Orlando Cruise And Stay Help & Advice

Episode 8 of the Orlando Holiday Planning podcast, hosted by Orlando Insider Travel Agents, titled "Orlando Cruise And Stay Help & Advice" was published on November 17, 2023 and runs 22 minutes.

November 17, 2023 ·22m · Orlando Holiday Planning

Summary

00;00;00;01 - 00;00;03;17 Is it possible to seek a Walt Disney World or Universal 00;00;03;18 - 00;00;06;28 Orlando holiday and a cruise in the same holiday? 00;00;07;04 - 00;00;09;02 Is it possible? 00;00;09;02 - 00;00;10;29 If it is, how would you go about? 00;00;10;29 - 00;00;12;08 Is there a better way of doing it? 00;00;12;08 - 00;00;14;25 Lands in sea, Sea and lands? 00;00;14;25 - 00;00;16;09 Or is there a third way of doing it? 00;00;16;09 - 00;00;17;15 Well, stay tuned. 00;00;17;15 - 00;00;21;04 We're going to be talking all about the best ways of combining a cruise 00;00;21;09 - 00;00;23;06 with a trip to Orlando. 00;00;23;06 - 00;00;25;26 Let's jump straight into it. Is it possible? 00;00;25;26 - 00;00;26;27 Yes, of course it is. 00;00;26;27 - 00;00;28;01 Well, actually, it's 00;00;28;01 - 00;00;32;11 more than possible because Port Canaveral, which is about an hour away, 00;00;32;11 - 00;00;37;02 45 minutes away from Orlando, is one of the busiest airports in the world. 00;00;37;06 - 00;00;43;05 So many people go and do a Orlando holiday and then take a cruise afterwards, 00;00;43;05 - 00;00;45;10 or do they do beforehand or even in the middle. 00;00;45;10 - 00;00;49;03 So US will be talking about Plus also, you've got the ports of Tampa, 00;00;49;07 - 00;00;52;26 which certainly about an hour away, and you can also fly down to Miami as well. 00;00;52;27 - 00;00;58;04 So if you want to add on a cruise to a trip to Orlando, to the theme 00;00;58;04 - 00;01;01;12 parks, there are plenty different ways of doing it. 00;01;01;13 - 00;01;03;28 So firstly, why would you want to do a cruise? 00;01;03;28 - 00;01;08;12 Okay, If you've done a great before, that's going to be a hard questions to do 00;01;08;12 - 00;01;10;20 because you just don't know we're missing out. 00;01;10;23 - 00;01;11;10 Crazy is a 00;01;11;10 - 00;01;14;19 fantastic because you get to wake up to a new place 00;01;14;19 - 00;01;19;06 every single day without you having to unpack or do anything else. 00;01;19;09 - 00;01;21;03 You get your food all included. 00;01;21;03 - 00;01;23;04 So which is completely different to being in the theme parks. 00;01;23;04 - 00;01;27;06 Even if she had to dine in Chinese to go Pikachu, it isn't salt 00;01;27;09 - 00;01;29;21 and you just relax in the level of service 00;01;29;21 - 00;01;32;22 and quality you're going to get on a cruise ship is second to none. 00;01;32;27 - 00;01;34;11 Say in the theme parks 00;01;34;11 - 00;01;35;23 and they've got hundreds of thousands 00;01;35;23 - 00;01;38;01 of people per day that need to see these just don't 00;01;38;01 - 00;01;42;14 get that level of personal service, which you do get that on a cruise ship. 00;01;42;17 - 00;01;45;06 So what's the best way of doing it? 00;01;45;06 - 00;01;48;02 Is it to do land first or sea first? 00;01;48;02 - 00;01;52;06 Well, I think this very much comes down to what you want to do 00;01;52;09 - 00;01;53;22 and your level expectations. 00;01;53;22 - 00;01;57;04 So this is sort of talk through the different cruise lines 00;01;57;06 - 00;01;58;09 that you can go with. 00;01;58;09 - 00;02;00;09 So from Port Canaveral, 00;02;00;09 - 00;02;03;08 the first was going to come to Miami Disney, because you could because, well, 00;02;03;08 - 00;02;03;25 Disney World. 00;02;03;25 - 00;02;08;01 So Disney as a cruise line goes and out of Port Canaveral, 00;02;08;05 - 00;02;11;05 they have the Disney wish, which is based there all year round. 00;02;11;10 - 00;02;14;29 And that's free of full night cruises for the majority of the year. 00;02;15;01 - 00;02;17;11 Okay. Next one is Royal Caribbean. 00;02;17;11 - 00;02;21;03 And Royal Caribbean is massive cruise line that everyone's heard of 00;02;21;07 - 00;02;24;19 is the one with the wave rider at the back seeing the surfing. 00;02;24;25 - 00;02;27;00 It's called the Aqua Park who that kind of stuff. 00;02;27;00 - 00;02;28;29 And they're absolutely huge ships. 00;02;28;29 - 00;02;32;06 So they go out of Port Canaveral as well. 00;02;32;08 - 00;02;35;23 Norwegian Cruise Line is one that people may not have heard of. 00;02;35;25 - 00;02;38;25 The Norwegian Cruise Line is a fantastic 00;02;39;02 - 00;02;42;22 they are smaller than the Royal Caribbean ships, 00;02;42;22 - 00;02;46;22 but they have so much to do and so much increase in their fares as well. 00;02;46;24 - 00;02;50;05 And MSC is the Italian cruise line that also go out of book 00;02;50;06 - 00;02;52;13 an Africa with certain times of the year. 00;02;52;13 - 00;02;56;07 And then you've also got Carnival Cruises as well. 00;02;56;09 - 00;02;59;19 A lot of people think these are party cruises, but they're not always, 00;02;59;21 - 00;03;02;16 you see, to double check as to which cruise you go onto. 00;03;02;16 - 00;03;03;29 Okay. Take some of the crew. 00;03;03;29 - 00;03;07;03 I mean, there's sort of three or four nights is sometimes a seven line 00;03;07;03 - 00;03;11;06 cruises as well would talk a bit more about why 00;03;11;07 - 00;03;13;17 some people would just do a friend a four night cruise 00;03;13;17 - 00;03;16;17 and why some people would do a seven night cruise a bit later. 00;03;16;17 - 00;03;20;03 Not if you go times to Miami, get a bit more choice. 00;03;20;03 - 00;03;22;06 Seek all those ones of all dimension. 00;03;22;06 - 00;03;24;11 Plus you will get celebrity cruises 00;03;24;11 - 00;03;27;04 and celebrity really get it to the Florida Keys. 00;03;27;04 - 00;03;30;14 So if you want to combine a trip to Walt Disney World, we do. 00;03;30;14 - 00;03;31;20 Doing the Florida Keys. 00;03;31;20 - 00;03;35;03 Probably the best way of doing it is take one of the celebrity cruises 00;03;35;06 - 00;03;36;14 because they're going to take you down. 00;03;36;14 - 00;03;40;21 Do you go to visit all the popular places down along the Keys 00;03;40;24 - 00;03;43;16 and then one of the islands, as well as maybe Bahamas 00;03;43;16 - 00;03;46;16 or Barbados, putting what's on your itinerary. 00;03;46;19 - 00;03;49;03 And it's so much better value than drive in. 00;03;49;03 - 00;03;51;12 That one is always tried and true. 00;03;51;12 - 00;03;55;19 The Florida Keys itself to 00;03;55;22 - 00;03;58;22 hotels along that kind of area are really, really expensive. 00;03;58;28 - 00;04;01;11 So you can go off and go and explore for the day, 00;04;01;11 - 00;04;04;04 then get back onto the ship in the evening and then all your food 00;04;04;04 - 00;04;08;12 and that can still sort of be included as okay and lasting definitely 00;04;08;16 - 00;04;12;11 by no means least Is virgin voyages a virgin voyages. 00;04;12;14 - 00;04;15;19 Quite new to the game and they are an adult only cruise line. 00;04;15;21 - 00;04;16;11 We're talking 00;04;16;11 - 00;04;20;15 all about the different cruise lines including virgin voyages a bit later on. 00;04;20;16 - 00;04;23;11 So what's the best way of doing it? 00;04;23;11 - 00;04;27;18 Land first see, first sea, first, land first, or then have a way of doing it. 00;04;27;25 - 00;04;29;16 Well, 00;04;29;16 - 00;04;32;16 personally, I think it comes down to your expectations 00;04;32;16 - 00;04;35;25 and what you want to do and which Christine and what you can be 00;04;35;26 - 00;04;38;14 the moisture in the land. So 00;04;38;17 - 00;04;41;12 from a personal point of view, which is what we so recommend to 00;04;41;12 - 00;04;46;18 our clients is we say do land first and then see afterwards. 00;04;46;20 - 00;04;49;13 She reasons for this. Okay. 00;04;49;13 - 00;04;53;23 If you all could do the land, first one gets to use the time difference. 00;04;53;24 - 00;04;54;15 Okay. 00;04;54;15 - 00;04;57;15 Most people that we book are from the UK, 00;04;57;18 - 00;05;01;25 so you know, they have a nine hour flight to get there. 00;05;01;27 - 00;05;06;01 And then you've got nine hour flight to get home as well. 00;05;06;03 - 00;05;10;14 You also got to account for the the jetlag full time difference. 00;05;10;16 - 00;05;13;13 That is something that's quite become a big, 00;05;13;13 - 00;05;16;05 if you will handle before you will probably waking up 00;05;16;05 - 00;05;19;14 about 4:00 in the morning, maybe 4:00, if you're lucky. 00;05;19;16 - 00;05;24;09 So if you're doing that, you can't really kind of like to the cruise. 00;05;24;12 - 00;05;27;26 When you lands, you will land at between sort of six, 00;05;27;26 - 00;05;30;20 seven, eight, 9:00 in the evening sometimes, but only if you 00;05;30;20 - 00;05;34;26 the five endings, for example, they land before for what, the afternoon 00;05;34;28 - 00;05;37;27 will you cruises into the next day because you can't land on the same day. 00;05;37;27 - 00;05;40;26 It's like cruise in the same day, which means you're going to have to go 00;05;40;26 - 00;05;43;26 from from Orlando International Airport 00;05;43;26 - 00;05;48;24 out to Cape Canaveral or lands at Miami Airport and then probably 00;05;48;24 - 00;05;52;21 stay there, stay for a night and then go on the cruise the next day. 00;05;52;26 - 00;05;55;15 So you probably will even be getting on the ship until 1:00. 00;05;55;15 - 00;05;59;08 So that means that you've say, for example, you do to is ending its flights. 00;05;59;11 - 00;05;59;27 You land at 00;05;59;27 - 00;06;04;08 4:00 in the afternoon, you're at Cape Canaveral 00;06;04;08 - 00;06;08;27 by six, 630, depending on how long it takes you to to get there. 00;06;08;27 - 00;06;11;01 And immigration that cost 00;06;11;01 - 00;06;14;06 you then got the evening sorted out and relax that kind of stuff. 00;06;14;09 - 00;06;16;02 But then what are you going to do the next day? 00;06;16;02 - 00;06;18;23 You then kind of like going on to the you go on to the first show and again, 00;06;18;23 - 00;06;22;05 you will be up at 4:00 in the morning and the rest must do around the cruise 00;06;22;05 - 00;06;25;05 terminal area. So in the space coast. 00;06;25;11 - 00;06;27;29 So it's a bit of a kind of a wasted day. 00;06;27;29 - 00;06;30;11 Plus, also, the crew had worn axes. 00;06;30;11 - 00;06;33;11 So when you want to do that off, you've had to turn off the theme park. 00;06;33;12 - 00;06;35;27 So we recommend is you theme parks first. 00;06;35;27 - 00;06;36;19 So you go into. 00;06;36;19 - 00;06;40;21 So, for example, Walt Disney World first, you can then go before your morning 00;06;40;22 - 00;06;44;05 or do rope job in the stuff, tie yourself out because 00;06;44;08 - 00;06;46;23 go into Walt Disney World, even though you might have been there 00;06;46;23 - 00;06;51;00 loads of times, it's still pretty exhausting to go and do. 00;06;51;03 - 00;06;52;25 It's a lot of walking around. 00;06;52;25 - 00;06;55;02 It's a lot of standing in queues. 00;06;55;02 - 00;06;58;23 Plus also from a mindset point of view, when you're on board a cruise ship, 00;06;58;26 - 00;07;01;04 you really pay for your food, the fruits included. 00;07;01;04 - 00;07;03;00 So there's nothing to pay even here. 00;07;03;00 - 00;07;05;05 The Disney dining plan washable Disney World, 00;07;05;05 - 00;07;08;28 you still got to go up and go and tap your magic band 00;07;09;01 - 00;07;11;24 to pay for it and then pay your gratuities. 00;07;11;24 - 00;07;14;12 Until now, imagine 00;07;14;12 - 00;07;17;18 going free nights four nights and having as much food as you want 00;07;17;21 - 00;07;22;08 on board the cruise ship and then go catch them to pay for something like okay, 00;07;22;10 - 00;07;23;13 characters as well. 00;07;23;13 - 00;07;27;02 If you're going to go to the Disney theme parks and queue for carrots, 00;07;27;07 - 00;07;30;16 you might queue up for an hour to go meet a princess 00;07;30;18 - 00;07;32;02 when you're on the cruise ship. 00;07;32;02 - 00;07;36;19 When they do, for example, the princesses, they generally use a come back time. 00;07;36;20 - 00;07;39;03 So you get a reservation and then you come back and so on. 00;07;39;03 - 00;07;40;26 You might queue for about 5 minutes 00;07;40;26 - 00;07;44;10 and then you're going to be free or full princess at the same time. 00;07;44;13 - 00;07;48;09 So if you in 15 minutes you could call me free for princesses, 00;07;48;11 - 00;07;52;24 whereas an hour in Orlando you made me one, maybe two. 00;07;52;26 - 00;07;58;09 So again, if you do the cruise ship first or queuing for so long, like 00;07;58;11 - 00;08;00;20 a cruise ship you just don't keep things is pretty simple. 00;08;00;20 - 00;08;02;10 Apart from maybe getting on and off the ship, 00;08;02;10 - 00;08;04;10 depending on what time you get off the ship, 00;08;04;10 - 00;08;07;10 the the getting better at managing the crowds. 00;08;07;16 - 00;08;09;02 You don't queue for things. 00;08;09;02 - 00;08;11;05 The thing pops can be absolutely rammed. 00;08;11;05 - 00;08;13;19 You know, he can hold about 100,000 people. 00;08;13;19 - 00;08;15;25 So you got a really busy day. 00;08;15;25 - 00;08;19;02 It's going to be really, really, really, really, really busy. 00;08;19;04 - 00;08;21;07 Cruise ships aren't as busy as that. 00;08;21;07 - 00;08;24;09 So majority of the flights that come from the UK can be landing 00;08;24;09 - 00;08;27;09 at four, five, six, 7:00 in the evening. 00;08;27;11 - 00;08;32;20 And then they're also you mean leaving around six, seven, maybe eight at night. 00;08;32;22 - 00;08;35;12 So the trouble is that when you've done 00;08;35;12 - 00;08;38;28 your cruise, if you're doing land first and sea afterwards, 00;08;39;00 - 00;08;40;19 you're going to have this kind of problem 00;08;40;19 - 00;08;43;14 of if you're going to get off the ship at 10:00 in the morning, 00;08;43;17 - 00;08;44;15 then from 10:00 in 00;08;44;15 - 00;08;47;15 the morning, you can then go to the airport, 00;08;47;18 - 00;08;51;17 sea off, going to some Miami airport or Orlando airport. 00;08;51;19 - 00;08;56;11 And then from there, you're going to be waiting around for your flight. 00;08;56;13 - 00;09;00;21 And Orlando and Miami airports of Nice, 00;09;00;23 - 00;09;04;03 but they're not eight, 9 hours hanging around doing absolutely nothing. 00;09;04;03 - 00;09;05;02 Kind of nice. 00;09;05;02 - 00;09;07;03 So there are a few things you can do. 00;09;07;03 - 00;09;11;00 For example, if you have done your tickets correctly, what you can do 00;09;11;00 - 00;09;14;06 is with the 14 day tickets for for Disney 00;09;14;12 - 00;09;17;06 actually work over an 18 day period. 00;09;17;06 - 00;09;22;08 So the 14 days in the park, but you got a 18 day window to use them. 00;09;22;10 - 00;09;25;23 So if you use a monday on your second day, 00;09;25;28 - 00;09;28;23 you land on, 00;09;28;23 - 00;09;33;29 go into the theme parks is then go and take off those days. 00;09;34;01 - 00;09;35;28 Hopefully if you for example, 00;09;35;28 - 00;09;40;02 if you use anything about Disney, about for ten days, 00;09;40;04 - 00;09;43;23 you then get that time at the end to go and use 00;09;43;23 - 00;09;46;23 an extra day in the park so you can then head straight to Walt Disney World, 00;09;47;00 - 00;09;52;05 go to in the possible Walt Parks and then go to the airport afterwards. 00;09;52;08 - 00;09;54;00 So you can do that if you wanted to. 00;09;54;00 - 00;09;55;01 Likewise should be universal. 00;09;55;01 - 00;09;58;08 So they have a 14 day ticket for the UK market 00;09;58;08 - 00;10;01;17 14 days from the day you use it. 00;10;01;19 - 00;10;06;08 So if, for example, your state of things up and your state off sites. 00;10;06;09 - 00;10;10;16 Now most people that we booked do stay on site, 85% of people stay on site. 00;10;10;19 - 00;10;13;13 But for people who stay offsite, maybe staying in the villa, 00;10;13;13 - 00;10;16;13 maybe you're staying in apartment or another hotel. 00;10;16;15 - 00;10;17;19 The day that you start 00;10;17;19 - 00;10;21;19 using that universal Orlando ticket is when that 14 day starts. 00;10;21;20 - 00;10;25;23 So if you want to go another two weeks today, redo in ten months beforehand 00;10;25;23 - 00;10;30;15 and a four night cruise if you haven't it, that universal ticket, 00;10;30;17 - 00;10;32;24 as always, have to use it for the first couple of days. 00;10;32;24 - 00;10;35;08 You actually can go and use it in the last day 00;10;35;08 - 00;10;38;28 and then go to the airport afterwards, 00;10;39;00 - 00;10;42;00 dump the bag somewhere, go drop the bags off by the theme park 00;10;42;06 - 00;10;44;09 and then go to the airport afterwards as well. 00;10;44;09 - 00;10;46;09 That's a really good if you got a later flight, 00;10;46;09 - 00;10;50;13 if you got a 5:00 flight, you kind of maybe cutting it a bit fine. 00;10;50;16 - 00;10;53;13 You probably not going to get a huge amount of times in the feedbacks. 00;10;53;13 - 00;10;58;28 That's why actually the absolute best way of doing it is to to land. 00;10;59;01 - 00;11;02;28 See that now if you're a bit of a budget, 00;11;02;28 - 00;11;07;21 the best way of doing this is to do your theme parks first 00;11;07;24 - 00;11;10;26 the cruise and then one night 00;11;10;26 - 00;11;15;14 or maybe two nights on the space Coast, this next to the Kennedy Space Center. 00;11;15;20 - 00;11;16;13 Okay. 00;11;16;13 - 00;11;19;03 This is actually one of the best places to actually go inland. 00;11;19;03 - 00;11;20;18 I absolutely love it there. 00;11;20;18 - 00;11;25;04 So what you can do is you can be off the ship by 9:00 in the morning, 00;11;25;06 - 00;11;26;01 pick up a car. 00;11;26;01 - 00;11;27;15 This is the time to pick up a car. 00;11;27;15 - 00;11;31;11 You don't need a car, Yolanda, But you do need a car to do this. 00;11;31;11 - 00;11;33;17 You don't pick up a car. 00;11;33;17 - 00;11;35;25 You drive straight to the space center. 00;11;35;25 - 00;11;38;19 You leave all your luggage in the car. 00;11;38;19 - 00;11;41;09 Then afterwards, when you're done there 00;11;41;09 - 00;11;44;19 for five, 6:00 in the evening, you then drive to your hotel. 00;11;44;26 - 00;11;49;09 I've room on the coast or you drive to Orlando and what you want to do. 00;11;49;12 - 00;11;52;17 So what you could do is then go and do your one night in Orlando. 00;11;52;17 - 00;11;53;27 And if you got Portuguese 00;11;53;27 - 00;11;56;07 left on the last day, you can get anything booked as well. 00;11;56;07 - 00;11;59;16 If not just total the space coast, you're on a beach. 00;11;59;16 - 00;12;01;16 So the next day when you wake up 00;12;01;16 - 00;12;05;21 just the beach for a couple of hours and then drive to the airport 00;12;05;24 - 00;12;08;00 and dump the car and then you get on your flight. 00;12;08;00 - 00;12;10;06 So sounds like a really nice space engine holidays. 00;12;10;06 - 00;12;11;17 You don't do cruise. 00;12;11;17 - 00;12;15;08 You go to the Kennedy Space Center and then you have a day at the beach 00;12;15;10 - 00;12;16;14 after you finish at the beach. 00;12;16;14 - 00;12;18;03 Identify Practices UK. 00;12;18;03 - 00;12;19;18 What a great way of doing it. 00;12;19;18 - 00;12;23;25 If you've got a bit more money and a bit more a bit more time as well, 00;12;23;28 - 00;12;27;23 then what I suggest is doing one last thing in staying on site 00;12;27;23 - 00;12;31;13 if you can possibly at one lot of parks cruise and then the second 00;12;31;14 - 00;12;38;03 the so you might do what Disney World Cruise Universal Orlando afterwards. 00;12;38;05 - 00;12;39;14 This is a great way 00;12;39;14 - 00;12;41;13 especially if you staying on site because of the extra benefits 00;12;41;13 - 00;12;45;09 you get to stay in the airfield park entry transportation kind of stuff. 00;12;45;11 - 00;12;49;04 Brady is worth looking at staying on site, especially universal. 00;12;49;06 - 00;12;52;20 The endless summer, for example, is not that much more in the staying 00;12;52;20 - 00;12;55;04 at least National Drive and the benefits would really outweigh. 00;12;55;04 - 00;12;59;12 It's a really great way of going to go into Universal. 00;12;59;19 - 00;13;03;02 So if possible, this is the best way of doing it. 00;13;03;05 - 00;13;06;16 So land so Walt Disney World Cruise 00;13;06;18 - 00;13;11;05 then universal at the ends so think about that you land in the plane 00;13;11;07 - 00;13;15;08 and then you go to Disney On the day you check out of Disney, 00;13;15;09 - 00;13;18;25 you already have to check out until you know to leave the kind of area. 00;13;18;25 - 00;13;20;27 And so and that's it. 00;13;20;27 - 00;13;23;24 Then he gets the cruise ship go and check in country You cruise 00;13;23;24 - 00;13;27;20 if you're off the ship at DIFC in the morning, you can be back in Orlando 00;13;27;23 - 00;13;30;13 by no later than 1030, which means you can be 00;13;30;13 - 00;13;33;18 in the theme park realistically by 11:00. 00;13;33;21 - 00;13;38;23 And then you've got three, four nights at the end to go to explore whichever 00;13;38;25 - 00;13;39;11 theme park. 00;13;39;11 - 00;13;42;11 So you could even go back to the same park if you wanted to. 00;13;42;16 - 00;13;45;05 But recommend doing that if you stay at Disney, 00;13;45;05 - 00;13;49;09 if you have the free dining credit offered because it messes up the office 00;13;49;09 - 00;13;52;05 and so you wouldn't actually get any dining credit over the next one. 00;13;52;05 - 00;13;55;26 So that's why we could recommend doing Disney and Universal do them separately. 00;13;55;26 - 00;13;59;22 Also, the miles apart from each other, it costs a fortune in taxes 00;13;59;22 - 00;14;02;02 to get between the two of them 00;14;02;04 - 00;14;04;29 to stay on site every event or close by. 00;14;04;29 - 00;14;10;09 At least don't try and go to Universal whilst staying at Disney's ABC. 00;14;10;09 - 00;14;10;25 Not worth it. 00;14;10;25 - 00;14;13;13 That's all. That is the absolute best way of doing it. 00;14;13;13 - 00;14;15;27 It's a savings if you're going to go down to Miami as well. 00;14;15;27 - 00;14;18;28 So what you could do is that you do your theme 00;14;18;28 - 00;14;21;28 parks first, fly down to Miami, 00;14;22;04 - 00;14;26;16 then from Miami, you go into, you cruise, then they come back 00;14;26;19 - 00;14;30;24 and then you might do two free couple of nights in the Miami area. 00;14;30;29 - 00;14;33;18 You go to the beach, you chill out and relax. 00;14;33;18 - 00;14;35;28 You don't see theme parks, all this or tiring stuff. 00;14;35;28 - 00;14;37;07 First relax. 00;14;37;07 - 00;14;39;01 Then you cruise and you go to the beach as well. 00;14;39;01 - 00;14;40;21 And you might also spend some time at Miami. 00;14;40;21 - 00;14;42;07 Or you could 00;14;42;07 - 00;14;46;18 some people did fly down to Miami, decreased on their flight back to Orlando, 00;14;46;25 - 00;14;49;27 and then do some more theme parks out there as well as you can do 00;14;49;27 - 00;14;53;02 a miami cruise in the middle of your Orlando trip. 00;14;53;05 - 00;14;55;17 Don't think that you have to just go from Port Canaveral. 00;14;55;17 - 00;14;59;05 You can fly down and back up as well and we can help with those flights. 00;14;59;05 - 00;15;02;03 Okay. Speak to one of our travel experts, maybe out to help. 00;15;02;03 - 00;15;05;15 So to a little bit about each of the different cruise lines, 00;15;05;17 - 00;15;08;04 Disney is the one that's probably in the spring to mind the most 00;15;08;04 - 00;15;11;17 when you think about doing it with a Walt Disney World holiday. 00;15;11;19 - 00;15;15;02 And if you can afford it because Disney tends to be the most expensive, 00;15;15;09 - 00;15;19;20 that this is the one to go for, this is great for younger kids 00;15;19;20 - 00;15;21;04 and they want to go meet the characters 00;15;21;04 - 00;15;24;17 and bother them to see them while you're in the theme parks to it, 00;15;24;20 - 00;15;28;07 whilst you're on the cruise and with food included. 00;15;28;07 - 00;15;31;07 So you can do the rotation dining shift on a free night 00;15;31;10 - 00;15;34;17 cruise, you'll go to each of the three restaurants. 00;15;34;19 - 00;15;37;06 The crew will go around with you as well. 00;15;37;06 - 00;15;40;05 You should really great because they then get to know you. 00;15;40;13 - 00;15;43;19 So you have the same service every single night whilst you're on the 00;15;43;20 - 00;15;48;22 cruise ship and you will go to Castaway, which is Disney's own private island. 00;15;48;24 - 00;15;49;27 Pretty cold, isn't it? 00;15;49;27 - 00;15;52;06 You know, not a lot people have their own private islands. 00;15;52;06 - 00;15;52;25 You get started. 00;15;52;25 - 00;15;53;18 Just things private. 00;15;53;18 - 00;15;56;03 I like wish it could be Mickey Mouse on there. 00;15;56;03 - 00;15;58;24 There's lots of things to do in the water. Chin out. Relax. 00;15;58;24 - 00;16;01;00 Where you can go to the beaches as well if you wanted to. 00;16;01;00 - 00;16;05;08 So it's a great way of relaxing after a year, the more intense 00;16;05;10 - 00;16;07;26 time that you get inside the theme parks. 00;16;07;26 - 00;16;09;26 Next is Rio, Caribbean. 00;16;09;26 - 00;16;14;21 Royal Caribbean is the become of the big one that a lot of people know. 00;16;14;23 - 00;16;18;04 And they have these massive, massive, massive ships, 00;16;18;04 - 00;16;21;04 the ones with the way right as the surfboards at the back. 00;16;21;05 - 00;16;22;02 Chances are it's 00;16;22;02 - 00;16;25;08 the families who go on these cruises actually don't actually go onto them. 00;16;25;08 - 00;16;28;20 The big sort of stuff is come find all that to look at. 00;16;28;22 - 00;16;31;20 They are already well known for the family of friends. 00;16;31;20 - 00;16;33;12 So they have amazing kids clubs. 00;16;33;12 - 00;16;36;03 They have amazing sets for the all the families. 00;16;36;03 - 00;16;39;15 Now, great thing about all the cruise lines is when you have a kids club 00;16;39;18 - 00;16;42;18 is that you put the kids into the kids school because you have been with the 00;16;42;18 - 00;16;47;02 the 24 hour day while Sherri Disney or maybe Universal. 00;16;47;04 - 00;16;50;03 Now this is your time to let the kids go do their own thing. 00;16;50;03 - 00;16;51;10 You go and do your own thing. 00;16;51;10 - 00;16;53;14 See, it's the kids got the well looked after. 00;16;53;14 - 00;16;55;29 They probably will actually leave the kids up. 00;16;55;29 - 00;16;58;14 Then you can just relax and drink 00;16;58;14 - 00;17;01;29 to whatever Royal Caribbean and go really great kids clubs. 00;17;02;06 - 00;17;03;26 And so it's a Norwegian cruise 00;17;03;26 - 00;17;05;20 on Norwegian Cruise Line is one of those cruise liners 00;17;05;20 - 00;17;08;20 that a lot of people haven't really heard of. NCL 00;17;08;23 - 00;17;10;11 They are really, really good. 00;17;10;11 - 00;17;15;03 They offer, you know, a lot of fun things that you would get on the cruise lines. 00;17;15;09 - 00;17;18;25 It ships in three smaller than the Royal Caribbean cruise ships. 00;17;18;27 - 00;17;20;05 Lots of stuff includes. 00;17;20;05 - 00;17;22;28 So you eat buffets and you got you sort of main dining 00;17;22;28 - 00;17;24;26 and you could also deal with free sea. 00;17;24;26 - 00;17;27;17 The freight sea is an extra charge 00;17;27;17 - 00;17;30;07 and you pay a little bit more and that's going to increase. 00;17;30;07 - 00;17;34;06 You open bar for the first two people in the cabin. 00;17;34;09 - 00;17;36;23 So that means you can have pretty much any drinks you'd like. 00;17;36;23 - 00;17;39;20 It's about $15 charity dining. 00;17;39;20 - 00;17;42;07 You also get things like a wi 00;17;42;07 - 00;17;46;18 fi package as some credit towards an excursion luxury. 00;17;46;18 - 00;17;49;12 One of the poops as well. So lots included. 00;17;49;12 - 00;17;51;25 Plus there's more than two of you in the cabin. 00;17;51;25 - 00;17;55;16 The extra people only pay the pope taxes and charges. 00;17;55;19 - 00;17;57;16 Not the not the Chris there. 00;17;57;16 - 00;18;00;06 So there pay impressive enough to be in that cabin with you. 00;18;00;06 - 00;18;03;26 Now, the downside of it is that they don't get the specialty dining 00;18;03;28 - 00;18;06;07 and the don't get the drinks package included. 00;18;06;07 - 00;18;10;28 So sometimes it's better to have two separate rooms, indicate two rooms. 00;18;10;28 - 00;18;12;23 You've got young kids 00;18;12;23 - 00;18;15;19 because then everyone if it's a family of four, two people 00;18;15;19 - 00;18;18;24 in the first cabin tunes, a companion will get that if you can 00;18;18;24 - 00;18;21;18 was buy drinks package for the for the younger ones as well 00;18;21;18 - 00;18;23;02 or you could just pay as you go to read. 00;18;23;02 - 00;18;26;03 So it depends on how much that kids tends to get this sort of 00;18;26;03 - 00;18;29;04 like two four years old, four years old for another drink. 00;18;29;04 - 00;18;31;27 A huge amount, probably not worth buying a drinks package for. 00;18;31;27 - 00;18;33;16 A next is MSE. 00;18;33;16 - 00;18;35;25 MSE is Italian cruise line, 00;18;35;25 - 00;18;39;12 so they do tend to cater more for different nationalities. 00;18;39;18 - 00;18;44;01 So this is the one where it's not just going to be English speakers on board, 00;18;44;03 - 00;18;44;24 it's going to have a 00;18;44;24 - 00;18;50;00 lot of Italian and French and German as the food is a bit different 00;18;50;00 - 00;18;54;06 because it has to cater for lots of different nationalities was sampled. 00;18;54;09 - 00;18;57;09 They tend to be a bit cheaper then, so they have a cruise lines 00;18;57;09 - 00;19;00;10 and nice ships and nice itineraries. 00;19;00;10 - 00;19;03;01 But the same probably the thing 00;19;03;01 - 00;19;06;22 that's not quite as good as some of the other cruise lines. 00;19;06;25 - 00;19;11;21 Carnival is the last one we talk about, and Carnival 00;19;11;23 - 00;19;15;11 has a bit of a reputation of having just party cruises, and that's not true. 00;19;15;11 - 00;19;18;12 It's so raw, a few party cruises and we can help you sort of 00;19;18;12 - 00;19;21;05 weed out those ones who don't want to be on that kind of stuff. 00;19;21;05 - 00;19;22;29 Again, the fantastic ships. 00;19;22;29 - 00;19;26;01 So the newer ships have got all the water parts on bottles like you can 00;19;26;01 - 00;19;30;06 they get on NCL when on Disney and Royal Caribbean 00;19;30;09 - 00;19;32;05 and they've got some really great itineraries. 00;19;32;05 - 00;19;37;06 My thing is to the rarity, they are much cheaper than 00;19;37;08 - 00;19;38;15 a Disney cruise. 00;19;38;15 - 00;19;41;01 So if you do one of these relaxation of being but your budget 00;19;41;01 - 00;19;44;22 doesn't stretch to a Disney cruise carnival, NCL 00;19;44;24 - 00;19;48;13 really great alternatives to you so you can change things up. 00;19;48;15 - 00;19;51;00 Don't have to just keep come with the Disney fee 00;19;51;00 - 00;19;53;03 have been to Walt Disney World for however long 00;19;53;03 - 00;19;55;23 it takes you outside that Disney bubble just a little bit. 00;19;55;23 - 00;19;56;23 Okay. 00;19;56;23 - 00;19;59;15 If you are going from Miami 00;19;59;15 - 00;20;02;17 and you always have a choice of Celebrity Cruises, which is fantastic 00;20;02;24 - 00;20;06;05 between the Florida Keys and they've got Virgin voyages 00;20;06;09 - 00;20;09;23 and this is an adult only cruise, one of my favorite cruise lines. 00;20;09;25 - 00;20;13;12 The great thing I love about Virgin Cruises is they take them things 00;20;13;12 - 00;20;15;16 I don't like about the other cruise lines. 00;20;15;16 - 00;20;16;29 Typically, there's no tips. 00;20;16;29 - 00;20;18;16 They just pay the crew 00;20;18;16 - 00;20;21;26 an actual proper way to start with so they don't have to rely on tips. 00;20;21;29 - 00;20;22;28 Soft drinks. 00;20;22;28 - 00;20;28;02 Soft drinks are included not just in the restaurants, but also at the bars as well. 00;20;28;02 - 00;20;31;19 So, you know, if you just treat sort of soft drinks, absolutely fun. 00;20;31;19 - 00;20;34;19 Okay, why fight? Why flies included? 00;20;34;19 - 00;20;36;09 Unlimited Wi-Fi is included. 00;20;36;09 - 00;20;41;01 So you will be connected if you want to be, as opposed to with the cruise lines. 00;20;41;01 - 00;20;43;27 You have to pay to use the Wi-Fi. 00;20;43;27 - 00;20;46;03 So the things I really don't like about Cruise Lines 00;20;46;03 - 00;20;49;25 Virgin have eliminated pretty good atmosphere on board. 00;20;49;25 - 00;20;51;03 It's for the young at heart. 00;20;51;03 - 00;20;54;13 So when I was on board, there were people on there from sort of 00;20;54;21 - 00;20;57;20 21 was AC 85 years old. 00;20;57;27 - 00;21;00;22 Everyone was having a great time, pretty at restaurants 00;21;00;22 - 00;21;05;17 with friends at Gum Bay, which is the Korean barbecue Barbecue pit. 00;21;05;19 - 00;21;09;08 And let's go to the wake, which is the steak house on board 00;21;09;09 - 00;21;11;19 the Mexican Test kitchen. 00;21;11;19 - 00;21;16;17 And a lot of the menus are actually created by Michelin star chefs as well. 00;21;16;17 - 00;21;19;14 So it's brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. 00;21;19;14 - 00;21;22;20 Really modern kind of ship as well. 00;21;22;22 - 00;21;23;09 Okay. 00;21;23;09 - 00;21;28;10 As we explained, the best games, if your budget allows you to do land, sea 00;21;28;12 - 00;21;33;01 and then lands again, if not, there are different ways of doing it. 00;21;33;01 - 00;21;36;08 But the main thing is to make sure that you have allowed yourself enough 00;21;36;08 - 00;21;39;13 time to get those flights and allow for anything to go. 00;21;39;16 - 00;21;42;16 Okay, So if you need any help booking 00;21;42;16 - 00;21;45;16 your future cruise or holiday, please get in touch. 00;21;45;16 - 00;21;48;24 All of the details are down in the show notes down below 00;21;48;28 - 00;21;50;29 and be really happy to help. 00;21;50;29 - 00;21;52;22 If you're watching us on YouTube, 00;21;52;22 - 00;21;56;10 please hit that subscribe button and like that kind of stuff as well. 00;21;56;10 - 00;22;00;09 It really helps us to get these videos out to more and more people. 00;22;00;12 - 00;22;03;18 And if you're listening to us on a podcast, please leave us 00;22;03;22 - 00;22;07;03 a racing review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts is. 00;22;07;04 - 00;22;11;06 Again, this helps to get the message out to as many people as possible. 00;22;11;08 - 00;22;13;28 Thank you much for listening and watching and how much food I.

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