Over the years I have been asked a lot of questions about what life was like working on a cruise ship. Now that we’re in a pandemic there seems to be a whole new set of questions going on. There are a lot of questions, and over time I will work to answer them (except…
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….
Cruise ships are floating cities needing talented crew from all different professions to work. Here are ten cruise ship jobs you probably didn’t know about. 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…
Rank affects nearly every aspect of life onboard a cruise ship. Rank on a ship is part of how life onboard works. Your rank when working on a cruise ship can determine everything from where you can eat onboard, what cabin you get, to even whether you can go ashore. In this post we will…
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…
Cruise ship crew join ships all over the world. Whether that be in Miami or Singapore, Alaska or Barcelona, San Diego or Sydney, crew can join pretty much anywhere in the world. I’ve joined ships all over the world and it can be quite the adventure. Let’s explain the process of how cruise ship crew…
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 (except now with 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…