Hello everybody Welcome to our live stream we have a very exciting week this week we have Captain Hudson version 4 which is live now and also we’re celebrating my 30th birthday oh my goodness and Hudson’s here so everything good is happening hello to everybody who
Is in the chat it is so nice to see you if you have any Cruise related questions destinations ships anything just drop them in the chat and I will do my best to answer as many as I can if you can start your question with question that
Just helps me to pick out what our questions and I will answer as many as I can but yes Hudson is here Hudson’s been practicing his high fives I don’t know if he’ll do any high fives for you on the live stream but perhaps he will perhaps he
Will all right hello everybody so nice to see you so nice the I’m just so excited Captain Hudson version 4 has just gone live we’re doing all the profits again to Mercy Ships they’re a fantastic charity they make Hospital ships and they sail around and they do
You know Medical Care and surgeries and things for free and they are fabulous so we’re fundraising for them with this this little guy and we have the other three over there so now we have four very very exciting very exciting okay first question is what are
Your thoughts on the NCL getaway so I went on getaway in perhaps 2016 I think quite a long time ago and it was brilliant I took a Caribbean cruise I basically booked the cruise because I looked at the prices of hotels in Miami and I thought a cruise
Is cheaper than this it includes drinks I don’t really care where it goes um just want to chill out and before that I had mostly Cruis with Norwegian so that was my first cruise as an adult by myself and I chose Norwegian Getaway so yeah I really like the prominade on
Those ships thank you everybody for the happy birthdays Julie says how old are you I am well I’m 29 right now but this we’re celebrating my 30th birthday it’s not quite my birthday yet but we do these live streams on Fridays so this fit in with
You um oh Darren says going on the Marbella electric Cruise I’m guessing you mean Marella and that is probably the themed Cruise right so I did two of the ’90s themed cruises and they were so fun so fun Beck says what travel agents
Do you use or is that a secret it is not a secret I’ve been asked this for many many years and if you asked me in 2018 2017 I would have said a wide range of people because I used every big company small ones direct sometimes but since
2020 I’ve booked all of my cruises with one agent her name is Emma and she’s fantastic we’re gonna try and get Hudson to some high fives for his dreamies let me just move the question out the way are you gonna do high five high
Five see he can do it he’s so clever um so yeah now if you go on God he’s so smart if you you go on my website emu.com and click the book button I have my recommended agents on there I have a team in the US that I work with as well
So they’re my recommended ones H you’re so clever Hi Five look at them so smart thank you so much to the moderators who look after these live streams I would not be doing them without you and I really appreciate iton bit me a little bit it’s too excited too excited
Hudson yeah Hudson is amazing he is amazing uh when will be the best time of year to do the Norwegian Ferry cruise that you just did says Adam so this is the video that I most recently bought out um if you haven’t seen it already
Please check it out and I did it in winter when it comes to best time um it depends what you want to see if you want to see the Northern Lights don’t look at Hudson’s bum if you want to see the Northern Lights you’re going to have to
Go in winter but the days are going to be short it’s dark quite a lot of the time and it’s going to be snow and it’s going to be cold if you want to see summer if you want 24-hour daylight like they have in some places you’re going to
Want to go in you know July or August so very different cruises but both brilliant Hudson’s trying to break into the packet no more snacks no more snacks uh can you put the Hudson Banner at the top so people can see the link when the
Question is up uh I can’t move it but I did try this earlier so it’s just really small font so I don’t know if it’s better to have small font or down there I mean we’ll be coming and going I’ve also put the link in the pinned comments
It’s in the description it is on my website it says get captain Hudson it’s in the sidebar it’s as big as I can make it it is the one link I have on my YouTube channel so fingers crossed everyone will be able to find that link um it’s just emac cruises.com Hudson toy
Hudson toy yeah lots of people saying they’ve ordered version four very very exciting all the profits are going to Mercy Ships again we raised $81,000 last year so we’ll see if we can do any more this year I mean crazy crazy can’t think about
It how do we send these to Dan Dan my us agent if you just click booger Cru and then you click the us or Canada button then it will go to Dan’s team uh Dan has very kindly said that he will collect Captain Hudsons for us because what we
Want to do is to send some to the Mercy Ships for the children who are having surgeries or anything else there um but the ship is currently in Sierra Leon and the company who makes the is in Canada and they won’t ship to Sierra Leone so Dan is in Texas and he’s
Very kindly said he will collect you know a massive batch of these and then he’ll send them off I’m pretty sure that the headquarters of Mercy Ships is in Texas so that works out pretty well you can get a a courier or something to drop them off Captain Hudson’s going to take
Over my house says Rich yeah that’s why I thought we would do the option for people to still support Mercy Ships and still get one but they don’t have to physically get it themselves so if you click on the page it’ll have Dan’s address and you just put down in there
And then he’s going to start getting all of these uh late may I think is when they’re expected to ship out so probably around then or early June they will arrive yes cheers down for the cat delivery yes he agreed um but we will see uh think I ordered the new version
Of Captain Hudson but can’t remember how can I check um he’s he only went on sale today so if you did it today then yes if not then no thank you Kevin for the link um and if you just search your emails for Juniper creates they’re the
Company that makes them uh then that’ll be the late one have you fought out from the Frozen cruise yet and Hudson 2o I have yes it feels like a long time since I’ve seen the real sun and not felt cold like in my hands normally I get away and I do a
Cheap you know Med training Cruise in January or February or November or December but I didn’t really do that this year um I decided to do Christmas markets then I went somewhere that’s way colder than the UK don’t know what I was thinking all cold trips but my next trip
Is going to be somewhere warmer um I wouldn’t say it depends where you’re from if you think it’s warm but it’s going to be warmer than England that’s the main thing um thank you moderators for looking after the chat there’s some weird things going on here there always
Is a ordering not ordering Hudson was a huge regret of mine last year so many people I met on ships would whip out their Hudson such a great networking tool yes that is cool that is sort of why I made uh these t-shirts and things like this that are a bit subtle because
If you saw someone with this and you didn’t know who Captain Hudson was it’s just a cat with ears right but if you know then you can go up someone and say oh it’s Hudson it’s Hudson and then I have actually never bumped into another wild Hudson on a cruise yet but they’re
Everywhere so I don’t know how I haven’t um but fingers crossed I will soon so the discount on this or on all the Easter range actually because I’ve just bought out the Easter range and I think this is really cute um the discount is just Easter and it’s 24 hours only so
Please please don’t miss out every single week I get emails saying I missed it so I’m I’m sorry I’m sorry um thank you Judy says loving the T-shirt thank you very much this is definitely one of my favorites I think it’s cute also we had to create Hudson’s
Ear because he doesn’t H well he does have two ears there’s another one in here but the 2D version only ever had one ear because he had the Hat on so we had to make this ear out of the other ear and just assume his ears are
Symmetrical but I think they are I think this is cute I like this one a you should be proud of how plushy Hudson is taking over Cruisers it’s crazy this was not the plan you know I I can’t even believe we sold about 5,000 last year bunkers Jamie says
Feel sorry for Dan’s posty yeah I’m sure I mean they will come in a very big box so he’s used to it yeah it’ll be fine it’ll be okay um your map behind you has New Zealand any chance you’re going to do a cruise this way absolutely bucket
List dream for me would love to I haven’t got any booked but I would I would like to um a geek guys says 100 likes and I will donate five memberships to support Emma yes please if you can like this live stream that would be very
Cool and thank you very much for giving away memberships this is YouTubes new thing that it does it lets people gift other people memberships and then you can listen to all the podcast join us in the Discord chat Early Access all kinds of stuff um do any of you have an extra
Captain Hudson version one or two that you willing to sell we had this conversation recently in our Facebook group if you’re not already in there just search Emma Cruz’s on Facebook and I think some people were chatting in there so maybe have a have a look have a
Look H bill says I am late what is the balloon for it is the big one 30 happy birthday that is what it is yeah I’m going to get my squash I have I have pink vimto today if you know what that is oh no that’s going to be annoying oh
What happened my balloons are popping around what is the weather like in Norway in June good question kind of like you asking me to predict something that I can’t really predict because it’s similar to England right in that it can rain it can be sunny it
Could be it sometimes gets even to 30 degrees in Norway it can get very very nice but also it can be quite like cloudy and rainy so um I would always bring a coat to Norway I don’t think there’s any time of year I would go without that that’s for sure
Um Gary says I will never sell Captain Hudson one two three or four when I receive them yeah some people have them all and it’s they take all of them on the cruises which is really cool at some point a gig says Emma your mom got a membership my mom got the membership
Before which doesn’t make any sense and Mom messaged me and said how do I give it back but I don’t think you can do that um yeah 24 hours sunlight yeah I did do a uh I did do a in pursuit of the nor in Pursuit Of The Midnight Sun that’s what
It was called in June um and we did see the Midnight Sun yeah it was very very strange cool though very cool where is your favorite location to cruise the med the Caribbean or something different um it depends obviously I like how easy it
Is to get to the med right we can get there in an hour and a half from the UK that’s great uh I like well I’ve never really been anywhere that I wouldn’t go back to but if you gave me some money and you said Emma you’ve got to do one
Cruise and that’s it I’m heading to Japan I’m heading to Asia no question best place best place um question do you have a solo Cruis I don’t have any myself I don’t Cruise solo anymore just because of my channel I just can’t but a lot of people
Cruise solo they absolutely love it it can be difficult to find a good deal if you’re solo uh just because it’s often more expensive you often have to pay for the person that’s not really there you know they’re kind of charging you more but if you’re very flexible you can find
Good deals that is for sure that is for sure okay my gosh I thought I got to the bottom of the comments and then it just jumped all the way down my birthday is a leap day now I’m 12 years old oh my goodness happy 12th birthday that is very cool very
Cool yeah if you can start your questions with question please it just makes it so much easier to pick out rather than you know there’s lots of happy birthdays in here in things today which is very very much appreciated is that an Easter Bunny Hudson shirt yes it
Is this is my Easter Bunny Hudson shirt um I hope you like him I like him I think he’s very cute and yeah just count is Easter keeping it easy and that’s on all the Easter stuff so it’s not just this one but we have luggage tags we
Have stickers magnets mugs you can see my mugs there um we have blankets even my captain had some blanket all kinds of random stuff what is your favorite birthday cake uh a sponge cake with white icing that’s perfect you can’t beat it don’t get fancy just a nice normal icing cake
I would just eat the icing to be honest the cake is just like a vessel to get the icing uh how do we claim a gift membership so for next time I’m not so slow I don’t know to be honest I can’t see from the other side I can’t really tell what’s
Happening um do you plan on eventually booking icon of the Seas it’s not on my immediate to-do list I feel like I I could draw you a picture of that ship now just from all the videos that I’ve seen of it um weird people in the
Comments um but yeah it’s not it’s not on my to-do list anytime soon it’ll be cool it’ll be cool but you know I did Symphony Of The Seas last year that was awesome and that was a big ship H YouTube automatically randomly chooses who gets the gifts yeah that makes sense
Because my mom wouldn’t pick the mom can just if Mom wants to ask me a question you’ll just ask me the question um whereas in the membership in the patreon we do like a weekly podcast and all that good stuff which Disney ships have you been
On and which was your favorite and why I have been on the Disney magic and the Disney Magic is my favorite CU she is the only Disney ship that I have been on uh I would like to try wish I think it’s a real sort of Step Up from Magic but
That is that is all all that I have done so far Jamie says you have to have enabled gift memberships when someone givs one I believe it is pot luck potluck um I’m doing MSE Europa in April do they cater for solos with meetups I think they have meetups yeah um they’re
Not one that you know Springs to mind when I think of solo cruising they have some cool solo cabins I think but yeah I think they’re mostly unhost meetups from memory from memory uh Dan is in here hello Dan we were talking about you and feeling sorry for your Postman uh who’s
Going to be receiving all of these cou Hudsons your address is out there now your business address so they might be coming soon very exciting so the sales window is open for three weeks only once it’s closed it’s closed forever then they will take that order and I will say
Can I please have 2 and Captain Hudsons they will make them they’re all handmade so they’re all a little bit different which is cool they have different personalities and then they get sent out so yeah we’re thinking end of May uh for them being sent out it’s good because
That’s just enough time to forget that you’ve even ordered it and then it shows up which is quite cool Dan says awesome yeah you we we’ll see we’ll see yes to meet up with people look out for sneaky Emma fans in Captain Hudson t-shirts it’s really really strange for
Me if I see someone wearing one of my own T-shirts because I never want to assume that someone knows me right they they might have got it from a friend or someone gave it to them and then I’ll just talk to them and then they’ll be like who’s this weird person right I
Normally would just smile um and then if they want to talk to me then I’m there uh well Jer don’t worry if solo you’ll have your dinner at a dinner table full of solos yes of course if you want to you don’t have to you’re not forced to
Do that but the chance to to table share is normally appreciated I think by solos Dan says I’m going to build a Hudson Fort oh my goodness it’s going to be amazing I’m looking forward to it h Ash says what has your experience been in
The Bay of bisque has it been rough or has it been smooth I’m going on a cruise at the end of the month to the Mediterranean um I did ask a while ago I did like a Twitter poll and a Facebook poll and I said has it been rough when
You’ve been in the Bay of biscate and it was about 50/50 yes and 50/50 no uh I don’t think I’ve had bad weather actually in the bay I’ve had worse weather north and south of it but actually going through it has always been okay um yeah I think we had quite
Bad weather doing a Canary Island cruise from the UK that went through the bay but the actual Bay was fine it was after that that it got worse so yeah I don’t think it needs to have its reputation as being somewhere for rough rough Seas um
I think you said recently that you were going or wanted to on an Alaskan Cru um would glaciers fishing excursions and gold panning be on your itinery says Scott yes so I am going to Alaska very very exciting I’m doing a Norwegian Cruise recreating basically my first
Ever Cruise which was a Norwegian cruise that I took when I was 11 on the Norwegian spirit and on that cruise we did do gold panning um I have no interest in fishing so I’m not going to do fishing and glac is yes I think I’d
Like to go back to the one I have photos of me stood in front of when I was 11 and and see see how that is different now that would be cool what age did you decide to do a YouTube channel about cruises and what motivated you to do it good question so
I was 23 I think 23 when I started my channel and I I just thought it would be funny I thought it would be a good joke with me and my brother and I started a website it was called cruising isn’t just for all people.co at the time it then went
To do then we went over to Emma cruises.com and I just called it that because I thought it would be funny I had no plans for this to be a business and I wanted to start the YouTube channel just because there’s some things that are easier to show right if I’m
Writing something in a blog post and I try and describe the view for um you know the elevator in Independence of the ceas how you can’t do that right you just need to show it so at the beginning my YouTube channel was just a Dumping Ground for like Clips or I would film
Like in journey rockets the waiters dancing i’ film it and I put on on just just upload it that was it then I started to sort of sit down and talk and do a bit more tips videos at that point I was sort of doing one or two cruises a
Year and I tried to do like one weekend one and one longer one and I did that for a while I ramped up a lot in 2019 I started going on ship visits and getting sort of involved in the cruise community and then 2020 so that was not brilliant
Um oh just caught your F first live in real time love your channel thank you very much yes oh so many good questions and so many that I use this third party to do my live stream so when I see it just says Emma Hudson Emma Hudson which always makes me laugh makes
Me laugh um do you have a website that you could recommend that does short excursions yeah I use uh viour quite a lot or cruising excursions.com I think that’s what it’s called um if you go on my website if you type in a destination for example recently I updated the
Barcelona post if you type in Barcelona then I have in there which ones I’ve done and all the links to those yes that’s a noisy bottle uh which ship has the best salarium they always look the best bit of the ship um Royal Caribbean like that’s it but
Which one has the best I don’t know they’re all pretty good yeah I don’t think I can pick a specific ship yes yes yes yes how is the weather now uh was on the beach at 8:00 a.m. oh my gosh it’s been raining all day it’s so miserable so miserable you should
Make Hudson cookies with a bakery oh my gosh that’s a really good idea I’d love that imagine like postor cookies with a with a bakery um I’ve been working on some things today you know we’re launching the children’s books for Captain Hudson which is so exciting I’ve
Been working well not me I’m not illust illustrator but I’ve been working with the illustrator on the pictures for the second book so that’s going to be very cool and also I’ve been working with mouille the company who uh all the handbags you’ve seen in my videos since
2017 on creating Captain Hudson packing cubes and you know travel wallets and stuff like that so that would be very very cool Dan said I just ordered me six of the v4s oh my gosh well Dan you’re gonna have the pick like because all of the ones that we’re sending to the Mercy
Ships are going to Dan so Dan can have a look at like a hundred of these and then he can pick the best ones so that’s kind of cool if you want to do that assuming some people do want to do that I don’t know uh have you ever seen any dodgy
Buffet etiquette nothing really comes to mind for me I hear a lot about weird things and weird people and you know if you put thousands of people together some of them are G to act a bit weird like it just is a numbers game but yeah
I don’t have anything that comes to mind um make it Captain Hudson catnip cookies oh my goodness Lou says packing cubes will be cool yeah I have the like mockup of the patterns and stuff and I think they look really good I think we might have to do something you know like a
Wait list to see if people are interested in them because they have to all be made and then sold it’s not like the way that we do Hudsons but we will see we will see indeed I do have here um some of the drawings if you weren’t here last week
I’ll just show you them quickly they’re so cute right so cute so cute which Cruise Line makes the most elaborate or elegant cookie that you’ve tried I don’t remember ever having an elaborate cookie or an elegant cookie I mean when I took the most recent MSE
Cruise they had six jars of cookies that was quite nice but I don’t know if I would say elaborate or elegant different flavors I guess Hudson and dreamy collab that would be brilliant one of the reasons he’s already gone from this live is cuz this is not dreamies this is Felix
He likes them but not enough not enough have you lost or forgotten Captain Hudson plushies on your travels I have forgotten to bring them before but I’ve never left them there no it’s like the most important thing uh does Hudson realize he’s so famous no not at all definitely not it’s
Quite funny I look at him he’s no nothing is going on in his mind I don’t think nothing thank you Kevin for sharing this link he says if you have photos of Captain Hudson in the wild or on your holiday please post them to Captain Hudson map.com yes oh that’s a good
Point we’re in March now so I will find the winner of last month’s most like picture and uh we have a little like handmade trophy thing which will be very cool I’ll show you that uh Tony is in the chat hello Tony I hope you’re doing
Well Tony had his thyroid removed and it was fascinating the pictures that he shared it’s gross but if you are interested in that kind of thing check that out thank you so much Tony getting older is fun in it in it indeed in it indeed orange cats live in a world
Of their own yes absolutely he’s the boss he knows it he absolutely does yeah um it’s really tricky to answer questions like this like what is your favorite Cruise Company because it it completely depends if you said to me Emma pick a cruise that you and your
Family want to go on and it’s uh you know do you want a cheap one do I have unlimited money I’d pick something very different if it’s one I want to take someone on who’s never been on a cruise i’ pick a different one if I’m going
Somewhere really hot I might not want to do one with formal nights if I’m doing a transatlantic I might want to do formal nights so I have never ever taken a cruise and thought I don’t want to cruise with that cruise land again they’re all just different for different stuff if that makes
Sense oh so happy to see cin Hudson at the start he is such a beautiful boy he is he is um you should go on the cheapest cab in the world’s most expensive cruise I mean that would be you know 10 20 grand a night I’m sure
For the cheapest gabin on the most expensive Cruise yeah yep yep yep I see if you know my friend will T trendy he does this kind of thing most expensive Cruise Suites and stuff and he’s on Silver sea I think at the minute very interesting his suite the bath oh my
Gosh I recently wrote a post on my website called five things I would pay for that I can’t pay for on Cruisers because I always hear people say you know Cruisers are ripoffs they charge you for everything but there’s still more things that I would pay for that
Don’t exist and one of those is just a bath like I don’t want to pay for a suite that has a bath in it most Cruise cabins have showers I don’t need to have one every day but you know during a cruise if I’m away for a week or two
Like I really miss having a bath so if I could have just like a pay is you go bath that would be brilliant H but on the silver SE ship there’s the bath with the windows and oh looks amazing Sean says do you think balcony cabins are
Worth the money it depends where I’m going and what the point of it is if I’m doing a northern Europe Cruise in November I don’t need to look at the shipping containers it’s probably going to be raining don’t really care if I’m doing a cruise in Norway or a cruise in
Alaska where a lot of it is about the view I think that’s pretty pretty different uh when is your collab with Tre trendy I don’t know it’s just really tricky because our paths don’t cross we do completely different types of cruises but yes it would either be me getting
The cheapest cabin in something luxurious um or him doing the most expensive on something cheaper perhaps thank you to my mom for sharing that post that is much appreciated um um I don’t understand your your quote with the day Dan he said most Gru ship cabins have shows I don’t need to have
One every day I don’t know what that means Dan showers ah yeah showers I need to have a shower every day but I don’t a bath a bath is Bath is for enjoyment a shower is just function a shower is a chore a bath is a
Joy if uh oh William says I’m very picky is it worth using a travel agent or booking direct do you have any plans for your birthday I don’t have any plans really uh but if you are picky definitely use a travel agent definitely because that that’s exactly what they
Know is oh well this particular cabin is good for this and not for that you know you might as well use someone’s experience it’s not going to cost any more to use a travel agent so yeah you might I like this comment travel agents for the win they’ll never cost you more
And sometimes cost less and include more yes yes yes yes oh Jamie says you enjoy stewing in your own juices my my mean my dream is a is like a Lush bath War so it smells like just chemicals Love It Fabulous thank you to my mom for sharing
The link to is it best to use a travel agent or book directly with the cruise line saving money hints and tips for booking and so much more such a nice little URL there so catchy Richard says what do you think about the nine Monon Crews that have has
All of those Tik tokers on board only six weeks in seems to be two groups fighting on board ticktockers versus regular fully paid Cruisers yeah I I mean I would be annoyed if I was on this cruise and I was just trying to do a normal cruise and then all of a sudden
There’s all these people trying to make all this drama out of everything and things that I don’t even think are interesting to be honest so yeah I get it um it’ll blow over soon it won’t be interesting after a while I’m sure I’m sure but hey it brings new eyeballs to
Cruising right and a lot of people will look at it and say that looks terrible but a lot of people will look at it and say that looks good so yeah but it’s all very it’s not like a positive they’re not really showing where it goes or
Anything they’re just yeah I don’t know TomTom says Hudson pre-order complete thank you thank you very much for ordering I’ve now lost my banners again let me just put those back so emac cruises.com Hudson toy that’s where it is it’s 3 weeks only and then never again so please don’t miss it please
Don’t I always get messages saying oh I waited till payday it’s too late I’m sorry but it just has to be three weeks and then it is done um how much is too much in terms of a cruise length I think for me I like a cruise to be between
Seven days and two weeks that’s like my ideal um I very rarely do cruises that are two weeks long normally I do sort of four five six seven days uh but yeah there’s not really any too long it just depends if you have other things you got
To get back and do some work and stuff yeah Jamie says we we’ve all just been paid though right so no excuses yeah it is the beginning of the month um I always find it really strange when I listen to like American podcasts and things because it seems like people in
America get paid every two week like it’s two weeks normal because it seems like it’s normal but I’ve never met anybody in the UK who’s paid every week or every two weeks never met anyone everyone’s paid once a month and I’ve yeah I don’t know anyone I don’t
Know yes um happy birthday you mentioned your favorite seasickness medication on some rougher trips what seasickness medication do you use the one I’m using at the moment is quells never let me down um the only side effect I get is really weird dreams and it makes me
Sleep a lot but I’d prefer to be asleep than seasick and it’s okay it’s just you could just take a nap that’s what Cruisers are for um yeah Dan says every two weeks is very common as well as weekly it’s rare to have monthly here yeah I’ve never had
I’ve never had a job that paid me anything other than monthly even when I worked you know just in a clothes shop or something like that it’s always monthly always it seems like a lot of work to pay everyone every week or every two weeks I wouldn’t want to do that
Interesting yeah who knew who knew yeah strange every everything is just based on everything being monthly so I guess if you do pay people every week or every two weeks you don’t see such a steep you know everyone gets a takeaway and then no one can afford a
Takeway and then everyone gets a takeaway uh Tristan and Justin hello it is nice to see you you’re on you’re on your not Cruz boy account don’t know if you meant to do that yeah monthly paychecks need a lot of budgeting I mean that’s just that’s just normal here yeah just how things
Are every two weeks by lore in Canada really oh my gosh you should buy an extra 100 or 200 Captain Hudson v4s and then sell them on your site for more people who have missed uh I don’t want to have 100 to 200 Hudsons that I have to keep and post
Because that’s very very expensive that would be a full-time job for somebody to post those out and yeah I don’t want to do that I want it to be you know once it’s gone it’s gone that’s that’s what I’ve always promised people so yeah Cru boys are back they had to change
Channels nice to see you nice to see you Jamie says did you hear about the 99 pound toight repositioning Crews from Southampton to Newcastle it got cancelled due to sickness yeah which is quite like it’s not good but it’s good that it happened there right so I think
People going on that cruise next they have the cleanest ship ever um I have heard from my friend David who’s on board and they have you know served to you buffet and stuff and like that suits me fine I’m I’m okay with that how about a yearly paycheck that
Would be hard that would not be good not be good at all interesting yeah most people seem to be weekly or two weekly NE never never never all yeah I don’t I don’t know Daniel says just pre-ordered my captain Hudson Lov the Hawaiian shirt I’m considering making a exact matching
Shirt of that I think that would be quite cool and then you can match Jan says nice background thank you very much thank you almost time for chocolate caby eggs I’ve been eating Easter eggs since January as soon as they come back into the shops after Christmas I love an
Easter egg it just tastes so much better it’s just I don’t know even if it’s the same as the squares of chocolate it just tastes so much better just so much better Dan says Emma will you have a report showing how many are donated coming to the office yes I will be able
To get that for you I can see all the orders and who ordered every single one and where they’re going so yeah I can I can do that for you uh thank you Kevin for sharing the link to my background map I will say if you want to get this
Map maybe wait because I’m currently working on something with this company so that you get a free thing that I’ve designed so I’m don’t gonna say any more on that yet uh Cruz boy say can you please suck the helium out and sing us a song no absolutely
Not probably if I did that I didn’t even know what would happen Um yeah chocolate eggs yeah Big Hollow you know this big chocolate eggs they get they there’s some really expensive Easter eggs like2 pounds I saw for an Easter egg it’s crazy you should go on the worst rated Cruise it would be an interesting video it’s hard to know what is the worst
Rated cruise I’ve done the worst rated cruise line which was Costa cruises according to Cruise Critic and I’ve done some of the worst rated ships in lines but there’s not really um like a a racing of All Ships and all lines together and even if it was I’m
Sure there would be multiple that are one star or something like that so yeah it would be tricky uh Tony says so when you start a new job you have to work for a month to get paid or is there a standard payday in the UK uh there’s not
Really a standard payday normally it’s I’ve always been paid like the 20th 25th end of the month kind of thing and yeah when I started my job before the job I have now the pay was always a month behind so yeah you have to work month
And then get paid for the for the work um but you just have you just you just deal with that but then the same way once you’ve left your job you’ve got that whole month in a chunk right so yeah it is what it is it is what it is
Um oh celebrity Apex has sailing speed restrictions what is going on and is this normal I have no idea I’ve not heard about that sounds interesting oh yeah interesting Easter egg com m o s an Easter egg that’s two layers of chocolate that would be good do you have
A birthday Tradition normally I just try and go away and ignore my birthday I’m not really a big birthday person uh 30 feels a bit different 30 is kind of cool so yeah uh is cruising your full-time job I mean going on cruises doesn’t pay you cruising isn’t a job if it was
Everyone would do that but I have built myself a business in the cruise industry so when I am cruising I am working and I’m making money off of you know the content I make for my website my YouTube videos my patreons my you know merchandise whatever else I’m doing I’m
Running that business while I’m cruising but yeah cruising no you don’t get paid to go on Cruisers like I mean that would be cool but everyone would do that uh Ian says the worst cruise has to be the lowest price out of Florida over spring break yeah I’m not I don’t think
That would suit me so well to be honest um Steven says what else besides price do you take into consideration when choosing to book a cruise uh where it goes from for sure there’s certain cruises I look at and I’m like H genua I can’t be bothered to go from that
Airport to that Port uh whereas if I see something and it goes from Barcelona I’m like yes easy I know how long that transfer takes um am i g to have to go in a day early you know that’s a thing I don’t always I don’t always fly in a day
Early I know I know the rules are you should but um it’s a bit different for me now if I add it on a day every time I go on a cruise and a hotel like that’s going to get expensive and take a long time um Jaden says I’m thinking to
Become a full-time travel vlogger do you think it’s a good decision any tips um I think you sort of need to go into this not thinking that this is a business I think a lot of people do that and it really changes what you’re doing if you
Really love something then you have to do it like do it but only do it if you would do it for free because this job kind of has like a for me it took me from 2017 till 2021 uh before I made enough money to leave my job and even
Still that was very scary so if you’re willing to put in like a four-year unpaid internship because you love it like I love it I would do it regardless then yes but if you’re just like this seems like a good business like can be
Can be yes but um it’s a risk for sure and you have to really really like it because for that whole time you know I was doing my full-time job and in the evenings and in the weekends I was putting in more than full-time hours to
This the whole time for sure but that’s just what I choose to do people always say oh why don’t you like I’m always working on this and people say why don’t you take a break or something um because I don’t want to like I really have I
Really think it’s fun and if I am fed up of editing I can write something and I get to research things that I find interesting and I get to listen you know to learn about stuff which is cool we just put together a post on my website
About what color cruise ships are on the bottom and why why are they red they’re not always red now but why and like that’s so interesting to me like I would regardless be doing that yeah overnight success is very overnight yeah people say people always
Say give up a 9et to5 to work 247 and and true I think um the whole business side of it like I never went into this planning this to be a business and when it became a business you know I wasn’t ready to run a business for sure but I’m
Glad I had all that time I’m so glad I’m so glad I never went viral with anything crazy after a year or you know I had time to sort of set my business up and then let it grow 2020 obviously was not a great year but I still had my day job
So I was working from home and I I mean that’s why we started doing these live streams at 5: because I finished work at 5: and I didn’t want to work anymore so I would turn off and go live and then you know I can’t have meetings and stuff
Can I I’m live so that’s how I started that but yeah absolutely the best job in the like the world there’s no question about it and it’s not even like people say oh you get to travel all the time that’s nice that is nice but what is
Nicer is if I wake up with a headache I can take a nap and the headache can go away and then I can carry on working in the evening all the weekends it doesn’t matter whereas before I would just have to take medicine or we just say take
Painkillers in the UK but painkillers is more serious in other countries so I never want to say that uh until the weekends yeah uh 300 plus 300K plus Subs doing great things thank you very much Debbie says please show your shirt again yes of course this is my Easter Hudson so he’s
He’s dressing up as a bunny and these are all Easter eggs I don’t know if you can see well like Easter themed eggs past all kind of colors and I like it so the discount is Easter and only for 24 hours maybe 23 hours now because we’re
Maybe an hour in David says who is the better cyclist you or your dad my dad no question my dad absolutely um but Dad regularly cycles and I pretty much cycle only if I’m doing a cycling cruise and guessing from this question that you have seen the video where me and my dad
Took a cycling Cruise if not that’s a weird question to ask That’s So Random yes uh well Chris says the link in the banner doesn’t work which Banner are you talking about because I spent most of today you know putting my the Hudson Link in the description and pin
Comment and YouTube Tab and it’s on my website it’s in the sidebar it is in every single post now I can’t think of anywhere else to put it just because I so worried that people will miss out I always get people who say they miss but
There’s only I can put it everywhere but I can’t make people see it I wish I could yeah Jamie says it’s so much easier to budget if you get paid monthly and all your bills come out monthly yeah that’s I pay you know the electric the Wi-Fi the everything is monthly so I
Can’t imagine having to plan the other way yeah that’d be kind of confusing um the link that’s pinned to the post is going to a 404 is that true I believe it’s true for you I’m not saying you’re lying but a lot of people have clicked
On it and it’s fine so that’s very weird very weird it just go to Emma cruises.com Hudson toy and then click by and it’ll come up um oh Chris says uh oh no this comment says I’ve never worked on my birthday I don’t think I’ve ever not work worked on my birthday
Particularly it doesn’t really matter to me um have you done a Christmas Cruise yes I have done Christmas cruises with Norwegian with MSE and with Pano so I have done a very British Christmas Cruise an Italian Christmas cruise and An American Christmas Cruise all very different but all very very good um
Don’t know if you can hear the rain coming down it is really really rainy will you be going on any River Cruises this year yes and I will be doing a uni World River Cruise which is very very fancy very fancy they had like a 12 Days
Of Christmas sale very short sale and my travel agent Emma sent me this message and she was like this seems so you this is this is your chance to get on a uni World Cruise it was pretty much 50% off it’s still 2,000 each for a week which
Is very expensive for me but it’s cheaper than 4,000 right so we’re gonna see what it’s like uh Jamie says it’s cutting off the end of the Ural very nice um L says uni world is very nice yeah that is what I was reading please do a live stream from it
I will try I try and do live streams when I’m away it depends how long you know I’m there for and it depends when we’re in Port because I buy Wii you know I just bought Wi-Fi for my next Cruise cost1 1220 pounds but I need it for my
Business for sure but I would prefer to do one when I am docked uh because at least we’re not moving and it’s going to be the same the problem about doing it when you are sailing is it might start good then get terrible and then get good
Good again and come in and out and Yeah It’s Tricky oh I just bought my version four amazing amazing amazing very exciting I love I love it when they start showing up and everyone starts sharing the pictures on the captain Hudson map website he has been all over the world
All over the world um my goodness have you done a Cod cruise and was it too formal did you enjoy it says Ben yes I have I’ve done two qod cruises one on Queen Mary 2 only a little one in Europe it wasn’t the transatlantic and also I
Did a week on Queen Victoria and that was why I started my website because I sat on that cruise and I thought what on Earth is this what have I what is this so that’s where I started um because before that I’d only Cruis with Norwegian and MSC which are very very
Casual cruise lines and kunard it is less strict than it was in 2016 when I was on there um but it is very for it is the most formal Cruise Line and the dress codes are pretty much shipwide so it’s not you can go to the buffet and
Not dress up that’s fine but if you want to sort of go in the theater and stuff at least the last time I did a kunan cruise you can’t just go to the theater in your jeans on on whatever the dress code day is um so yeah I already enjoy
It but there’s I wouldn’t book it if I was going you know uh to the Caribbean for a week I would not book a Cod Cruise because you have to pack so much stuff if I’m flying that’s going to be really difficult and it’s quite hard to have
All that stuff on I think so I would want to do it probably on a transatlantic that is my dream oh my gosh it is raining so much today oh crazy H bill says has Mercy Ships invited you to sail with the ship as it moves from one port to another that
Would be great content uh they haven’t invited me to do that but they have invited me on board so hopefully I can you know get a tour which would be very very cool but yeah again they move their ships normally sort of every six months something like that I think um currently
Yeah they have two so we will see we will see thank you Kevin for sharing the link to my map it is raining so much it is coming inside the cat flap that is not good um would you go back on a Disney cruise I would like to
Do wish or something newer like that to compare it to magic magic is built I think in the ’90s right and to me it really felt like that some older ships have had big refurbishments and you can’t tell but that one I felt like I
Was in the past a little bit uh just with the layout it was a bit bizarre you know the restaurants would be in the middle and there’ll be no windows or anything and it was just a bit weird but yeah I would like to try it Chris says I
Can hear the rain now yeah it’s so rainy so rainy just bought version four amazing um yeah no I have never done Regent 7even C’s no definitely not oh the rain has stopped please go away please stop please just wait until the end of this live stream because it’s really
Distracting um a only mention working on your birthday in Christmas because my birthday is Christmas a interesting uh how is the Wi-Fi on MSC marilia that’s an impossible question to answer because it depends where are you uh what is the weather like could be great could be
Terrible there’s no way to guarantee it I think that’s the thing really about cruise ship Wi-Fi it’s not guaranteed if I still worked in my old job I would have been fired long ago because sometimes you just cannot you could not get into a zoom call sometimes you can
Sometimes you can’t but when it’s me and I’m My Own Boss I can message someone and say I’m so sorry I’m at C and it makes sense and people understand but yeah when I worked in insurance that would not fly not fly at all uh Phil says could you discuss the
Pros and cons in your opinion of a cruise that has a set embarcation and disembarkation day versus one where people join and depart constantly yes so it’s pretty much just MSE and a little bit Costa that do the cruises where people join and leave every single day
The main benefit of that is it’s very flexible if you can’t get you know Monday off work and you can get Tuesday off you can just fly to the next port and literally move your cruise a week and if you want to do one day that’s
Fine you want to do a two-day Cruise that’s fine another benefit is that it can be very quiet in the day because imagine a thousand people disembarked but you didn’t now you have the buffet and you have the ship and it takes a while for the new people to come on so
When I did the MC World Europa we would do things like roller skating and there would be two people there you know us and two other people which is very rare to get a ship that quiet if if you’re doing stuff like roller skating so that
Was cool that’s good um dis the you know cons are obviously there’s no like welcome on board show the end of your crew show it’s a bit more confusing because there’ll be sometimes mustard drills happening but you already did a mustard drill so you don’t have to do it uh yeah
So I don’t think one’s better than the other they’re just different if you were doing your first cruise I’d probably say do one where there’s a beginning and an end because it just makes things easier uh but if you don’t mind yeah Adam says how is the partnership going with moui
Hopefully well I had a call with them just before this live stream it’s going very very well and they sponsored a video of mine recently if you haven’t already seen it that was my twoe river cruise the one that all went a bit wrong and um it was such a good partnership
For me because in every video I’ve made since 2017 you can see a mouille bag in the cabin or on my back because that’s really all I’ve used so it was very very easy for me and now I can you know bring discounts and stuff and we My Hope was
That we would be making captain Hudson packing cubes and we are we are doing that so that’s very very cool um and they are sponsoring another video soon so if you do see that please leave some nice comment that would be really really cool oh Griffin Alyssa in here happy
Birthday fun video yesterday thank you very much to you you have some very fun videos too I always see them when you’re doing different cruises but at the same time it’s crazy cool you’ve been busy very very busy um I don’t really have any plans for my 30th birthday I think
I’m doing something tomorrow because I wanted to make a plan with jonno and he said you’re busy so I think think I have a plan but I’m not really sure yet what um at the moment yeah we’ve got lots and lots of Captain Hudson comments in here oh my
Goodness I can’t see it’s always a bit delayed how many we’ve sold but I will update everybody I’m going to email everybody who is on the email list as well I’ll probably do that this evening and then I’ll send out my normal uh newsletter next week that’s my plan um
I’ve never really traveled on trains because I I get quite motion sick and I can’t do anything when I want to train have to sit the right way and I have to look out the window so the idea of doing that for days yeah I need to get a bottle that’s not
So noisy apologies about that oh my gosh I can’t get rid of the comments oh we are we are zooming through this live stream we’ve got nine minutes left so if you have any quickfire questions that I can answer really quickly please let me know the
Main things that I wanted to say to you this week were about Captain Hudson version 4 launching he’s probably on that side it’s flipped over for you I think but this is where it is for me this box maybe it’s on that side for you that’s the main thing I wanted to say
And also the discount is Easter on the Easter range for my merchandise this week and I’m not going to be here next week I’m going to be somewhere that’s warmer than the UK and I think you’re GNA like it but I will try and do a live
Stream um I’m going to be very much working as normal just on this Cruise it’s a very cheap last minute cruise but it’s with like a mainstream Cruise Lines that’s very very cool I think you’re going to like it uh but I don’t know now when the live stream is going to be
Because I’m not sure if I’ll be in Port there’s time zones to take into account and I need to know what the internet is like so I I can’t really say in advance um the Hudsons are on our left on your right yeah I mean they are there it
Doesn’t change where they actually are but to me that’s on the right of my screen and the right of me here so I think it’s flipped over because this is wrong for me does that make sense um Chris says I believe MSE have outlawed ketchup on their Pizza I would
Never believe that never ever believe that and the thing is people say you shouldn’t put ketchup on pizza if you go into Royal Caribbean and you go to sentos and you go along with your plate and you get pizza right there is a ketchup machine like why would that be there there’s only
Pizza so yeah people do say I should put Ranch on it I don’t know what we don’t really have rch in the UK um I feel like it’s for dip dipping stuff and salad and things I don’t think I don’t know what it I don’t think I know what Ranch
Tastes like but I’m sure I would dip Pizza in it because I dip Pizza in everything oh my wife was so happy to wear her Emma Cruzes this is my disembarkation shirt do not pack on Liberty of the Seas I hope you had a fantastic time that sounds so cool and
Yeah this is one of the my favorite t-shirts I’ve ever made because I pack it for every single cruise and it’s just nice because when you disembark a cruise you have to pack everything and they take away your suitcase and you have to leave out clothes hopefully you leave
Out clothes sometimes people don’t but you have to leave out clothes and I have one that says this is my disembarkation t-shirt so that then I don’t wear it because normally I don’t know sometimes I just wear all my clothes during the cruise a ranch is like mayonnaise with
Flavor oh that sounds really weird we call Ranch American sauce in the UK I’ve never heard it called that but I could believe it um that’s funny oh Keith says R tastes like sadness a um why do cruises make you pay hundreds of dollars to go on a ship tour
To view the laundry room um I mean they don’t make you you absolutely don’t have to do it but I’m guessing you’re asking why do they charge that because they can charge that right if you have something on a cruise a cruise has 5,000 people and they’re only going to let 50 people
Do something they’re going to charge like a as much as they can right because they’re a business so that is why that is exactly why it’s just the limited number and people want to do it and they sell out and every time they sell out
They think oh we can charge $5 more and they can and they keep going until people don’t buy it then they put the price down um it’s very clever it’s really really cool it’s also worth you know that’s the same way that the cabins are priced pretty much if there is you
Know 10 balcony cabins left this is the price if there is only one balcony cabin left this is the price sometimes it depends of course but because of that don’t if you if you want just the cheapest cabin don’t just look at the inside cabins because sometimes the
Ocean views will be the same price sometimes even believe it or not occasionally really weirdly sometimes nicer cabins will be cheaper um so always look at everything you can always look and be like no you don’t have to book it but just just look because yeah
The next cruise that I’m going on I upgraded to a balcony uh because I really need some sun I really need the Sun uh but the ocean view and the inside were the same price or they are the same price now so yeah it’s worth checking worth
Checking yeah Sean says don’t forget to hit the like button yes if you could do that that would be much appreciated it’s just a nice sign for YouTube and then it will sort of follow you round with my face that’s how YouTube works just because you are subscribed doesn’t mean
You ever see any of my videos that’s not how it works um if you want to make sure that you see my content please please make sure I have your email address so that I can email you I don’t send out an email with every piece of content I make
But I send out one a week and it is you know the most recent things that I’ve done so that you don’t miss it and things that I need to say like Captain Hudson is live um but if you just go in emac cruises.com type type in your email
And then I will send you emails um is it cheaper to book yourself or buy a travel agent uh it should never cost you more to book with a travel agent and if they charge you more for a cruise then then don’t book with them something has gone wrong there uh
Occasionally of course they’ll charge if you’re like need some planning like if you’re going on a road trip and they need to take time to do stuff fair enough but a cruise it shouldn’t cost more to use a travel agent and it can cost less cost less it can cost
Less or they’ll have you know quite often when I go on a cruise the cruise lines like when I did a Celebrity Cruise recently or princess they will give me my agents credit that we can use just for us like an extra 150 per room or whatever it
Was Stephen says please don’t compare Ranch to Mayo Mayo is disgusting yeah I don’t like May really um yeah but I don’t know uh do you have any frequently asked questions on your website the tips are great says Tom I have 500 and something articles that I’ve written on
My website and it’s all you know you can search by cruisine you could search food if you’re feeling hungry and it will come up with everything I ate on Celebrity everything I ate on MSE everything I ate on Costa and you can just look through those if you want to
Look at you know we have a lot of uh cabin reviews cabin guides and just random things that I find interesting you know sometimes I’ll be like why why is that net on the pool well then I’ll find out the answer and I’ll write it down why are cruise ships red on the
Bottom well I’ll find out and I’ll write it down so you can learn all kinds of random stuff yes yeah if you want to for example if you want to ask about seasickness just type in seasickness my my post will come up um I’ve been putting stuff on there since 2016 we
Update them of course um but yes yes yes yes H oh actually says ranch dressing is um mixed into a sauce based on mayonnaise or oil oh emotion to me sounds like paint mixed into paint lovely lovely lovely yes oh my goodness we have two minutes left on
These live streams um I do always keep these live streams to the hour hour like I think I’m not expecting people to come to these live streams and sit down for an hour and just watch me on the TV which is terrifying if you watch me on
The TV that’s really scary I shouldn’t be that big but I basically am just saying I’ll be here for an hour if you want to drop in then drop in if you don’t want to drop in no problem I can see inside YouTube it shows me what percentage of people watch my long
Videos what watch my short and who watches the live um and like what percent is like a 10 like one in 10 people who watches my long videos has ever watched a live a live stream so that’s quite interesting like we have the best the best of the bunch here I
Think Jamie says why don’t they have space underwater with windows so you can see the fish I’m guessing money is probably the answer and yeah they wouldn’t want the guest to be down that low and dangerous so probably you couldn’t really have like a glass bottom boat because there’s like so many decks
And there’s things underneath there and they’re not shaped like yeah anyway if you want to know what’s shape Cru ships are under the water go on my website and type in underwater shape and you’ll see TV screen we went out the local Cinema for these streams oh my goodness could
You imagine that is terrifying it’s really weird I only see myself on this little screen on my phone yeah Dan says all you would see is Barnacles and Gunk and Blackness yeah it’s not really like scuba diving or anything like that it would be very they could have a light like
A but yeah probably um yeah oneth probably because people like me are still asleep yeah very true I do have a very split audience mostly American followed by UK then Canada then Australia then New Zealand then places like Germany Norway all kinds of places but yeah there’s no time that I could do
A live where everyone would be awake but all of them you can watch on catch up which is cool and this time just works for me that I do the live then I go have dinner and most of America is available to join these live streams so yeah um it
Is 6 PM 6 pm here so yes thank you so much everybody for joining me for this live stream Captain Hudson is ready version 4 discount is Easter and I will be live sometime next week but I’m not entirely sure yet that is all thank you
So much for joining me thank you for all of your happy birthdays it is much appreci appreciated and I’ll see you soon bye guys
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