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This is a Royal Caribbean cruise compilation combining five cruises together in one video. This is by far the most ambitious video I have edited to date, but after our 2020 Royal Caribbean cruise from Barcelona to Copenhagen was cancelled, I started going through our video footage from previous cruises and decided to start pulling out all the clips that aren't included in our shorter cruise videos, all those extended scenes that had to be cut short can now be seen, and many hours later the footage now has a place to live on YouTube, which makes me very happy, even though it's almost an hour long.
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We pondered over "five cruises in five years", because 2014 to 2019 is actually six years if you count 2014 as 1, but if you minus 5 years from 2019, you get to 2014... 5 year plan successfully completed either way :)
Royal Caribbean cruise summary:
Liberty of the Seas
Barcelona, Marseille, MOnte Carlo, Pisa, Rome, Naples
Vision of the Seas
Venice, Kotor, Corfu, Athens, Mykonos, Kefalonia
Quantum of the Seas
Shanghai, Sakaiminato, Fukuoka, Kumamoto
Symphony of the Seas
Naples, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Marseille, Florence
Serenade of the Seas
Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Tallinn, Visby
As Royal Caribbean say, I guess we are 'loyal to royal', We worked hard, saved hard and travelled hard, which is not that easy using South African currency, we're both very grateful for these experiences and love cruising, as we get to see multiple places in one overseas trip. Cruising is also pretty stress free, if you get the drinks package, everything is basically bottomless onboard in terms of food and drink, plus the only thing you need to carry is a small plastic card (Seapass card), no wallet, no cell phone and everything you need is around you.
The general vibe onboard is a safe space, so swimming and leaving the camera and bag on the lounger is no sweat and people are generatlly awesome - you meet people from all over the world and we've met South Africans on every cruise. Hopefully one day, the world and travel industry will return to normal.
Shorter cruise videos of this compilation per ship:
