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I was on a cruise from NY to Bermuda back in August, and apparently around 1 am an older man had a health issue not related to the cruise. This was about 6 hours after we left NY, and the crew were amazing about it. I looked at the cruise tracking thing the next morning and apparently the boat turned around, went half way to Atlantic City, had a helicopter pick up the sick man (who lived), and then we turned back around for Bermuda, and got there on time. This was the Anthem of the Seas.

Enough can't be said about being nice to the crew. As I have found out many are working to support large families back home and really don't have the greatest accommodations even in large cruise lines. I remember one woman loved Pringles chips but wasn't allowed off the boat most of the time and wasn't able to get them. She cried when we bought her all the flavors we could find on the island. The tiniest kindness goes along way for many staff when they are away from family. Plus there is nothing wrong with making a new friend along the way.

If you "go exploring" throughout the ship at night, you commit a serious security violation and will be disembarked at the next port, if not even pressed with charges. The ships work on a very strict clearance level and entering non-passenger areas is like you wandering into any other kind of restricted territory, not only violating security but maybe even compromising overall safety. Don't listen to stupid youtubers and stay in your designated areas.

Exploring the ship at night and "going to places that you shouldn't" is a great way to get kicked off and blacklisted 👍 and possibly even face federal terrorism charges onshore. Think about it, if crew find you snooping around crew only areas at night, they are definitely gonna question your motives! Please don't do this

#1 is wrong... this is coming from someone who contracts to several cruise lines. Ships don't have brigs anymore. They haven't for a long long time. #2 is wrong... To get crew discounts, you need a Crew ID card. If you're caught without a crew ID card in a crew area, you get kicked off the ship in the next port. If another crew member brings you back there, they get fired. #3 is accurate... There is a morgue on board. Usually enough for two people at a time in the medical center. #4 is somewhat accurate... You'll never hear any of the codes you mentioned in a public area, nor would they be announced over a public address sytem. Nor does anyone actually use the codes you've mentioned. #5 is Cruise ships don't charge you for extra toilet paper... there are thousands of extra rolls on board at any time... idiot #6 There are no crew hot tubs. They were removed a long time ago. If they still exist, it's not a crew area. It's a guest area. #7 You're an idiot for telling people things like this. Not only is it highly inaccurate, but you're just tempting people to do stupid shit. #8 This isn't a secret, not in the slightest. On most ships, it's at the front of the ship in an area known as the Solarium. #9 To be a lecturer, you need to be certified and acreddited. You get paid, but you're generally on board for months at a time -- not a week at a time. #10 1/4 of cruise ships being American? More like 1/64. The last ship I was on full time had 980 crew members on board with about six American's on board.

As an ex seaman who has worked long voyage passenger ferries, and have friends crewing passenger vessels, I can tell you nearly everything in this video is rubbish, and untrue. Which brings into question the validity of every other video made for this channel. Your credibility is zero.

Having been a staff member on several cruise ships, I can tell you that most of this information is incorrect.

Here's some real cruise line advice. Wanna see the best sunrises ever, get up early on "at sea" days. Want cheaper spa services, book for port days, especially longer and more popular ports and earlier inn the day. "At sea" bookings fill up quick, usually before the ship disembarks. Some cruise lines let you eat dinner at whichever regular "restaurant" you'd like (Disney does if you make prior arrangements, or just ask). Want a free mocha, ask your beverage server during dinner, they can usually pull some strings to get some non-alcoholic drinks that are normally an extra charge. Want more lobster on lobster night, tell your server a night or two before. They'll be happy to feed you several plates if you like. Want to always have a lounger at the pool? Give up, it's not gonna happen. Don't bother eating a full breakfast the morning of your cruise, eat something light. Don’t fill up, you'll be lugging your stuff for a little while, just head straight to the buffet once onboard. Fly in at least a full day before your cruise, not the day of or the night before. You'll be too tired to enjoy the first day. This is a must if you have children or if you're flying coast to coast. Couples, can manage flying the morning of, it'll be rough though. Fly home the same day with children, if possible. They'll be knocked out for the plane ride. Adults, you can take it easy, fly out the next day or rush home either way. Bring door magnets, like the paper with magnetic film. Decorate your cabin door just a little to help you recognise your door more easily. Use the elevators that aren't nearest the most popular areas (pools, bars, promenade and theaters), try near the aft or just take the stairs if you're going down or only two or three decks up. Also, get on empty elevators going the wrong way. Only buy your excursions through the cruise lines. They have more control over any complaints, cancellations and travel. Also, in Alaska if your tour makes you miss your ship, don't worry. Alaska has laws requiring that they put up in a hotel and get you back home or back on the ship and they face hefty fines. Disney's two bigger ships, soon to be their medium-sized, have a deck 14. It's usually reserved for special events but when it's not in use they set it up for toddler time. Try to be in this area when the "When you wish upon a star" horn melody plays. It's an experience to behold! Maybe not so much fun for young children, it might traumatize them. Don't want your young child becoming seasick, take them out of the stroller. This is especially true during rough seas. Let them run around or carry them while you keep moving around, don't let them be stationary. When they run around the rocking of the ship is less noticeable. When they're sitting but rolling with the seas, it can make them sick in a just a couple of minutes. If your child does get sick, dad takes them to the restroom for cleanup, the line is so much shorter. Finally, book your cruise for early fall or after school starts when going with family cruise lines, you're more likely to face hurricane induced rough seas (still rare) but its cheaper (off-peak) and you'll have more fun with less children onboard. Oh, a bonus tip. I'd stay away from a certain company and it's subsidiaries. They're in the news the most for the wrong reasons. Until they can figure out how to not leak sewage, not run aground (United Concordia) lose all power and run adrift for days and kill maintenance workers in elevators that apparently aren't locked out. I'd stick to the cruise lines that have better history.

Worked on a cruise ship for 9 years.. In 3 different cruise lines.. Only 10% are true on this video...

15 years experience on 6 different vessels and 95% inaccurate...grade z

A few of the ACTUAL Codes: ALPHA - Medical Emergency (of any nature), BRAVO - Fire, CHARLIE - Collision, DELTA - Damage to the ship/hull, OSCAR - Man Overboard, PAPA - Pollution. There are a few more less common codes and these can very slightly from company to company.

Bodies aren't always held until the final port of call. I was on the Carnival Dream in Cozumel two years ago. The Carnival Magic pulled into port hours after the other ships had already been moored, and it wasn't even scheduled to be there that day. Turns out a man in his 40's had died of cardiac arrest while playing basketball on board. The Magic therefore made a stop at the nearest port, Cozumel, to send the body home (presumably by plane).

Worked on cruise ships for over 10 years, never been on a ship where the passengers can use the crew bars. Huge no go on that as the crew member runs the risk of getting a written warning or sacked. As for the death of the passenger, most are taken off at the next port and travel arrangements are made for the family. Oh and as for the code thing, you don't get a free drink. 10 years, never see it. Sorry to shout you down, but this did make me laugh

To avoid the “hidden costs” just avoid getting drinks (specialty coffees, sodas, booze, ect) if you haven’t bought the drinks package you want, prepay your gratuities, avoid shore excursions, don’t buy anything in shops, and avoid specialty dining.

spend the 50$ and go on the tour that cruise does. you go through almost all of the crew only sections with the exception of the morgue. you get to see the massive freezers and food storage they use, meet the captain on the bridge, see the crew quarters and their rest areas, see how all the logistics are handled, see how the engines are maintained and operated. full tour takes about 2.5 hours. well worth the money.

Bullshit. Crew members don't put their 8 months contract at stake handing out a free drink. There are cameras at the bars and you need to sign for your drink. Too much to put in scene and not worth it.

This guy has never been in a cruise 🤦🏻‍♂️

As an ex crew member I can confirm that the last thing about the employees is 100% true. Working for pennies and being treated as a Sh....t.

"Feel free to walk into rooms you're not allowed to go into as long as its at night" This dude is encouraging breaking into unallowed places on cruiseships...

I LOVE cruising! Anyone who thinks it would be boring has no idea. Plus if you go on a cruise line like Royal Caribbean you will meet a lot of awesome people to party with. But if you do go for 7 to 10 days

Your entire segment on "Join the Crew" is categorically UNTRUE. Yes, some cruise employees have entitlement to be in passenger areas while off duty. This is comprised of staff and officers only, and never the general crew. Staff members are contracted vendors, and may wear their own clothing, but must always wear a name tag. Officers will always be in evening dress uniforms. Always. General crew can get public access for an evening by special permission only. While there is a crew bar, it is beer and wine only. Drinks are generally at cost. If you *really* want to party with the crew, ask where they go on overnight ports. And, if you ever are invited to a karaoke party with Fillipinos...you best be ready to get sideways, because those cats know how to party.

I've been on 3 cruises. Every single one had a adult only area.

One of the ships I worked on "Celebrity Meridian" had a brig that was converted into crew quarters. It was the same as any other cabin except the two portholes had bars over them. I lived in it for about 4 months in the 90's.

Most of this is bs.

Believe it or not made it to the crew hot tube on the Carnival Ecstasy, it was at 4:00 a.m. and the crew was slammered with co workers in laps half dressed. They definitely know how to party in the front of the ship. Also climbed the control tower as well. Almost like I owned that damn cruise.

went on board one, just told the officer at the boarding deck i was a navy engineer, and got the tour belowdecks. friggin' diesel engines big enough a man could stand inside a cylinder, air-conditioned master control room for pumps, generators, etc., amazing. and spotlessly clean--they even have a guy (wiper) whose only job is to keep it that way.

I and a friend are on a list where we get free cruises by volunteering as escorts on land tours. It's not as easy as it sounds. You have to be first-aid and CPR certified and willing to help on the tours with passengers who might need assistance, such as toileting. You're responsible for all of them, have to make sure they're all there, and at the end you fill out enormous forms critiquing the tour to see if the cruise line wants to keep it or the company that provides it. You get the cheapest inside stateroom, go on whatever tour they tell you. And be prepared for the unexpected. While on a Greek Isle, a tour got back late and the tenders had returned to the ship. They were going to use local fishing boats to ferry the remaining passengers back. One woman became hysterical and I offered to take her under tow (pardon the pun) as the crew that remained couldn't calm her.

The pool on the bow might not be always reserved to the crew, in some ships like MSC Cruisers the pool is reserved to the "Yacht Club", a VIP area in the front of the ship with private space, private restaurant and suite cabins with valet at call 24/7

I used to work for Royal Caribbean. No way in hell are we going to risk our jobs to bring a guest to the crew bar. In fact crew members are almost scared of guest because we could lose our jobs so easily if we get even slightly "friendly" with them. Also Cones is actually from the movie cone heads. Because guest always ask where are you from since most of the crew is foreigners. "We come from France!" Also I never heard of code V or P before but maybe that is just Royal, However Code Echo is for man over board. It is very rare you will hear it but every time you do you will see every crew member perk up. As for the toilet paper... I never heard of that before. As for Americans on board as crew. On my ship that had 3,000 crew members we had member 5-10 American Crew members. But if you add the cast to the shows then maybe around 30. And yes it is because of very poor working environment. Working every single day for 8 months at a time and having to share a very tine cabin with multiple people. Which is why I left. Lastly fun fact. I believe I am in one of the photos in this video. I was on the bow of the Quantum of the Seas at 6:01. The Ship was in Germany being taken out of it's dry dock for the first time. I was on board during the construction of it. And that ship did not have a private crew pool/hot tub. Not many of them do.

3:07 I went on the Norwegian Epic a week ago which was docked at Cape Canaveral, that view of the Disney ship is at Port Canaveral, alomost the view from my room!

2:28 taken in Hong Kong Victoria Harbor between Chai Wan and Lei Yu Mun with Star Pieces cruise ship.

As a person who has gone on 4 cruises out into the open. I've explored every single inch that I could explore... and nearly all of this is completely false.

Title: 10 cruise ships you don’t want to know Me: then why the hell are u showing them to us

Great video! I would love to do the guest lecture thing. That would be awesome!!

Thankyou for sharing.

Both my brothers-in-law worked cruise liners for a while. Neither of them described the slave-ship conditions for the out-of-sight crew that you infer. Instead, aside from close accommodation (understandable), the conditions are generally very good, including pay when you consider that all your needs are basically covered. The eldest met a guest socially after hours, was caught and was put off the ship at the next port (Egypt I believe). He violated rules that had been made crystal clear to him and his dismissal was 100% warranted. On a recent cruise, my wife was discussing opportunities for my two sons to join a liner, with one of the senior staff (head of security), who very politely declined an offer of non-alcoholic drink and even would not sit, as this is a breach of the liner's policy. The liner's are strict for a reason - if you're not prepared to follow the rules (as a passenger or crew member) then suffer the consequences. Do you honestly expect us to believe that the cruise is going to charge for extra toilet paper when you can eat all you want all day? I that how they recover the food cost - by making money on the toilet paper when you take an extra crap through the day - that's genius :P!!

Good thing they don't want me to know, I doubt cruise ships have the ability to tell me the secrets

Most of this is absolute rubbish. As a frequent cruise passenger with many friends who are crew ( both visible and otherwise!) I know most of this is untrue. Also - advising people to enter crew areas at night is both irresponsible and dangerous.

ANY KZfaq video that starts with: "Hey Guys, what's up...." is immediately suspect and is rejected.

You cant mingle with guests. Bringing them down to the crew area bar is even more absurd. It’s absolutely not allowed. Where did you get your information?

Yeah...I don't recommend exploring the ship after hours in areas that say CREW ONLY. This is a great way to get kicked off the ship at the next port. They take security very seriously.

So I am a contractor for a cruise company meening that I work short contracts on the ship(generally 2 week contracts or for however long I am needed if it is a longer cruise) and I can tell you that the "Join The Crew" "fact" is 100% false. For starters crew members have to fallow a strict dress code especially if they are in passenger arias ex: with the company i work for its basically business casual during the day and Business formal during the nigh though it can vary from ship to ship and company to company. Secondly, Crew members have to follow a strict code of conduct that if they break they can be fired for. For example on one of the ships I've worked for there was A rule that crew members cannot walk through out passenger areas in large groups and they can not sit in passenger dining areas more than 4 to a table. Again rules vary from a ship to ship and company to company it's just an example from one of my ships. I'm fairly certain however thart partying it up with passengers in none Dress code approved clothing would be against the rules unless that they were the people who are hosting the party who would still be in their uniforms. Finally we get to the part where it's if you buddy up to enough crew members you'll make yourself look like a crew member and thus get all the perks that is A 175% incorrect. It wont-work don't try you'll get in trouble and end up in the Brig or kicked off the ship so don't do it. You won't be able to blend in with crew members because passenger cards, contractor cards and crew cards all look different so that Alone will tell the bartender that you're a passenger not A crewmember. On top of this crew members and contractors all gets ID badges which crew members are required to wear at all times everywhere on the ship with the exception Of their personal cabins. Now with this in mind in order to successfully walk around crew area which includes the crew bar you have to have a name badge that shows that you are either a crew member or a contractor if you do not have one you can not go to any part of the crew area except for the brig because that's where you will end up if you try to do this and one of the officers on the ship finds you. Now contractors are a little bit different than crewmembers meaning that not all of the rules, like the dress code apply as strictly to us as the rest the crew. I like to joke that I'm a glorified crew member and/or a glorified passenger because I can go anywhere passengers can go as well as most places that Crew can go. As a contractor I am required to take my name badge off when in passenger areas so that I am not confused for a crew member in the event of an emergency as I have not gone through the same training as them. Regardless bottom line is if you don't have the stuff required by the ship for crew to have, then you will not be seen or mistaken as a crew member. Maybe as a contractor up until the bartender sees your card. Now you can make friends with crew members ( i do encurag you to cuz they are grate) and they may be able to buy you a drink and get you the discount that way but it's highly unlikely. Honestly the easiest way to get crew discount is to just join the crew. It's actually really fun to work on the ship. I mean again I'm not a "normal" crew member am I'm a contractor. But base off some of the people I've met during my times on the ship its just one big family filled with amazing and different types of people. So don't sell it short Top 10. Also at least on my ships, the crew discount is only 10% so it's not that good but it's a lot better than nothing. Also also there are not secret pools for crew on most ships. Also also also...hey Mix is on the ships I've worked on. It's nestled right between taste and savor which are both complimentary dinner dining on the ships I've worked on. fun fact Also ×4, The guest lecturers would fall under the contractors position. There are many different types of contractors. For instance my specific contractor type is an entertainment contractor. Sorry for this post being so long and will likely having Spelling or grammar errors but seeing as though I and actually a part of a cruise line I had to set that record straight. So remember, if you've learned anything just don't try faking being a crewmember. It wont work so don't do it. You'll likely end up getting in trouble and/or possibly kicked off the ship. That also goes for sneaking around the ship because yes there are a lot of crew members that walk around the crew areas to get to their stations any given time of the night as well as a ton of cameras all throughout the ship. You will get caught and you will get in trouble. Just saying.

3:11 - That's Flushing, Cornwall, UK in the background

Worked on cruise ships for 6 years. Besides brig and morgue, this is all new to me!

Never, every watch a shoddy video with the words "Don't Want You To Know" as 90% of the time you already know this. Title is just to get your attention, get more hits. You also know it is fake when the talk about jails on ships then show you concrete brick construction. Such a low class video it is laughable. Nothing useful here. Boring as Bart Simpson would say.

What a load of crap, have you actually worked onboard one of these ships, total misinformation!

Thank you, I'm going on a Caribbean cruise this July with like 15 other people

How to keep track...... 1. Don't give your credit card on boarding. 2. Advise Purses desk to remove you from automatic gratuities- you will pay tips directly. 3. Be smart. Be savvy.

The brig on a ship is likely not constructed of concrete blocks with a concrete floor!

No you cannot party in the crew parties, you will be thrown off the ship at the next port, and the person who allowed you to come to the party will be fired/let go. DO NOT DO THIS.

Excellently done. Cheers to you!

on our cruise they took us on a back scenes tour around crew only areas the hospital was 1 the morque another the brigde and around the motorway, links the bow and stern,runs full lenght of the crew only working areas, prep kitchens freezers and the recycling processes, we saw the crew only pool not just a hot tub but large swimming pool at the bow, i wandered around the ship in the evenings and enjoyed myself.

Most rooms on cruise ships are like prison cells

So basically almost all of the information on this video was made up! LOL

LOVE all your videos!

I knew about the prison one because I work at the check-in and disembark of Costa Cruciere and just last week we had a guest arrested because he was causing mayhem with some of the female attendants inside the ship. But he wasn't arrested in the prison, they just put a guards 24/7 in front of his cabin and he was forbidden to leave the cabin (they would bring him food, of course)

Never had to pay for toilet roll on my cruises

Most of this is a load of bollocks... you can't bring passengers to the crew bar unless there has been prior approval signed by the staff captain and chief security way before they cruise. Then on some ships they have to be accompanied by a crew member for example if a family member or friend is cruising and then they have to wear an ID tag that may say "crew family" If a cruise line doesn't want you to know something then guess what... you'll never know.

My parents went for a cruise in the early 2000's and it was "All inclusive". They loved it, but problem was that there were "incidental costs" added to their bill. They had to pay mandatory tips to everyone all the time, Alcohol was way too expensive as it was far above what it would normally cost (the cost was sometimes several times the normal cost for some drinks),The luggage handlers at certain ports had to be paid "Unsolicited gratuities" for them to actually do their jobs and a couple of minor things were charge. A £3000 (ish) Cruise ended up costing my parents in excess of £7000 at the end.

2:02 That looks like the crew bar on the Carnival Valor. ... or any other Conquest class ship I suppose but its identical

We try to limit our shore excursions as much as possible, though it depends on where you dock. Sometimes ships dock in boring ports that have little beyond "watching the ships go by", but if it's somewhere interesting, like Tallin, we just get off and walk.

things you don't wanna hear the crew say. '''i think the captain is still at that last port.''' ''fuckin rudder fell off again.'' ''attention passengers. does anyone speak russian?''

Never ever had to pay for toilet roll, drinks,and some excursions. We did pay for some excursions. This was on Royal Caribbean and they were very up front on everything. Obviously there were restaurants that charged . Tips were part of the price of the cruise but we did give our room attendant and waiter extra as they were superb.

NO CONES ALOUD!!! AHAHAHAH IM DEAD 😂😂😂😂6:16

My oldest daughter was on a cruise with my wife and her 2 sisters. She was the only single female on the ship.under 60. She got a lot of attention from waiters etc. I kept a close eye as you may think.

Has the narrator ever stepped foot on a ship? The only two things he got right is a lot of the staff are woefully paid and that there is a morgue on board.

I went on the Carnival Splendor a couple weeks ago, and I barely saw any American employees. I don’t know about other lines, but Carnival is extremely proud of their diverse crew.

I actually knew that the crew member hot tub front ship been on the nw dawn very nice bow room

I've been on a cruise ship and it was amazing!!!!

Alfa means someone is hurt

LOL. dude. At 4:47 u used an official PIT-40 polish tax discount waver. How does that have anything to do with the cruise ships?

Wow! Great info and great job editing.i lol several times

"Now cruises are very expensive, they cost thousands of dollars!" *SHOWS CLIP WITH EURO NOTES*

Who here is a classic fan?

The crew is most certainly not encouraged to mingle with the passengers in a manner other than being just Be friendly.

Person: Had to deal with a code P. Crew member: What the actual fuck is a code P?

secrets ... yeh not

"10 Not-so-secret waste of time video"

i have my own ship. Hanging out with friends really feels nice

passengers are never allowed in crew areas

Usually anything that starts with “Top 10” is BS

Pls be nice to the Filipino crew on board 🙂

I've been on a cruise. It was the carnival freedom! It was fun

Cruise ship employees are actually not allowed to 'mingle' with guests beyond their actual job description. You can actually cause a ship crew member to lose their job.

241 cruise ships didn’t like this video.

This author makes it seem like a conspiracy. These reasons are to keep the guests not feeling uncomfortable.

working onboard is the shitiest job you could think of. regardless of position everyone is having a fucked up situation. if your thinking of working on board think again or better yet never think of it at all, that's the best advice you can get

yep, a person on carnival splendor at the end of august last year in the room above me passes away

I’m going on a cruise in February

7:50 I went to that part of Bermuda it is royal naval dockyard

Every type of ship has a built in morgue it's called the fridge/freezer don't think they haven't been used to store bodies be thankful it's a separate room on a cruise ship

75% of this is total BS! funny tho.

*Whoever is reading this, i hope you have a wonderful day!* Also, it is my passion to make videos similar to this one; ways to help the human body. Check them out if you like 😊👌

Holy crap that picture at the start of the door that was my room on a Disney cruise

The video of March 2018 is accurate and the patient was taken ashore to hospital , because I was there as a passenger. Many thanks to all the staff on the helicopter and on the ship.

234 views 678 likes seems legit

Oh also the crew hot tub is usually way crappier than the guest areas and working on a cruise ship, I literally had no time for it, seeing as after 12 hours (which isn’t much) I just wanted to sleep.

0:17 I had that room on the Disney dream 3:09 love it so much

I'm going exploring next time on the way to the Bahamas. 😂😂Royal Caribian is the best bang for the buck..