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Cruise secrets: Insider reveals clever way cruises TRICK passengers – you’d never know
Cruise holidays vary hugely in price depending on the ship, itinerary,
cabin choice and more and can be rather expensive. Travellers are also
expected to part with money during the holiday as well. A cruise
industry insider has revealed there’s a sneaky way companies trick
passengers into spending more. Brandon Presser revealed what he learned
during his time as temporary director of Royal Caribbean’s largest ship,
Harmony of the Seas.
He told Bloomberg that subliminal messaging is a key part of the passengers’ experience – and they have no idea. Presser
explained that cruise ships have ways of strategically moving
holidaymakers around the ships to encourage them to spend money in
different areas of the vessel. “If casino revenue is low, for
instance, senior management might host a raffle or karaoke event at the
far side of the slots to drive foot traffic and encourage passengers to
linger (or better yet, play) a while,” said Presser. “Activities
managers will even film their daily newscast about onboard events with
Starbucks iced coffees in hand, as a quiet reminder that passengers can
get their venti latte fix on Deck Six.
“Often times, these veiled announcements are aimed at boosting the ship’s bottom line.” Sometimes the crew members play harmless pranks on passengers to entertain themselves.
One former crew worker revealed they had a trick to confuse
passengers into thinking activities were available to them that in fact
didn’t even exist. The ex-cruise worker revealed on Reddit that
“a favourite [prank] was, while in a passenger area to say to another
crew member, loud enough to be heard by passengers, ‘Meet you in the
bowling alley tonight!’ “Of course, there wasn’t actually a
bowling alley on board. Then we’d wait for the comment cards to come in:
‘Why do crew get a bowling alley when we don’t?’”
Another
cruise ship employee revealed a cunning way they dealt with the
unpleasantness of having so many naked passengers on board a ‘nude
cruise.’ Jay Herring explained the surprising popularity of these
cruises in his book The Truth About Cruise Ships – and how much crew
dislike working on them.
Female Crew Cruise Members Shocked Couple Finds Cruise Worker Having Sex With Other Passenger In Their Cabin
Two cruise passengers were left stunned after finding a member of staff having sex in their cabin. Bobby, 64, and Mary Jackson, 62, were traveling with Norwegian Cruise Line from Singapore to Thailand on their dream cruise. Just
after boarding the ship, they were confronted with the sight of a naked
male crew member having sex with a mystery woman on their bed, The Sun reported. “I was horrified, what I witnessed was extremely unpleasant,” Mrs Jackson said. “There was a man and woman having sex on the bed in our designated room. “I immediately closed the door again.
“Eugene, our cabin attendant, was present and he immediately went to inform his supervisor. “We are not prudes but this was ridiculous.”
Cruise passengers Mary and Bobby Jackson were traveling on Norwegian Jewel at the time. Picture: Norwegian Cruise Line-Source: Supplied The couple, from Northern Ireland, had paid about $AU8600 for the week-long cruise — their first ever — on the 2376-passenger Norwegian Jewel ship in October. But
the trip didn’t get off to the best of starts when they were left
waiting on the quay side at Singapore’s Marina Bay for two and a half
hours in scorching heat before boarding.
“When
we finally got on the ship we first went to the bar for a drink because
we were exhausted after all the standing around in the heat,” Mr
Jackson said. “We were then shown down to our state room accommodation, which we were really looking forward to seeing.” When they got to cabin 10039, the electronic key card wouldn’t work in the door at first. But at the third attempt, the door finally opened — and that is when their jaws hit the deck. “I
could see the back of a man on the bed who was directly facing us and
it was obvious he was in the middle of having sex with a woman,” Mrs
Jackson said.
They walked in on a naked crew member having sex with a woman. File image. Picture: Norwegian Cruise Line-Source: Supplied “I shut the door immediately and we went into the cabin next door where my sister was staying while the staff sorted this out. “I was traumatised and I needed a glass of water.” The
couple went to complain to the ship’s guest relations manager but there
was no alternative room available because the boat was full up, they
said. “We went back to the cabin and tried to go back in there but
although the woman had left, the male was still there,” Mr Jackson
said. “Two of the ship’s crew in white uniforms eventually persuaded him to leave. He looked very sheepish. “I asked if the crew knew him and they told me he was a worker on the boat.”
The
couple said they were “insulted” when they were then offered the
equivalent of about $180 of credits to spend on the ship as
compensation.
Norwegian Cruise offered the couple $360 for their next cruise. Picture: Norwegian Cruise Line-Source:Supplied Things
got worse when Mrs Jackson took ill with a stomach bug two days later
and spent most of the rest of the trip confined to her cabin. “I
was extremely frightened because I was very sick and I was a long way
from home,” she said. “The ship’s doctor put me on an IV drip, gave me
antibiotics and I was told to stay out of the sun.” When
the couple returned home they wrote to Florida-based operators
Norwegian Cruise Line to complain about their experience but were
unhappy with an offer of $360 each in credits towards their next trip
with the firm, if taken this year. The cruise company Norwegian Cruise Line said a full investigation has taken place and the appropriate action has been taken. They said the Jacksons have been contacted to discuss compensation. Sun Online Travel has contacted Norwegian Cruise Line for comment. This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission.
Cruise secrets: Crew reveals clever way they tricked passengers on VERY unusual cruise
Cruise ship holidays often have themed nights but sometimes a whole
cruise can have a theme. Such trips might appeal to just a niche
audience – and the crew don’t always like working on them. A former
cruise ship crew member has revealed what it was like to work on a ‘nude
cruise.’ Jay Herring described how these nudist holidays were far from
popular with his colleagues.
“Each year, a handful of cruises are chartered and filled with a
couple thousand passengers who walked around the ship naked,” Herring
said. “Like a nudist colony or a nudist beach, the microcosm of a cruise ship is the perfect hideaway.” Herring’s wife as a crew member one on such nude cruise. “The passenger rules were simple,” he wrote. “They had to be over eighteen and clothes had to be worn when the ship was docked or during the captain’s Party.
The solution was to blast the air conditioning. “The casino employees
had no desire to look and these naked bodies, and since the assistant
casino manager was married to the refrigeration engineer the A/C was set
to be really cold in the casino,” said Herring. “This forced the passengers to wear robes. It made the casino staff cold too but they thought it was worth it.” Nude
cruises came with a plethora of problems, Herring explained, one being
that the towel was often not used by the nudists when they sat down.
“It just wasn’t a pleasant sight to see someone’s nether regions on a community chair,” he said. “The
housekeeping department was diligent about wiping everything down and
security helped enforce the towel rule, but once the crew members
witnessed bare skin touch a chair they just didn’t want to sit there any
time soon.”
The nudist cruisers didn’t even put clothes on while eating. “The
passengers also sat at the dining tables and ate their food naked,” said
Herring. “Now I’m all for naked dining when I’m at home by
myself, but I’m not about to share my bread basket with some hairy old
guy who just scratched.” Herring said that crew were given the option to work naked as well – but no one took up the offer.
Another thing that cruise workers don’t like – on any ship – is when passengers display bad hygiene. A
Royal Caribbean crew member explained said they hate it “when
[passengers] don’t wash their hands after going to the toilet or
grabbing food directly from the buffet with their hands,” reported Travel Channel
Cruise secrets: Crew reveals clever way they tricked passengers on VERY unusual cruise Nudist Cruise ship crew nude Jay Herring
Cruise secrets: Crew reveals clever way they tricked passengers on VERY unusual cruise
Cruise ship holidays often have themed nights but sometimes a whole
cruise can have a theme. Such trips might appeal to just a niche
audience – and the crew don’t always like working on them. A former
cruise ship crew member has revealed what it was like to work on a ‘nude
cruise.’ Jay Herring described how these nudist holidays were far from
popular with his colleagues.
“Each year, a handful of cruises are chartered and filled with a
couple thousand passengers who walked around the ship naked,” Herring
said. “Like a nudist colony or a nudist beach, the microcosm of a cruise ship is the perfect hideaway.” Herring’s wife as a crew member one on such nude cruise. “The passenger rules were simple,” he wrote. “They had to be over eighteen and clothes had to be worn when the ship was docked or during the captain’s party,
If they weren’t wearing bottoms then they had to carry a towel and
sit on it instead of directly on the chairs. Other than that, clothing
was optional for the entire cruise.”
Crew members were unhappy at
working with so many naked people, however, and came up with an
ingenious way to force passengers to cover up.
The solution was to blast the air conditioning. “The casino employees
had no desire to look and these naked bodies, and since the assistant
casino manager was married to the refrigeration engineer the A/C was set
to be really cold in the casino,” said Herring. “This forced the passengers to wear robes. It made the casino staff cold too but they thought it was worth it.” Nude
cruises came with a plethora of problems, Herring explained, one being
that the towel was often not used by the nudists when they sat down.
“It just wasn’t a pleasant sight to see someone’s nether regions on a community chair,” he said. “The
housekeeping department was diligent about wiping everything down and
security helped enforce the towel rule, but once the crew members
witnessed bare skin touch a chair they just didn’t want to sit there any
time soon.”
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The awkward truth about nude cruises
“We are safely away and you can now enjoy a ...” There
was a pause, as if the cruise director was having trouble choosing
what, exactly, he should call what was about to happen. Finally he said,
“ ... a carefree environment”.
Permission had been granted. Now buttocks could swing from side to
side without restriction, and breasts — finally released from the prison
of blouse and brassiere — burst into the open, to be caressed by soft
tropical breezes. We were on a boat. Nearly 2000 nudists living
the “anti-textile” dream. Not that some of them weren’t almost nude
before the cruise director gave the all clear. A skeletal man in
his 80s wandered around the ship wearing only a fluorescent thong, his
loose skin draped around his bones in cascades that looked like freckled
frosting, and a gigantic, barrel-chested man — he looked like he’d
eaten an actual barrel — lumbered around the lido deck on an
industrial-strength cane wearing only a loincloth. How did I end up here? I’m
not a seagoing individual and had never cruised before. I grew up in
Kansas, which, translated into Australian, is like growing up in Alice
Springs; smack in the middle of the continent, as far away from the
ocean as you can get. And even though I now live in Los Angeles, I don’t
visit the ocean often. So it was unusual in more ways than one
when I found myself booked on a Holland America cruise ship destined to
ply the waters of the Caribbean. A quick internet search of cruise ship
disasters presented a catalogue of Somali pirates, septic system
failures, norovirus outbreaks, and photos of the Costa Concordia laying on its side. Why, I wondered, do people go on these things? What’s the appeal? There are jazz cruises, country music cruises, floating financial seminars, Ink or Swim tattoo cruises, Star Trek-themed voyages and numerous religious excursions like the Book of Mormon Lands package. There is, essentially, a cruise for every lifestyle. Because I was researching a book on nudism, I chose to go on what was called The Big Nude Boat. It was exactly as advertised: Nudists running amok on a luxury liner. They
were everywhere. On the decks, in the shops, playing ping pong,
guzzling cocktails by the pool and grazing the all-you-can-eat buffets.
It wasn’t unusual to get on an elevator and find yourself squeezing in
with six or seven totally naked people. All the usual activities
you might find on a cruise ship, the cooking classes, the fitness
centre, the casino, the movie theatre, the discos and dance halls and
bars, were filled with naked people. Even the dining room where
dinner attire was required, had a few naked people who stubbornly
refused to put on clothes. And, before you freak out, I should note that
people sat on towels. That topless woman playing black jack in
the casino, the older man drinking a cappuccino in the espresso bar,
that young couple sharing popcorn in the movie theatre, they’re sitting
on towels. A nude cruise is a skidmark-free zone. So what kind of people do a naked cruise? On
my first night, I was sitting at the Ocean Bar when I overheard a man, a
silver-haired smoothie, complain loudly that there were too many old
people on the cruise. “I’m guessing the median age is 65,” he said. He was 62. When old people complain that there are too many old people, then you really know there are too many old people. Most
of the passengers were retirees and most of them were American. Which
is to say that there were a lot of overweight people strutting around in
their birthday suits. They did so unselfconsciously, they weren’t
ashamed of their bodies. However, I also met a Harvard professor, a
radiologist, a tool salesman, scientists, doctors, lawyers and people
serving in the armed forces. And of course not everyone was fat
and saggy. There was a large LGBT contingent who were on the healthy end
of the body mass index, and there were some actual bona fide young
people, trim and tattooed men and women in their 20s who clung together
as if the naked retirees were harbingers of some sort of terrifying
apocalypse. It may explain while they consumed copious amounts of
alcohol.
Naked ambition: Nude Boat themed cruise with nothing but a smile
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CARNIVAL
Cruise Lines' Bare Necessities "Big Nude Boat" cruise offers a theme
cruise with a difference next year: the chance to relax onboard Carnival
Pride wearing nothing but a smile.
The Cruise Crew offers travelers to enjoy the Bahamas in their birthday suit
Although
you do have to wear clothes for the speciality dining rooms, evening
entertainment includes James Bond: Undressed to Kill. The
nine-night round-trip from Tampa, Florida, departs next February and
calls at Key West then heads out to the Bahamas to the private Half Moon
Cay resort - which will be a nudist colony for the day - and on to
Grand Turk island followed by a call at the new resort of Amber Cove
near the Dominican Republic's Puerto Plata.
Don't fancy getting naked, well there are many other themed cruises offering more than just wine tasting and art appreciation.
There's
Norwegian Cruise Line's The Walking Dead "Walker Stalker" cruise, on
Norwegian Pearl - a three-night jaunt from Miami to Great Stirrup Cay
private island next February with the stars of the show onboard. Norman
Reedus, Chandler Riggs, Michael Cudlitz, Tom Payne, Greg Nicotero and
Michael Traynor will all be onboard to scare the life out of everyone. Or you could get dressed up for HELLywood 2017 Gothic Cruise, onboard Carnival Cruise Lines' Carnival Miracle next September.
Taking part in a themed cruise is a great way to meet like-minded people
Ian Crawford of CruiseDeals.Com
The
seven-night round-trip from Los Angeles includes live performances from
Covenant, Haujobb and Lights of Euphoria with two nights at Cabo San
Lucas on Mexico's Baja California peninsula and a day at Mexican resort
Puerto Vallarta. "Cruise lines are certainly starting to notice
just how popular these themed cruises are," says Ian Crawford, marketing
manager of CruiseDeals.Com...; HELLYWOOD If you don't fancy getting naked, why not try the spooky HELLywood cruise "Taking part in a themed cruise is a great way to meet like-minded people in an atmosphere that feels fully accepting.
"We
can expect to see even more cruise lines competing to attract potential
passengers by offering the wildest, most out of the ordinary onboard
itineraries possible." And if nudity and Gothic are not your
style, try Holland America Line's Knitting Cruise, a 17-night Hawaii
round-trip in February, when you can learn crocheting and needlepoint,
or the Harley.
CARNIVAL
Cruise Lines' Bare Necessities "Big Nude Boat" cruise offers a theme
cruise with a difference next year: the chance to relax onboard Carnival
Pride wearing nothing but a smile.
Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas cruise ship
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The
statement said: "Mandatory attendance at the emergency drill conducted
prior to every voyage is a strict company policy to ensure the safety of
everyone onboard. No exceptions are permitted. “A guest who is
too ill to attend may attend a make-up drill when their health permits.
We sincerely regret this unfortunate situation on the Sojourn but strict
compliance with this policy is necessary to ensure the safety of all
guests and crew." Also in 2012, Holland America made a passenger leave due to “non-compliance” with the muster drill. A spokeswoman from the Cruise Lines International Association
(CLIA) told Express.co.uk: “The International Convention for the Safety
of Life at Sea (SOLAS) requires all ships, including cruise ships, to
carry out emergency training and drills, and requires every crewmember
with assigned emergency duties to be familiar with these duties before
the voyage begins. “The captain and crew receive specialised
training and demonstrate internationally mandated levels of competency.
These are professional mariners who take passenger safety very
seriously. “Crewmembers participate in emergency drills such as
fire, abandon ship and damage response on a recurring basis, and
crewmembers with operational responsibilities receive even more,
continuous training.” Cruise ship: Never do this one thing on a cruise holiday or risk being kicked off
CRUISE
ship holidays are increasing in popularity among Britons but it’s
important to remember there are still rules that holidaymakers need to
obey when at sea - and there’s one thing that could result in you
getting kicked off.
Cruise ship: Why you should never skip the muster drill on cruises or risk being kicked off
The
muster drill is “a mandatory safety exercise with the objective to
familiarise all guests and crew with the location (muster station) where
they are to assemble in the unlikely event of an emergency,” explained
cruise line Royal Caribbean’s website. Safety information including how to put on a life jacket is also presented. It’s
absolutely obligatory that guests attend the drill, no matter how many
times they have been on a cruise or which cruise line they are sailing
with. “The pre-departure assembly muster drill is a coast guard
regulatory requirement and all guests must attend even if they have
sailed previously,” said Royal Caribbean. The drill will be held shortly after the cruise ship sets sail.
“The International Convention of Safety of Life at Sea
(SOLAS) regulatory guidelines require that a muster drill be held within
24 hours of a ship's departure from its embarkation port,” Royal
Caribbean explained.
Cruise ship: The muster drill is “a mandatory safety exercise" where passenger key safety facts (Image: Getty Images)
✕
“The
muster drill for guests on all ships across our fleet is to be held 30
to 60 minutes prior to departure on the day of turnaround, or
embarkation.” Crew will take attendance of who is present at the muster drill - so they’ll know is someone isn’t there. The consequences of not attending the briefing could be serious - although it depends on company policy. “The
only enforceable piece is that the ship completes the passenger muster
as required," Lt. Cmdr. Dan Brehm of the U.S. Coast Guard's Cruise Ship
National Center of Expertise told Cruise Critic. “What [officers] do to the passengers who don't show up is a company policy at that point." However, in 2012 Seabourn Cruise Line kicked an elderly couple off the ship when they failed to show up at the drill. In
a statement, Seabourn confirmed that the pair were debarked after the
wife refused to attend the mandatory passenger emergency drill "despite
multiple explicit warnings and personal communication by ship's
officers."
Royal Caribbean forced to close cruise ship ride after $10million lawsuit
Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas cruise ship
CRUISE
line Royal Caribbean is being sued for $10million after a passenger was
severely injured while on a ship’s Sky Pad trampoline bungee ride - and
the onboard attraction has now been closed on two vessels.
Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas returns to the UK after multi-million upgrade
Royal Caribbean International's Independence of
The
statement said: "Mandatory attendance at the emergency drill conducted
prior to every voyage is a strict company policy to ensure the safety of
everyone onboard. No exceptions are permitted. “A guest who is
too ill to attend may attend a make-up drill when their health permits.
We sincerely regret this unfortunate situation on the Sojourn but strict
compliance with this policy is necessary to ensure the safety of all
guests and crew." Also in 2012, Holland America made a passenger leave due to “non-compliance” with the muster drill. A spokeswoman from the Cruise Lines International Association
(CLIA) told Express.co.uk: “The International Convention for the Safety
of Life at Sea (SOLAS) requires all ships, including cruise ships, to
carry out emergency training and drills, and requires every crewmember
with assigned emergency duties to be familiar with these duties before
the voyage begins. “The captain and crew receive specialised
training and demonstrate internationally mandated levels of competency.
These are professional mariners who take passenger safety very
seriously. “Crewmembers participate in emergency drills such as
fire, abandon ship and damage response on a recurring basis, and
crewmembers with operational responsibilities receive even more,
continuous training.”
Naked ambition: Nude Boat themed cruise with nothing but a smile
CARNIVAL
Cruise Lines' Bare Necessities "Big Nude Boat" cruise offers a theme
cruise with a difference next year: the chance to relax onboard Carnival
Pride wearing nothing but a smile.
The cruise offers travelers to enjoy the Bahamas in their birthday suit
Although
you do have to wear clothes for the speciality dining rooms, evening
entertainment includes James Bond: Undressed to Kill. The
nine-night round-trip from Tampa, Florida, departs next February and
calls at Key West then heads out to the Bahamas to the private Half Moon
Cay resort - which will be a nudist colony for the day - and on to
Grand Turk island followed by a call at the new resort of Amber Cove
near the Dominican Republic's Puerto Plata.
Don't fancy getting naked, well there are many other themed cruises offering more than just wine tasting and art appreciation.
There's
Norwegian Cruise Line's The Walking Dead "Walker Stalker" cruise, on
Norwegian Pearl - a three-night jaunt from Miami to Great Stirrup Cay
private island next February with the stars of the show onboard. Norman
Reedus, Chandler Riggs, Michael Cudlitz, Tom Payne, Greg Nicotero and
Michael Traynor will all be onboard to scare the life out of everyone. Or you could get dressed up for HELLywood 2017 Gothic Cruise, onboard Carnival Cruise Lines' Carnival Miracle next September.
The
seven-night round-trip from Los Angeles includes live performances from
Covenant, Haujobb and Lights of Euphoria with two nights at Cabo San
Lucas on Mexico's Baja California peninsula and a day at Mexican resort
Puerto Vallarta. "Cruise lines are certainly starting to notice
just how popular these themed cruises are," says Ian Crawford, marketing
manager of CruiseDeals.co.uk.
HELLYWOOD
If you don't fancy getting naked, why not try the spooky HELLywood cruise
"Taking part in a themed cruise is a great way to meet like-minded people in an atmosphere that feels fully accepting. "We
can expect to see even more cruise lines competing to attract potential
passengers by offering the wildest, most out of the ordinary onboard
itineraries possible." And if nudity and Gothic are not your
style, try Holland America Line's Knitting Cruise, a 17-night Hawaii
round-trip in February, when you can learn crocheting and needlepoint,
or the Harley.
The
world's largest cruise ship, which is almost 165 feet longer than the
Eiffel Tower, has set off on its first sea trial from France. Harmony of
the Seas, which cost almost £800million to build and weighs 227,000
tonnes.
The 227,000-ton cruise ship Harmony of the Seas
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On the nude cruise you can enjoy the themed evening, James Bond: Undressed to kill
Davidson High Seas Rally, onboard Royal Caribbean's Brilliance of the Seas, in December. The
seven-day round-trip from Tampa is the world's only biker rally on a
cruise ship and calls at Grand Cayman in the Western Caribbean as well
as Cozumel and Key West. For information about these and more themed cruises go to CruiseDeals.Com
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Norwegian Cruise offered the couple $360 for their next cruise. Picture: Norwegian Cruise Line-Source:Supplied Things
got worse when Mrs Jackson took ill with a stomach bug two days later
and spent most of the rest of the trip confined to her cabin. “I
was extremely frightened because I was very sick and I was a long way
from home,” she said. “The ship’s doctor put me on an IV drip, gave me
antibiotics and I was told to stay out of the sun.” When
the couple returned home they wrote to Florida-based operators
Norwegian Cruise Line to complain about their experience but were
unhappy with an offer of $360 each in credits towards their next trip
with the firm, if taken this year. The cruise company Norwegian Cruise Line said a full investigation has taken place and the appropriate action has been taken. They said the Jacksons have been contacted to discuss compensation. Sun Online Travel has contacted Norwegian Cruise Line for comment. This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission.
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