
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i know this sounds a bit strange but
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just if you are in that situation and
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you're booking a cruise you're looking
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on the website
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just try out different cabin
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combinations on a lot of cruise ships
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you'll find cabins which are adjoining
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cabins i've stayed in adjoining cabins i
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stayed on them on my first ever cruise i
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was 11 years old and i was cruising with
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family
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and it was absolutely out of this world
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that's why i'm still talking about
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cruising on the internet now
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if you do have a good agent they'll be
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able to find you adjoining cabins but
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it's just something you need to think
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about
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you also need to have an adult in every
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cabin it doesn't matter
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if you're in an adjoining cabin each
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cabin still has to have
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adults in it and it's usually a person
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over 21.
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so if you're a family of five two adults
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and three children and you were thinking
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about cruising in a cabin for five
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and you decide to have a look just on
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the off chance at two adjoining cabins
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this can work out cheaper but you do
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have to have one adult in
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each cabin the same thing often goes
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with solo cruisers which also
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goes kind of against what you think
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makes sense if a cruise line does have
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solo cabins these are a great option and
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they're often the cheapest option for
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solo cruisers
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but they do sell out pretty fast if a
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cruise line's only got say
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two solo cabins available they can put
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the price up they can
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charge whatever they want for those and
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sometimes it's actually cheaper as a
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solo cruiser
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to cruise in a balcony by yourself i
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know it doesn't make any
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sense but trust me if you're there
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you're booking a cruise
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sometimes it can just be worth looking
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at different combinations of cabins even
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if they're higher grade cabins
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sometimes they can be cheaper i've heard
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of people i haven't personally done this
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but i have known people who've been
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thinking about booking multiple balcony
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cabins
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they've decided you know let's just
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price up a suite why not i'd like that
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sweet life
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and it actually comes out cheaper
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sometimes so just take that five minutes
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before you press book and think about
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different cabin combinations you've got
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nothing to lose and you could get
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something really really good
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the next video that you need to watch is
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this one which is all about why i don't
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think there's any bad
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cabins i would much prefer to be on a
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cruise on the worst cabin in the ship
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