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Download or read book Cruise Ship Stories written by Guy Beach and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are reading this intro, then I take it that you have an interest in cruise ships. It could be you want to work on a cruise ships, you want to or have taken a cruise, maybe you are looking for tips on cruising or maybe you just like fun stories about cruise ships. If you are interested in any of those items I just listed, then this book is for you.Before we begin our journey, I guess I should tell you a little bit about myself and why I have written this book. For my cruise ship experience, I worked about 12 years on cruise ships around the world and 2 years working in shore side offices in Florida. I worked with 4 different cruise lines and worked as a scuba instructor/dive manager, shore excursion manager and then in the shore side offices as an IT geek, and finally a few years as an IT officer (yeah, I know, scuba instructor to computer geek, what can I say, it has been an interesting journey).Stories in this book include ones about:Getting a job on cruise shipsLife on board shipsOn board romanceHurricanesRunning agroundAdrift at seaKick backsFalling overboardLiving on a tropical islandCrazy things the crew and passengers doand much much more........................I also have photos about my life at sea that can be seen at: www.cruiseshipstories.comLooking at these photos will bring my sea faring stories even more to life.
Book Synopsis The Last Cruise by : Kate Christensen
Download or read book The Last Cruise written by Kate Christensen and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage—a retro cruise from Long Beach to Hawaii and back—before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, it’s a chance to experience a bygone era of decadent luxury, complete with fine dining, classic highballs, string quartets, and sophisticated jazz. Smoking is allowed but not cell phones—or children, for that matter. But this is the second decade of an uncertain new millennium, not the sunny, heedless mid-twentieth century, and certain disquieting signs of strife and malfunction above and below deck intrude on the festivities, throwing a trio of strangers together in an unexpected and startling test of character.
Book Synopsis The Truth about Cruise Ships by : Jay Herring
Download or read book The Truth about Cruise Ships written by Jay Herring and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's hurricane and flooding video aired on national television by ABC's Nightline to 3.9 million people. A finalist in the Global eBook Awards, this is a behind-the-scenes look at cruise ships in a way that's never been done before. Some of the stories are shocking, some are enlightening, but most are just laugh-out-loud entertaining. This tour behind those "Crew Only" doors will reveal: - How romance on a cruise ship is unlike anywhere else - The insane things passengers do - Why alcohol is mandatory at sea - How nude cruises compare to Christian cruises - A first hand account of damage from getting caught in a hurricane Jay Herring was an American senior officer and one of the few who had physical access to the entire ship. He worked with every department and every senior officer, including the captain. His wife worked in the casino, and combined they worked for Carnival Cruise Lines for 10 years and sailed on over 503 cruises. If you've ever wondered what happens below deck on a cruise ship, then get ready to laugh through an experience unlike any other! . . Chapter 1 How Easy Is Romance on a Cruise Ship? I had been onboard my first ship for five days when I went to the crew bar and met a woman from Trinidad and Tobago. She was a black woman and she was overweight, maybe even a little flabby, but such a sweetheart. I saw her the next night in the crew bar and she looked upset so I went over and sat down. "What's wrong?" I asked. "I just had an argument with the chief purser," she said with her Caribbean accent. "That's too bad." "Yes, I do not get along with the pursers on this ship very well," she said, starting to tear up a little. "I do not have many friends onboard." Although I liked her, I could understand why others might shy away. She had slow, almost voodoo-like mannerisms that bordered on creepy. But she was so easy to talk to and, like me, perfectly content to sit and talk one on one. "So do you have a girlfriend?" she asked, changing the subject. "No." "Have you been with anyone on the ship yet?" "Nope. It's actually been twelve years since I slept with someone." "Come on now." "It's true." I said, and then told her why (more on that later). "Hmm. That's fascinating. You know, I used to sleep with a skinny white guy from England on my last ship. You remind me of him." "Oh, yeah?" "He and I had lots of fun, and I never left him unsatisfied. I may not look it, but I'm actually a really good lover." "You don't say." "I've been with lots of men in my day. I'm forty-one, after all. And in my years, I've learned exactly what men like and how to please them. And now"-she took a sip of her drink-"and now all the men I sleep with are extremely satisfied." I had always imagined athletic girls-especially flexible athletic girls-to be the best lovers. But this lady from Trinidad had me rethinking that assumption. Maybe it was just another one of the after effects of abstinence, but those voodoo mannerisms were now bordering on sensual. "Would you like to have sex with me?" she asked, taking another sip of her drink. "We could go to my cabin right now." Woodrow. I couldn't believe how quickly the opportunity had presented itself. "I might be interested in that." "Might?" "Yeah." "But not right now?" "Yeah, not just yet." "Okay, well, you think about it and I'll call you later this week." She got up and left me at the table, alone with my thoughts. My cabin phone rang at 8:00 p.m. two days later. "Hi, it's me," she said. "How are you?" "I'm good. How are you?" I responded. "Good, good. Are you ready to do what we talked about the other night?" she asked, wasting no time on idle chit-chat...
Book Synopsis 25 Short Stories for Cruise Ship Travelers by : Christian Stahl
Download or read book 25 Short Stories for Cruise Ship Travelers written by Christian Stahl and published by Midealuck Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a fascinating collection of twenty-five cruise ship mysteries that were written for cruise ship travelers and mystery book enthusiasts. The stories include some humorous encounters in addition to strange secrets and exciting adventures. Many of the stories are shrouded in mystery and they will take you beyond the average innocent cruise adventure. While some of the best cruise vacations take you to places you have never been to, these stories are full of suspense and they take place in exotic locations. All of the cruise ship mysteries are fun to read and they will never fail to keep you interested. All of them end with a curious twist and they will delight you! (Ocean Cruise Ship Cozy Mysteries Series Volume 1)
Book Synopsis Cruise Confidential by : Brian David Bruns
Download or read book Cruise Confidential written by Brian David Bruns and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2008 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruns spills the dirt--or in this case, the dirty water--on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea in this hilarious chronicle of the year he spent working for Carnival Cruise Lines. In this breezy expos, readers go below the waterline, where the crew lives, eats, wars, and parties.
Book Synopsis Overboard - The Stories Cruise Lines Don't Want Told by : Gwyn Topham
Download or read book Overboard - The Stories Cruise Lines Don't Want Told written by Gwyn Topham and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cruise was once the trip of a lifetime: a byword for refinement, luxury, romance, the millionaire lifestyle but no longer. Boats are bigger and brasher, and every year more and more people of all ages and walks of life are clambering aboard to join the party. But are they safe? Out at sea, there are no police. Many cruise ships fly flags of convenience, sailing in murky legal waters. Reports of disappearances, disease, death and debauchery are becoming alarmingly frequent. Can you be sure your dream holiday, or your ship, won't end up on the rocks? Gwyn Topham, travel editor of Guardian Unlimited, talks to crew and passengers in Australia and around the world to find out what really happens on the high seas. In tales spanning ships from the Fairstar to the QM2, he discovers pirates and pollution, missing persons and mutinies, colourful captains and crew, and passengers whose antics would make your hair curl. You cannot afford to get aboard until you have read Overboard: the stories cruise lines don't want told.
Book Synopsis Take This Book on a Cruise Ship by : Ricky Ginsburg
Download or read book Take This Book on a Cruise Ship written by Ricky Ginsburg and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After you've played your twenty-seventh game of shuffleboard . today, and one more lobster dinner is going to force you to grow claw crackers, find a quiet place with a comfortable deck chair. I've heard people say that a cruise ship is exciting and boring, riotous and relaxing, and they'll either never travel any other way again or move to the desert. Nevertheless, everyone seems to agree-the ships are always packed with enough people to make single-file a lifestyle. Here's a book to take with you when you do locate an unpopulated corner of your floating pool deck. Two dozen ways to escape from anxious deckhands laden with fresh towels, single women and men seeking a night, a cruise, or a bankroll, and those wonderful toddlers who think every solid object is a drum. The stories are grouped together in groups of three with some obvious, well maybe not always obvious, connection. Read them slowly, alone or with a friend, if that's your reason for taking the ship in the first place. Take your time, though, don't rush; save a few stories for the lifeboat.
Book Synopsis Cruise Ship Tales and Notes, Hawaii, and Other Stories by : Gordon H. Hills
Download or read book Cruise Ship Tales and Notes, Hawaii, and Other Stories written by Gordon H. Hills and published by . This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Peter the Cruise Ship by : Hans Mateboer
Download or read book Peter the Cruise Ship written by Hans Mateboer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel with Peter the Cruise Ship on a voyage of adventure as he sails across the world's oceans with Rusty, Tim, Teddie, Slick, Gulp and Push and discovers the value of friendship and teamwork. The book is written by an actual cruise ship captain and as such offers the view of an expert in an entertaining way.
Book Synopsis Love Happily Ever After by : Victoria M. Lowery
Download or read book Love Happily Ever After written by Victoria M. Lowery and published by AHA Moments & Motivational Sevices. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ship for Brains by : Brian David Bruns
Download or read book Ship for Brains written by Brian David Bruns and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian David Bruns' second book in the Cruise Confidential series is just as funny, tongue in cheek, and escaped filled as the first. This time there is an art mystery, more sex, and trouble with Homeland Security. Enjoy the ride or the wave!
Book Synopsis All Aboard...cruise Ship Untold Stories by : Rachel Gualtieri
Download or read book All Aboard...cruise Ship Untold Stories written by Rachel Gualtieri and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on true events written by a crew member. About the Author: Rachel Gualtieri has been working at sea for nineteen years and is currently a crewmember with one of the major cruise lines. She has been a cruise director staff member, port and shopping consultant, and art auctioneer, and sailed over four million nautical miles. This is her first novel.Description: Gracie, a crewmember for a major cruise line, works on ships that visit ports all over the world. She has seen a great deal and experienced more than most, but what she hasn't experienced is love. Sexy and sophisticated, Rachel Gualtieri's debut novel, based on true events, is a riveting expos� of the underbelly of a cruise ship-and the people that make tourists' dream vacations a reality. The minute Gracie spots new crewmember Denis she knows he's something different. Handsome and confident with an extraordinary backside, he appears to be everything she is looking for. And when he turns on the charm, she can't help but believe that sometimes looks are not at all deceiving. From a man overboard to disruptive passengers to the minefield of internal corporate politics, will Gracie and Denis' love survive it all? When Gracie is put in a very compromising position by a fellow crewmember, everything hangs in the balance. This suspenseful romance captures the essence of the service industry experience with intrigue, wit, and style. Compelling characters you can't help but fall in love with make All Aboard...Cruise Ship Untold Stories an entertaining page-turner.
Book Synopsis My First Cruise and Other Stories by : William Henry Giles Kingston
Download or read book My First Cruise and Other Stories written by William Henry Giles Kingston and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become a reality, dear Harry. I feel very strangeÑa curious sensation in the throat, just as if I was going to cry, and yet it is exactly what I have been longing for. You know better than any one how I had set my heart on going to sea, and yet I thought that I should never manage it. But, after all, here I am, really and truly a midshipman; at least a volunteer of the first class, as we are called now. The first time I put on my uniform, with my gold-band cap and dirk, I could not help every now and then looking at the gold lace on my collar and the buttons with the anchor and crown, and very pretty and nice they looked; and I do believe that this half-reconciled poor mamma, and Fanny, and Mary, and dear little Emily to my going when they saw me with them on. IÕll tell you how it all happened. Uncle Tom came to stay with us. He had been at the Hall a week when, the very day before I was to go back to school, while we were all at breakfast, he got a long official-looking letter. No sooner had he torn it open and glanced at its contents, than he jumped up and shook papa by the hand, then kissed mamma, exclaiming, ÒThey do acknowledge my services, and in a handsome way too, and they have appointed me to the Juno intended for the South American station; the very ship I should have chosen! I must have Pringle with me. No nonsense, Mary. He wants to be a sailor, and a sailor he shall be. HeÕs well fitted for it. IÕll have no denial. ItÕs settledÑthatÕs all right.Ó (I had been telling him the day before how much I wanted to go to sea.) He carried his point, and set all the household preparing my kit, and then posted off for London, and rattled down to Portsmouth to hoist his flag. He is not a man to do things by halves. In three days I followed him. The ship was nearly ready for sea. Most of the officers had joined. There was only one vacancy, which I got. Another captain had been appointed, who had been superseded, and he had selected most of the officers.
Book Synopsis Chronicles of a Cruise Ship Crew Member by : Joshua Kinser
Download or read book Chronicles of a Cruise Ship Crew Member written by Joshua Kinser and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Both funny and informative, this story reveals what really happens in the underbelly of a cruise ship, from the highs to the lows." Susie D.,Proofreader, Red Adept Editing"This fun and fact-filled memoir gives landlubbers a fond but not too romanticized glimpse of what it's like to be a crew member on a cruise ship. Journey with this young musician as he learns to live and love at sea." Kim H., Copy editor, Red Adept EditingWritten by a well-published author who worked on cruise ships for more than five years, this often hilarious, sometimes shocking, and always insightful book provides a comical behind-the-scenes look into what it's really like to work on a cruise ship. Take a tour below the waterline and explore the cramped, dirty, and dimly lit crew areas on a revealing journey through the cruise ship's underworld. Go where no passenger has gone before, and learn what the crew eats, where they sleep, how they party, and finally understand why all of the officers are Italian.Climb aboard an adventure on the high seas and witness the wonderful side of ship life where crew members have whirlwind escapades while traveling the world aboard a massive sailing city.Drawing from his experiences working as a musician and an art auctioneer, the author tells the laugh-out-loud and also poignant story of what cruise ship crew members experience from the minute they first step onto a ship to the day they walk down that gangway for the last time.
Book Synopsis Cruise Ship Passengers Ask the Wackiest Questions! by : Richard Barry
Download or read book Cruise Ship Passengers Ask the Wackiest Questions! written by Richard Barry and published by . This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales of a Cruise Ship by : Margaret Marsh
Download or read book Tales of a Cruise Ship written by Margaret Marsh and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Marsh offers us a glimpse into the secret world of the cruise ship with her stories of life on board as a medical officer’s wife. Life in close proximity to the passengers and crew is revealed with all its ups and downs in these humorous tales In Tales of a Cruise Ship, Margaret takes us to parts of a cruise ship never normally seen by passengers, giving us a unique insight into the cruising life. Taken from Margaret’s onboard journals (kept while her husband was working as a medical officer) the book introduces us to the characters who live, work and holiday aboard. Margaret goes behind the doors marked Crew Only to show us a whole different cruising life; from the stewards and stewardesses who make the beds, to the chefs and waiters who cook and serve the meals, to the engine room boys who keep the ship moving. Elsewhere we greet the entertainment staff as they plan events to keep everyone amused and visit the bridge to meet the captain and officers who take the ship to its next destination. Meanwhile Margaret’s husband, the ‘Doc’, hovers somewhere in between the crew and passengers – his home on board is the medical centre where his patients are the officers, crew and passengers. As the Doc’s wife, Margaret was able to sit back and observe the onboard interactions. Tales of a Cruise Ship is part memoir, part travel book and should appeal to the many thousands of passengers who enjoy cruising holidays every year.
Download or read book Cabin Fever written by Michael Smith and published by Endeavour. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The authors of this absorbing book have a strong command of detail, context and narrative structure... the results are impressively claustrophobic.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Gripping... The authors skillfully capture the fear and claustrophobia. A riveting real-life drama.' - Kirkus 'Cabin Fever is riveting, taut, and extensively researched. Smith and Franklin have written a page-turning adventure that will keep you reading late into the night.' - Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Taking Paris 'A gripping account of how an invisible stowaway - the Covid-19 virus - transformed a fun-filled luxury cruise into an unimaginable nightmare.' - Sara Gay Forden, bestselling author of House of Gucci 'Extensive first-hand testimony and the authors' brisk, matter-of-fact style enrich this propulsive account of how a holiday cruise turned into a nightmare. Readers will be riveted.' - Publishers Weekly In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hotspots, the cruise ship Zaandam was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires loaded with 1,200 passengers - British, American, Australian, European and South American tourists, plus 600 crew. Most passengers were over the age of 65. There was concern about the virus in the news but that was oceans away. Escaping to sea at the ends of the earth for a few weeks seemed like it might be a good option. The cruise line had said the voyage would go ahead as scheduled and it would be safe. Within days, people aboard the Zaandam began to fall sick. The world's ports shut down. Zaandam became a top story on the news and was denied safe harbour everywhere. With only two doctors aboard and few medical supplies to test for or treat Covid-19, and with dwindling food and water, the ship wandered the oceans on an unthinkable journey. Cabin Fever is a riveting narrative thriller, taking readers behind the scenes of the ship's complex workings, and below decks into the personal lives of passengers and crew who were caught unprepared for the deadly ordeal that lay ahead. It is a story layered with moments of peril, perseverance and kindness. A remarkable tale that is filled with individual acts of heroism and the struggles and the tragedies of the crew and passengers.
