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Thank You for this video. I subscribed to NCL and called their agent but he told me that the cruises from Southampton do not have studio, single cabins and was suggesting I fly to various departure destinations to use ships with the studio cabins. Is this right?

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You cannot show the naked sculptures??? Really? Are you coming from the middle ages??

Your video is exactly what I wanted to see! Thank you for sharing your experience with us!! I took a RC cruise to Cozumel last week and paid 3 times as much as you did for a 4 night cruise to be in an adjoining cabin alone. I’m ok with that but there were no solo cabins available. But I did pay a whole lot more so will look for a Norwegian cruise with solo cabins! Thanks so much! 😊

And thanks for sharing. I am thinking about one in 2025

So you only paid $600 for the cruise in a double room. Was the price because you reserved it 2 days before you left? Is it still cheap if you reserve it a week out? And how does that compare to a solo traveler room?

The fit checks are the cutest thing. :) Going on a similar itinerary on Encore in reverse order in November 2024, except from Miami. So excited!

Wait, you like going to the solo passanger meeting because it is a place to chat with people, isn't that just an IRL chatroom

Ben, I'm so glad to have found your content. Has anyone ever told you that you look and even sound like Jimmy Fallon? Looking forward to seeing more of your content.

Ben, I enjoyed this video. I recently cruised in a solo cabin for the first time and on Norwegian (the Breakaway) for the first time; it was a great experience.

That’s a really great price! But… I’m told that tipping is all in USD & is automatically added to your bill. It sounds like it’s getting out of control & is not actually tipping someone for their good service - rather it’s a taxable, service charge that gets shared & the cruise line takes a cut. Is this what’s happening? USD is a killer for those who aren’t earning that currency.

You could have saved 60 CZK with a 90 minute metro ticket. One transfer to the 59 trolley bus takes you right to the airport. Seniors over 65 travel for free with a photo ID.

Nice journey, wow you did a lot for a last minute cruise.

Hi, Ben. Is this video just a compilation of all of your cruise videos, or is there additional content? I am a bit intimidated watching a 3.5 hour vlog if we have already watched all of the content already in the individual videos. Have you ever considered making Playlists and grouping your videos by Playlist? We find the Playlists and easier way to see all of the videos in a series in smaller bite-size pieces.

Another great video. I’m grateful that I have had the opportunity to cruise on various cruise lines over the years. In the early years I would just look for a deal. Didn’t care about the cruise line. But now I’m trying to stay loyal to just a few lines so that I can benefit from the loyalty perks. One thing that I’m still very very confused about is giving additional gratuities to various crew members. You mentioned working in the cruise industry. I have had a difficult time finding information on this topic. Help …

I just got off a back to back cruise on NCL and this looks so much like the ship I was on which was the Breakaway. I wish they would change them up rather than standardizing. I’d be more excited to see a new ship. My wife used to travel alone all the time now I enjoy going with her.

Ty for sharing this is a great video!! I really enjoy watching videos of different places

absolutley would cruise solo!

When he said “Thank you, thank you Belgium in three different language” we all knew what he meant 😂

The reason you saw so many homeless people in Norway, is because Romania is a member of the EU, and Norway is a member of the EEA. Norway doesn't have homeless people. The government provides for Norwegian citizens that can't afford renting or buying a place to live. The "beggars" you saw were Romanian.

pro tip - select and sort by price per night for better to find deals

Great vlog, looks like you're using grey filter to make it look gloomy like BBC 😅 no, just a European summer 😅

I so love your compilation videos! All 3:25:57 of it. You are always charming and informative. Keep up the great work and I look forward to our next adventure!!

Such a beautiful ship, but the go carts are a total waste of precious outside space. They changed this for their newer ship Aqua luckily.

note to self: if the ship starts sinking don't go to my muster station...head straight to the casino coin push machines and wait for some to fall when the ship starts tilting 🙂

for the tube slide, i wonder if they know when someone goes down but doesn't come out the bottom? or do they just keep sending people down until they start piling up inside? i wonder if they have a procedure for dislodging someone stuck halfway down...can they open panels? is it opaque and completely dark inside tube? that seems scary

Good morning, Being ! Being fed, being entertained, being rolled gently from side to side ! What a way cruise can do to feel good and spoiled !

Wow! I've watched up until the water slide and that slide is insane! amazing! go karts too, very cool. I respect your patience processing and uploading a 3 hour vlog 😁

I watched your video and was inspired to travel solo. Called Norwegian directly, the agent put me on hold forever. When she came back I said my dates and destinations were flexible as I was trying to book a year out. She asked if she could look for options then call me back I never heard back. i was disappointed as I am a former travel consultant, Quality Mentor, New hire trainer and acting team leader. I blame the cruise line for not having the technology available to slot solo cabin availability dates destinations suggested options based on area. I’ll look elsewhere

I searched for the carnival cruise that I already booked for September and the vacations to go website had it listed for a higher price not lower. The listed brochure price was also not correct because it said 3,000$ when the website for carnival is 650$ So I’m not sure if all the cruises give a great deal or just some ???

Where were u walking please

Rainy and foggy nearly all day ! It would be nice to fish by the lake. Beautiful countryside !

I live in Lisbon and people don't try and sell you stuff here any more than any other place. Also Lisbon is not unusual in that if you are obviously a tourist you can get ripped off anywhere. I feel its kind of unfair that you make out Lisbon to be a tourist trap. If you really want to experience extreme bugging to buy, try Egypt for example

Prima is hands down my favorite ship. I just like the smaller ship. It seems like the RC Oasis class is designed to make you forget you're on the ocean...not why I cruise! I love the Indulge food hall and the fact the local is available 24 hours. The NCL Breakaway class also too big for me and way too many kids.

Before there was a stereotype, there was a prototype!

Loved the video! You live in a beautiful area with that large lake and park. It looks like a great place to walk. We've visited England twice, once in May/June and the second time in September. We may have had some rain during our first visit, but we lucked out on our second visit and did not have any rain. During our second trip, we walked all over London and it would have been horrible if it had rained! A good rule is to always pack your umbrella and a rain jacket 🤣.

So green and beautiful!

I have a similar problem. Foreigners keep asking me what part of Scotland is England in.

I've never thought of England, especially London, as an outdoor sort of place. I know there ARE many outdoor attractions-- Bath, of course, and Stonehenge and the seashore at Brighton. But to me, when you go to England, you go for the history and that means museums and art exhibits and tours of great monuments and castles. Yes, they do have the most stunning gardens and beautiful landscapes but... mostly, it's indoor sort of touring. I must add one quick anecdote, though. When I was in England for 8 days in 1985 (yes; ages and ages ago), it was clear and sunny the whole time-- and everyone we met commented on how lucky we were to be there that week because that NEVER happens! LOL! I believe it was in August. Oh, and, BTW? Considering I spend most of my summer having to water my gardens just to keep them alive (we hardly have any rain in July or August), it's very hard to commiserate with rainy summers.

While I get that your answer is a bit tongue in cheek and dealing with an American stereotype, but the film is more than a little misleading. 1) We had 40 degrees C two summers ago, 2) we have had recent hosepipe bans due to water shortages that matched the drought of 1976 and 3) as has been pointed out by others, weather can be changeable and can vary markedly over a very short distance. I grew up in Bristol, a city in the South West of England and not very far from the coast. I always believed it to be a very rainy city, somewhat like other cities and regions in the West of the UK. However, now that I live in the North, I find that members of my family who are located in the north of Bristol keep describing the weather as "sunny" or fine when the view out of my Yorkshire window is grey and rainy. It turns out that the south of Bristol, where I grew up, has quite a different weather profile than the north of the city and it is both a rainy city and a city with fine weather. On holiday in Wales, one afternoon we were shut in by a heavy downpour, eventually we decided to go out anyway and were surprised that, once we got off the mountains and down into the valleys, the weather was fine. It is possible for two places to be deluged and a third place, located midway between, to have fine weather. I used to see this when travelling on the train and not solely on longer journeys, but even on journeys lasting about an hour. Often, the midpoint would be sunny, even though my starting point and goal were sodden. There are also such things as microclimates, where the weather is uncharacteristically different from that of the surrounding country. I can recall being warned not to go to the Lake District at Easter, because "it always rains there". Except . . . we had hot sunny days, apart from the afternoon we went shopping, while the rest of England had heavy rain! Last, but not least, we experienced the most extreme changeability ever in southern Scotland. We were in a small town on a bright sunny day. Halfway up the main street, rain fell and we began to look for shelter. However, the rain stopped within 5-10 seconds and over the next ten minutes we had short flurries of sleet, snow and rain and even hail, all interspersed with varying durations of bright sunlight and in completely unpredictable order. One patch of the pavement/footpath might still be dry, even though the patch I was standing in was wet or sleety, etc. I have experienced some short periods of sustained sunny days in the depths of winter and have also seen snow on the lower slopes of the Mendips in May/June while the sun shone brightly overhead. British weather is anything but stereotypical and saying it rains everyday simply isn't true, while it is probably true that it rains somewhere on many days. We also still have seasons, but climate change has blurred the traditional calendar limits and we might get a very hot May or June and a wetter July, but the 40 degree Celsius temperature in 2022 was on the 19th July, which is traditionally a very hot period.

Love where you are walking, beautiful ❤

when it rains i think "well maybe the plants are happy to get a drink"

i haven't had fish and chips in years! and i was watching a youtube video on a fish and chips restaurant review and mentioned it to some ppl in my class and they all got a bit enthusiastic about web searching for where one could get fish and chips in the city.. haha! it's on my weak to-do list now...

i'm scared off of using the word "england". even though it seems like it was a normal thing to call....there in wwii movies or in board games set in the past. but nowadays when i use "england" I don't know if someone i think is english will say "i'm not english!" so i feel like the only way to be safe and not trigger anyone is to just say "UK". i guess it might be because my online gamer friends are welsh and scottish and the sound a bit offended to be called english.. it seems so complicated to me (i guess in the past i'd just think of it as a country like... the us, england, and russia fought germany, italy, and japan)

Being a Seattle girl, I completely identify with everything in this video. Rain won't stop me from visiting England. It will make it feel like home. ❤

LOL...indeed, the questions in regards to weather! "Does it snow all the time in Canada?!" Another, "Is there indoor plumbing in Canada?!" What!? LOL Oh, and a classic, "Does everyone live in igloos?!" Well, maybe, but only in the far, far north! LOL Oh, and one more, "Does everything a Canadian says end in 'eh'?! Maybe you've got it right there, eh!

Same goes for Scotland

Love it LOL I remember waking up in London one day to see the streets covered with snow.....so beautiful! One question though -- Ben, are you recording this in the countryside of London?? And one comment -- when I lived in Oregon, we always said "if you want all that gorgeous greenery, you have to accept the rain!" In Umbria we're battling 107 degree right now (I could look up celsius but lazy) and zero rain.....I'll take that park there in London ;-)

We often get 10 days without rain.... we also often also get 3 or 4 seasons in 1 day. "Changeable" would be more accurate for the London area at least. Wales, Scotland and cities like Manchester it rains more than here. Noone is over 7o miles from the coast so we get coastal weather.... New York, Rome and Sydney get more rain than London. We have had weather up to 104 degrees and as low as -25. Once every decade there is a drought. Some of us don't like tea or fish either...