What a crazy couple of days! I joined the ship a few days
ago on a two day ‘booze cruise’ sailing from Sydney to Melbourne. I’ve never
seen a cruise like it! Passengers are basically there simply to party, one
passenger described it to me as a ‘cruise fix’. Cruising can be very addictive
I suppose, is such a relaxed way of travelling. Everything is done for you
right down to the finest detail, and its actually cheaper than travelling on
your own due to all the stuff that’s included in your cruise price. So people
do tend to come back again and again, we must be doing something right then.
Anyway, this short one was insane, the night club was going
until 4.30 in the morning when usually due to the industries demographic of a
more ‘senior’ clientele, the night club doesn’t usually even go until 1am most
nights. Well, that and all the early mornings in port, people are slightly less
inclined to party all night usually. However this one, right from the word go
we were having problems with intoxicated passengers. For example during the
safety demonstration we had 2 guys who wouldn’t take their life jackets off
when they were asked, he was slurring all over me and smelt like a homeless
person. He claimed he thought we were sinking. Anyway we dealt with it but that’s
just one example of what happens on a ‘booze cruise'.
Ooh and speaking of the safety stuff, I’ve gone up in the
world. I am now 2nd in charge of my muster stations, this basically
means its my job to check off the crew who manage the passengers when they
arrive to make sure they’re all accounted for. And then if for some reason the
1st in charge doesn’t make it to the station, I then take over. No
pressure!
Oh yes, and I also have my own room now which was a nice
suprise when I arrived, only because the office sent a guy and a girl as the
juniors and obviously we cant share, I feel bad though, she has to share with a
purser.
So yesterday we sailed out of Melbourne, Australia. Bound
for New Zealand, and its the Christmas cruise! So far passengers seem very
friendly, not particularly energetic but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
But we did have to turn back to Melbourne after we had sailed because a lady
fell in her cabin and injured herself so we had to get her to a hospital in a
tender boat, fairly dramatic but such is the cruise life!
I’ve been talking to a few people who have been here for a
few months and they say that this is a really quiet ship, and I can see where
they’re coming from. The crew bar has been empty 3 nights in a row now, maybe that’s
because its been a hectic few days at work I don’t know, but this is very disappointing.
I’m used to crew bars having at least more than 5 people in them in the
evening, regardless of work stuff. Oh
well, there’s a big crew turnover in the new year so maybe it will liven up,
the people here have been here a long time so I suppose they’re over it
.
Anyway those are my musings, at least the jet lag has gone :)
See ya next time!
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