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video hey everybody how you doing it's Bruce here we're traveling with Bruce
welcome to my channel today I want to talk to you about cruise ship vacation
versus an all-inclusive vacation deal at all-inclusive resort now I have to say
right off the bat that I'm biased towards cruising because I've had such a
wonderful series of cruises over the years and in the past I've been to a
number of resorts but only once have I been on a on an all-inclusive resort and
I didn't mind it but when I compare the two I far prefer cruising now let me let
me start the comparison this way alright it's likely that if you've booked
yourself a an all-inclusive resort you're likely to be traveling to the
resort on a charter air type arrangement now it might be a private charter
company or it could be through a regular airline but the deal is that your price
for the vacation is an all-in price which includes your airfare your
accommodation transfers from the airport that type of thing and and and home
again fly back home the trick of it here is that you have a set flight at a set
time on a set date both directions and the the resort is locked in of course
and and once you're at the resort you got your amenities you've got meals your
drink packages and everything else on your you're on your way with the cruise
it's a bit different because you book your cruise separately from an air fare
deal you don't buy a cruise that includes your airfare because the cruise
ship the cruise line doesn't really know where you're going to come
from they they they know that they're gonna depart either San Diego or Los
Angeles or Miami or Fort Lauderdale or Europe wherever at their set port and
they're gonna bring you back to that port at a set time set date so it's up
to you to get there to get to the ship on time and it's up to you to get off
the ship and work your way home from there as well so what I like about that
is that I'm able to set my schedule with regard to travel and then then enjoy the
cruise and set my schedule for travel to come home from the cruise as opposed to
an all-in vacation on a on a all-in deal where I have to fly on this flight at
this date this time and so on on the way back now I've had a lot of relatives and
friends take cruises and all-inclusive Xand what I find that I hear a lot and
sometimes I hear this in the news too much is the problem with all-inclusive
isn't the all-inclusive resort it's great they're fine the problem lies in
getting there and getting back from there and it's all kinds of stories like
well the flight down was fine it was a long day it took 8 hours but we got
there we had a wonderful time but and getting back what we didn't realize was
there was a bus that was supposed to pick us up to take us to the airport and
actually it was an hour and a half late because we're the fourth resort to be
picked up and by the time we got onto the bus it was packed and was nowhere to
sit and dah dah dah dah dah dah dah and then getting to the airport the the
plane coming down to to drop off passengers and then take them back was
late coming in mechanical issues and now the problems begin especially if you
have connections back in the mainland once you land you know wherever you're
landing where the cruise you're the master of your domain with regard to
travel you decide when you're gonna get to the to the pier to get on the ship
and you're gonna decide when to leave the city that the ship docks at at the
end of the cruise to come back home and this is something I've grown to love
because if I'm gonna leave say Los Angeles
I might just fly to Las Vegas and a couple of nights there and then my
wife and I will rent a either a car or a take a quick Southwest Airlines flight
to Los Angeles work our way to the ship either on a pre-arranged bus of that the
cruise line offers or a cab ride or if we've rented a car from Las Vegas we
drive the the rental car right to the rental car depot closest to the to the
ship and then a quick cab right we're on the boat same thing on the way back we
get off the ship and we get to a rental place where our car reservation is
waiting for us and we drive back to Las Vegas and to spend one more night there
and then fly home the next day we're in total control of the schedule where if
we were doing a full blown all-inclusive resort package deal we have no choice in
the matter we have to be on the certain flight and we have to fly home that same
day and if that that means you leave at 8 in the morning from Cancun Mexico and
you get home at midnight that night that's an awfully long day and if you've
scheduled yourself back to work the next day that's a tough one if you're younger
it might work out you got the stamina to do it but you're old like me
not gonna happen that's one thing about the two to compare but the other thing I
want to compare is the actual resorts themselves being on a cruise ship to me
it just gives me all the flexibility in the world my wife and I both both know
that we're not too far away from each other sometimes it's a good thing
sometimes a bad thing but we're on the same ship and if we need to find each
other not too hard to do she knows where to find me I know where to pretty well
find her because we know what it is we like on board a cruise ship same can be
said though with an all-inclusive resort if it's all eight hundred rooms large
and it's got five pools and four bars and sixteen restaurant yeah okay we
could we could be apart for a while but nowadays with telephones you just text
each other where are you or are you able to find each other but on a cruise
you've got your you've got ten different places to eat from the buffet to the
hamburger stand on the pool deck to the fancy restaurant in the evening to the
steakhouse the Italian house the Chinese food the sushi bar that type of thing
and you've got entertainment every night in the
main theater is a different show or you go to the comedy club or you going to
the piano bar whatever suits your fancy and then during the day you have all of
these other events going on these cruise planners so their job is to keep you
busy and give you options and there are dozens and dozens of things you can do
on a cruise ship every day if you're at sea and and then once you're at port you
know you're always on the move of course so when you're at port you go off go off
the ship for a few hours whether you're just taking a walk around or whether
you're taking a quick cab right to a certain part of the city or town that
you're in or are you taking a full-blown tour let the the Cruise Line organizes
tons of options with a with a land lock or were they with a all-inclusive Resort
I should say your excursions are a little more limited now if you're in
Cancun Mexico you can always rent a car and drive around if you like golfing
great go golfing but you're not gonna take a three or four or five or six hour
escorted tour every day from a from a from a beachside oceanside all-inclusive
resort you you're there to basically sunbathe and enjoy the joy the weather
and get a tan and relax and if that's your thing great on you enjoy it thing
though is a five-star all-inclusive Resort is not cheap and they generally
don't go on sale that much sometimes you hear about the odd deal but for ninety
percent of the folks going especially at certain times of the year it's pretty
expensive to go with with a cruise ship however you can dictate how much you're
gonna pay by what kind of room you're gonna pick if you want to pick the the
owner's suite okay thousand bucks a night or more up
to you but if you want to take say an inside room for yourself and your wife
you might be on an inside room for $80 a night and you're still eating the same
food that the millionaire is eating on the fifteenth deck ups upstairs so
there's that advantage to taking a cruise you can make it much more
affordable and yet get the same you go to the same places eating the same food
swimming in the same pool area seeing the same shows there's some advantages
to that from a dollar and cents point of view food wise choices are either or
you've got great choices on board the cruise you've got great choices at the
all-inclusive resort but if you're three star resort all-inclusive resort
you might be subject to three-star food whereas on the cruise ship you go to the
main dining room the steaks of steak lobster tails of lobster tail if you go
to the steakhouse on the crew on the cruise ship it might run you a $25 $40
$50 a person more think about the fact that if you were in say Las Vegas and
you wanted to go to a premium steakhouse in Las Vegas you're gonna pay seventy
eighty ninety dollars each with tip and taxes for that same meal so the cruise
ship can compete with any restaurant anywhere for quality and price so think
about that anyway that's a brief recap of the - I prefer cruising myself
because I love the variety seven-day cruise seven different stops from
different things to see my view outside my window if I have a balcony a room is
different every day it's changes during the day whereas with a all-inclusive
Resort you might spend just the evenings in the room and during the day you're
out at the pool and enjoying yourself if it's raining however you're not you may
not be at the pool you might be stuck in your room and and then you you know you
might be stuck with spanish-language television because it's pouring outside
and you can't go golfing you can't go for a dip you can't go for a walk so
there's those issues that you have to think about - weather can kind of come
into play with the hurricane just to finish up by the way with a hurricane a
cruise ship can skirt a hurricane can go to a different port entirely and
completely change its itinerary midstream with a with an all-inclusive
Resort you are where you are and if there's a storm coming you're stuck with
it then there is a hurricane coming and you found out two days in that there's a
category 4 hurricane coming towards the end of your stay you're gonna have a
tough time getting off the island early or out of that resort you might have to
write it out you might not make it out on time and be stuck at the airport for
a night or two because there's nowhere else for you to sleep because people
have taken your room behind you at the resort you were staying in so that's
something else that cruise ship is great at avoiding is really bad inclement
weather anyway this is Bruce with traveling with Bruce thanks for watching
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