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Do Low Crew Wages For Cruise Ship Jobs Fund Luxury Cruise Fares?

…ike minimum wages or working hours that apply in their home market. Cruise ships ships usually fly what is known as “Flags of Convenience”. This means that they are registered in countries like Liberia and the Bahamas. At the end of 2011, for example, Cunard registered all their ships in the Bahamas instead of Southampton UK. They therefore are bound by those laws, which are less onerous. Everyone that travels on a cruise, and talks to crew, knows…

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9 things not to hide from your cruise line

…partner with the cruise lines that will deliver any items you need to the cruise ship, and they will be installed in your cabin. So for example, there are companies like specialneedsatsea.com, mobilityatsea.co.uk, and scootaround.com. Cruise lines have different rules around the type of wheelchairs or mobility scooters you can bring on board. However, they won’t provide any services to help you get around. So whilst you’ll often find you might ge…

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Last Minute Cruise Deals Tips. 10 Best Ways To Find And Get Them

…d last-minute deals on the older ships as everybody tries to go on the new ship in the cruise line. #7: Local Ports My next tip is also to focus on ports that are drivable from where you are, as getting a flight last minute is often expensive. Flight prices tend to go up the closer it gets to departure. So while you might get a great cruise deal the savings may be negated by the cost of the flight to the port. So I recommend focusing on ports that…

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Cruising with Disabilities Advice and Tips

…m Southampton to Peterhead in the north east of Scotland. I have conducted cruise ship tours for travel agents as well as members of the public, some of whom had a disability of one kind or another. I have been on a cruise holidays, myself. You may be asking: “What do you know about disability, and how do you know cruise ships are fully accessible to people with disabilities?”. I am a full-time wheelchair user, having had Spina Bifida and Hydrocep…

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These 4 Overrated Cruise Tips Are Probably Costing You BIG TIME!

…led Shore Excursions Group. I like them as I can input my cruise line, the cruise ship and the dates, and that brings up all the tours by port. They only show tours that will work with the times my ship is scheduled to be in port, have that return to ship guarantee, and vet local tour providers constantly. If you look at using them, you can get 5% off every tour using my link TipsForTravellers.com/ShoreExcursions and enter the code “TFT5” at check…

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Most Cruisers Don’t Know These Things About Cruise Ship Crew

Most Cruisers Don’t Know These Things About Cruise Ship Crew After doing well over 100 cruises, I thought I knew everything about life on a cruise ship. That was until a dinner hosted by a senior crew member on my last cruise, where they revealed a surprising secret about cruise ship crew that I was totally unaware of! That got me wondering what else I, and other passengers, have no idea about cruise ship crew. After much research and talking to…

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Cruise News Update 27 : CDC No To Cruise, Cancellations Into 2021 And More

…It says (and I quote) the “CDC recommends that all people avoid travel on cruise ships, including river cruises, worldwide, because the risk of COVID-19 on cruise ships is very high”. The timing is interesting as first of all, there are no options for US citizens to go cruising at the time this announcement was made. Yet they still made it. Remember, there are no cruises operating in or out of USA ports, the option for US residents to cruise in t…

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Cunard Queen Elizabeth Ship. Newest Cruise Ship In The Fleet Review

…ruise Ship docked in Zeebrugge Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth Ship is the newest cruise ship in her fleet. It entered service in September 2010. This review, photos and video tours of the interiors and exteriors of the ship is based on a number of cruises taken on the ship. The first time I went on Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth Ship was about 7 months after she entered service. It was a short 5-night cruise out of Southampton round Europ . The trip went to A…

Jaw-Dropping Things Only A Few Get to See on Cruise Ships

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Jaw-Dropping Things Only A Few Get to See on Cruise Ships

…nds of cruise passengers get to see and experience mind-boggling things on cruise ships, like go-kart tracks, water shows, Ice rinks, water slides and even roller coasters. But not many have seen some of the things I have. Until now! These are some jaw-dropping things only a few get to see on cruise ships. Literally Splitting Apart While you might have been on one, possibly unknowingly, I’ve seen it being done. The first ship I sailed on that had…

Biggest Cruise Rip Offs

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10 Biggest Cruise Rip Offs And How To Avoid Them

…ick with the cruise line because you like the security of knowing that the cruise ship will wait for you if the excursion runs late. #3 Spa Treatments The third area for me that I think does verge on the rip off area is spa treatments. Spa treatments on cruise ships seem to me to be incredibly expensive for what they are. Even if you compare them with premium prices in places like London, for example. So, one of the ways to avoid that is either no…

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P&O Cruises Tips For Travellers: Answers to 8 Key Questions You Should Be Asking

…view, an issue with their agent or their own pre-trip research as the P&O Cruise ships are clearly different to the resort-like Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line ships and people should be guided and appreciate this before booking. How fast costs mounted up on board. With drinks, excursions, added events like bingo and Cooking Club, gratuities and Wi-Fi all being extra costs, many new-to-cruise underestimate how much they need to budget f…