Former Cruise Director: 10 Things I Hated About Working On Cruise Ships
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Published Oct 15, 2026, 1:00 AM · 1d ago
Thomas Ashford
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Former Cruise Director: 10 Things I Hated About Working On Cruise Ships
The waiter serving your dinner on a cruise ship may not have had a day off in four months, and the steward making your towel animal sleeps in a windowless cabin below the waterline with a stranger in the bunk above. This video walks through ten things that frustrated a longtime cruise director about shipboard life, and what that knowledge actually means for passengers. A few details stand out: the guest services desk is nearly empty while the main show is on, which is the best moment to resolve a billing problem rather than joining sixty people in line on the last night. Knowing that on many lines only the very top survey score counts in the crew's favor means a nine out of ten can work against the person who looked after you all week. And leaving automatic gratuities in place matters because, according to the video, the cruise line does not replace that money if passengers remove it.
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- Published
- Oct 15, 2026, 1:00 AM
- Length
- 28:15 (1,695 s)
- Format
- Long-form
- Category
- People & Blogs
- Audio language
- EN
- Quality
- HD
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- No
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- lZy5k-dSN14
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