Oh, my Goddess. The difference.<\/p>\n
If there was one thing that I could pin-point about the World Cruise guests that isn\u2019t something favorable, it would be the fact that they are extremely choosy about where they grant their praise \u2013 this is due mostly to the fact that they\u2019ve sailed with us \u2013 and other lines \u2013 for so many days, that they\u2019ve earned the right to be judicious with their applause. Normally this isn\u2019t a problem, but it does mean that people like the onboard cast don\u2019t always get the audience reaction that they genuinely do deserve. Which leads to people like me sitting in the back cheering their hearts out for their friends in a half-empty 10 o\u2019clock show just so that they have something<\/em> in the way of support!<\/p>\n Despite the fact that World Cruise is an extremely hard contract to work, it\u2019s worth pointing out that it can become very smooth and almost laid back in some places. We know the people, we know their needs and desires and it becomes relatively straight forward after a while to groom and cater to those results. Also, the voyage itself is very high class, and very refined, the kind of contract where you check your lipstick four times a day and are never seen without stockings and high-heels in the evenings \u2013 and heaven help you if there aren\u2019t creases in your suit trousers. Our evening uniforms matched, our smart casual was mostly smart. In short, the 110 passengers are a lot of fun, but their tastes are simple: they only want the best. And, naturally, we are more than happy to give it to them, but they are far from a party crowd.<\/p>\n Relocation cruises are the polar opposite.<\/p>\n New cruise, shorter cruise, means new crowd. The current group of passengers are here to be impressed yes, they are here to be pampered, that\u2019s why people come on a cruise \u2013 but they\u2019re here for a good time, not a long time.<\/p>\n The 9 o\u2019clock Broadway show was packed to the rafters, with the cast getting the inter-number applause they had so long been without. You could feel them starting to feed of the long-craved energy of an audience that actually reacts when they do things like break out coordinated tambourines and quintuple pirouettes.<\/p>\n The Library is insane. Four hour shifts fly by like ten minutes. 11 hour sea days don\u2019t start to drag until you get to the end of the day realize that oh yes it has<\/em> in fact been 11 hours.\u00a0 The upstairs bar is rocking the waves every night, since now our onboard DJ is finally allowed to cut loose (and after 3 months of having to dot his I\u2019s and cross his T\u2019s being able to relax even a little is a pleasure)..<\/p>\n In sanity does not even begin to describe this place right now\u2026but, while it may be a long 17 days, it should prove to be entertaining at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh, my Goddess. The difference. If there was one thing that I could pin-point about the World Cruise guests that isn\u2019t something favorable, it would be the fact that they are extremely choosy about where they grant their praise \u2013 … Continue reading