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One of the most significant and important milestones in the building of a new cruise ship is the keel laying. I attended this for Saga Cruises second new cruise ship build ever for the Spirit of Adventure, which will be a sister ship to the Spirit of Discovery launching which launched in 2018. The ship is being built at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany where this took place. A key part of the event is the pressing of specially minted coins into the first section fo the ship. You will see this in my short 30-second video showing the event.

Watch a series of Antarctica highlights in 2 minutes. Filmed by Gary Bembridge, cruise expert at Tips For Travellers, on a Silversea Expedition cruise to Antarctica Peninsula. Awesome!

Come and see the highlights of a trip on the White Pass and Yukon Railway in Skagway, Alaska, travelling in one of the luxury carriages. Bucket list approved!

Check out these awesome highlights of flying by helicopter from Juneau to the Norris Glacier over the Juneau Icefield to go husky dog sledding with husky dogs. What an experience!

Come on a journey through Glacier Bay in Alaska and see the most impressive glaciers in this remarkable part of Alaska, including the Reid, John Hopkins and Margerie glaciers. Add this place to your bucket list now!

The Cunard Queen Victoria Q2 Caronia Suite Tour is possibly one of the most luxurious (and costly) cabins you can cruise in. This Queens Grill suite on board the Queen Victoria cruise ship, which is the same as a similar suite on the sister ship Queen Elizabeth, is the "first class" on the ship and the Caronia Suite is a Q2, which means it is the second biggest grade of suite on the ship with the Grand Suite being larger and more expensive. For many this suite is seen as probably one of the most luxurious way to go cruising. In this tour we travel around the suite and talk about the facilities and added extras included.

In this video we will learn about the most extreme makeover that a cruise ship can go through. We will take a look at the Silver Spirit being cut in half, pulled apart and having a whole new mid-section added to create a bigger, longer and more glitzy ship! Come behind the scenes of an extreme cruise ship makeover like no other. Gary takes you on a journey as Silversea Cruises cuts the Silver Spirit cruise <a href="https://rumble.com/v3lpqb-cargo-ship-snaps-in-two-off-turkey.html" target="_blank">ship in half</a>, pulls the ship part and inserts a new 49-foot mid-section. Come along to the Fincantieri shipyard in Palermo and see and hear about the process of this dramatic cruise ship makeover. See the ship undergo this drastic procedure and find out why Silversea are doing it. Being on the ship site is a magnificent sight, we see the Silver Spirit in the dry dock and along side it is an already made mid-section, 49 foot long, 10 decks high, that is going to be inserted into the middle of the ship. It is an incredibly fast process, too! The ship arrived in the dry dock about 5-6 days before what you are seeing here now. A process that we attended to see it was the last bit of cutting. Once it was cut, there was a series of little trolley devices underneath the front of the ship which then takes the full weight of the ship and begins to move slowly, pulling apart the ship. It takes almost a day to actually move the ship apart, because they have to do it really, really slowly. Once the pieces are far enough apart they then bring all these motorized tracks, bringing in the mid-section, which they slide into the middle of the ship! They push it back together and then they begin welding back the ship! How cool is that! The mid-section addition will bring 34 new passenger cabins, 20 new crew cabins, but it will also increase the number of restaurants from 6 to 8, completely renovating the spa and the pool! With the middle section the <a href="https://rumble.com/v4g8tl-ship-launch-wave-fail.html" target="_blank">ship looks longer and slicker</a>. So you may wonder why on earth, don’t they simply build a new ship? Because, the refurbishing process will cost only around $70 million! That might sound like a lot of money, but building a new ship can cost up to $500 million and above! So, it makes a huge difference, don’t you think?

In this video Gary Bembridge of Tips For Travellers shows and talks about the remarkable annual Tall Ships Races. The Sights, The Story And The Experience based on their visit to the port of Turku, which it has called at a number of times. 100 ships including huge old tall mast ships take part. It's an amazing spectacle

Join Gary Bembridge on a tour of Windstar Cruises Star Pride. One of the three yacht-style cruise ships in their fleet alongside the Star Breeze and Star Legend. These ships were originally built for and operated as Seabourn ships but were bought by Windstar in 2014 and concerted into their product. Despite being 30 years old the ship is in great condition and has been luxuriously updated. It is a small ship with just 212 guests and 150 crew and in this video I tour through the public spaces and show all of the facilities including bars, dining options, fitness and spa, watersports deck and also a typical cabin.

A tour of Oceania Cruises ship Christmas decorations on Insignia cruise ship. See how the ship is transformed into a Christmas Wonderland with gingerbread houses and towns built with gorgeous Christmas Trees and more. Please leave a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel now: http://bit.ly/TFT_YouTube2 Music: Jingle Bells by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100187 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

This is a very narrow canal that small cruise ships can just fit through. In this time-lapse video you can experience a journey through the canal on Windstar Star Breeze

Whilst visiting the Ruka-Kussamo region of Finland in summer, which is up at the Russian border, this adventurer goes on a hike with huskies. He's attached to the dogs by a belt and they help make the hiking easier as they pull him along. There is beautiful scenery and also some surprising facts about huskies learned along the way.