Schettino abandoned ship shortly after she landed on Giglio island but, lucky for the passengers, many crew members heroically remained aboard the doomed vessel to search for missing passengers and escort others to safety.

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We were on a small island off the coast and we were lucky to survive.

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Lucky for you, it is easy enough to fit all of these into a couple of days on the island.

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If parents are lucky, they might get away for a dinner or drink on their own, but even Disney's Pleasure Island - a Vegas-like strip of nightclubs and over-21 entertainment - was shut down in 2008 and has been reinvented to have a more family-friendly focus, with shops and restaurants instead of nightclubs.

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