Crew Life

Working on a cruise ship is one big adventure but if you love your home comforts too much, you may find the whole experience a shock to the system for the first while! One of the things you really wish for when you begin work on a cruise ship is that you have a good…

The Perks of Working On-Board

Some of these may sound pretty obvious but until you actually experience life at sea, you can only imagine what it is like. A career at sea is a lot of hard work but the benefits of it can also be amazing. Let me share some of the best ones with you. Waking up in…

Amazing Destinations

Working on board a cruise ship gave me the opportunity to visit some destinations that had been on my “wish list” for quite some time, the main one being New York. Finding out that I was going to work on board the QE2, famous for its transatlantic voyages from Southampton to New York was a…

Typical Spa Work Day

Forget a lie in when you work on a cruise ship as there is no such thing!  The spa and salon is a hive of activity from the minute guests embark wanting to book their treatments until the first guest turns up for their early morning treatment or gym work out! A day at sea…

Life On Board

Today see’s Amanda joining the CruiseMiss Blog as a guest blogger. Sharing her stories with us all from her experiences as a crew member for both Carnival and Cunard.  Nothing can ever prepare you for what life on board a cruise ship is like – it certainly isn’t a holiday and a fortnight drinking cocktails…