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…
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…
I have a friend that I met my very first week onboard ships. We weren’t great friends at first, but about a month after I came onboard the ship was in wet-dock and we discovered a mutual love of board games. Since then we make a point to see each other at least every year…
By far what I get asked about the most is what it is like living and working on a cruise ship. There are some questions that I get asked over and over. After working on a cruise ship for years in various positions – and being married to an engineering officer – I have spent…