Posted on 08/29/2018 2:47:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"...living on a cruise ship..."
I knew an older guy - a retired pastor. He had made his way onto the list for being the ship’s Chaplin. He was always going on a cruise with various shipping lines, and bringing his wife along.
I’d sooner shoot myself.
We’ve never been on one. Bad experience?
If you have no talents, you can get a job at the Weekly Standard and give speeches to mostly empty cruise ship auditoriums.
Steady employment if you are in that line of work. 6-8 month contracts with a lengthy break between contracts if you decide to stay on.
Of course, there’s more to it than just rehearsals and stage performances. You are also part of the ship’s crew and will be required to conduct other duties like safety drills and scheduled ship activities with passengers.
LMAO.
We sailed Celebrity in 2017, having heard it was a step up from our regular — Princess.
The Celebrity entertainment was seriously DREADFUL!! My 7-year-old nice was in a little performance in her town and it was more professional.
I used to be pretty high up in IT at royal Caribbean / Celebrity.
I would go on about 3 weeks of cruises per year to babysit some project install.
Living on a ship is interesting. It can be like ground hog day. Same itineraries over and over... look kids Big Ben! Muster drill first day. Safety drills constantly.
The crew food is NOT the same as passengers. That is why you see officers, activity directors, etc eating at the buffets during slow times. The quarters are obnoxiously small.
The only good thing is the crew bar drinks are practically free by our standards. The bad thing is they make so little that it is relative.
On top of all that there is a definite set of social classes on these ships... it is like a huge school. The shore ex guys are jocks. The performer girls are the hot girls. The casino guys are cynical bad boys. The kids club people are a little weird. And they all look down on the Philippinos that do the grunt work.
That is obviously a huge generalization. But it seemed to hold on most ships.
Finally, the pay is tiny because of the room and board angle. That is why so many of the worker bees come from poor countries.
I used to prefer Celebrity 10+ years ago because everything was a higher class... the passengers, the service, the food.
It has been converging with a Royal Caribbean service levels. When we went on a Med cruise two years ago the only thing different than Royal was the ship was smaller. All those higher class differentiators were gone.
Norwegian is excellent. The shows were very entertaining.
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For ensemble roles, applicants should be true triple threats. A dance background should include experience in ballet, jazz, partnering, and commercial. Female-identifying performers must be able to perform all dance moves in three-inch heels.
Kinda tells one where NOT to audition.
Just curious, but RCL’s website remains a hot mess since they “upgraded” it back in March. Any idea on what’s going on behind the scenes with that? I know that the CEO has addressed the problems, but the problems remain. Lots of complaints from customers on getting access to their booking information or losing their information and having to reconstruct it with customer service reps over the phone.
Seems like a company that can build world class, state of the art mega cruise ships would be able to properly design, beta test and launch their website with few hiccups.
LMAO.
Sounds like my sister, who had always sailed Celebrity and said it was wonderful. We two couples went on Princess in 2013, and she raved about the entertainment and the people, but still preferred Celebrity overall because of food, passengers, service, etc.
Then we four did the Celebrity in 2017 (my first time on Celebrity), and she said it had declined in every way since her last time — in about 2005, I guess.
Also, we returned home with kick-ass respiratory infections, one even turning to serious pneumonia. Never got sick in any way on 15 Princess cruises.
We’re all doing Panama Canal on Princess in February.
I forgot to add that the bright spot in our Celebrity cruise was that Media Research Center was on that cruise. Met Brent Bozell, Steve Moore, sat next to Alan West at a meeting. Met some other attendees — interesting people. So the whole cruise didn’t suck.
Have you sailed through the Panama Canal before?
No; I have not done the Panama cruise before. My sister has and she loved it. We’re going round-trip from/to Ft. Lauderdale. Ship turns around in Gatun Lake, I believe, so we’ll go through twice.
Recommend you read up on the history of the canal before you go. Hopefully, you’ll have a guest lecturer onboard to help guide you through the history and the locks. We had an anthropologist from San Diego onboard who gave daily lectures on the history of the canal and then guided the passengers as we went through the locks.
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