Cruise Ship Crew Member Tells All - CRR 012

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

We talk go off the record with a cruise ship crew member to find out what life is like below deck, how gratuities are really distributed, and how they get paid.

Date: August 25, 2019

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0:00.0	You are listening to this is Cruise Radio Rewind.
0:05.3	Real reviews from real cruisers.
0:08.4	Welcome to this week's episode of Cruise Radio Rewind, where we sit down with a crew member and get all the dirt that happens behind the scenes and below deck, I guess you could say, how the gratuities are distributed and how removing gratuities
0:23.4	impacts the final pay. I had a chance to sit down with the crew member and they gave me the
0:28.0	lowdown on all the questions I asked. And if you asked one in the Cruz Radio News Facebook group,
0:33.4	chances are that question got answered as well. So this is how we're going to break this down
0:38.0	because i'm not airing that crew member's voice because i do not want to get them in trouble
0:42.8	so i had it transcribe so i'm going to read the question and then tommy casabona from the
0:49.1	always-be-booked cruise podcast is going to answer with the response of that crew member. So Tommy, welcome to the show,
0:56.0	buddy. Hey, Doug, what's going on? How are you? Good, man. So the first question I asked the crew
0:59.7	member is, what is the best part of working on a cruise ship? The best part is that you have the
1:05.4	chance to develop some career on the ship and to meet people from all over the world, maybe even the love of your
1:11.7	life. Who knows? It is a unique experience where we can earn some money and see the destinations
1:16.9	that we could not see by staying back home. We can put all that together under life change
1:22.0	experience for sure. The second question I asked is, what is the downside of working on a cruise ship?
1:28.6	When we're coming on the ship, we are aware that we will face a hard job and some big rules and
1:32.8	changes. We work every day, 10 hours for months. Contracts are from 6 to 10 months depending
1:39.6	upon the department. And except that, we have many times training three to four safety drills monthly
1:45.3	plus the time that we need to do the laundry and our personal stuff truth is we have not enough
1:51.5	time to rest and the lack of sleep is the most common problem for the crew members but as we like
1:56.3	to say ship's life the next question is do you get all the gratuities we pay?
2:02.3	Gratuities, if the guests pay, are going straight to the crew member's salaries.
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