I didn’t have to worry too much about visas for a good chunk of my life. Most of my international travel was to Europe and borders were pretty freely open to US citizens. Travel to the Caribbean or Mexico was the same and I remained ignorant of the massive complexities of visas around the world….
A cruise ship is a small floating city. For some cruise ships, between passengers and crew they are pretty much the size of small cities. To keep a small city running there are a lot of various jobs that need to be done. Today we’re going to review some unusual cruise ship jobs. These are…
Let’s talk about stripes, baby. Nope, we’re not talking about zebras, we are talking about the stripes on the shoulders and sleeves of so many uniforms onboard a cruise ship. These stripes, more formally known as epaulettes, denote not only what rank an officer is, but can also offer insight into which department they work…
You get off the bus and look up at the ship. It’s going to be your first day working onboard a cruise ship. It’s a magical moment when you think of all the adventures you’ll have. It’s abruptly interrupted by someone telling you to grab your luggage. Up ahead you can see someone with a…
While it might be a little while still before cruising on a large scale resumes, (although, with the vaccine(s) and CDC Conditional-Sail-Order, who knows!), I am optimistically looking towards the future. In that spirit, I am starting a new series about what someone might expect and experience on their first cruise ship contract. This one…
In this week’s installment of Falling in Love at Sea we are going to talk about what happens next. The “Happily Ever After” and answer the age-old question, “do cruise ship couples ever get married?” If you missed the first couple of weeks we had Dating On A Cruise Ship, taking a look at what…
First comes love, then comes… living together on a cruise ship and in a tiny cabin for months at a time! Living together with a partner on a cruise ship is a wild experience. I met my husband working onboard and we still spend many months a year living together onboard. While Dating On a…
Romance at sea. Watching the sun set over the ocean. The band lightly playing in the background as you watch the sky turn from blue to gold and into stars and shimmering moonlight. It’s a formal night and you are both dressed up. You just came from dinner where you had escargot and lobster. You…
At the beginning of my career working on cruise ships I was offered a contract that was going to Hawaii. I thought it was an incredible once in a lifetime experience. What I found was that my naïveté of cruise ship life was showing. The reason being, that while Hawaii is beautiful and wonderful, if…