11 Cruise Ship Secrets Cruise Workers Are Not Supposed To Share!

11 Hidden Cruise Ship Secrets That Cruise Workers Are Not Supposed To Share! A former passenger ship captain has compiled eleven things cruise workers are trained not to tell you — and almost none of them are about money. Four cabins on every ship carry a pencil mark on a steward's sheet that has nothing to do with towels, and if your name isn't on the right list by the first muster, someone is searching for you in the dark off an outdated record. Two passengers boarded the same ship, reported the same symptoms, and one was in a hospital ashore by lunchtime while the other spent four more days aboard — separated by nothing except a position on a chart. Port cancellations are held until the last possible moment by design, tender schedules are rigged toward the ship's own tours, and the rough weather the bridge has been tracking for two days is never announced because a bartender's guess repeated around a ship becomes panic by dinner. The fix for every one of these gaps costs you nothing: a four-minute visit to the medical centre on your first sea day, a photograph of the gangway board each morning, and ten minutes with a deck plan before you ever book a cabin. This video walks you through all eleven secrets in the exact order a voyage unfolds — from the cabin you should never book to how far from a real hospital you actually are at the midpoint of an Atlantic crossing. Watch to the end, because number eleven is the one the muster drill will never cover. #CruiseShip #CruiseVacation #TravelTips #VacationPlanning #TravelSecrets #CruiseWorker #TravelHacks