How does one work for a cruise ship?

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TINKERTOY ..... the 1 & only

The cruise lines hire people to work on the ship, at the ports, and at customer service centers around the US. I am not sure of exactly where the customer service locations are but I have talked to customer service people about my cruises and they were not in Florida where some of the cruise lines have their headquarters. But, the cruise lines can tell you where their work locations are.

You need to go to the cruise line web sites. There you will find a link to jobs, employment, human resources or some such link that will give you information about their positions. DO NOT use any other web sites that require you to pay a fee to register or get job information or referrals. Some cruise line sites may have current vacancies they are recruiting for. Several cruise lines have new ships coming out soon so opportunities will be there. Royal Caribbean, Celebrity, Disney and some others will have new ships launched in the next couple years.

Here are some links:

Carnival is the parent company for several cruise lines including Carnival, Cunard, Princess, and Holland America. So contacting Carnival will likely get you leads to the other cruise lines also.

PRINCESS:
http://www.princess.com/index.html

CARNIVAL:
http://www.carnivalcruiselines.com/

Then Royal Caribbean cruise line is a partner with Celebrity and Azamara. So contacting RC will likely also get you leads to these others. Royal Caribbean has very good information about its positions. So if you go there first you will know what most ships have. Then if you have further questions you should write a letter to the cruise line and ask them; they will respond.

AZAMARA:
http://www.azamaracruises.com/07/azama.....

CELEBRITY:
http://www.celebritycruises.com/home .

ROYAL CARIBBEAN:
http://www.royalcaribbean.com/gohome.d.....

NORWEGIAN:
http://www.ncl.com/

DISNEY:
http://disneycruise.disney.go.com/dcl/.....

Another thing to do is to contact the concession that run the shops on the ships like the souvenir, gift and clothing shops. These are the companies that hire the beauty shop/spa employees for ships. Below are links for you.

http://www.steinerleisure.com/

and

http://www.hardingbros.co.uk/

LovemyBebe

Go to the websites of Cruise Lines. You can call a travel agent to get names of all of the cruise lines. They probably all have a link on them called Careers or Opportunities or something like that. It actually pays good, but you have to work a lot of hours and you can't really call in or anything. You have to be really willing to work and dedicate a lot to the business.

Amy

You apply for any of the many jobs on cruise ships. Dancers, sound tech, food staff, cleaning help, etc etc. There are many jobs and you live on the boat for contracts that last about 9 months each. And that's about all I know. My sister in law is a dancer for carnival cruise lines. She loves it. She lives the other 3 months at her parents when she is not on the boat.

Gezup hose down

Why? Actually now that i think of it this is interesting.

melisa1211

Well the waiters get tips only. And they spend most of there time serving the poeple and stuff. Not very pleasent. THats why my dad gave our waiters, and stewards lots of tip.

Carii

stop saying "if one" and you might get the job. srry i haddddddd to say that :D well i would say you would have to move by an ocean maybe

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