# Working on a cruiseliner **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 27, 2008, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-on-a-cruiseliner/450749 "2008-05-27T12:29:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unspun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9bd4f/32.png) [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-on-a-cruiseliner/450749/1 "2008-05-27T12:29:40Z")
Has anyone here ever done this? Any recommendations on good websites? Everything I find requires payment before handing over the information that counts. Is there any way to get in touch with cruiseliner employment offices directly or does it have to be through agencies and middlemen? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-on-a-cruiseliner/450749/2 "2008-05-27T17:05:35Z")
You can pay the middlemen and make the task easier - AFAIK, they just take your information and money, then fax your application out to the cruise lines. It’s really nothing you can’t do for free. Or, you can do a little mousework and poke around the lines’ websites, looking for Careers or Jobs - You’ll need to look in the small print links at the bottom of the page, on their site map, or in the “About Us” sections. For Holland America, as an example, their Jobs page is off the About page, and they list positions on [Careerbuilder.com](http://Careerbuilder.com). For NCL, hit the “Join our Team” link at the bottom of their main page. Celebrity has their Careers page off the About page, and is easier to find just by going to the site map. And so on… ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-on-a-cruiseliner/450749/3 "2008-05-27T17:23:11Z")
Why do you want to? I hope you don’t have romantic notions about it. We know a kid who was in the cast of a show on a cruiseliner, and went with her mother. It wasn’t a lot of fun, and I suspect they had it pretty good compared to most. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-on-a-cruiseliner/450749/4 "2008-05-27T18:42:49Z")
A few earlier threads: > **[Cruise ship jobs](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=436108)** > > Im looking to get out of the rat race and get work on cruise ships but my repeated searches on the net keep turning up scammers out to get money or companies that have no real connection with jobs at sea. Im a U.K. based but prepared to work just... > **[Cruise ship jobs](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=436107)** > > Bored with the rat race Im looking to get work on cruise ships,Ive tried searching the net for U.K recruiters/agencies but keep turning up scammer firms or companies that have no real connection with cruise ship employment . Im a Brit but prepared... ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-on-a-cruiseliner/450749/5 "2008-05-27T19:11:52Z")
Here’s an earlier thread about [thread=401861]packing for a job on a cruise ship,[/thread] from December 2006 and January 2007. The thread includes some discussion of what cruise ship jobs are like, e.g., long hours. FWIW, the user who started the thread (Carlyjay) has posted as recently as February 2008. Paging Carlyjay - how was the cruise worker experience? ---
**Author:** ![unspun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b9bd4f/32.png) [@unspun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unspun)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/working-on-a-cruiseliner/450749/6 "2008-05-27T22:09:11Z")
Thanks for the links!