I remember being on holiday in Jamaica when a cruise liner came in. 2 hours before the town was quiet with a few stalls around selling food, hardware and some small souvenirs, and there was a couple of radios on with the local talk radio playing quietly. Then as the cruise liner docked I watched the locals, with almost military precision, change from their jeans and shorts for tastelessly colourful Caribbean clothing, put out trays and trays of souvenirs with everything at least 3 times the previous price and set up loudspeakers everywhere playing calypso. The tourists came saying how everyone was so happy and the island was so colourful and musical. Within 2 hours the tourists were back on the ship and the entire town, again with military precision reverted back to normal. It was brilliant to watch.
@@1317Greg No this is the truth. It would have been pointless to dock for just 2 hours there as the town wasn't that close to the port, and it was a pretty big place. Why would I need to lie? It doesn't add to the story.
@@1317Greg clearly someone failed reading in 1st grade. He said that it was normal TWO HOURS BEFORE the vessel docked. TWO HOURS AFTER it left, things were normal again. He never said it was there for two hours.
I live on the beach of Florida watched it go from a logging town with gravel roads to VRBOs around every corner that scare away all wildlife and nesting sea turtles.
We were on a cruise in Alaska and made a port call in Skagway. Plenty of shops to visit. The shop owners didn't hide their hatred of the tourists, but they didn't mind their money. One shop owner made some snarky comment to me as I was checking out. I just left my purchase on the counter and told her I hoped she had a better day after we left.
Maybe cruises are different but people loved seeing aircraft carriers coming in. That was a lot of money coming into port and people go out of their way to get in on the action. Never seen anyone be openly hostile or hate on the people coming in either.
@@sabrinashelton1997its not really cheaper than a ton of other vacations… a two week cruise will often coet you like 2.5-3k if you include transportation to the ship and purchases during the cruise. Some are even more expensive. I went 5 weeks to thailand/singapore,/taiwan, including all costs for a similar price
@@willgaukler8979I agree. Cruising is a memorable experience & some people really enjoy it. I’ve been on one, it was ok not my fave vaca ever but memorable.
@@burningblue1254 Have You worked on a cruise line? How many Contracts did You finish? I was aboard NCLA's Pride of America back in 2005 when construction of her was finishing up in Bremerhaven, Germany, and I was aboard her during all of her sea trials, and when she sailed across the Atlantic, and into NY Harbor in early June '05. I was aboard when she sailed down the East Coast of the United States, and through the Panama Canal, and to her assignment to Hawai'i where she still is today. None of that was a vacation, let alone a picnic. Crew members worked 100+hrs/week. I didn't think that was possible until I saw my paystubs. I'm surprised I didn't suffer from exhaustion or burnout. Oh, and fun fact: Lloyd-Werft, where the America was built, was one of the shipyards the Germans used to build U-boats during ww2. Look up Lloyd-Werft's website. In the Opening Photo, there's a picture of 2 different vessels, one of them is The Pride of America fully painted
I'm disabled and discovered cruising as an amazing way to travel for me. Everthing on board is accessible and I don't have to worry about finding hotels, food, transportation. And even if I can't do everything my family can leave me to explore on my own without feeling guilty as there is always plenty to do. I found a travel agent that specialzes in wheelchair travel and cruises are by far the best and most economical option. I struggle with the guilt supporting am industry with such horrible employee treatment and environmental impact.
Don’t feel to bad about the employee pay. These guys go “ohhhh $500 a month how do these people live….”Most of the time the employees are from countries where $100 a month is a fantastic pay rate $500 is crazy. I do Lyft near the canaveral cruise port and get cruise employees all the time usually ending or starting their contracts and I have asked them if they feel abused by their employers. I have not had a single one of my dozens of encounters say they are miss treated they say it’s hard to be away from family for so long but they are paid well enough that they are able to afford better opportunities when they return home. One of my riders was telling me she had done 3 6 month contracts and had saved enough with them that she was able to buy her family a home and a store front and that they are now financially independent. She planned to do one more contract to get a little more and then call it quits.
@@Baker_king12 WRONG. For average pay rate like say the Philipines is about 308USD so saying 100USD per month is "fantastic" is a whole pack of lies. (Philipines is where many of the cruise ship employees are from) Your encounters are when they are still employed and therefore threatened they will lose their jobs. I instead always hear the horror stories after they got off the cruise ships, about how tired they are working all the time with not a single rest day, not allowed to use the facilities like the bars/dining area, and often bruised from the abuse from the "caucasian masters". And many of these Philipines workers are actually illegally riddled with debt to get these jobs from people who tricked them which adds another layer of why they won't tell you the truth on those ships.
Not the only worrying thing about cruise ships. The fact you could disappear and no one will get justice for you are neon red lights of danger signs. There are many cases of children drowning in those cruise ship pools because cruise ships are not obligated to have life guards or other safety measures.
I have sailed 40 cruises on several different lines. I became a travel agent to support my cruising habit. I love it and have seen much of the world while cruising. There’s more to cruising than just the Caribbean and back.
If you're going to do a cruise, just do a day cruise on a river or something. I've done a few in Germany and they were really nice. It stops at some old castles you get to check out and the scenery is nice. You can also get off and stay overnight in any of the towns it makes a stop at and come back the next day and catch the boat back to where you came from.
"Ignore your kids for a week and let them go all 'Lord Of The Flies' in the kid-zone" it's pretty sad how accurate this is. So many parents go on cruises to trick little Timmy into thinking they're going on a "family vacation" rather than abandoning him with a babysitter for a week while they get wasted poolside.
Little Timmy might as well get use to being tricked ! It is the new American lifestyle. If the American way was honest! Have you been rogered? Bod da boom.
it's an accurate term, when one person gets sick, it spreads like wildfire. Not to mention the morgue onboard when an elderly passenger (average ages being between 65 and 70) dies, oh, and I'm forgetting about how overpriced everything is, from the souvenirs made in China, to the food cooked onboard, etc.
@@forexed8948 hey, that sounds like a life goal, plan to be a burden and a haunting symbol of mortality for a few thousand people for nearly a week by waiting till you're near the end about to shuffle off your mortal coil, just to pass on while on a cruse ship knowing how much trouble you'll cause for so many people. great idea.
After 15 years in the Navy, you’ll never convince me to pay for a trip at sea. Also, the second someone gets sick it’s quarantine time. A bug runs through a ship at light speed.
Thank you for your service. And also I have no desire to go a cruise because they just seem nasty besides all the shit I have heard about them in the news!!
I used to work on a cruise ship for a year and a half in Hawaii and am presently writing a Thriller novel inspired by that. The "Incidents Happen" section, ESPECIALLY when it comes to missing women and reporting of said crime to ship security, hit REALLY hard.
I once went on a ship on rivers throughout European Russia. One of animators tried to entertain us but failed miserably. She went off in Chaikovsky city Perm Krai, and even did not bother to sign her name off the ship registry. The whole ship was looking for her for the rest of the day, and finally she was fired from the cruise company.
“They didn’t have a ship that left New York and came back….that would be stupid”. Man, that was hilarious. People from early 1900’s would think we are crazy
They would, but for different reasons. First of all, yes, people used ships because there just wasn't any other way to cross the ocean, so it's true that rich people wouldn't travel by sea, but now think about the majority of the passengers on a ship. They were third class people, all of whom would think we are crazy to board a ship because it's scary, and also why would you do it for fun? They had to work all day, almost all days. Plus, they wouldn't be aware we now have showers and toilets in every room.
The first true ocean liners were built at the very end of the 1800s (White Star's Big Four offered such amenities aboard as indoor pools and a Turkish bath, reading and smoking rooms), and only at the beginning of the 20th century did you get ships like _Kaiser Wilhelm de Gross_ , _Mauretania_ , and _Olympic_ , which were more along the lines of what people think of ( _Olympic_ especially, being _Titanic_ 's older but slightly smaller sister). Before then, because ships were small due to the limitations placed on construction by using wood, as well as sails, you actually did put your life in the crew's hands over the months you'd be sailing across the ocean. You might not even make it at all, but you took that chance. Steam made things more reliable, and steel allowed for larger vessels, which gave you a better chance of survival, but if you got in trouble, lifeboats were horrendously dangerous unless a rescue ship was right there. Especially in a storm. The Marconi wireless was a new inclusion on ships in the early 1900s, and before then you basically had to rely on providence for rescue if your ship was lost. _The Great Eastern_ and _The Great Western_ were some of the most reliable of the first stream ships, and they were powered by paddlewheel rather than propeller, and conditions aboard were still bad, so you wouldn't want to sail on them today. But things got steadily better as the technology improved, and competition kept shipping companies like Cunard and NDL outdoing each other. Eventually you had massive, fast ships like _Normandie_ and _Queen Mary_ , and the fastest of them all, _SS United States_ . But a boat will never outpace an airliner. That's why there's only one ocean liner now, Cunard's _Queen Mary 2_ . Know who owns her? Carnival Cruiselines. Yes, that Carnival.
Honestly some of the larger ships with newer layouts are done so well that they don't feel crowded and you don't run into people. A couple years ago we went on a cruise with 20 other people and didn't even see some of them for days at a time...and we had mutual plans!
Yes, I totally agree. I've been on several cruises over the past twenty years and it's nothing like what most of the people commenting here, have to say. They're just grasping for excuses to justify their dislike of cruising.
I live in a cruise ship port. Every week during the season, thousands of people descend on us, making daily life impossible, asking questions, making rude comments etc. Sorry, it's a normal Wednesday lunchtime and I'm not part of your holiday! And the people. OMG 🫣 All identical according to whichever cruise line it is, but you can take a guess. Put me right off cruising.
Oh I feel so bad for you ngl on my end this us6 one of the surprisingly many benefits of living in a town out in the sticks you don't get bothered by tourists because tourists don't visit this town LOL
I live in a tourist town that relies heavily on them in summer and winter…I can’t imagine how much more annoying tourists would be if they didn’t actually buy things on the visit, that sounds beyond frustrating.
That’s like buying a house next to the railroad tracks and then complaining about the noise from the trains! When you bought that house, you had to expect this. Or did you not do your homework?
I took a cruise once. I figured it would be an easy way to travel with my elderly parents and my 3yo son. I suppose in some ways it was easier, but it confirmed what I already suspected - cruise travel is definitely not for me. It was a Caribbean cruise, yet they had no Caribbean food on the ship. We visited seven islands, but by the time you get off the ship, you only have a few hours before you get back on again. Our two best days were: St Kitts and Nevis, where we hired a local taxi and just pretty much let him decide where to take us. He’d make a suggestion, and we either agree or ask him to pick something else. The other best day was on Barbados. As fast as possible we got past the mile long mall they always have at the docks. We just went to the town square, hung out, took a tour of the Parliamentary building, got some street food, hung out in the park with all the business people on lunch break. It was our best day! Seriously, though, never again.
Sounds like you had a good time. So why never again? Some cruises go to a lot of ports for a short time, some go to a few ports for overnight stays. Sounds like you chose the wrong itinerary for what you like to do. Every cruise I've been on has international food from all over the world and the theme changes each night. Also, many have specialty restaurants that cater to particular tastes.
@@stargazer7644 Sorry, no. Cruising takes away everything I love about travel. No shade to anyone who likes it! But I would much rather backpack, stay in a hostel, have to figure out local train and bus schedules, eat street food that I don't recognize, get lost trying to follow a map. That's a nightmare to some people, but it's my dream vacation!
They don’t usually have “Caribbean food” on the ship since most cruisers are Muricans and Canadians whose only “spice” is ketchup and who can’t handle flavourful food of the islands. The ship caters to the majority, not to the few people who can actually enjoy the taste of island food.
I did the same with my son on a cruise. When we got to Jamaica, I found a cabbie who took us to street markets, fern gully, etc. Way better than walking around tourist shops.
When I first heard about cruise ships during my tween years, I still looked and talked like I was in my primary grades, yet I had a hunch there was a lot that could go wrong. It was only for a little of my adolescence when I thought it would give me a taste of the nouveau riche life.
@@dominicfucinari1942 Everyone keeps trying to get me to go on a cruise. I never liked the idea of it I don't like being "locked up". Anyone who asks me again to go on a cruise, I am sending them this vid.
I live in Barcelona and I can relate to the part when they say "the ship comes, and locals see a terrifying sea scraper, like something out of a disaster movie". I don't mind people visiting Barcelona, but hell, it's too much when they come in groups of 3000 people. I really hate these cruises.
I mean, he's correct, however I had a blast on a cruise around Italy when I was 15. The ship food was amazing. 24-hour personal pizzas made-to-order. We stopped in France and I bought a decorative sword. They wouldn't let me back on the ship with the sword, so I had to go to a local post office and figure out French. I still have the sword.
Funny, exactly the same happened to me we stopped France and they would let me back on board with a sword. Except the sword is still in France and so am I...help!
As a former employee, you've forgotten the most important thing; nickel and diming the pax for every last dollar on their cruise card, to be settled up on the last night of the cruise. Sticker shock is a real thing...
I was going to say the same thing. All those fun activities, luxurious spa treatments, and tropical drinks come with a price tag unless you pay top dollar for an ultra luxury cruise (and then the only thing you’re not paying for is alcohol and some shore excursions). Then there are the closed-off areas with their own uncrowded pools and restaurants reserved for people who pay for the most expensive suites.
I thought he would talk about the sleazy way they market the cruises. They will advertise something very low like a 7 day cruise for $500/person but by the time you are done you are paying $5,000.
@@NihilistAlien I'd call the accommodation "bunks". "Cabin" sounds too much like "a place to live". But, compared to an attack sub, the bunks are luxurious. Well, a cold-war era sub...a diesel-electric one...a Russian diesel-electric cold-war era attack sub. I'd rather spend the night in a cold-war era French nuclear sub than in a cruise-ship "cabin". Oh, wait. I was talking about passenger cabins. You meant...staff "cabins"? Uh. Still beats the Russian sub. But since you are supposed to work you ass off, you won't spend much time there anyway.
Sticker shock victim here…we were told “all inclusive” and that the alcohol was included…what they didn’t tell us was it was only “domestic alcohol”. Umm domestic to where? We got a $700 bar tab for 4 ppl, one was a minor and I didn’t drink. So it was 2 ppl. I scoured our papers when we got home and nowhere did it say “domestic alcohol only”. Still don’t know exactly what drinks we were charged for. Just know we’d have been arrested for not paying.
Here's another thing about cruise ships - they breakdown ... a lot. Being stranded at sea can be unpleasant, especially if the power goes out, the toilets on a cruise ship need electricity to flush, by the way, if there is a powersurge, the toilets can overflow, so expect to be bathed in the whole ship's liquids. It can take a week for salvage teams to tow the cruise ship back to port, and passengers cannot be evacuated unless there's a distress call, so sit tight and have fun.
if you had to piss you went to the toilet which is the main problem because it is clogged and overflowing onto the deck and into rooms it you had to crap they gave you a little red biohazard bag so the hallway is covered in little red shit bags on every floor and it is also hot af so you grab a bed sheet leave your room and go to the deck and make a tent like everyone else Yeah I don't think Horton knows how accurate that lord of the flies line was😭
The video makes a very good point about cruise passengers spending their money for "beds and booze" on the cruise ships, so the locals can only make money on selling trinkets and maybe some snacks and drinks. On the other hand, if the tourists stayed on land and spent money for food and lodging in the towns, then the locals get a bigger portion of the tourists' spending.
The point about locals hating cruisers is really true. I come from a tiny town that in the summers gets jam-packed on nearly daily basis by cruise tourists, and it's treated like the plague has struck the town. People stay inside, close their windows and curtains and hide until they are gone. The town has just around 2500-3000 people living there, but some of the cruise liners hold up to a 5000. That's crazy. And the worst part is that only a very small handful of "local" businesses see any increase in trade during these times. The small businesses in fact see a reduction in trade because the locals will be staying in their homes during these days Edit: One question for those who have been on a cruise... What happens to your brains on these tours. Do your brain cells also go on a vacation someplace else? In my old hometown we never used to lock the front doors. There was no reason since break-ins were extremely rare. But we were pretty much forced to do so when those cruise liners were in port. The reason being numerous times these tourists would simply open the doors and invite themselves inside, as if those houses were there for their enjoyment. Onetime I was in my kitchen preparing food when I hear footsteps behind me. An middle aged couple in brightly yellow and blue jackets were standing there looking so dumb and confused. They couldn't make themselves understandable in English but the few German words I managed to pick out they were trying to explain they were looking for another couple they had been walking with. When I showed them to the door I found their friends staring into my bedroom window as if it was an exhibit. But mine is by far not the only case like this. Hence we would lock our doors and close our curtains. But still those people would treat our houses and lawns as if it had all been put there just for them.
So...as expected, the people who take cruises are mostly senile and lobotomized boomers who have 0 respect for other people's properties, thinking the entire world is an amusement park for then to walk around.
@@S.R.Crnt. I work close to the port in Amsterdam where these ships are docked if they are in the city, it is NOT normal that most of the time they are way bigger than the buildings next to them. It is scary as heck when I see them arriving to port. I cant magine how this feels in a town where there are less poeple usually than the number of turists on board of these. I am really feel sorry for everyone who has to deal with this plague.
The dumping of waste from a ship that big is so disgusting. I get annoyed by smaller yachts dumping their waste and stinking up rivers. Imagine a ship that big. Gross
So true. We’ve been building extra docks in Greece for cruise liners and all I see is the smog every day and the millions of people evading the towns without leaving a single dime here. We have so many tourists in Greece in July and August that the most locals cannot even go on vacations themselves. Local economies aren’t helped as much as you think. It’s the corporate hotel chains and cruise liners that make the money. Just like Thailand people are starving but the country is still flooding with tourists till the coral reefs are completely damaged and all the waters are polluted.
Took a cruise once, 28 years ago, on Royal Caribbean. Never again. As nice as it was, we were still trapped on a boat. If you don't like the room, the neighbors, the food etc. you can not leave. Every vacation since, we have booked a hotel in a cool city or rented a cottage at the beach. It costs less and we are free to leave or go to a different restaurant...
Cruising has changed so much in just the 15 years since we started. Now there is enough to do on ship that we dont even feel the need to go into port, and my kid has stuff to do without going to the kids club and we enjoy spending time together. We have done a couple of resorts and the good canine lodge and cruising is definitely more bang for my buck and more fun activities. Plus watching the ocean is the best at any time of day from our balcony. But, if you have been watching cruise vlogs and they still dont seem fun, dont let people try to make you feel bad that you dont want to go either. Unless its your spouse, then pack up and dont forget the reef safe sunscreen.
Trident Roger seeing you always is a blessing for my tired eyes. I realy like the way reborn Cracked is going. Hope the Cast keeps growing. You guys are doing great work!
It's hard to decide between tridents, dual-bladed axes, or epic longswords. I'm more of a mage-style character, so I'd look better with a tome, staff, or maybe a flat weapon such as a war mallet.
Used to work on cruise ships, this is mostly true, they can be amazing but you have to choose a smaller ship and a great itinery. Do the shore excursions and spend some time at local places before or after the cruise. Think Alaska, panama canal , Antarctica etc. You will spend a lot more but it will be worth it.
Ships are so big now, you don't feel "trapped". I can see how you would think that, since you imagine several thousands of people on a small boat. But if you take a decent cruise with a good Cruise Line, you will never feel trapped. If you feel trapped or are standing in queue, you are on the wrong cruise...
@@ZeroxTechnic You're right, I think it's kind of like going to Wal-Mart when the parking lot is full. It usually doesn't seem that crowded inside, the place is so big. I've never been on a cruise, but I have a friend that goes on one every few years, and he loves them. The video certainly was funny, and not entirely wrong, but I think a cruise would be a decent vacation if you know what to expect. Just don't book one on the super cheap line, you'll get what you pay for.
Since the pandemic we have introduced 100% fresh air inside the ship, infrared filters that kill 99.99% of viruses. Handwashing and purell stations. Enhanced cleaning of handrails, elevator buttons etc.
I worked on for a cruise ship company and it was hell on earth. I never got an off day nor a break, I didn't complete my contract and came home that is just modern day slavery. What a saw while there made me think that the cruise industry must be one of the most wasteful industries in the world.
Damn. That sucks. I'm sure it wasn't pleasant but slavery is a term where you don't have a choice and you did . There are shit companies and we have a choice to work for them. Slaves had no choice and were fucked over for many years.
I'd say hospital/medical is up there too for wasteful industries. A lot of packaging on single-use things in a modern hospital that get thrown away (back in the day they would use a lot of reusable things that can be steam cleaned via an autoclave) Source: my husband and I work in a hospital (me on Labour and Delivery and him on waste management)
Yeah the workload on the cruise ships was impossible, and split shifts seven days a week for four months leaves you very very tired. I got burnout after working for a well-known cruise line for four years. I quit and got a job on the Stranraer-Belfast ferry for a year. Much easier.
My wife and i just took our first cruise a few months ago, 10 days, we hit the bahamas and actually had a blast. But its all, also kinda true. There really isn't all that much to do on board unless you really like reading books to the sound of the ocean, which we both do quite a bit. We were unwilling to spend more than a few hundred bucks at the casino, and that lasted us about... oh.. ten minutes or so. The shows were good and it was fun dressing up for dinner, really, eating was the most enjoyable part honestly, he isnt wrong, you basically eat whenever you want and balloon up to an obnoxious size. We got kind of bored after five days and we ended up spending our last day pretty much completely in our cabin watching movies or playing games on my laptop or reading books. If we ever do it again it will probably be shorter, only 4 or 5 days at most, and probably a Mediterranean cruise. The bahamas were nice.. but.. also very poor. We didn't really feel all that safe going out and about, particularly in Nassau. I will also say, while expensive, the alcohol package was absolutely worth it.
I worked in the kids' area for a cruise line out of california, and the lord of the flies line killed me 😂. Fun fact, roughly a third of the crew is drunk every night. They know how to party.
Don't know what cruise line it was. I can tell you this. You are required to be at your work station ontime, presentable appearance, and maintain a high standard of performance. I had a junior assistant cruise director on his first contract that we had to send home because of his late night drinking antics. On matters of dismissal we have a tribunal, the captain, staff captain and the senior officer of the department which in this case was myself, hotel department general manager. Its unfortunate but necessary.
You don't know how happy I am to laugh at a Roger video. I love the reference to the Lord of the Flies by leaving your kids in the daycare for a week. This is why I always watch these, whenever they appear in my recommendations.
Actual I’ve noticed with all the stuff included… some of the cheaper cruises cost less factoring in plane tickets, hotel rooms, food, booze, community amenities, etc.
I totally agree-- there is NOTHING that can get me on another cruise ship.... Biggest problem - TOO DAMN MANY OTHER PEOPLE ON BOARD. You eat in shifts - use pools in shifts - do activities in shifts etc.
@@thesatsui Its not same in Europe ..i been on 10 cruises in europe ,i have 2 more this year ..that on 0:52 is Kotor from i witch i had girlfriend 20 years ago
Cruises are a super awesome and easy way to expose kids to international travel. So much lower stress than driving or flying to multiple places, packing and unpacking several times. It’s obviously not as in depth an experience, because you’re only at each port for a day, but it still gives them some exposure.
It's also more accessible for people with disabilities than travelling by plane (packing your chair and hoping it's not broken during the flight) and seeking for several accessible hotels, restaurants, shops etc. during the holidays. Cruise is literally an utopian dream to someone with an electric wheelchair.
@@Pali729 I agree. Most deals I've had have been about $100 a day- more or less... and that has typically been a balcony. I always say- you could go to Needles California- stay at the Motel 6- eat your meals at Denny's and you'll spend more than if you were on a cruise.
I don't really agree with much of this video... I found my cruise to be extremely economical, enjoyable, safe, etc. The worst thing about the cruise was the sad selection of beers 🤷♂️
The thing with cruises is that you get what you pay for. If you go on Carnival, you're going to get a cheap vacation. If you want the luxury experience, you go on Celebrity, Holland America, or Cunard.
To register a ship in the United States it must be built in the United States. There are no shipyards in the United States that are able to build a modern cruise ship. Many companies such as Royal Caribbean are headquarter in Miami, however can not registered their ships there because of the US Maritime law (the ships are not built in the US), so they register them in the Bahamas. This is an example of a US Politician shooting themselves in the foot with a 'good idea' law. Secondly, the cruise line never received any money from the US Government during Covid, but were forced to shut down, then had to follow a series of strict reopening rules that the airlines, public transit and hotels were exempt from.
I had the good fortune of working on a cruise ship as a contractor making modifications. What I was made aware of due to being able to see the behind the scenes operation and, after some socializing with the crew, found out things that the crew are told absolutely to keep to themselves. Period. I have not been on one since and am mystified when I see throngs of people pile aboard completely clueless as to what they really stepped onto.
This is why I like Virgin Voyages. No kids, no buffets, no bacteria coming from a trough of food for the buffet-eating masses. There's no nickel and diming either, asking you to pay for everything else once onboard since almost everything is included in the initial pricing.
@@MaxW-er1hm No, they have several different restaurants and eateries on board. And to replace the traditional buffet they have a place called the Galley where you just order from instead
I'm one of the crazy ones that likes cruise ships, as I have been on 14 so far. Been to a few resorts but still prefer a cruise over a resort. Alaskan cruise was the best with a balcony. View of ocean, mountains, glaciers, rivers, eagles, whales, seals and so much more.
I, too, like cruises, but am ashamed of knowing that they hold their garbage until they get into international waters and dump, like, "everything". They also switch their fuel source to a crude form of diesel that is crazy pollution and isn't allowed to be burned almost anywhere else. The food is great, though, and it feels like you're living as a higher class.
@@kevinneville5876 Read the wikipedia article on "Heavy fuel oil" for the alternate fuel source. For dumping, International law allows discharge of untreated sewage beyond 12 miles from shore. There are a lot of lawsuits for them dumping closer than that (google "cruise ships 20 million" for some examples).
We had a splendid time on the one "big boat" cruise we took: Princess through Alaska. Otherwise, it's small boats all the way. They're more intimate, roomy, and the excursions are more fun. You actually get to experience the cities you visit.
Reason we took cruises. 1 Each day you wake up in a different city in Europe. Tried driving forget that because you waste all your time on the road. The roads are so narrow in small towns they are terrifying to drive in and the signs and even side of the street you drive on make it more difficult than you think. Accident anyone? because they drive on the sidewalk in Italy and that is no joke. We couldn't even rent a car in Italy years ago but that is changed now (taxi ride in Rome was the most terrifying experience ever because no hands on the wheel and he was using all his cell phones while we went down the center of the freeway also stops for anything were ignored) 2 You are on a schedule so eating and waking for tours starting early makes you adapt to the time zone change quickly which is very hard flying from the west coast of the US. 3 Cheaper than paying for unlimited meals, hotel room, and entertainment every place you stop. 4 Entertainment is pretty good as far as I was concerned and river cruises don't have that and cost more. Local places like a pub might have some and I saw a local show in Switzerland, then you can take a tour that includes Russian dancers but entertainment isn't going to be Vegas 5 Take the smaller ships that can go to the small ports of Europe. They want you on the big ones to save them money. Have you ever seen 3 cruise ships dump all the people on board at an Alaskan town with exactly one street on the edge between water and mountains? Be careful what kind of ship you take. You cannot control what other ships are docked at the same time. Also Europe has many holidays and times when things are not open (even Rome always had their doors locked down and never could figure out when they were open when I stayed there). They eat dinner into the wee hours of the night so don't expect things to be the same. Just enjoy the fact they try to theme the food based on where you are docked since you come back exhausted. Also those all day tours will really kill you off if you are old (even if it doesn't involve biking or a ton of climbing). Study up a lot before going on a cruise or tour using TH-cam. Do not take a trip without extreme study about what to expect and what to not do at airports, on ships, in ports etc. Ignorance will really make you hate your trip. If you get sea sick take pills and if you really want to see open air museums in Europe that you cannot get to otherwise (these are small towns with furnished buildings of all types from all time periods) then rent a car or even better get a bus tour so you do not have to drive. I would start with a cruise and work your way up to more adventure when you know what cities you want to spend more time in like Venice or Rome. You don't want to deal with getting gas, currency exchanges, and a thousand other things that can make your trip complicated in a hurry.
this dude can put videos up with ease - and is still in his stride - who doesn't love it? And such a nice decent person too - just really inspired by the world around him everyday. I always welcome roger horton (and the actor who plays him of course) videos in my life.
I hace taken multiple cruises with my family - one for 4 days in Miami , another to Mexico and a third through Greece and Italy . All was really great . Food was great , abundant drinks . While I don’t really like being in one place my family liked it . The European trip was really great and error free . It was royal carribean .
I've traveled to over 70 countries and have just started doing do Cruising last year. I must say it's a really great way to travel by cruise ship. Like everything it has its downside but there a lot more positives than negative. I've even booked two more this year. I still like overland travel but cruise ship are also a great way to unwind.
Another fun fact about tourist driven small towns: The internet is slowed down by you. These small communities don't have the market share to be worth installing robust information infrastructure. So when hundreds of people from out of town flood in at once the connections just can't handle all the requests. Slowing streaming, gaming, and video communications down to a crawl so slow you can't even load a web page without time-out errors.
Jack Hunter is a legend. The way he turned on a dime from gritty to upbeat was just fantastic. His line delivery of the fire on the boat was just perfect.
Moro Castle Lakonia Dona Paz and Vector (not ocean liners, but still) Fires on a ship is an awful way to go. It's also a terrible end for ships like _Normandie_ . I can not at all blame William Gibbs for his obsession in fire safety when designing the _SS United States_ . He insisted the only wood aboard be cutting boards for the kitchen, and the grand piano, which they tested with gasoline to be sure it wouldn't burn.
Like most of his "Honest Ads" he is not totally wrong but he is exaggerating the worst aspects as part of dark humor Yes people get sick on cruises both food and otherwise but it's like I tell my friend who is afraid of flying because of plane crashes...for every plane that crashes and makes the news thousands of flights take off and landed that day safely Personally I have been on 8 cruises, only got sick one time to the point it lasted longer than a few hours and I blame the SEVERELY OVER THE TOP heavy handed use of cleaning solution that was so bad you could smell it hours after the crew got done AND the fact that despite being told MANY times to get rid of his chewing tobacco spit and not do it in the room my uncle continued to ignore both statements from everybody in the family who told him this and what it was doing more than the massive number of people
He's right about the part where locals hate you, I worked that industry from 2016 to 2020, he did make a valid point about how the cruise ships damage canals, reefs, and how the locals at whatever destination you're at hate you personally, but love you for your money.
It's actually really fun and relaxing so long as you have a very specific idea of what your vision for a vacation is. There is not a lot to do besides eating and enjoying leisurely floating on a current. If it helps, most cruise passengers are not jackasses 'cause they're as relaxed as you are; so you'll find friendly conversations no problem (at least in my experience). Rule #1 for entertainment on board: play bingo! (Not literally) There is a variety of stuff to check out and, while most of it may be mediocre, exploring your options till you find what suits you is the best way to experience the entertainment. Having money to burn is a huge help too! I hope my little op-ed encourages you to check it out. Once you do (I think), you'll be hooked. Been on 2 so far and looking forward to more! As they say, "The best things in life can happen to you so long as you lower your expectations." LOL!
5:00 It's an oversimplified statement (meant for a silly satire movie, so that's not a criticism), but it's good to make it clear: Ships, just like planes, are considered a territory of a country they belong to - therefore all crimes that took place there will be prosecuted by a court of their respective country, in case of martial law government of said country can sieze the ship and turn into a convoy or hospital ship, and so on. The cruise line described here was settled somewhere in the Liberia - so that's whose concern a missing tourist will be.
"It might catch fire and sink" Cruise ships very rarely sink. The last time was Orient Queen that was caught in the 2020 Beirut explosion and capsized. Before that was Costa Concordia in 2012
I did a cruise once, 18-years ago and hated it. Room was too small, food awful, passageways too crowded, not enough time in port destinations, waiting in long lines to get on and off.
I probably wouldn't mind the tight spaces on the ship, but short times in ports and long time to get on or off the ship would deter me. Seeing the port towns would be the major attraction for me but is apparently discouraged.
@@Achill101 A cruise might be a good way to see a bunch of different places to help decide which one you want to go back to. But the areas right around the Ports are tourist traps and you can't get a good feel for local flavor as it's all designed for the tourist. Think Times Square in NYC only tourists go there not actually New Yorkers.
@EQ - I think I have some experience in avoiding tourist traps and in seeing the real town, but I need time for that, which I might not get enough of when in port. And after having seen a town, I want to look back on it from the back of the ship and raise a glass to the memories of it. (I've never taken a cruise but traveled on many hour-long ferry rides in my life.)
@@eq2092well sometimes we do go to Times Square. But it's ONLY to GET to a Broadway show or a concert at whatever they are calling Best Buy theater these days. ( or when BB Kings was open. )
@@eq2092 yup. I've been to numerous Jamaican ports, The Bahamas, Grand Turks, Barbados, St Thomas, St Lucia, and a few others and all of them are more or less the same.
@Shortleader0 damage to reefs, the European docks are meant for smaller vessels, so the cruise ships damage those too. When one person gets sick on board it spreads quickly and then lots of people end up sick. When elderly passengers inevitably die on board they are put in freezers on the ship. Anything can happen in international waters and there are no police on ship.
I prefer cargo/container ship cruising. Quiet, peaceful, usually no more than ten or twelve passengers + crew of course. No shows, no casinos, just plenty of time to read, relax and watch the water go by.
This is satire, so it's very much an exaggeration. I've been on 12 cruises, I've never caught a stomach bug and I've never had a ship breakdown. Pretty sure the waste disposal thing is severely outdated, modern cruise ships have water treatment plants on board that release drinkable water back into the ocean.
I had a great time on a cruise with my dad and brother. We went snorkeling had shrimp and just had a bunch of fun. I created some great memories that will last for a long time.
I’ve been on 4 cruises and all of them were great. Everyday another port, who cares about the room they’re relatively cheap and have a blast on each stop.
I absolutely love cruising. IME they played up stuff that really isn’t bad and didn’t mention the things I love. I have NEVER gotten sick on cruise food, and I … er… eat my money’s worth. LOL
I took a cruise around the Pacific -- on board USS Carpenter (DD-825) exactly a half-century ago: Departed Seattle, with stops in Adak, Yokosuka, Kure, Sasebo, Keelung, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Guam, Midway, and Pearl Harbor. Was nice having guns, missiles, and small arms always available -- and all the training I could handle. Got paid, too (college vacation). Returned for fall semester with a year's full of sea stories, too. Q: What did you do over summer? A: Let me tell you about that girl in Kure... or that girl in Taipei... or the great wagyu beef in Yokohama, after luxuriating in a local onsen bath after a half-month of "Navy showers" aboard ship. The National Palace Museum in Taipei was magnificent. Took some great photos of curious Soviet warships ships closing up to and running about our destroyer squadron near Alaska. One of the best summers of my life. Nah... won't "pay" to go to sea on a bug-laden cruise ship with a bunch of folks I'd never associate with in life.
My Dad just went on a cruise to Hawaii from San Diego. They spent a good chunk of the trip with nothing to look at but the endless Pacific...just...why??
I did a cruise from Miami to Bermuda then to port in New Jersey years ago. That day when we were at sea you couldn't see anything in any direction but ocean. No other boats, no islands, nothing but ocean. It was a spectacular sight and awe inspiring... but I also kept thinking we'd be screwed if this boat broke down right here in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. It's pretty boring though unless you like drinking, eating, and watching every Pirates of the Caribbean in order (or reading).
It’s fear mongering. Go watch a ship tour of a new ship, this is a biased video for comedic value. Not all cruises / cruise lines are like how they are depicted in this video. Rooms are quite spacious as long as you get a balcony room some even the same size of a basic balcony hotel room and others with two floors, hot tubs and full maid service in your room (hefty price) but in reality the food as well is not only ‘buffet food’ there are specialty and name brand restaurants onboard and complimentary & extra paid steak houses and restaurants that serve food such as lobster, crab, calamari. They do a good job on newer ships at managing the flow of people. These are 20 floor floating cities. Some shops have go cart tracks that span two floors, 2-5 pools, some heated some not. 10+ hot tubs, full spa access, basketball courts, 5-10 restaurants with all nationalities of food some included some extra charge. Casinos which can be fun if your a gambler, live Broadway shows with comedians, dancers etc. these are professional dancers and comedians not some fake wannabe’s. It’s not all ‘bad’
Μaybe that's just in the US. Went on a cruise somewhere else for a week and it was lovely. Only issue was our suite was at the end of the ship near the motor so it was quite loud at times.
I know from the Cayman Islands when tourists come to nice jewelry stores in Georgetown the salespeople ask what hotel are you staying in. If you say a ship they will ignore you. A few years ago the Cayman Islands did a study that cruise ship passengers spend on average $20 per person when they visit. Enough to buy a T-shirt. The only reason the government wants the ships is that there is a tax they pay per passenger that docks there. Even if they stay on board or or get off..
I can enjoy the humor. I've been on different vacations and will say cruising has been the most relaxing and enjoyable of them all. It really depends on what one wants out of a vacation.
@tedfarabee3095 I like taking a tour.. get the highlights... maybe even get to see some areas a tourist can't normally go. Then I might go back to dig in deeper.
heh these are funny. but i love cruises. i love the look of the ocean, the air at night, the soft bob of the waves, waking up at a new city/port every day, being able to walk to a variety of different activities etc. and i think the food is actually fantastic. it's great having it all in one place and go explore a different city each day. there are definitely some really luxurious cruiseliners though... i've been on a few that only had about 80 guests.
Nice to read a satisfied cruiser. 96% of first time cruisers want to go again. I was the passenger services director for 9 years before I became a hotel general manager. I cannot tell you how many guests were star struck on their first cruise. Most of them wished they had done it years ago. At Princess we have a very loyal clientele. To reach the Elite level loyalty program which is 16 cruises or 151 sea days, we have an amazing number of guests at that level.
@@burningblue1254 my first time was at like 12 years old, my parents love cruises so they started taking me and I fell in love as well. I meet a lot of people very hesitant to go and when they eventually do they love it. The cruise director is the MVP of the ship. You brought happiness to so many people. Godspeed sir
@@Shishkebarbarian When I was the passenger services director, I had numerous people over the years say that they went on their first cruise because they were dragged onto it. But they have been ardent cruisers ever since. You said it right, the look of the ocean, the sound of the waves at night, breakfast coffee on the blacony, evening wine on the balcony watching other ships pass and the lights of the coast. The food, the entertainment, the grandeur of the ships. Visiting different ports and countries. A lot of people have negative opinions and have never set foot on a ship. Bravo to you!
You have to pick the right cruise line, though. My husband and I loved one cruise line, so we tried a different one and we ended up hating it. It didn't match our personality.
Me too.. we just got back from a 7 day last month and we have one booked for August. They are so much fun. I can't wait to hit that zipline in Haiti again..lol
@@lostevesy it's awesome. The only place we visited and we don't visit anymore is Nassau Bahamas. Have you done Carnival Cruise yet?. We always do Royal Caribbean but I wanna try something different
@@BoozeandNewswithTimandDut Yes some ports are better than others, sometimes just stay on the ship ~ I've done both of them Royal Caribbean seems to have the most variety. Favorite is the Oasis class since they have the most entertainment ~ Carnival is good if you like a younger crowd and partying. All depends on the boat though, smaller boats you got to make your own fun!
@@lostevesy I like the smaller ships. Jewel of the sea is my favorite ship I been on. Less lines and less crowds. I'm all for relaxing so I love Royal. But my 3 boys are all 20-21. They might enjoy carnival. Thinking of doing a carnival in the spring and taking them
Has Roger done anything on waterparks yet? I worked at one as a maintenance person for a few months and one of the first things I was told was the code to use when “biological incidents“ occurred in the pools and slides. It cured me of ever wanting to send my kids to one.
There are some women who go swimming when they are on their period. I always thought that was disgusting myself and no different to if there's a code brown or yellow. I haven't swum in anything for decades as sea/river/pool it's all got shite in it. 🎉
We went on the Big Red Boat when I was in 5th grade (I'm 40 now). It wasn't like Roger's ship, and I got to swim with the dolphins for free because my parents abandoned my sister and me with a group of strangers to sneak off (not child care, or even actual employees, just rando strangers, and my sister freaked out after a couple hours).
I think that's because over time companies realized that spending on marketing over spending on quality has better results. On paper, going around on sea stopping every now and then and then continue until you make a big loop sounds fun/ a good time. But when it is reduced to nothing but quite literal showboating then it's crap.
Went on the final sailing of the Big Red Boat. Crew was surly and sarcastic because they were soon to be unemployed. It was just like a bit from Saturday Night Live! Loved it and laughed at the irony. My wife and kids looked at me funny, though.
We just spend a little over 12k on my father's funeral. And we did not embalm him , we did not buy the fancy sign in book, fancy cards and other smallish things they offered....didn't get a limo, only a hearse, bought a semi inexpensive casket, but had 2 day wake instead of 1 for all the people he knew. We also had to spend another 2.5 k for opening and closing fees at the cemetery as he bought plots only. I would imagine if we bought the things we did not buy it would have been 16K plus the plots.
@@lee6198 Well, you could certainly do it all yourself. Have the body brought to your house and displayed in the living room before it starts stinking too much (this is what flowers were for in the old days) for the wake and then hoist it in your pickup truck and bring it to the cemetery where you can somehow put it in the vault you must purchase - after you dig a hole for it. Sorry your father didn't give enough of a crap to arrange to pay for his own funeral, but the fact others will take care of it for a fee is a convenience worth paying for. Next time, have the person cremated.
Crappy food with two choices. Take it. Or Leave it. And Once your clothes go to the laundry, You'll never see them again. Sitting for days waiting for noone to visit. The only faces you see all day are the ones who come to bring you food, medicine, and to change your diaper.
3:07 In fact by the early 20th Century there were cruises similar to the ones which exist now primarily in the Mediterranean, though they became more popular in America during prohibition. It is where the Booze Cruise comes from.
Yet another instance of me agreeing with Billy Connolly, cruise ships are like prison with prawn cocktail and the additional risk of drowning. Whatever is appealing about it escapes me completely.
If weed was legalized I would like it more I went a while ago and it was fun but I don’t drink and being surrounded by drunk people without weed was pretty hard.
I lost it at "Ignore you kids for a week and let them go all 'Lord Of The Flies' in the kid-zone."
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The two parents nodding along also
ideal!
ME TOOOOO
Right? That was hilarious! It’s the true stuff that’s the funniest!
I remember being on holiday in Jamaica when a cruise liner came in. 2 hours before the town was quiet with a few stalls around selling food, hardware and some small souvenirs, and there was a couple of radios on with the local talk radio playing quietly. Then as the cruise liner docked I watched the locals, with almost military precision, change from their jeans and shorts for tastelessly colourful Caribbean clothing, put out trays and trays of souvenirs with everything at least 3 times the previous price and set up loudspeakers everywhere playing calypso. The tourists came saying how everyone was so happy and the island was so colourful and musical.
Within 2 hours the tourists were back on the ship and the entire town, again with military precision reverted back to normal.
It was brilliant to watch.
Watching that occur sounds like more fun than being on the cruise!
2hrs ? really cruise ships dock for more than 2 hours. this seems made up.
@@1317Greg No this is the truth. It would have been pointless to dock for just 2 hours there as the town wasn't that close to the port, and it was a pretty big place.
Why would I need to lie? It doesn't add to the story.
@@1317Greg clearly someone failed reading in 1st grade.
He said that it was normal TWO HOURS BEFORE the vessel docked. TWO HOURS AFTER it left, things were normal again. He never said it was there for two hours.
Bloody legands
I live on an island and I laughed my ass off at the “locals will hate you” line
It’s true
They would hate him chonging on whatever it is he's chonging on no matter where he is...
We live on an island too. I dont mind tourists but having as many tourist in town at one time as there are residents in the town is a bit ridiculous.
I live on the beach of Florida watched it go from a logging town with gravel roads to VRBOs around every corner that scare away all wildlife and nesting sea turtles.
We were on a cruise in Alaska and made a port call in Skagway. Plenty of shops to visit. The shop owners didn't hide their hatred of the tourists, but they didn't mind their money. One shop owner made some snarky comment to me as I was checking out. I just left my purchase on the counter and told her I hoped she had a better day after we left.
Maybe cruises are different but people loved seeing aircraft carriers coming in. That was a lot of money coming into port and people go out of their way to get in on the action. Never seen anyone be openly hostile or hate on the people coming in either.
"We market cruises as a luxury to people for whom any vacation is a luxury." - LOL, so true!
Well what's wrong with that, though? People who can't afford much, deserve vacations, too.
...sometimes the SHIP is the vacation ...
@@sabrinashelton1997 Not a vacation filled with disease though
@@sabrinashelton1997its not really cheaper than a ton of other vacations… a two week cruise will often coet you like 2.5-3k if you include transportation to the ship and purchases during the cruise. Some are even more expensive.
I went 5 weeks to thailand/singapore,/taiwan, including all costs for a similar price
@@willgaukler8979I agree. Cruising is a memorable experience & some people really enjoy it. I’ve been on one, it was ok not my fave vaca ever but memorable.
As a former crew member of a cruise vessel of 3yrs, I approve this message! So much of this is true!
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@@burningblue1254 Have You worked on a cruise line? How many Contracts did You finish? I was aboard NCLA's Pride of America back in 2005 when construction of her was finishing up in Bremerhaven, Germany, and I was aboard her during all of her sea trials, and when she sailed across the Atlantic, and into NY Harbor in early June '05. I was aboard when she sailed down the East Coast of the United States, and through the Panama Canal, and to her assignment to Hawai'i where she still is today. None of that was a vacation, let alone a picnic. Crew members worked 100+hrs/week. I didn't think that was possible until I saw my paystubs. I'm surprised I didn't suffer from exhaustion or burnout. Oh, and fun fact: Lloyd-Werft, where the America was built, was one of the shipyards the Germans used to build U-boats during ww2. Look up Lloyd-Werft's website. In the Opening Photo, there's a picture of 2 different vessels, one of them is The Pride of America fully painted
... the crew tho overworked currently can make your cruise wonderful ... thank you so very much ...
I'm disabled and discovered cruising as an amazing way to travel for me. Everthing on board is accessible and I don't have to worry about finding hotels, food, transportation. And even if I can't do everything my family can leave me to explore on my own without feeling guilty as there is always plenty to do. I found a travel agent that specialzes in wheelchair travel and cruises are by far the best and most economical option. I struggle with the guilt supporting am industry with such horrible employee treatment and environmental impact.
Don’t feel to bad about the employee pay. These guys go “ohhhh $500 a month how do these people live….”Most of the time the employees are from countries where $100 a month is a fantastic pay rate $500 is crazy. I do Lyft near the canaveral cruise port and get cruise employees all the time usually ending or starting their contracts and I have asked them if they feel abused by their employers. I have not had a single one of my dozens of encounters say they are miss treated they say it’s hard to be away from family for so long but they are paid well enough that they are able to afford better opportunities when they return home. One of my riders was telling me she had done 3 6 month contracts and had saved enough with them that she was able to buy her family a home and a store front and that they are now financially independent. She planned to do one more contract to get a little more and then call it quits.
Thanks for the reminder that some people have a better experience traveling this way!
@@Baker_king12 WRONG. For average pay rate like say the Philipines is about 308USD so saying 100USD per month is "fantastic" is a whole pack of lies. (Philipines is where many of the cruise ship employees are from)
Your encounters are when they are still employed and therefore threatened they will lose their jobs. I instead always hear the horror stories after they got off the cruise ships, about how tired they are working all the time with not a single rest day, not allowed to use the facilities like the bars/dining area, and often bruised from the abuse from the "caucasian masters". And many of these Philipines workers are actually illegally riddled with debt to get these jobs from people who tricked them which adds another layer of why they won't tell you the truth on those ships.
Not the only worrying thing about cruise ships. The fact you could disappear and no one will get justice for you are neon red lights of danger signs.
There are many cases of children drowning in those cruise ship pools because cruise ships are not obligated to have life guards or other safety measures.
I have sailed 40 cruises on several different lines. I became a travel agent to support my cruising habit. I love it and have seen much of the world while cruising. There’s more to cruising than just the Caribbean and back.
If you're going to do a cruise, just do a day cruise on a river or something. I've done a few in Germany and they were really nice. It stops at some old castles you get to check out and the scenery is nice. You can also get off and stay overnight in any of the towns it makes a stop at and come back the next day and catch the boat back to where you came from.
Is that Viking Cruises? That looks fun.
And above all, they’re not nearly as bad for the environment as ocean cruises.
Now THAT sounds like a good time...
Who doesn't love a fucking castle LoLz
This is the only cruise you could get me to go on
a day cruise through Greek islands are cool too
"Ignore your kids for a week and let them go all 'Lord Of The Flies' in the kid-zone" it's pretty sad how accurate this is. So many parents go on cruises to trick little Timmy into thinking they're going on a "family vacation" rather than abandoning him with a babysitter for a week while they get wasted poolside.
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Little Timmy might as well get use to being tricked ! It is the new American lifestyle. If the American way was honest! Have you been rogered? Bod da boom.
Babysitting kids for a week on a cruise ship or anywhere for that matter is NOT A VACATION.
I went on a cruise and some of the teenagers started a Mexican Cartel
Cruise ship was a lot catchier than "plague barge."
it's an accurate term, when one person gets sick, it spreads like wildfire. Not to mention the morgue onboard when an elderly passenger (average ages being between 65 and 70) dies, oh, and I'm forgetting about how overpriced everything is, from the souvenirs made in China, to the food cooked onboard, etc.
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Easier to say, too!
@@forexed8948 hey, that sounds like a life goal, plan to be a burden and a haunting symbol of mortality for a few thousand people for nearly a week by waiting till you're near the end about to shuffle off your mortal coil, just to pass on while on a cruse ship knowing how much trouble you'll cause for so many people. great idea.
lol, that is hilarious!
After 15 years in the Navy, you’ll never convince me to pay for a trip at sea.
Also, the second someone gets sick it’s quarantine time. A bug runs through a ship at light speed.
Thank you. The very idea of a cruise just makes me squeamish. All that water and nary a drop to drink... and the PEOPLE. Ugh.
Thank you for your service. And also I have no desire to go a cruise because they just seem nasty besides all the shit I have heard about them in the news!!
Shipmate uncle Sam said u gotta love it 😅
That is why, in the US Navy, cleaning the ship is just short of being practiced like a religion. Of course, Damage Control is a religion in the Navy.
@Paul T. damage control is definitely frequently practiced I was on r division with a few DC men
I used to work on a cruise ship for a year and a half in Hawaii and am presently writing a Thriller novel inspired by that. The "Incidents Happen" section, ESPECIALLY when it comes to missing women and reporting of said crime to ship security, hit REALLY hard.
I once went on a ship on rivers throughout European Russia. One of animators tried to entertain us but failed miserably. She went off in Chaikovsky city Perm Krai, and even did not bother to sign her name off the ship registry. The whole ship was looking for her for the rest of the day, and finally she was fired from the cruise company.
@@liliya_aseeva imagine creating a dummy account just so you can use the word "Woke" to mean anything you don't like.
@@TonyAtmos rephrased the comment SpEcIaLly for you. The story was still funny tho
@@liliya_aseeva Your lord thanks you. 👍🏾
Incidents happen in Miami, New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas, yet nobody bitches about it. Cruises are far safer.
“They didn’t have a ship that left New York and came back….that would be stupid”. Man, that was hilarious. People from early 1900’s would think we are crazy
They would, but for different reasons. First of all, yes, people used ships because there just wasn't any other way to cross the ocean, so it's true that rich people wouldn't travel by sea, but now think about the majority of the passengers on a ship. They were third class people, all of whom would think we are crazy to board a ship because it's scary, and also why would you do it for fun? They had to work all day, almost all days.
Plus, they wouldn't be aware we now have showers and toilets in every room.
There is no point in history where humans arent crazy
The first true ocean liners were built at the very end of the 1800s (White Star's Big Four offered such amenities aboard as indoor pools and a Turkish bath, reading and smoking rooms), and only at the beginning of the 20th century did you get ships like _Kaiser Wilhelm de Gross_ , _Mauretania_ , and _Olympic_ , which were more along the lines of what people think of ( _Olympic_ especially, being _Titanic_ 's older but slightly smaller sister).
Before then, because ships were small due to the limitations placed on construction by using wood, as well as sails, you actually did put your life in the crew's hands over the months you'd be sailing across the ocean. You might not even make it at all, but you took that chance. Steam made things more reliable, and steel allowed for larger vessels, which gave you a better chance of survival, but if you got in trouble, lifeboats were horrendously dangerous unless a rescue ship was right there. Especially in a storm. The Marconi wireless was a new inclusion on ships in the early 1900s, and before then you basically had to rely on providence for rescue if your ship was lost. _The Great Eastern_ and _The Great Western_ were some of the most reliable of the first stream ships, and they were powered by paddlewheel rather than propeller, and conditions aboard were still bad, so you wouldn't want to sail on them today.
But things got steadily better as the technology improved, and competition kept shipping companies like Cunard and NDL outdoing each other. Eventually you had massive, fast ships like _Normandie_ and _Queen Mary_ , and the fastest of them all, _SS United States_ . But a boat will never outpace an airliner. That's why there's only one ocean liner now, Cunard's _Queen Mary 2_ . Know who owns her? Carnival Cruiselines. Yes, that Carnival.
We certainly think they are crazy! And people from 2100 think your crazy too.
@@Number6_ Youre so hopeful that we'll live that long & not regress. Its strange.
I once heard someone say that going on a cruise is like being stuck on a boat with everyone at your local mall right now. Totally accurate!
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Honestly some of the larger ships with newer layouts are done so well that they don't feel crowded and you don't run into people. A couple years ago we went on a cruise with 20 other people and didn't even see some of them for days at a time...and we had mutual plans!
Yes, I totally agree. I've been on several cruises over the past twenty years and it's nothing like what most of the people commenting here, have to say. They're just grasping for excuses to justify their dislike of cruising.
@@nycchris8743 So true. And you can tell most have never actually been on one, yet they have strong opinions.
There are not so many retired Germans at my local mall, thankfully.
I live in a cruise ship port. Every week during the season, thousands of people descend on us, making daily life impossible, asking questions, making rude comments etc. Sorry, it's a normal Wednesday lunchtime and I'm not part of your holiday! And the people. OMG 🫣 All identical according to whichever cruise line it is, but you can take a guess. Put me right off cruising.
Oh I feel so bad for you ngl on my end this us6 one of the surprisingly many benefits of living in a town out in the sticks you don't get bothered by tourists because tourists don't visit this town LOL
I live in Fort Lauderdale, I feel you! 😂
I feel awful for Greece and Italy， etc for this reason.
I live in a tourist town that relies heavily on them in summer and winter…I can’t imagine how much more annoying tourists would be if they didn’t actually buy things on the visit, that sounds beyond frustrating.
That’s like buying a house next to the railroad tracks and then complaining about the noise from the trains! When you bought that house, you had to expect this. Or did you not do your homework?
I took a cruise once. I figured it would be an easy way to travel with my elderly parents and my 3yo son. I suppose in some ways it was easier, but it confirmed what I already suspected - cruise travel is definitely not for me. It was a Caribbean cruise, yet they had no Caribbean food on the ship. We visited seven islands, but by the time you get off the ship, you only have a few hours before you get back on again. Our two best days were: St Kitts and Nevis, where we hired a local taxi and just pretty much let him decide where to take us. He’d make a suggestion, and we either agree or ask him to pick something else. The other best day was on Barbados. As fast as possible we got past the mile long mall they always have at the docks. We just went to the town square, hung out, took a tour of the Parliamentary building, got some street food, hung out in the park with all the business people on lunch break. It was our best day! Seriously, though, never again.
Sounds like you had a good time. So why never again? Some cruises go to a lot of ports for a short time, some go to a few ports for overnight stays. Sounds like you chose the wrong itinerary for what you like to do. Every cruise I've been on has international food from all over the world and the theme changes each night. Also, many have specialty restaurants that cater to particular tastes.
@@stargazer7644 Sorry, no. Cruising takes away everything I love about travel. No shade to anyone who likes it! But I would much rather backpack, stay in a hostel, have to figure out local train and bus schedules, eat street food that I don't recognize, get lost trying to follow a map. That's a nightmare to some people, but it's my dream vacation!
They don’t usually have “Caribbean food” on the ship since most cruisers are Muricans and Canadians whose only “spice” is ketchup and who can’t handle flavourful food of the islands. The ship caters to the majority, not to the few people who can actually enjoy the taste of island food.
@ritawilbur6128 yeah, the purpose of a cruise is to relax at a moving hotel. And you gotta pay for a great experience.
I did the same with my son on a cruise. When we got to Jamaica, I found a cabbie who took us to street markets, fern gully, etc. Way better than walking around tourist shops.
Roger has put into words and visuals how I feel about cruises 😂
When I first heard about cruise ships during my tween years, I still looked and talked like I was in my primary grades, yet I had a hunch there was a lot that could go wrong. It was only for a little of my adolescence when I thought it would give me a taste of the nouveau riche life.
@@dominicfucinari1942 Everyone keeps trying to get me to go on a cruise. I never liked the idea of it I don't like being "locked up". Anyone who asks me again to go on a cruise, I am sending them this vid.
@@LivingInTheShadethis video is purely fear mongering and heavily biased. If you cheap out on a cruise then you may have a bad experience.
@@LilJonBigNuts I have never liked the idea of a cruise and your comment will not change that. If you want to go on a cruise go ahead.
@@LilJonBigNuts I agree
I live in Barcelona and I can relate to the part when they say "the ship comes, and locals see a terrifying sea scraper, like something out of a disaster movie". I don't mind people visiting Barcelona, but hell, it's too much when they come in groups of 3000 people. I really hate these cruises.
And who the hell are you, no one cares if you mind or not. Lmao 😅
Barcelona was our departure port & yes I feel bad for you residents
@@cherylsmith4826 just to be clear, I don't blame people who come here, but these big companies and lack of regulation
Olympics?
Don't blame you one bit.
I mean, he's correct, however I had a blast on a cruise around Italy when I was 15. The ship food was amazing. 24-hour personal pizzas made-to-order. We stopped in France and I bought a decorative sword. They wouldn't let me back on the ship with the sword, so I had to go to a local post office and figure out French. I still have the sword.
I’m happy you managed to get the sword home! Lol
yea but htings change over 10 years, and to the worst
... and those memories... bet you never forget ... back in the day ...
Funny, exactly the same happened to me we stopped France and they would let me back on board with a sword. Except the sword is still in France and so am I...help!
Wouldn't let a 15yr. Old on board carrying a midevil sword?...idiots! 😂
As a former employee, you've forgotten the most important thing; nickel and diming the pax for every last dollar on their cruise card, to be settled up on the last night of the cruise. Sticker shock is a real thing...
I was going to say the same thing. All those fun activities, luxurious spa treatments, and tropical drinks come with a price tag unless you pay top dollar for an ultra luxury cruise (and then the only thing you’re not paying for is alcohol and some shore excursions). Then there are the closed-off areas with their own uncrowded pools and restaurants reserved for people who pay for the most expensive suites.
I thought he would talk about the sleazy way they market the cruises. They will advertise something very low like a 7 day cruise for $500/person but by the time you are done you are paying $5,000.
Is it true personnel live in miserable cabins?
@@NihilistAlien I'd call the accommodation "bunks". "Cabin" sounds too much like "a place to live".
But, compared to an attack sub, the bunks are luxurious. Well, a cold-war era sub...a diesel-electric one...a Russian diesel-electric cold-war era attack sub. I'd rather spend the night in a cold-war era French nuclear sub than in a cruise-ship "cabin".
Oh, wait. I was talking about passenger cabins. You meant...staff "cabins"? Uh. Still beats the Russian sub. But since you are supposed to work you ass off, you won't spend much time there anyway.
Sticker shock victim here…we were told “all inclusive” and that the alcohol was included…what they didn’t tell us was it was only “domestic alcohol”. Umm domestic to where? We got a $700 bar tab for 4 ppl, one was a minor and I didn’t drink. So it was 2 ppl.
I scoured our papers when we got home and nowhere did it say “domestic alcohol only”. Still don’t know exactly what drinks we were charged for. Just know we’d have been arrested for not paying.
Here's another thing about cruise ships - they breakdown ... a lot. Being stranded at sea can be unpleasant, especially if the power goes out, the toilets on a cruise ship need electricity to flush, by the way, if there is a powersurge, the toilets can overflow, so expect to be bathed in the whole ship's liquids. It can take a week for salvage teams to tow the cruise ship back to port, and passengers cannot be evacuated unless there's a distress call, so sit tight and have fun.
Good God
Me: ahhhhhhhh
Others: Vacation!
if you had to piss you went to the toilet which is the main problem because it is clogged and overflowing onto the deck and into rooms it you had to crap they gave you a little red biohazard bag so the hallway is covered in little red shit bags on every floor and it is also hot af so you grab a bed sheet leave your room and go to the deck and make a tent like everyone else Yeah I don't think Horton knows how accurate that lord of the flies line was😭
Given that, how did anyone manage to convince the public that cruise ships were the luxurious experience of a lifetime?
Hmmm ... wonder why we never hear about this part of cruises. heh!
The video makes a very good point about cruise passengers spending their money for "beds and booze" on the cruise ships, so the locals can only make money on selling trinkets and maybe some snacks and drinks. On the other hand, if the tourists stayed on land and spent money for food and lodging in the towns, then the locals get a bigger portion of the tourists' spending.
They get both.
what a coincidence that I see this just as my family is trying to plan a cruise. Gonna play this on blast!!!
Romantic cruise ship planning for my bf and I. 😅
don't do it...
I'm hoping a successful feature film adaptation of [u]A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again[/u] gets made soon.
Just saw this video (in my feed). Can’t wait to leave for my cruise this Sunday. My last day at work was today.
I’ve been on 2 cruises. So far, so good. 😁
The point about locals hating cruisers is really true.
I come from a tiny town that in the summers gets jam-packed on nearly daily basis by cruise tourists, and it's treated like the plague has struck the town.
People stay inside, close their windows and curtains and hide until they are gone.
The town has just around 2500-3000 people living there, but some of the cruise liners hold up to a 5000. That's crazy.
And the worst part is that only a very small handful of "local" businesses see any increase in trade during these times.
The small businesses in fact see a reduction in trade because the locals will be staying in their homes during these days
Edit:
One question for those who have been on a cruise...
What happens to your brains on these tours. Do your brain cells also go on a vacation someplace else?
In my old hometown we never used to lock the front doors. There was no reason since break-ins were extremely rare.
But we were pretty much forced to do so when those cruise liners were in port.
The reason being numerous times these tourists would simply open the doors and invite themselves inside, as if those houses were there for their enjoyment.
Onetime I was in my kitchen preparing food when I hear footsteps behind me. An middle aged couple in brightly yellow and blue jackets were standing there looking so dumb and confused. They couldn't make themselves understandable in English but the few German words I managed to pick out they were trying to explain they were looking for another couple they had been walking with.
When I showed them to the door I found their friends staring into my bedroom window as if it was an exhibit.
But mine is by far not the only case like this. Hence we would lock our doors and close our curtains. But still those people would treat our houses and lawns as if it had all been put there just for them.
Norway?
So...as expected, the people who take cruises are mostly senile and lobotomized boomers who have 0 respect for other people's properties, thinking the entire world is an amusement park for then to walk around.
@@Ethaara close. But I have a cousin in Norway who tells me his town has this same problem
@@S.R.Crnt. I work close to the port in Amsterdam where these ships are docked if they are in the city, it is NOT normal that most of the time they are way bigger than the buildings next to them. It is scary as heck when I see them arriving to port. I cant magine how this feels in a town where there are less poeple usually than the number of turists on board of these. I am really feel sorry for everyone who has to deal with this plague.
The dumping of waste from a ship that big is so disgusting. I get annoyed by smaller yachts dumping their waste and stinking up rivers. Imagine a ship that big. Gross
So true. We’ve been building extra docks in Greece for cruise liners and all I see is the smog every day and the millions of people evading the towns without leaving a single dime here. We have so many tourists in Greece in July and August that the most locals cannot even go on vacations themselves. Local economies aren’t helped as much as you think. It’s the corporate hotel chains and cruise liners that make the money. Just like Thailand people are starving but the country is still flooding with tourists till the coral reefs are completely damaged and all the waters are polluted.
there a lot of money spent to re- fuel and off load their brown water ... it's all happening on the docks tho ...
Took a cruise once, 28 years ago, on Royal Caribbean. Never again. As nice as it was, we were still trapped on a boat. If you don't like the room, the neighbors, the food etc. you can not leave. Every vacation since, we have booked a hotel in a cool city or rented a cottage at the beach. It costs less and we are free to leave or go to a different restaurant...
It's cheaper to cruise when you add up meals and accommodations. But, I've had my best times on excursions while in ports, and those do add up.
@@YudronWangmo it's cheaper, until you catch an illness that you can't escape because everyone onboard is sick.
You mean Royal Horton, right? Libel laws and all 😅
I have never been on a cruise. If I want to see the ocean, I book a hotel room where I can walk down the stairs and be on the beach.
Cruising has changed so much in just the 15 years since we started. Now there is enough to do on ship that we dont even feel the need to go into port, and my kid has stuff to do without going to the kids club and we enjoy spending time together. We have done a couple of resorts and the good canine lodge and cruising is definitely more bang for my buck and more fun activities. Plus watching the ocean is the best at any time of day from our balcony.
But, if you have been watching cruise vlogs and they still dont seem fun, dont let people try to make you feel bad that you dont want to go either. Unless its your spouse, then pack up and dont forget the reef safe sunscreen.
Trident Roger seeing you always is a blessing for my tired eyes.
I realy like the way reborn Cracked is going.
Hope the Cast keeps growing.
You guys are doing great work!
Thanks!
It's hard to decide between tridents, dual-bladed axes, or epic longswords. I'm more of a mage-style character, so I'd look better with a tome, staff, or maybe a flat weapon such as a war mallet.
Used to work on cruise ships, this is mostly true, they can be amazing but you have to choose a smaller ship and a great itinery. Do the shore excursions and spend some time at local places before or after the cruise.
Think Alaska, panama canal , Antarctica etc. You will spend a lot more but it will be worth it.
Its mostly bs.
This guy is one of the greatest comedic talents of our time 😂😂😂
@@coffeeNTrees Kind of what I was going to say... acting seems like a talent thing too.
Finally someone said what my subconscious knew all along.
I would never willingly burn my vacation time and money on a cruise. I try to get away from people, not be trapped with them
Ships are so big now, you don't feel "trapped". I can see how you would think that, since you imagine several thousands of people on a small boat. But if you take a decent cruise with a good Cruise Line, you will never feel trapped. If you feel trapped or are standing in queue, you are on the wrong cruise...
@@ZeroxTechnic You're right, I think it's kind of like going to Wal-Mart when the parking lot is full. It usually doesn't seem that crowded inside, the place is so big. I've never been on a cruise, but I have a friend that goes on one every few years, and he loves them. The video certainly was funny, and not entirely wrong, but I think a cruise would be a decent vacation if you know what to expect. Just don't book one on the super cheap line, you'll get what you pay for.
I don't like people, so yeah I won't be going on one any time soon.
I like being by myself, I work by myself. So yeah I believe it would be Hell.
get a room with a balcony and you can keep away from most of them
The ship is 1200 feet long, 215 feet wide and has 18 decks. You can certainly find someplace quiet.
"Disease incubating floating dormitories" 😂 that's pretty accurate
Since the pandemic we have introduced 100% fresh air inside the ship, infrared filters that kill 99.99% of viruses. Handwashing and purell stations. Enhanced cleaning of handrails, elevator buttons etc.
Its the .1% that's going to kill you@burningblue1254
I worked on for a cruise ship company and it was hell on earth. I never got an off day nor a break, I didn't complete my contract and came home that is just modern day slavery. What a saw while there made me think that the cruise industry must be one of the most wasteful industries in the world.
Damn. That sucks. I'm sure it wasn't pleasant but slavery is a term where you don't have a choice and you did . There are shit companies and we have a choice to work for them. Slaves had no choice and were fucked over for many years.
I'd say hospital/medical is up there too for wasteful industries. A lot of packaging on single-use things in a modern hospital that get thrown away (back in the day they would use a lot of reusable things that can be steam cleaned via an autoclave)
Source: my husband and I work in a hospital (me on Labour and Delivery and him on waste management)
Yeah the workload on the cruise ships was impossible, and split shifts seven days a week for four months leaves you very very tired. I got burnout after working for a well-known cruise line for four years. I quit and got a job on the Stranraer-Belfast ferry for a year. Much easier.
Well they weren't talking about working on a cruise ship
My wife and i just took our first cruise a few months ago, 10 days, we hit the bahamas and actually had a blast. But its all, also kinda true. There really isn't all that much to do on board unless you really like reading books to the sound of the ocean, which we both do quite a bit. We were unwilling to spend more than a few hundred bucks at the casino, and that lasted us about... oh.. ten minutes or so. The shows were good and it was fun dressing up for dinner, really, eating was the most enjoyable part honestly, he isnt wrong, you basically eat whenever you want and balloon up to an obnoxious size. We got kind of bored after five days and we ended up spending our last day pretty much completely in our cabin watching movies or playing games on my laptop or reading books. If we ever do it again it will probably be shorter, only 4 or 5 days at most, and probably a Mediterranean cruise. The bahamas were nice.. but.. also very poor. We didn't really feel all that safe going out and about, particularly in Nassau. I will also say, while expensive, the alcohol package was absolutely worth it.
I was paying for a cruise rn. I ended up changing to just fly to coasta Rica. This is hitting too hard😂😂😂
If you have the chance, Monteverde is stunning. Tamarindo is kinda overrated, if you ask me.
cruises are actually really fun
I am from Costa Rica! I would really advise to visit Isla Tortuga and Bahía Ballena both are so beautiful places and excellent for tourists
@@jt5341 no, I already changed plans because it was cheaper and more convenient then the cracked video came out a few days later
🎉😢😢🎉soo. Poopoo poo
I worked in the kids' area for a cruise line out of california, and the lord of the flies line killed me 😂. Fun fact, roughly a third of the crew is drunk every night. They know how to party.
I guess the other 2/3 are just asleep 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don't know what cruise line it was. I can tell you this. You are required to be at your work station ontime, presentable appearance, and maintain a high standard of performance. I had a junior assistant cruise director on his first contract that we had to send home because of his late night drinking antics. On matters of dismissal we have a tribunal, the captain, staff captain and the senior officer of the department which in this case was myself, hotel department general manager. Its unfortunate but necessary.
"Surrounded by an ocean you can never touch" 🤣🤣
You don't know how happy I am to laugh at a Roger video. I love the reference to the Lord of the Flies by leaving your kids in the daycare for a week. This is why I always watch these, whenever they appear in my recommendations.
As a former cruise ship engineer, this is spot on.
Actual I’ve noticed with all the stuff included… some of the cheaper cruises cost less factoring in plane tickets, hotel rooms, food, booze, community amenities, etc.
I totally agree-- there is NOTHING that can get me on another cruise ship....
Biggest problem - TOO DAMN MANY OTHER PEOPLE ON BOARD. You eat in shifts - use pools in shifts - do activities in shifts etc.
And the worst part is each town you visit is exactly the same as the last one. Same stores and same restaurants.
It's worth doing once. Once.
I would never go on a cruise!
Never want to be on a big boat with a crowd of nitwits and their swarm of maggots.
remember the person who spilled her coffee on you and somehow made it your fault?
you'll see her again this evening at the dining hall.
@@gendoruwo6322 😅too true !
@@thesatsui Its not same in Europe ..i been on 10 cruises in europe ,i have 2 more this year ..that on 0:52 is Kotor from i witch i had girlfriend 20 years ago
Cruises are a super awesome and easy way to expose kids to international travel. So much lower stress than driving or flying to multiple places, packing and unpacking several times. It’s obviously not as in depth an experience, because you’re only at each port for a day, but it still gives them some exposure.
It's also super economical when you break it down. It'd be nearly impossible to get the same amenities on land for a cheaper price.
It's also more accessible for people with disabilities than travelling by plane (packing your chair and hoping it's not broken during the flight) and seeking for several accessible hotels, restaurants, shops etc. during the holidays. Cruise is literally an utopian dream to someone with an electric wheelchair.
@@Pali729 I agree. Most deals I've had have been about $100 a day- more or less... and that has typically been a balcony. I always say- you could go to Needles California- stay at the Motel 6- eat your meals at Denny's and you'll spend more than if you were on a cruise.
I don't really agree with much of this video...
I found my cruise to be extremely economical, enjoyable, safe, etc.
The worst thing about the cruise was the sad selection of beers 🤷♂️
The thing with cruises is that you get what you pay for. If you go on Carnival, you're going to get a cheap vacation. If you want the luxury experience, you go on Celebrity, Holland America, or Cunard.
We evade our taxes by flying foreign flags yet expect the US Government to bail us out when a pandemic hits!
I don't believe they got a dime.
@@brunkerjCorrect
To register a ship in the United States it must be built in the United States. There are no shipyards in the United States that are able to build a modern cruise ship. Many companies such as Royal Caribbean are headquarter in Miami, however can not registered their ships there because of the US Maritime law (the ships are not built in the US), so they register them in the Bahamas. This is an example of a US Politician shooting themselves in the foot with a 'good idea' law.
Secondly, the cruise line never received any money from the US Government during Covid, but were forced to shut down, then had to follow a series of strict reopening rules that the airlines, public transit and hotels were exempt from.
@@jeffreyromanik I learned a little. Thank you.
They didn’t get a U.S. government bailout.
I had the good fortune of working on a cruise ship as a contractor making modifications. What I was made aware of due to being able to see the
behind the scenes operation and, after some socializing with the crew, found out things that the crew are told absolutely to keep to themselves. Period.
I have not been on one since and am mystified when I see throngs of people pile aboard completely clueless as to what they really stepped onto.
Keep to themselves, eh? I'm surrounded by people who put a lot of value into socialization, so they'd find it a total dead zone.
Oh come now, you can’t say all that and not tell us. Give us the tea!
I've heard the same for airplanes
This is why I like Virgin Voyages. No kids, no buffets, no bacteria coming from a trough of food for the buffet-eating masses. There's no nickel and diming either, asking you to pay for everything else once onboard since almost everything is included in the initial pricing.
So....what, they cook individually?
This is true it’s pretty great
@@MaxW-er1hm No, they have several different restaurants and eateries on board. And to replace the traditional buffet they have a place called the Galley where you just order from instead
Finally an informed opinion! Mind you the price point reflects it!
I'm one of the crazy ones that likes cruise ships, as I have been on 14 so far. Been to a few resorts but still prefer a cruise over a resort. Alaskan cruise was the best with a balcony. View of ocean, mountains, glaciers, rivers, eagles, whales, seals and so much more.
I, too, like cruises, but am ashamed of knowing that they hold their garbage until they get into international waters and dump, like, "everything". They also switch their fuel source to a crude form of diesel that is crazy pollution and isn't allowed to be burned almost anywhere else. The food is great, though, and it feels like you're living as a higher class.
@@robspiess source?
@@kevinneville5876 Read the wikipedia article on "Heavy fuel oil" for the alternate fuel source. For dumping, International law allows discharge of untreated sewage beyond 12 miles from shore. There are a lot of lawsuits for them dumping closer than that (google "cruise ships 20 million" for some examples).
Oh, this is probably a good read as well: wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_ship_pollution_in_Europe
@@robspiess first time in my life I read an answer to the comment "source" that ACTUALLY contains reliable information
What happened?!
Roger is national (or should I say international?) treasure
We had a splendid time on the one "big boat" cruise we took: Princess through Alaska. Otherwise, it's small boats all the way. They're more intimate, roomy, and the excursions are more fun. You actually get to experience the cities you visit.
You had me at “eat seven meals a day.”
Reason we took cruises. 1 Each day you wake up in a different city in Europe. Tried driving forget that because you waste all your time on the road. The roads are so narrow in small towns they are terrifying to drive in and the signs and even side of the street you drive on make it more difficult than you think. Accident anyone? because they drive on the sidewalk in Italy and that is no joke. We couldn't even rent a car in Italy years ago but that is changed now (taxi ride in Rome was the most terrifying experience ever because no hands on the wheel and he was using all his cell phones while we went down the center of the freeway also stops for anything were ignored) 2 You are on a schedule so eating and waking for tours starting early makes you adapt to the time zone change quickly which is very hard flying from the west coast of the US. 3 Cheaper than paying for unlimited meals, hotel room, and entertainment every place you stop. 4 Entertainment is pretty good as far as I was concerned and river cruises don't have that and cost more. Local places like a pub might have some and I saw a local show in Switzerland, then you can take a tour that includes Russian dancers but entertainment isn't going to be Vegas 5 Take the smaller ships that can go to the small ports of Europe. They want you on the big ones to save them money. Have you ever seen 3 cruise ships dump all the people on board at an Alaskan town with exactly one street on the edge between water and mountains? Be careful what kind of ship you take. You cannot control what other ships are docked at the same time. Also Europe has many holidays and times when things are not open (even Rome always had their doors locked down and never could figure out when they were open when I stayed there). They eat dinner into the wee hours of the night so don't expect things to be the same. Just enjoy the fact they try to theme the food based on where you are docked since you come back exhausted. Also those all day tours will really kill you off if you are old (even if it doesn't involve biking or a ton of climbing). Study up a lot before going on a cruise or tour using TH-cam. Do not take a trip without extreme study about what to expect and what to not do at airports, on ships, in ports etc. Ignorance will really make you hate your trip. If you get sea sick take pills and if you really want to see open air museums in Europe that you cannot get to otherwise (these are small towns with furnished buildings of all types from all time periods) then rent a car or even better get a bus tour so you do not have to drive. I would start with a cruise and work your way up to more adventure when you know what cities you want to spend more time in like Venice or Rome. You don't want to deal with getting gas, currency exchanges, and a thousand other things that can make your trip complicated in a hurry.
A notification for this video popped up as I happened to be watching a video about the Poop Cruise from Hell haha
You'd think people could just hang their ass over the railings and poop into the ocean instead of treating the place like a hamster cage 💩
Think of it as complimentary colonic irrigation! Ooh fancy! 😁
Same thing happened to me
Lol I just watched that. Horrible
Bad ass! I'm so happy for Roger to be making videos again. He is great!
“Let them go all lord of the flies in the kid zone”😂😂
this dude can put videos up with ease - and is still in his stride - who doesn't love it? And such a nice decent person too - just really inspired by the world around him everyday. I always welcome roger horton (and the actor who plays him of course) videos in my life.
It's not an act. He's a marketing genius telling you how it is and still knowing you'll purchase from him. The man is a GOD.
Roger is the guy that actually trapped me into watching TH-cam years ago.
I'm 45 and I feel a joy every time I see him, he his incredible.
@@gropatapouf5998 you've been rogered!
@@extropiantranshuman *thumbs up*
I hace taken multiple cruises with my family - one for 4 days in Miami , another to Mexico and a third through Greece and Italy . All was really great . Food was great , abundant drinks . While I don’t really like being in one place my family liked it . The European trip was really great and error free . It was royal carribean .
I've traveled to over 70 countries and have just started doing do Cruising last year. I must say it's a really great way to travel by cruise ship. Like everything it has its downside but there a lot more positives than negative. I've even booked two more this year. I still like overland travel but cruise ship are also a great way to unwind.
The Honest Ads with Roger Horton are the highlight of my day. Keep them coming!
Another fun fact about tourist driven small towns: The internet is slowed down by you. These small communities don't have the market share to be worth installing robust information infrastructure. So when hundreds of people from out of town flood in at once the connections just can't handle all the requests. Slowing streaming, gaming, and video communications down to a crawl so slow you can't even load a web page without time-out errors.
I'm on Norwegian joy right now and I really have a stomach bug I got and he's really telling the truth
Jack Hunter is a legend. The way he turned on a dime from gritty to upbeat was just fantastic. His line delivery of the fire on the boat was just perfect.
Moro Castle
Lakonia
Dona Paz and Vector (not ocean liners, but still)
Fires on a ship is an awful way to go. It's also a terrible end for ships like _Normandie_ .
I can not at all blame William Gibbs for his obsession in fire safety when designing the _SS United States_ . He insisted the only wood aboard be cutting boards for the kitchen, and the grand piano, which they tested with gasoline to be sure it wouldn't burn.
I have never been on a cruise but this is exactly how I imagine it to be.
Like most of his "Honest Ads" he is not totally wrong but he is exaggerating the worst aspects as part of dark humor
Yes people get sick on cruises both food and otherwise but it's like I tell my friend who is afraid of flying because of plane crashes...for every plane that crashes and makes the news thousands of flights take off and landed that day safely
Personally I have been on 8 cruises, only got sick one time to the point it lasted longer than a few hours and I blame the SEVERELY OVER THE TOP heavy handed use of cleaning solution that was so bad you could smell it hours after the crew got done AND the fact that despite being told MANY times to get rid of his chewing tobacco spit and not do it in the room my uncle continued to ignore both statements from everybody in the family who told him this and what it was doing more than the massive number of people
He's right about the part where locals hate you, I worked that industry from 2016 to 2020, he did make a valid point about how the cruise ships damage canals, reefs, and how the locals at whatever destination you're at hate you personally, but love you for your money.
Right there with you!! I have never even flown anywhere either!!
@@gregbenwell6173 I forgot to mention the pollution the ships cause by dumping waste.
It's actually really fun and relaxing so long as you have a very specific idea of what your vision for a vacation is. There is not a lot to do besides eating and enjoying leisurely floating on a current. If it helps, most cruise passengers are not jackasses 'cause they're as relaxed as you are; so you'll find friendly conversations no problem (at least in my experience). Rule #1 for entertainment on board: play bingo! (Not literally) There is a variety of stuff to check out and, while most of it may be mediocre, exploring your options till you find what suits you is the best way to experience the entertainment. Having money to burn is a huge help too! I hope my little op-ed encourages you to check it out. Once you do (I think), you'll be hooked. Been on 2 so far and looking forward to more! As they say, "The best things in life can happen to you so long as you lower your expectations." LOL!
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It's an oversimplified statement (meant for a silly satire movie, so that's not a criticism), but it's good to make it clear:
Ships, just like planes, are considered a territory of a country they belong to - therefore all crimes that took place there will be prosecuted by a court of their respective country, in case of martial law government of said country can sieze the ship and turn into a convoy or hospital ship, and so on. The cruise line described here was settled somewhere in the Liberia - so that's whose concern a missing tourist will be.
"It might catch fire and sink"
Cruise ships very rarely sink. The last time was Orient Queen that was caught in the 2020 Beirut explosion and capsized. Before that was Costa Concordia in 2012
Yes, they should have reduced it to the things are not very unlikely, it would have been as convincing.
Used to have a friend who called me a snob for not going on a cruise for these very same reasons. Thank you for validation
I have cruised all over the globe. Never any sickness, always an enjoyable time.
I did a cruise once, 18-years ago and hated it. Room was too small, food awful, passageways too crowded, not enough time in port destinations, waiting in long lines to get on and off.
I probably wouldn't mind the tight spaces on the ship, but short times in ports and long time to get on or off the ship would deter me. Seeing the port towns would be the major attraction for me but is apparently discouraged.
@@Achill101 A cruise might be a good way to see a bunch of different places to help decide which one you want to go back to. But the areas right around the Ports are tourist traps and you can't get a good feel for local flavor as it's all designed for the tourist. Think Times Square in NYC only tourists go there not actually New Yorkers.
@EQ - I think I have some experience in avoiding tourist traps and in seeing the real town, but I need time for that, which I might not get enough of when in port. And after having seen a town, I want to look back on it from the back of the ship and raise a glass to the memories of it. (I've never taken a cruise but traveled on many hour-long ferry rides in my life.)
@@eq2092well sometimes we do go to Times Square. But it's ONLY to GET to a Broadway show or a concert at whatever they are calling Best Buy theater these days. ( or when BB Kings was open. )
@@eq2092 yup. I've been to numerous Jamaican ports, The Bahamas, Grand Turks, Barbados, St Thomas, St Lucia, and a few others and all of them are more or less the same.
I used to work in the Cruise industry, and I learned a lot about cruise ships, some of it I really wish I hadn't.
Please elaborate on the horrors
@Shortleader0 damage to reefs, the European docks are meant for smaller vessels, so the cruise ships damage those too. When one person gets sick on board it spreads quickly and then lots of people end up sick. When elderly passengers inevitably die on board they are put in freezers on the ship. Anything can happen in international waters and there are no police on ship.
I hope you got paid more than 500 bucks...a month 😭
@@shortleader0958 th-cam.com/video/m3fEdpYUV1U/w-d-xo.html
@@rogermazuca4582 the salaries are usually lower than that, but there is tips, so most stuff make around 1500$ a month on average.
Lmao!!! 😂😂😂 omg the vape in the beginning. Great Twilight Zone reference!
Cruising vacations are way way cheaper than other vacations. You can't even get a good hotel room for the nightly cost of a cruise.
not to mention the alcohol. i get the drink package usually and drink till my liver throws in the towel
You are right
...and you don't have to fight traffic or drag your luggage around all week. Bring yer fat clothes if yer going to the buffet 7 times a day!
Just remember that you get what you pay for.
I prefer cargo/container ship cruising. Quiet, peaceful, usually no more than ten or twelve passengers + crew of course. No shows, no casinos, just plenty of time to read, relax and watch the water go by.
I kinda love that every time one of these comes out, it deters me from YET ANOTHER thing
This is satire, so it's very much an exaggeration. I've been on 12 cruises, I've never caught a stomach bug and I've never had a ship breakdown. Pretty sure the waste disposal thing is severely outdated, modern cruise ships have water treatment plants on board that release drinkable water back into the ocean.
@@Pali729 Pretty much, and the "No laws at sea" stuff is pretty much bogus too th-cam.com/video/z3l24tVcB2U/w-d-xo.html
I had a great time on a cruise with my dad and brother. We went snorkeling had shrimp and just had a bunch of fun. I created some great memories that will last for a long time.
I’ve never had a desire to share that space with thousands of people.
You do it every day at home and at work.
I bet they're happy to use buses or trains or to fly on airliners too.
@@stargazer7644 Who does?
I’ve been on 4 cruises and all of them were great. Everyday another port, who cares about the room they’re relatively cheap and have a blast on each stop.
Name one thing that's good about a cruise that you wouldn't get out of a 5* all-expenses-paid resort vacation. Besides diseases.
I’ve been on 2, Disney and Royal Caribbean. We loved them both. We had no issues and the kids still talk about how much fun they had.
Sad 😂
@@dickberry3910 Sad that someone had positive experiences? How is that sad?
@@dickberry3910jealous.
@dickberry3910 Nah you're the sad little insect dickberry ;)
I absolutely love cruising. IME they played up stuff that really isn’t bad and didn’t mention the things I love. I have NEVER gotten sick on cruise food, and I … er… eat my money’s worth. LOL
I took a cruise around the Pacific -- on board USS Carpenter (DD-825) exactly a half-century ago: Departed Seattle, with stops in Adak, Yokosuka, Kure, Sasebo, Keelung, Hong Kong, Kaohsiung, Guam, Midway, and Pearl Harbor. Was nice having guns, missiles, and small arms always available -- and all the training I could handle. Got paid, too (college vacation). Returned for fall semester with a year's full of sea stories, too. Q: What did you do over summer? A: Let me tell you about that girl in Kure... or that girl in Taipei... or the great wagyu beef in Yokohama, after luxuriating in a local onsen bath after a half-month of "Navy showers" aboard ship. The National Palace Museum in Taipei was magnificent. Took some great photos of curious Soviet warships ships closing up to and running about our destroyer squadron near Alaska. One of the best summers of my life. Nah... won't "pay" to go to sea on a bug-laden cruise ship with a bunch of folks I'd never associate with in life.
My Dad just went on a cruise to Hawaii from San Diego. They spent a good chunk of the trip with nothing to look at but the endless Pacific...just...why??
I did a cruise from Miami to Bermuda then to port in New Jersey years ago. That day when we were at sea you couldn't see anything in any direction but ocean. No other boats, no islands, nothing but ocean. It was a spectacular sight and awe inspiring... but I also kept thinking we'd be screwed if this boat broke down right here in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. It's pretty boring though unless you like drinking, eating, and watching every Pirates of the Caribbean in order (or reading).
He got to experience what 75% of the Earth looks like.
It’s fear mongering. Go watch a ship tour of a new ship, this is a biased video for comedic value. Not all cruises / cruise lines are like how they are depicted in this video. Rooms are quite spacious as long as you get a balcony room some even the same size of a basic balcony hotel room and others with two floors, hot tubs and full maid service in your room (hefty price) but in reality the food as well is not only ‘buffet food’ there are specialty and name brand restaurants onboard and complimentary & extra paid steak houses and restaurants that serve food such as lobster, crab, calamari. They do a good job on newer ships at managing the flow of people. These are 20 floor floating cities. Some shops have go cart tracks that span two floors, 2-5 pools, some heated some not. 10+ hot tubs, full spa access, basketball courts, 5-10 restaurants with all nationalities of food some included some extra charge. Casinos which can be fun if your a gambler, live Broadway shows with comedians, dancers etc. these are professional dancers and comedians not some fake wannabe’s. It’s not all ‘bad’
A week of sea days. Easy life for the engineers, hell for the entertainment staff!
Μaybe that's just in the US. Went on a cruise somewhere else for a week and it was lovely. Only issue was our suite was at the end of the ship near the motor so it was quite loud at times.
I know from the Cayman Islands when tourists come to nice jewelry stores in Georgetown the salespeople ask what hotel are you staying in. If you say a ship they will ignore you. A few years ago the Cayman Islands did a study that cruise ship passengers spend on average $20 per person when they visit. Enough to buy a T-shirt. The only reason the government wants the ships is that there is a tax they pay per passenger that docks there. Even if they stay on board or or get off..
5 cruises, 20 years, all have been fantastic because, like any other vacation, proper planning and study make vacations great.
We cruise all the time. They are a blast . But still a funny video, love this channel
I can enjoy the humor. I've been on different vacations and will say cruising has been the most relaxing and enjoyable of them all. It really depends on what one wants out of a vacation.
My daughter and I enjoyed our cruise too. Everyone I personally know who’s going on a cruise enjoyed it as well.
Loved my one cruise. Only thing I like more was ski trips.
I like flying to a place and taking my time researching the area.
@tedfarabee3095 I like taking a tour.. get the highlights... maybe even get to see some areas a tourist can't normally go. Then I might go back to dig in deeper.
I enjoy cruising too but they're not wrong, which makes it funny.
Not being immersed is definitely one of my frustrations with cruising😅
The moat! That is exactly how I described my one cruise experience, except I though of it as a shopping mall with a moat.
heh these are funny. but i love cruises. i love the look of the ocean, the air at night, the soft bob of the waves, waking up at a new city/port every day, being able to walk to a variety of different activities etc. and i think the food is actually fantastic. it's great having it all in one place and go explore a different city each day. there are definitely some really luxurious cruiseliners though... i've been on a few that only had about 80 guests.
Nice to read a satisfied cruiser. 96% of first time cruisers want to go again. I was the passenger services director for 9 years before I became a hotel general manager. I cannot tell you how many guests were star struck on their first cruise. Most of them wished they had done it years ago. At Princess we have a very loyal clientele. To reach the Elite level loyalty program which is 16 cruises or 151 sea days, we have an amazing number of guests at that level.
The Love Boat actually patched up relationships. It's a lot cheaper than getting a divorce.
@@burningblue1254 my first time was at like 12 years old, my parents love cruises so they started taking me and I fell in love as well. I meet a lot of people very hesitant to go and when they eventually do they love it. The cruise director is the MVP of the ship. You brought happiness to so many people. Godspeed sir
@@Shishkebarbarian When I was the passenger services director, I had numerous people over the years say that they went on their first cruise because they were dragged onto it. But they have been ardent cruisers ever since. You said it right, the look of the ocean, the sound of the waves at night, breakfast coffee on the blacony, evening wine on the balcony watching other ships pass and the lights of the coast. The food, the entertainment, the grandeur of the ships. Visiting different ports and countries. A lot of people have negative opinions and have never set foot on a ship. Bravo to you!
You have to pick the right cruise line, though. My husband and I loved one cruise line, so we tried a different one and we ended up hating it. It didn't match our personality.
nothing like a good roger scare - this one sent me the most chills of any of them hoenstly. Never thought I'd see the day - but I felt it.
I've been on a Cruz trip once.
When it was over, I said, "That's something I'll never do again."
Hence the name of the novel A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. The author was onto something.
I'm guessing that wasn't Penelope?
I said that on our first cruise. We will go on our 19th cruise in May 2023.
I love cruises. Been on about 20 now. I find them dreamy. Very few negotivities. Ill keep going. Thank you.
P.S. the cabin crew get great tips.
"disease incubating floating dormitories"...I'm dying. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love cruises! Going on another one this year ~
Me too.. we just got back from a 7 day last month and we have one booked for August. They are so much fun. I can't wait to hit that zipline in Haiti again..lol
@@BoozeandNewswithTimandDut Awesome! Hope you have fun in August! I haven't been to Haiti ~ sounds like a plan!
@@lostevesy it's awesome. The only place we visited and we don't visit anymore is Nassau Bahamas. Have you done Carnival Cruise yet?. We always do Royal Caribbean but I wanna try something different
@@BoozeandNewswithTimandDut Yes some ports are better than others, sometimes just stay on the ship ~ I've done both of them Royal Caribbean seems to have the most variety. Favorite is the Oasis class since they have the most entertainment ~ Carnival is good if you like a younger crowd and partying. All depends on the boat though, smaller boats you got to make your own fun!
@@lostevesy I like the smaller ships. Jewel of the sea is my favorite ship I been on. Less lines and less crowds. I'm all for relaxing so I love Royal. But my 3 boys are all 20-21. They might enjoy carnival. Thinking of doing a carnival in the spring and taking them
I always knew that American's had a sense of humour. This is brilliant.
Love these! Keep it coming Roger!
Has Roger done anything on waterparks yet? I worked at one as a maintenance person for a few months and one of the first things I was told was the code to use when “biological incidents“ occurred in the pools and slides. It cured me of ever wanting to send my kids to one.
Yup! That’s a code Brown
If it's public and always busy, I just assume everything was recently in an accident.
There are some women who go swimming when they are on their period. I always thought that was disgusting myself and no different to if there's a code brown or yellow. I haven't swum in anything for decades as sea/river/pool it's all got shite in it. 🎉
@@LupaDomina If they use a menstrual cup/disc, it's okay.
I love going on cruise ships! My favorite type of vacation
We went on the Big Red Boat when I was in 5th grade (I'm 40 now). It wasn't like Roger's ship, and I got to swim with the dolphins for free because my parents abandoned my sister and me with a group of strangers to sneak off (not child care, or even actual employees, just rando strangers, and my sister freaked out after a couple hours).
I think that's because over time companies realized that spending on marketing over spending on quality has better results.
On paper, going around on sea stopping every now and then and then continue until you make a big loop sounds fun/ a good time.
But when it is reduced to nothing but quite literal showboating then it's crap.
Went on the final sailing of the Big Red Boat. Crew was surly and sarcastic because they were soon to be unemployed. It was just like a bit from Saturday Night Live! Loved it and laughed at the irony. My wife and kids looked at me funny, though.
I think we need an Honest Funeral Home ad. I've heard that they also like gouging their customers
I think they do have one
Well, it's not like they get a lot of repeat customers anyway. 😆
We just spend a little over 12k on my father's funeral. And we did not embalm him , we did not buy the fancy sign in book, fancy cards and other smallish things they offered....didn't get a limo, only a hearse, bought a semi inexpensive casket, but had 2 day wake instead of 1 for all the people he knew. We also had to spend another 2.5 k for opening and closing fees at the cemetery as he bought plots only. I would imagine if we bought the things we did not buy it would have been 16K plus the plots.
@@lee6198 Well, you could certainly do it all yourself. Have the body brought to your house and displayed in the living room before it starts stinking too much (this is what flowers were for in the old days) for the wake and then hoist it in your pickup truck and bring it to the cemetery where you can somehow put it in the vault you must purchase - after you dig a hole for it. Sorry your father didn't give enough of a crap to arrange to pay for his own funeral, but the fact others will take care of it for a fee is a convenience worth paying for. Next time, have the person cremated.
@@privateer0561
That's a really fucked up way to justify what's basically an extortion racket.
I have not had a week off from work since 2019 so I'd probably have a blast
Can you please do a what if a nursing home was honest for example, how much will it cost? And what about long term Insurance?
And how you will be neglected, taunted and abused.
Crappy food with two choices.
Take it.
Or
Leave it.
And
Once your clothes go to the laundry,
You'll never see them again.
Sitting for days waiting for noone to visit.
The only faces you see all day are the ones who come to bring you food, medicine, and to change your diaper.
3:07 In fact by the early 20th Century there were cruises similar to the ones which exist now primarily in the Mediterranean, though they became more popular in America during prohibition. It is where the Booze Cruise comes from.
Eat 7 times a day 😂
I see lots of this on YT cruise videos
I am really glad that Roger is back
Yet another instance of me agreeing with Billy Connolly, cruise ships are like prison with prawn cocktail and the additional risk of drowning. Whatever is appealing about it escapes me completely.
It's all the alcohol and gambling, generally.
Unlimited food, that's why I love it lol.
If weed was legalized I would like it more I went a while ago and it was fun but I don’t drink and being surrounded by drunk people without weed was pretty hard.
Billy Connolly did a Stand Up routine about Cruise Ships!? I've got to check that out!
He was actually paraphrasing a statement by Joseph Conrad about sailing in the 19th century: like going to prison with the chance of drowning besides.