There are three classes on board a cruise ship: officers, staff and crew. First two classes can eat in almost every dining venue on cruise ship. The third class –crew are allowed to eat only in crew mess, however this doesn’t mean that this class eats bad even if the food in crew mess is disaster. I believe that this class eats even better than officers and staff. 

It's Saturday and I joined the cruise ship today. I am already exhausted from the trip. I look at around my crew cabin as I type this, staring at the four walls of this closet size space with four beds. Soon my cabin roommates will be off work so I am glad I was able to take a shower before they get back. Four beds, one bathroom, one tv, one other Canadian, a Philipino, and a Romanian Romanian. I can't remember their names yet. The Romanian roommate seemed stuck up as hell. In fact, so did most of the Romanian girls I met today on the ship.

In recent years, the cruise ship industry has been facing many lawsuits filed by their guests. Some of them are justified, but there are some passengers that go on a cruise with the intention of using the cruise company. There are many cases of injuries and other ways that some passengers try to benefit and get big money from the cruise lines. Sometimes these people succeed in their intention, other times they don't.

What is important for you as a crew member is that you need to be covered before you end up back home, or even worse, in prison.

At all times projects a favorable image of the Cruise Company to promote its aims and objectives and foster and enhance public recognition and acceptance of all its areas and endeavor

Public Speaking/ Guest introduction. Before approaching your guest  on cruise ship you should have an idea in your mind of what you want to say, and it should be: Short, Polite and Formal.

My name is Vlad and I want to tell you my story as part of Steiner team on cruise ship. which changed my world up side down in a positive way. Even though I was successful in my business running my own gym and Chinese restaurant back in Romania, it was not enough for me. Having the same routine day by day, I wanted to change something. So there I was sitting in my own gym and clicking page by page I saw a commercial saying: 'Are you personal trainer? Do you want to travel and make money at the same time? Apply your CV now at Steiner! ' And what happened next is the begging of my story.

Just when you think you seen all imaginable on cruise ship, the six-time world champion Adam Raga, has shown that you can still go further. The Spanish motorcyclist has boarded on a cruise ship with his bike to roll short "holiday on two wheels" while Pullmantur Sovereign was sailing the Mediterranean.

I was at the Guest services Desk last night talking to a guest about Florence and overheard two guests removing their gratuities. I heard the GSA ask them both why and the answer “ personal reasons” baffled me. After they left I spoke with the guest services associate and took their cabin number and made a few calls.

Ever wonder how an officer cabin looks like on a cruise ship? Take look at the video bellow shared by a crew member for inside look of standard cabin of a cruise ship officer. Unlike standard crew member cabin shared with two to four persons, officer has a single cabin with queen-size bed and a porthole (window). The cabin is slightly more spacious compared to crew cabin and the rest is almost the same like the bathroom, TV, chair and wardrobe cabinet.

So when I told people I worked on board a cruise ship, they all had this vision in their head that I was just on a constant vacation. Or I may have been only enjoyng cruise ship, but the fact that I was on a constant vacation made it not as bad. These are incorrect. The fact of the matter is this " Your Vacation is My Life". That was crew memberssecret motto to everyone who seemed jealous of us because we worked on cruise ship. The truth of the matter is yeah we were in some pretty amazing and beautiful places 90% of the time.