Letter from a crew member

I was hired to work as a third party in Costa Cruises.

There are many very important legal issues which concern a crewmember’s tips. As most cruise ship crewmembers know, tips or gratuities comprise the bulk of salary for many cruise ship crew positions. For example, a cruise ship cabin steward may regularly earn Four Thousand Dollars monthly, but only receive a base salary of Fifty Dollars; the remainder of their compensation being paid by tips.

Everybody lies. Everyone tells lies or “distorts the truth” sometimes. Some cruise ship crewmembers are big experts in lying that you cant tell if they are telling the truth and often takes a long time to find out that we have been lied to.

Letter from crew member Marcin Martin.

As a crew member on board a cruise ship you will find people from all over the world with different characters. Sharing this small space of working and living environment, people are not only categorized by crew, staff and officers but also with their individual characteristics. 

Clearly not all crew can be categorized by this list. While a lot of them fit into the categories, remember to recognize everyone and celebrate the differences together with the similarities.

1. Old-Timers

The crew of Cheok Board filmed this hilarious video about the types of people spotted on a cruise ship. Don’t take this video personal, after all Cheok Board is a comedy production company. This funny video was shot on Royal Caribbean Mariner of The Seas however this apply for all cruise lines. We enjoyed this video so much and hope you will enjoy it too.

Here are the eight types of people you will findo on a cruise ship acording to Cheok:

Almost all ports in the world hide some kind of danger. No matter if it is in Europe, Australia, Caribbean, or America, everywhere in the world crime is present since no country is crime free. These are some of the ports with most dengeour from the crew survey which we conducted. These advices should be taken serious because the situations we will present in this article can happen to any crew member.

Cruise ship funny stories is collection of short stories told by crew members working in different departments on cruise ship. This are everyday unusual stories told by crew members and their interaction with guest on cruise ship holiday.

More often than not I am asked about my time on cruise ships.  I look back on 2007 with the rose-tinted glasses of time and nostalgia.  I remember the bad times and how terrible I felt for about half my contract but the positive memories make me desire to return.  Below is a standard response I intend to direct someone to if they ask me about my time on the ship when they're considering a job onboard a cruise ship.

If you’re a bit the worse for wear from the night before, the best way to survive a full on sea day from hell is to:

1. Set 2 alarm clocks to make sure you don’t oversleep, which is easily done as most crew cabins are below the waterline and have no port holes or natural daylight. 

2. Go and have breakfast, even if you don’t want it, you need to eat something and drink several cups of coffee to wake yourself up.