Cruise Ship Crew Areas Tour | Royal Caribbean Crew Vlog
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My wife and I travel almost exclusively on Royal Carribean. We’ve been on 8 cruises total, 7 with RC.
Just want to say, the CREW does a fantastic job. I know you all work VERY hard and VERY long hours.
You are the reason why we sail with RC.
Is it weird that I miss walking through the I95? Ha!
You’re not the only one!
It looks like the perfect place to use a skateboard or razor scooter
Elysia Perez yes I have a razor ribstick and it looks perfect to ride it on the hallways
I hope you get back on board Chris! We miss your videos!
Some days I miss it. But I also like going home at night. I miss back deck more
I cannot believe how empty the I95 is. Even at night I have never seen it so quiet.
I am loving your videos and cannot wait to return to ships. I really miss it.
I think its amazing that you are making good out of a bad situation by doing youtube! Keep it up. I love it!
"blow off steam without guests around" punching bag is pretty worn out...LOL
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Great tour! I’ve done the “behind the scenes excursion tour” on many cruise ships and we’ve visited the engine control rooms. For a technology nerd like me it was heaven!
On very recent ships, the engine control room is fully computerized and even has a full video wall for all the sensors and whatever the engineers want to see on it.
That computer is called the “DCS” or distributes control system that can handle hundreds of thousands inputs and outputs.
The display is called “HMI” or human machine interface and is designed by engineers. The screens are cascaded by priority even though you can access everything from a single screen. I’m sure every ship’s is custom with minor revisions to systems made over the years.
@@peterg.8245 Thanks! Great info.
Girlfriend privilege: Watch the videos before they go live even if I’m like 6,640 miles away and the first to comment! 😘🙊😛
Cassandra Tuan your his 1st mate
Thats a good privilege. And you are awesome! Hope you and your family are doing well. Take care you two are awesome.
Glad you both seem to have made it back to your "homes" safe and sound. Can't wait for the reunion video!
Hope you guys get to see each other again soon!
Thanks Daniel. That’s a video I can’t wait to make!!! 😁
Enjoyed the behind the scene tour; quite impressive to see those long passageways running the length of the ship. We now know how the crew moves quickly from one end to the other without skipping a beat. Thank you and continue the VLOG journey.👍🏼
I think it’s really cool how they convert waste into power for the ship!
Me too Ashleigh. The whole operation of recycling and waste management is pretty impressive. Royal Caribbean has a program called Save the Waves which explains a lot more about their environmental efforts, if you’re interested:
www.rclcorporate.com/environment/
That was exactly my "wow" moment too What a cool concept! And thanks for sharing the link about "Save the Waves", Riley! Awesome stuff. :)
@@RileyTench It's basically how garbage is managed in some European countries.
Although I suspect that you guys on the ship where a bit more disciplined about it all...
While we of course *try* to recycle and stuff sometimes you just end up with screwing up a bit anyway, having too much to deal with in life or whatever...
But yeah, most of that non-recycled garbage in my home city is burned.
And over in Sweden they're even importing garbage from here in Norway because they're too good at recycling to fill their own garbage burning plants (while we're doing a worse job here).
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That was a lot more comprehensive and a hell of a lot cheaper than the galley tours you can pay for onboard! Thanks, mucker!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Loved the Vlog Riley. It was fun to see the “behind the scenes” of your whole editing and creative process. Nice to have you home!
James Tench I thought you would have him home by now ,did he decide to stay
Bet mums a bit cross 👍👍
David Barnsley He’s home. When I said “it was fun to see the behind the scenes” of his creation process I literally meant it. Got to see how he edits and puts everything together in Adobe Premier... How TH-cam Studio works, all that stuff. I know he already had this video in the works before leaving the ship, so once it got back to Alaska it was just a matter of doing all the editing. It’s nice to have him home for a bit!
James Tench well that is very good news
I just watched another video saying a German cruise company has just started up again and it looked very possible
So he may be back at work if he wants to I suppose maybe some time next year
Bet mum was happy to see him 😍😍👍👍
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I done the " behind the scenes " tour with my son on the independent of the sea about 8 years ago and its amazing. We went below water line , engine control room ( no filming) ,staff shop, bars, kitchens then end up on the bridge with the captain 👍👍
The way a company treats its employees is crucial to the way it treats its customers. Quite impressed at the way RC treats its employees.
THIS DAY HAS FINALLY COME
Glad to see you made it home okay and still have some videos to upload!
Thanks Drew. More to come...
Your making me miss royal so much! I can’t believe how quite the I-95 is! Dreaming for the day to go back!
It's just so interesting seeing how the other half live. The half that provides the service that makes us "cruisers" have such a great time. Thanks Riley!
You’re welcome Gary... my pleasure.
I hope Royal Caribbean has acknowledged your positive videos!
Thanks Brent.
GIVE RILEY A RAISE!!
Jermain Garcia they let him go
not like they can fire him twice
Of course we got to the end, and we wish for more and more! Thank you so much 😊 for doing this for us and not getting into trouble.
So cool to see all of this. Thank you so much! Seems like RC really cares about their crew members. We hope that we get the opportunity to sail with you again! And THANK YOU for keeping your videos clean/classy; so rare.
Thank you very much. Glad you are enjoying my videos.
The broadcast room! 🥺🥺 Rafael is still there! must get lonely for him without his techs. I was waiting for you to show a crew cabin but then remembered you're probs not allowed to do that. Also, had so much fun in that crew mess! 🥺 haha we had steamed buns every day :D great video Riley
Look at his older videos, he shows them.
So glad I had a chance to work on RCCL, HAL, NCL & Disney over the years. All those areas are so familiar like an old friend. Wish I'd have had you on NV or SC but I feel like I may never get to work on a ship, or even cruise as a guest, in the future again. Thanks for sharing with everyone else what we know so intimately.
Appreciate the kind words Nathan. Try to stay positive. We’ll be out there again some day... Patience and time, but we will be back.
@@RileyTench I love to cruise, I am counting the days before I can start giving you guys my money again!
Thanks again Riley, for the interesting tour. I had never really considered going on a cruise until I started watching your videos. And when things return to normal (which they will) probably will take a cruise on Royal Caribbean . And thanks to Royal Caribbean for letting you do these. He's a GREAT representative for your company. (just in case the boss is watching!)
Here is a tip for you: You can order food from the tv in your room and they take it to your room. I love it! Food in bed.
@@fluffyrambochiqui1836 Way to easy to get fat that way...but you had that fancy gym and pool all to yourself. Hope all is well!
I work shoreside for RC and it is fascinating to see how our colleagues do their jobs onboard. I can't wait to be dealing with normal issues instead of COVID issues all day.
Thanks Adam. I second the getting back to normal issues!
Thanks for this, but you’ve made my heart hurt, too! I truly miss Quantum, my favourite ship. We (my band Horizon) took her out of the shipyard in Germany and over to America, and then the Caribbean for her first operational season-shortly after that, she went to Asia. What a beautiful lady she is ❤️
Glad you enjoyed the video Glen. We will get back to some sort of normal eventually. Stay safe and well.
Cool to see the behind the scenes. Thanks, Riley! Hope you're okay now that you're home.
Thanks Suzanne. I’m doing well, and so is Cass.
Thanks for this video! I am a frequent cruiser and anxiously waiting for cruising to resume in America. When cruising does resume, we will be back!
I worked on cruise ships 30 years ago and in essence much is the same except for the technology the crew having their own gym and deck zero, interesting to see it can be used for specific events. Only way to contact home then was to queue up at a telephone kiosk!
Some things for the crew are much better and convenient than we had in 2004 on Legend of the seas... Hope all these crew areas will be live again as soon as possible.
So this is the first video I have seen of yours that I have seen. Very informative. Couple questions
1. What are you doing in the ship since there is no guest?
2. Do you still get paid?
3. During normal operation how much time off do you get during a normal day?
There's at least 1 person in most departments that stays as part of minimum Manning. From this video what I can see he's technical started staff. They were kept as part of warm minimum Manning on some ships. Same as broadcast
Thank you for this!! I have always wanted to take a tour of the behind the scenes on a cruise. I have done the tours where they take guests through the kitchens, but mostly for the bottomless mimosas. While watching you go through the different floors, I was reminded of a haunted house my husband and I went through years ago (maybe 2013) on the Oasis. I have no idea where we went but that was pretty cool. Hope you are doing well.
Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks... doing well, and Cass is too.
Awesome tour. Hope the ships can sail again soon so I can finally cruise!
Thanks Guy... You and me both!
I did a behind the scene ship tour on NCL a while back, including the bridge , theater, galleys laundry and engineering. It's amazing how much of the ship is actually unseen by the guests
Nice to see you're home and safe and have time to do your editing!
This was absolutely fascinating! I’m so glad watching this now in Aug 2022 that everything is, basically back to normal for this empty ship
(Can't believe I'm gonna say this but...)I kinda miss the ships so even though I already know how it looks like, I watched the whole video❤️ Great job!
Thanks Sasha. It does feel weird (and a little sad) not being on board now.
I was hoping to see the crew quarters, where they sleep, and chill. Oh well. Still an interesting tour.
Crew quarters, especially on the bigger ships, are relatively small but have everything you could possibly need. Depending on rank you may have a roommate (or 2). I worked for Royal for 6 years (11 ships) and I miss it every day.
I was on this ship for her take out and first season. She has ‘single share’ cabins for crew, which is great. You get a small 4x7 space to yourself. With a fold down bed-ad a shared bathroom with your neighbour. Small, but private. I loved it.
Where is the morgue?
Glen Gamble the biggest cabin I ever had was on the Vision. Had a full closet and drawers PLUS shelves in another closet. It was a mansion by comparison to crew cabins on Oasis class. On Radiance I had a porthole. 9 contracts it took before I had natural light in my cabin. Awesome though.
Nothing special in crew rooms just a bunk bed with sinks and a small cabinet for clothes and toilet..its like a special prison room without windows🙂just describing my former cabin.we are all on the bottom of the ship last 2 decks under.
once again Riley a great presentation tour of BEHIND THE SCENES. Love being able to view it. I am a Hotel General Manager so this was most interesting tour.. Thank you!
The I95 looks perfectly clean and spooky like a hospital hall so Im getting the feeling that a walker is going to come out of nowhere and gnaw at your arm.
This is an awesome video. Would love to see more of this type. Hope you're doing well and it's good to hear from you again.
Thanks Reid. Very glad you enjoyed it. Cass and I are both doing well, and I’ve already got come new videos in the works... Stay tuned!
I love Royal Caribbean cruise 🎉🥰 my husband and I just went on our first cruise last week out of Galveston Texas it was amazing and the crew is amazing 💯 you guys do a lot thank you 😊 I'm happy Royal Caribbean takes care of you well🙏👍
Welcome back ! Always enjoy your content. Look forward to seeing more
Thanks. More to come!
Great video! That is the most behind the scenes tour I have ever seen on TH-cam 😊
Thanks!
Loved your video. I worked on the SS Norway in the mid '80s, and granted it was a long time ago, I'm still amazed at the difference in the crew areas. Our "I-95" was on B deck (Biscayne Deck) on the starboard side and was nicknamed Slime Alley. In your vid, when you knelt down to show I-95, my first reaction was, that would never happen on Slime Alley. It was nasty. Port side of B deck was all conehead cabins. The Norway was an old ship then as she was originally the SS France that was built in the early '60s. Times and ships have changed, but working on board a cruise ship is still an amazing experience. Smooth seas.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. I love hearing about how other ships compare, and the way things have changed. Hope you stay well and safe out there.
Hey Riley, if you get bored, I bet a bunch of us would love to see what life is like in Alaska. I'd be Interested in seeing the town you live in, the school you went to, and if you ever get up to Fairbanks, a tour of the city. And it would be super-cool to see what like is like now in summer, and then in winter, but I sure hope you're back on a ship before then!
Hi Michael. I hope to be back on a ship soon too, but I am working on some plans for Alaska content. Stay tuned!
Thanks for the tour, awesome video! Hopefully, things will get back to normal before long!
Appreciate it William... “Normal” can’t come soon enough! 🙂
A great comprehensive video! Nicely done Riley 😄
Glad you liked it Leta. Thank you.
Thanks Riley for a great video! You are a great representative for RCCL and one of the reasons I can't wait to cruise again. How about some hometown videos? Be well.
Thank you very much Brian. Hope we can all be cruising again some day.
I was wondering "You're still on the ship?!" Thankyou for doing this tour for us when you were probably busy with packing and organising your travel...at 5am in the morning!! You must have been sad to be leaving but you are always so positive...even at 5am in the morning ;-) I wonder if lockdown exists in your hometowns - here in Melbourne, Australia we went into our most severe stage 4 lockdown just days ago. We aren't allowed to move more than 5km from home etc (unless you're deemed an essential worker)
Hi Ben. I had heard things were getting bad in Melbourne again. Hope you are doing well and staying safe. Actually, I just recently made it back to Alaska. This Vlog was the last big filming project I did while on board. So many people had asked to see more of the crew areas, and I wanted to go ahead and get this posted. Now I’m working on a video about my journey home, and then we will see what’s next.
@@RileyTench Keep on Vlogging - your posts were a spot of sunshine during this crazy year of 2020. Any topic will do - and yes, let's see about your trip home. But keep up Vlogging about life for you in general or even about important topics you wish to discuss or share - or even life in Alaska during 2020. Stay connected. Peace
I have wanted to work on a cruise ship for over 20 years. This was a great glimpse into what I missed. Maybe someday.
Happy Tuesday Riley!!!
That was really cool to watch. Especially because you didn't have traffic to get in the way for your video.
Hope to see a getting home story soon.
Thanks. It certainly was a unique time to be on board filming this.
Loved the video, good to see the ship from your perspective !
I'm glad that crew members have a sun deck for themselves. However, after having been on the Independence, Serenade, and Adventure of the Seas, I was a little ticked off to learn that the front of Oasis class, Quantum class, and some of the older classes of ships are strictly off limits to guests. I loved going out on to the helipads to get away from the rest of the ship, especially at night. You can see SOOO many stars at night from the helipad that you normally can't see on most clear nights here on land (thanks to all the light pollution here at home)! I wish RC would consider allowing its guests to access the front sun deck/helipad areas of all its ships that have that those areas...at least for a few hours a day anyway.
Great video! The best crew area tour I've seen so far. Please do more!
Thanks Steve. That means a lot to me.
The only thing I would liked to have seen was the crew bedrooms other than that good review 🙂
crew cabins-bunkbeds, curtains around it for privacy, shared drawers /refrig/bathroom and cabins below sea level, crew goes thru inside to areas ///you see doors /it goes down or up/stairs , we get free laundry/wash/dry all we have to do is provide soap, food/free, we buy our drinks at stores at ports, have our own cafeteria unless you are priv to eat at buffets/musicians can, 10-2pm est, also crew have their own computer rooms, bars etc. it's ok to be stuck onboard for 6 mos if you like the sea life.
If u want to see crew cabins..just imagine the size of a walk in closet or a bathroom with a bathtub that can fit 2 people in it with double bunk beds😄
@@karenzkilab7678 YIKES!
@@kathleencraig3804 actually no. At least on RCL Musicians aren't allowed to eat in the windjammer. From the Entertainment department only guest entertainers, managers and some cast members such as lead vocalists. Other crew such as musicians if they want to eat in the windjammer, they can only do so during a certain time frame in the evening. They need to fill in a list and will get charged gratuity. In some ships musicians might get away with eating in the windjammer. But officially they aren't allowed.
@@Mika-85 WOW good thing I never worked RCL...princess was lenient ..I was able to eat at buffet between 10am-2pm est and rest time at crew cafeteria buffet . I am a lead vocalist musician keyboardist but actually I can front bands /shows/casinos /showrooms ...eh working princess was ok
Thanks for the tour. The first thing we do when we get on a ship we go booked the behind the scene tour. My husband loves going to the bridge.
You’re welcome Debra. Glad you enjoyed it.
There’s a behind the scenes tour!? Why didn’t I know this!?
Some cruise lines do a behind the scenes tours and they are definitely worth the money.
I took a behind the scene tour on Norwegian Cruise lines and our guide was amazingly quirky.
His big surprise was telling us all about the sex lives of the crew behind closed doors, which I admit was kinda fascinating and well...eye opening 🤔. When he told us that the crew went through over 30,000 condoms per year, it blew my mind and got a huge gasp from everyone in the tour group. But yeah, that's the part of the tour I remember still.
Very interesting! I like your editing style and humor.
Thanks Robyn... glad you enjoyed it.
Been waiting the whole of lockdown on this one, yaaaaaas !!
keep it up man, the video's are great!
Thanks. Glad I could finally get it made!
Carnival also has I 95. Thanks for the tour. Now I won't need to pay for the tour.
Awesome tour !!! Felt like a behind the scenes tour only better !!
Thanks Gary. Tried to make it feel as personal as possible. Glad you enjoyed it.
VERY COOL!!! thank you!! I love to cruise
Boy this was a great tour behind the scenes and Thanks for tour.
i miss this ship so freaking much! so happy that you made it home safely! i love your rccl crew vlogs!
Thanks Annabelle
wow love this video. I really missed I95, Crewmess, gym, bar, gaming, deck 7 especially the whole ship of quantum ots. 😍♥️
Hope I can go back again there!
I know exactly how you feel... Hang in there. We will be back out there some day!
Love your videos! If I could go back to my younger days, I’d be a crew member!! Love it!
Thanks Lizzy.
Thanks for the tour. I miss taking cruises.
You’re welcome Joe. Me too! 🙂
Been waiting for any video. HaHa. Glad you're home stay safe. Looking forward to more video's.
Thanks Sharon. Hope you enjoyed it, and I do have more in the works.
Thanks for your videos Riley, really good to see how your all coping with Covid19 on the Cruise Ships and I see that you finally got home. Great news for you and your family
16:04 - "definitely under tight lock & key"........ cue the shot of the plastic chain over the door... LOL! And those scratch marks of many an employee, tryin' to get in for tha' sauce! haha!!
That was really cool!!! Thank you Riley for showing us. Next , do the crew cabins.... if you can get in them now that no one is there.. Yes!! I was super excited about ICE-CREAM!!!! I was just eating a bowl while watching your video
Thanks DeDe. Glad you had your ice cream to enhance the overall video experience! 😂. I think I’ll go have a bowl too. 🍨
Hey Riley Thanks for this, I only wish they would have a tour of such when cruising, people have no idea what it takes to make the magic happen, stay well and safe!
Thanks Raymond. Glad you enjoyed it.
Some of the happiest times of my life, working and living onboard this beautiful ship.
I was in Quantum of the Seas in 2018. Fantastic cruise ship! Can't wait to go back to cruising! 😁
Hey man, keep positive, great to see companies are supporting crew, I’m a deck cadet with an offshore company, I was lucky enough to make it home due to injury just before the global lockdown, but been stuck at home so yer, would much rather be on the ship smashing my daily routine and work life on the bridge. Cheers for the content, god speed and safe sailing, peace
Very cool! Thoroughly enjoyed the tour!
Awesome, David... thank you!
Oh wow how interesting is this ?!? Really do enjoy watching your videos ! I hope you got home safely & I hope to see you in 2021 :D
Being a sorta retired audio guy, I find this really cool! Thanks for the inside look. Hope you’re doing well!
Thanks Michael, I am doing well... Glad you enjoyed the video!
Loved it! Thank you! Keep 'em coming.
Wondered how your travels went. Hope to see where you are now - pretty soon.
Glad you enjoyed it... and yes, I’ve got more Vlogs in the works.
Riley your Vlogs have been so inspiring during lockdown you are a true inspiration.Please don’t stop what are you doing now have Royal Caribbean employed you as the “face of”
Well done Riley! Blessings to you and Cass!
Thanks Jeff.
I actually live about three blocks off Interstate 95 a mile south of the Pentagon in northern Virginia. Technically, it's called 395, but it really is 95. The funny thing is that it's so quiet in our neighborhood you would never believe that we are so close to the major North-South route. I can walk to two major grocery stores, Nordstrom, Marshalls, and Costco. Also, I can walk to the library, post office, dry cleaner, CVS, and a bunch of good restaurants.
Love your vid. Great insight into cruise life and yours .Stay safe 😊
Thanks Kirsty.
Hey bro hope you are well and your weekend went well. Just thought we would pop over again and see what you have been up to lately. Wow that is so spooky seeing it all empty. Totally eerie and mad bro. Thanks so much for sharing this experience with us. Hope to cruise again soon. Stay safe and catch up again real soon God bless you bro 🙏👍👍❤️
What a great behind the scenes tour. Thanks for sharing!
This was fascinating to see - thanks so much for sharing this with us - I've always wondered what does on behind the 'crew only' doors!
Love your videos! What’s next as you are home in Alaska?
Thanks Linda. Slowly trying to figure that out, and I am planning to create some new videos. The future is kind of a wide open blank canvass right now.
Good for you that they turned the lights on while you were vlogging. Missing the onboard life.
Always love the behind-the-scenes tours. Thanks for sharing.
Small unknown fact: I-95 is also called that because that is the type Visa foreign crew members are given to work in many countries.
Incorrect- it is named after Interstate 95 that runs along the east coast. 14 years at Royal.... truth
Hello Riley. Hope you are well. Saw you over on Matt's Saturday night a few weeks ago. Hope Cass is well too. Greetings from Montreal.
Thanks Jeremy. Cass and I are both doing well.
Thanks much for the entertaining and informative crew tour Riley!
Who agrees once you watch one of his videos you are hooked
I-95 had dual meanings, so it is quite commonly used on many ships (not just Royal Caribbean). I-95 is a well known Interstate in the US, but it is also the name of the US Border document that non-US crew must carry with them when they go ashore in US ports.
Great video, thanks Riley.
I've seen a zillion deck layout pictures on the interwebs but never the crew only decks. Do you think you could do a slow pan on some of those for us so we can see the detail?
Fascinating! What a great vlog, thank you. The crew area was actually much nicer than I expected, so well done Royal Caribbean for looking after their amazing crew so well ❤️
Really enjoyed this tour. Crew members work so hard and it’s nice to see they have places to socialize and meet up with coworkers. Looking forward to your video about your travel home to AK.
Hum, a *paid* tour of these areas would probably be something some of the guests would love to do, obviously not at times when you guys are resting or anything, but just at specific times and accompanied by crew members.
(Some of us are more into going away from the "touristy areas" if you get my meaning. ;-)
(In fact I've never been on a cruise ship before, but places like this is more tempting then the noisy touristy areas upstairs are)
Thank you Riley. Very interesting and enjoyable. Stay safe and more videos please!!
Thanks David. More videos in the works. Stay safe and well.
Awesome vlog! Brought back a ton of memories of when I used to work on cruise ships (although it was a much smaller ship than this one).
Great video, Riley! Thanks for posting it! Missing cruising these days. The pandemic claimed the next three cruises I had scheduled. Sigh. Maybe next year.
Thanks Richard, and sorry to hear that. Hang in there... we’ll be back out on the sea someday.