Article By Sean Sassoon

By: Jen Steele

So here's how I FINALLY settled into life on land without having to join the rat race:

I actually now have a global business (which I'll share with you how I did that in just a moment)...

...and it's almost unbelievable to look at that now, knowing where I was just a few short months ago.

Smokers have thought time on cruise ship. First of all there are two places where you can smoke, that is Crew Bar and Crew Open Deck. When you are on duty you usually have 30 minutes break. Now, you need to decide should I go to eat or should I take coffee and enjoy 2-3 cigarettes. If you take the first option then you need to eat fast and run in Crew Bar, so you can enjoy at least one or half a cigarette. Sometimes there is a big line in Crew Mess and you take the second option. 

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This is a list of most of the Cruise lines HR departments and recruiting agencies. All the information below are provided by official web sites of Cruise line companies. Here you will find the official recruiting agencies accredited by the Cruise Companies contact details, email, web pages, phone numbers etc. This does not mean that other agencies are Scams. Most of the times official recruiting agency works in partnership with some other agency and they cooperate together.

This was our choice, good or bad, we made a decision to work on a cruise ship. Every crew member has his or her story to tell, as well as different reasons for his or her choice in working on a cruise ship. Main reasons for working on a cruise ship is to save money and to travel the world. 

Every crew member, staff, and officer aboard a cruise ship come from different parts of the world where different laws and rules apply. It is the responsibility of the cruise company to draft some sort of policies which would bestow order and understanding aboard one cruise ship. Every employed member aboard the cruise ship signs an agreement with the company that he or she would abide by the policies which are drafted by each particular company.

Cruise line companies might be in financial dire straits, but their captains are coining it in.
The average salary for a cruise liner captain jumped 22.8 per cent last year to $153,379 with wage rates for master mariners aboard less glamorous bulk carriers and container ships receiving a 16 per cent boost to $110,981.

Chief officers aboard cargo ships did even better than their captains in terms of pay rises, logging a 27.5 per cent increase to $82,737 a year.

This year the cruise companies have worked very hard to surprise cruise lovers with great April fools pranks. Aldo we love to see some of this innovations in reality we are far from getting there.

On 1st of April, Carnival Cruise Line has announced construction of submarine as part of their fleet for ocean deep-sea exploration. Releasing this cool photo of submarine with Carnivals unique funnel they say: 

TMZ Magazine revealed that the English pop singer, Elton John, is being sued for copyright infringement by a man named Guy Hobbs. He accuses Elton for stealing the lyrics from his song Natasha written by Guy Hobbs in 1982 and recorded by Elton John three years later as Nikita.

Guy says his song was written shortly after experiencing a romantic affair with a Russian waitress on a cruise ship.