Carnival Cruise Line Mixologist Sanja Cvijetic Wins Best Bartender Award
Sanja Cvijetic is this year’s winner of BACARDI Legacy Cruise Competition Finals.
Sanja Cvijetic is this year’s winner of BACARDI Legacy Cruise Competition Finals.
Meet Ronnie Richard Pineer, TUI Cruises crew member from Nicaragua working as a bar waiter on the cruise ship Mein Schiff 2. In his free time on board, Ronnie makes amazing motorcycle models from recycled champagne covers, corks and wire. What other people see it as a waste Ronnie uses it to make a piece of art and gives these crafts as present to the guests.
After 50 years on ships and almost 10 years as a master at TUI Cruises, Captain Kjell Holm will retire. Captain Holm become the first Captain of the cruise operator TUI Cruises established by the German tourism company TUI AG and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
According to Daniela Fahr, CEO of Connect, Germany's largest recruitment agency for cruise ships, the cruise industry will need some additional 100,000 new employees over the next three years. Therefore 15 major cruise lines and recruiting partners will present their job offerings at the "Cruise Jobs & Hotel Career Lounge" in Berlin on February 28, 2019.
Hundreds of crew members gathered at the Port Everglades pier and on the decks of the cruise ship MS Volendam to say farewell to their bellowed Master Captain Chris Turner. While he disembarked from his ship for the last time in Fort Lauderdale, the crew members of Volendam bid farewell to him with cheers, hugs and the whistle of the vessel! After 21 years’ service for Holland America Line Captain Chris Turner has finally retired on 18 January 2019.
If you cruised on Carnival cruise line's ships you have probably meet Anshul Jain and Dan Schoener, two fun magicians and entertainers who make sure guests have the time of their lives with their performances. The two decided to make a magic video onboard the cruise ship Carnival Pride, showing off their magical powers and fun failures in their cabins and crew mess.
A crew member with initials R.M. was working for the bar department onboard the cruise ship AIDACara. In 2018, while on duty he sustained torn thumb tendon injury to his left hand. The crew member said that the ship’s medical staff misdiagnosed his injury and he continued to work for two weeks with the injured hand.
An epic crew party took place on December 26, onboard the cruise ship MSC Fantasia. Brazilian and Filipino crew members decided to put their talents to the test in a friendly dance-off battle during an open deck party.
With the delivery of the first LNG-powered cruise ship named AIDAnova the cruise industry enters a new era. The German shipbuilder Meyer Werft delivered AIDAnova on December 12, the first vessel of the new generation cruise ships ordered by Carnival Corporation for AIDA Cruises.
Following November 17, drug bust in Port Miami when seven MSC Seaside crew members were arrested for smuggling cocaine, Law-enforcement officers boarded the Seaside for the second time on November 24th. During the raids many crew members were traumatized after they were interrogated by Customs and Border Protection officers, and some fired from the company.