So Ships

I figures some of you might be interested in what life is actually like on a ship. What we have etc etc.

The ship is like a little village or a floating hotel.. Total at peak capacity it has 1750 people on it. There are 650 crew and about 1100 guests. That many guests is like a mini version of hell.

For the guests there are shops and various other things to do. There is actually a “university” on board. It is a place that guests can come and study computery stuff. There are so many repeat guests that some of them actually do courses that take some time to do. 6 months or more. There is also a person who teaches people how to play a yamaha keyboard, a bridge coach (bridge coaches are ALL knobs ALL knobs, like you have no idea)

Then they have lecturers too, this cruise there is a guy who is Frank Sinatra biographer, one of the original guys from Argentina who inspired the movie “Alive”, a wine lecturer, comedians, puppeteers, last cruise a man who stood on the moon etc etc.

They are actually quite interesting, but you dont want to serve them in the dining room, because they are professional talkers, so land up staying late, entertaining the other guests. The lectures are all recorded and play on our televisions, so if someone is interesting you can have a listen.

This ship is top of the luxury liners so tends to have the best of everything. The guests are often like little children, seriously. Whining in such a childlike manner, sulking if they dont get something their way. None of them, bar the non American ones have table manners. Its very interesting, because I would like to know how a waiter in America knows when a guest is done as non of them put their cutlery together when done eating.

80 percent of the ship is American and the rest is made up of Canadians, British, Japanese, Thai, some Chinese and some Mexicans.

Crew life is interesting too, we are 650 including Officers, who are the dicks in white uniforms. they have their own bar and mess. The crew officer is the person responsible for trying to keep everyone happy. They try and have something fun for us to do every night, a tai chi lesson, movies, jacuzzi, there is often a party with free booze and some speciality food. So far no South African night, but I think we will get round to it eventually. Things are very cheap in the crew mess, which is our shop, open 1 hour a day. I cant tell prices…as that would be telling.

The one thing that just is a bit much that you cant get away from is, there are hardly any new faces in the crew. We maybe get 5 new people every 2 weeks. It makes you a bit depressed going to the crew bar, as you get there and think…Shit… I am tired of talking to the same people, maybe I should just go back to my cabin…AH my cabin, I will get to that next time.

Enough for today, I am already bored of my writing.

The Brr