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9 Ways To Cruise For Free !! How Your Cruising Vacation Could Cost Nothing..
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Jan 28, 2025
In this video you will discover how you can cruise for free! There are at least 9 ways you can go cruising without having to pay. I give you tips on practical things you can do, look out for or do that will ensure you don't have to pay cruise fares to head out on a cruise ship. These apply to both ocean and river cruise. While there are some scams out offering "free cruises" they end up costing you money. These tips are genuine ways to save or dramatically cost of going cruising. Check out cruising merchandise like T-shirts at my store at https://www.tipsfortravellers.com/store Support the channel by booking your next cruise and for the best deals on CRUISEDIRECT.COM: https://www.tipsfortravellers.com/CruiseDirectYT Consider becoming a Tips For Travellers Patron. Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/tipsfortravellers Follow Tips For Travellers on: - Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/garybembridge - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tipsfortravellers - Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/garybembridge
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you're about to learn how you can go
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cruising for free hi I'm Gary beverage
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and this is another of my tips for
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Travis I'm about to share with you nine
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ways that you could cruise for free now
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most of them are very practical and easy
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to do some of them are perhaps a little
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bit more outlandish however you're
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likely to find a number of ways that you
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could go cruising for free well the
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first way and most obvious way of course
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is to become a Cruise Line cruise method
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salaried cruise no of course this is not
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for everybody because you're gonna have
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to commit to going between three months
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six months or in some cases even nine
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months contracts where you're working
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seven days a week very long hours
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however if that appeals for you as a way
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to cruise for free and if I could get
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paid for cruising couple things to bear
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in mind if you want to see a lot of the
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ports do not look for jobs which are
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going to keep you onboard when you're in
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port so the secret is look for jobs
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which are in departments and functions
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that are closed when you're important so
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for example the shops and the casino
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they have to close when import another
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great department to be in is in the
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entertainment Department so if you're
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one of the singers and dancers in one of
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the production shows whilst they do
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rehearse some days import days you'll
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often find when you add imports you will
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see the dancers and the singers added
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about exploring the ports so that's
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another great role to consider if you
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have those talents the second thing to
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consider is if you've got any special
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skills or talents is to look at one of
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those roles which are not actually paid
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to go on cruises but get free cruises so
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some of the examples for example are the
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guest two speakers onboard
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perhaps a gentleman dance host which
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some cruise ships have or perhaps if
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you're going to run some sort of craft
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workshops that's on bridge classes or
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even some of the digital workshops a lot
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of those roles whilst they're not paid
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you do get free cruising and you're
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normally allowed in some of those roles
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to bring up a partner along as well the
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other thing to do of course if you're a
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professional singer dancer comedian
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juggler or have some novelty act is to
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become a guest entertainer guest
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entertainers are employed constantly buy
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every single cruise line every single
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week they'll have a number of guests
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entertainers on board another great way
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to cruise for free is to look at being
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loyal to a cruise line pretty much every
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single Cruise Line has a loyalty program
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and if you want to cruise for free if
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you choose
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cruise line as UMass points and Knights
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on board they can qualify for either
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discounts or completely free cruises now
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it's very important that you choose the
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right cruise line if that's the route
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you want to go so for example I've found
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that most of the Carnival Corporation
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Cruise Lines their loyalty programs do
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not include free cruises so things like
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you nod princess coaster
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however if you take a look at the Royal
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Caribbean group of cruise lines Royal
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Caribbean celebrity Azamara silver see
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their loyalty programs send at the time
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of recording all as you build points
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lead to free cruisers also Norwegian
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cruise lines sending the time of
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recording also you can build up to three
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cruisers the great thing about sticking
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to one cruise line and building up
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loyalty points with that cruise line is
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whilst I may not lead to three cruisers
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it will give you lots of benefits
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that'll save you a lot of money anyway
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so you'll get things like free laundry
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free Wi-Fi especially dining priority
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and vocation to some vocation I'm at a
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grade you're in it'll give you all sorts
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of benefits and perks that certainly
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will reduce the cost of cruising so
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whilst it doesn't this to give you a
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free cruise it will significantly reduce
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the cost of cruising my next tip and one
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of the easiest of all is competitions
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there are a huge amount of competitions
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running at any one point of time and
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pretty much every single major cruising
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country which offers free cruises you go
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to the search engine and put in cruise
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competitions it will throw up many many
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competitions there's a surprisingly
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large amount of competitions offering
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cruises as a prize the other thing to do
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is to look out for two-for-one cruises
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so this only will mean that's only one
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of the part of you cruising if you're
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cruising as a couple or with a friend
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will get a free cruise whilst these are
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not very common there are a couple of
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cruise lines that use them quite a lot
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again you can just go online and search
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for two-for-one cruises and we'll throw
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up whatever's being offered at that time
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so whilst it's not very common they are
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offered at various points of the year
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normally sort of out of season but it's
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definitely a great way for a couple to
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at least get one of you to cruise for
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free
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related to that my next tip is around
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children if you're a family and you have
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kids there are a number of cruise lines
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that let your kids cruise for free
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the
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two most obvious examples are MSC
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Cruises and the other one is haploid at
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the other extreme so MSC Cruises much
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more mass market value line epiclloyd
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certainly a very ultra luxury expensive
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line both of these have schemes where if
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your kids are cruising in the same cabin
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as you they cruise for free now they
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have different age limit some of them
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some of them are 11 years old something
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a little bit older certainly if you're
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travelling as a family take a look at
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cruise lines that will let your kids
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cruise for free and my next tip is also
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relatively easy one to do and that's
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organize a group now pretty much every
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Cruise Line whether it's an ocean cruise
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line or a river cruise line will offer
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free births and so any free cabins if
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you can get together a group of people
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so but if you want to travel with a
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group of friends we perhaps some member
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of a club or a society or even if it's
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just on an extended family cruise the
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way this normally works is if you book
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16 people ie eight cabins you will only
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get a cabin for free now it does stuff a
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little bit by cruise line but pretty
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much for every eight cabins you'll get
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one cabin free so all you have to do is
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get together eight couples friends or
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from your club or society and you will
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get a free cruise now you can either do
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that through the travel agent or what I
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recommend also as you talk directly to
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the cruise company so even if you have a
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relatively small club or Society
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what I recommend you do is take a look
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for themed cruises and you're probably
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gonna find that your tribal society
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members will be really interested in
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doing that so particularly few have a
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big extended family it's a great way of
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getting a free Kevin for yourself and
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your partner bear in mind that the rest
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of the people in the party will not be
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paying anything more all you perhaps
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have to do is do a little bit of
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organization or perhaps onboard organize
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a few activities it's an honor of work
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for a free cruise our next tip on
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getting a free cruise is to take a look
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for cruise line companies that have
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credit cards this only applies much more
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in the u.s. at the moment than other
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countries but many of the cruise line
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companies have a credit card and for
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every dollar that you spend your mass
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points which you can then use to redeem
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either for onboard credit or more
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activities discounts on cruises and of
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course ultimately completely for a free
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cruise so if you put all your spend on
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everything you do to that credit card is
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surprisingly how quickly
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points mount up and that could lead to a
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free cruise now at the time of recording
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I could find credit cards for Carnival
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Cruise Lines Disney Cruise Line
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Norwegian Cruise Line Princess Cruises
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Holland America and Royal Caribbean and
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literally by just putting every time you
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spend something put it through on that
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credit card points for a mass and you
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will soon find yourself on your way to
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73 Knights discounts and hopefully a
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free cruise in its entirety another
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great way of getting a free cruise is
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actually when you're onboard take a look
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at bingo and find out what the prize is
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now a lot of cruise lines have a free
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cruise as their ultimate prize in bingo
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on many cruise lines the big prize on
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the last day is a cruise lasting
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normally around about seven nights for
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two people so of course that's a game of
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chance and you may not approve of game
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of chances but it's certainly definitely
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a way that you could find yourself on a
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free cruise because somebody has to win
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that cruise cruising for free is
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certainly very possible whilst there are
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some more extreme ways of doing it where
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you become a crew member or you become
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selves guest entertainer or you run
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workshops on board or give talks but
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there are very practical things you can
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do whether it's being loyal to a cruise
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line having a cruise line credit card or
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being very clever about looking for
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competitions or two-for-one deals or
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cruise lines if you have kids that let
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kids cruise for free hope you found that
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helpful and has given you some ideas on
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how you can get a cheaper or free cruise
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I'd love it if you watch them any more
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of my tips of travelers videos because I
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will give you more inspiration and
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advice and tips on how to maximize and
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make the most use of your very precious
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travel time and money with a land and of
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course very importantly at sea
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