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Cruise Director Answers Your Burning Questions - CRR 050

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Cruise Director Kabir returns this week to discuss your questions about life at sea. Some of the questions he tackles is what a cruise director's day is like, is there a hookup culture onboard the ship, social distancing, and speculation on what it could be like as we resume cruising. 

Date: May 24, 2020 

Transcript

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0:00.0

You are listening to this is Cruise Radio Rewind. Real reviews from real cruisers.

0:08.2

Welcome to this episode of Cruise Radio Rewind and encore presentation with Cruise Director

0:13.2

Kabir. We had him on a couple of weeks ago and within 24 hours, I had 25 emails for him.

0:19.6

And instead of me emailing him each question directly or blowing his phone up, texting him, I was like, you know what, let's just get him back on the show. I asked, he agreed. He is here now. Could be your welcome back to the show, my friend. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, man. So as I just said, we had tons of emails for questions directed to you about your last interview.

0:39.4

So we're just going to roll with these. And I'm going to tell you, just to be forward, I didn't proofread these.

0:44.6

So if I butcher them, I do apologize in advance. We're just going to keep on rolling through it.

0:50.0

I am in. All right. Well, let's just jump right to it then. Now, the first one says, how is Kabir coping with not being able to engage with passengers

0:58.3

and not being able to spend time with fellow crew members every day?

1:02.5

And does he plan to go back once sailings resume?

1:07.2

So I'm going to cut straight to the chase with this.

1:10.0

1,000% I plan to head back.

1:13.5

Since I was a kid, this was my dream job, and I absolutely love what I do.

1:17.1

So there's no question about it.

1:18.4

I am 100% going back to see.

1:20.9

In terms of the interaction, that's an interesting one.

1:24.0

You know what?

1:24.4

I've moved my signature dance classes to be online now. So if you follow

1:29.2

me on Instagram, you'll be able to see that. That for me is the highlight of my day. And it's one of

1:34.0

the best ways for me to interact with guests because I kind of feel like they're seeing me

1:39.3

in a way that I am very much at home. Like that that's kind of my workout at home as a dance workout.

1:45.0

So for me, it's very personal. So that's been online. The podcast has been keeping me going.

1:50.9

I've been putting a lot of effort into that. And the interaction on my Facebook page has been

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