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goatface posted:I don't think you're meant to enjoy those. hello, shipmate Poohs Packin posted:I was a chef on a small private yacht. Usually we had a crew of 5 or 6. Smugworth posted:Did you and everyone on board constantly drink and bone Ewww. Sleeping with the "Help"? I guess crew to crew, happened quite a bit, tho.
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I've heard that on cruises, sleeping with a guest as a crew member results in being fired instantly. But is the guest kicked out too?
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guests are like animals, they have no morality, only instinct
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Valko posted:No way this happened. Most species of spiders are cannibalistic, which is why they can't be farmed for silk. Stop embarrassing yourself. It’s called a spider locker or bugs locker and as you say it’s filled with non-cannibalizing non-web producing spiders in order to prevent infestations of cockroaches, crickets, and other pests without leaving webs everywhere. It can be easy to accidentally leave too many spider eggs in the spider locker which can result in the room filling entirely with half matured spiders once they consume the food source that is intended to nourish them until they’re old enough to actively hunt.
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Jelly posted:I'm pretty sure if you go on a cruise it is worse for the earth than all the rest of the years of your life combined, so I don't think it's good for a vacation no What if I'm the guy who did deepwater horizon?
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I didn't read the thread. My mom is taking us on a Viking Cruise in october this year. Were supposed to go to Croatia to see the GOT place. Not sure if we are going to stop there now
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pretty sure viking river cruises have a minimum age requirement of about 75
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Chinatown posted:pretty sure viking river cruises have a minimum age requirement of about 75 my mom will hit 70 this year, but she, as far as I can tell, bought the entire back of the ship for us
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Went on a cruise in high school (with the marching band of all things) and basically got free rein of the ship for four or five days. We had to play a single song for maybe 3 minutes for some kind of Music on the Water event. One day it rained like a monsoon and the captain decided to go off course and find some sun, which was pretty cool. A bunch of people got seasick, but I don’t remember any norovirus events. On the first day, they brought everybody out on deck to go over the safety talk, which mostly consisted of “Know where the lifeboats are located and get your dumb rear end into them if the alarm sounds” but the wind was so loud that nobody could really hear the specific directions.
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Can you walk onto a cruise ship with your own kayak and gear and just leave it on the top deck?
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:my mom will hit 70 this year, but she, as far as I can tell, bought the entire back of the ship for us Party at your mom’s cabin, apparently. Goddamn…
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is it true that the captain of a cruise ship is allowed to gently caress any crew member or passenger at any time and it's illegal to turn them down?
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covidstomper58 posted:Can you walk onto a cruise ship with your own kayak and gear and just leave it on the top deck? Yes, it's legally considered a carry on and they have to allow it. Don't forget your PFD 
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Are cruises the best places to pick up gilfs?
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Smugworth posted:Did you and everyone on board constantly drink and bone I scored a ton of good champagne but I never really interacted with clientele outside of as a chef. We had some dramas here and there but I kept that poo poo out of the galley and staff knew it.
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My only experience with cruising was a lady I used to work with. We were sitting around chatting about places we've been. I list a few places. She nonchalantly lists like 20 tropical islands, deadpan. I was really confused but, idk whatever fine, but later I looked it up and she had just gone on a cruise in the caribbean sea area and listed every single place she went like she was some worldly adventurer. I guess she did? Does visiting a place briefly on a cruise even count? The whole things feels so impersonal, idk if you should be speed dating travel destinations. The most interesting and fun travel experiences I've had were the result of either like... being bored and something unexpected happening, or having some kind of issue that sucked in the moment but resolved and was fun to talk about later, or making random friends with locals or other randos who happen to be hanging out in the same place as you for a while... Idk travel just always struck me as a "the journey is the point" kind of thing.
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Saalkin posted:Are cruises the best places to pick up gilfs? cruises are where the gilfs flow like milk and honey
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I have been on 2 cruises post-marriage, pre-kids. 1 with me/wife, 1 with me/wife/in-laws. 11 Carribean and 1 Alaska + Vancouver (probably to be compliant with laws around a non-US flagged vessel requiring a non-US stop). Both times we were between the ages of 25-35 putting us in the youngest 10% of the guests when you ignore the kids that get dumped in the daycare thing. At least 1 of use was a student both times, so limited income and we're in the interior room crowd. This was 5-10 years ago. Overall, it was decent value for money. Food was basically theme-park level for lunches and slightly better for dinner, maybe at the lower end of chain restaurants. However, doing that every day for a week onshore + lodging is going to be more expensive than booking the cruise, which was around $400-500 a person (basic room, no window). A friend told my wife that "the only reason to book an exterior room is if you have the money and want to look at the ocean while you bang" which is the advice I now pass on to you. You are also seeing 2-4 places you wouldn't otherwise go to. It was also a chance to see glaciers before they melt while also contributing to the melting of those same glaciers. On the Carribean cruise we did a snorkeling shore stop for an additional $150 for the day (incl BBQ lunch) and in Alaska we rented a car for the day in Juneau for $60 to make a couple extra stops. I didn't do the all-you-can-drink card for $30-50/day but some people were clearly getting decent value out of it The stand-up comedy is half decent. Not Netflix special level but what you might get in a hole-in-the-wall club. Best if they switch acts halfway through the trip since the material is recycled by the 3rd time through. Go to the art auction for the free alcohol but don't buy anything, it's crap you can get on-shore for 1/3rd the price. Stay out of the onboard casino. Don't plan to connect to the internet on the boat unless you are rich. Maybe they have a movie theater with some new-releases. I got to see Infinity War for free.
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Buce posted:is it true that the captain of a cruise ship is allowed to gently caress any crew member or passenger at any time and it's illegal to turn them down? They have to. Because of the implication.
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pencilhands posted:I've heard that on cruises, sleeping with a guest as a crew member results in being fired instantly. But is the guest kicked out too? if a crew member gets fired while at sea, do they automatically become a guest? are they sequestered to their quarters? Or can they go harass the other crew members, like a normal guest? If they pull in to a port, instead of getting kicked off, can they just buy a ticket and stay?
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Taima posted:My only experience with cruising was a lady I used to work with. "count" for what? for being mentioned in a casual conversation with a coworker? why not? i mean, how is that any different than you saying you've had an "experience with cruising" but all you did was listen to someone talk about it?
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Never done a cruise ship. I have sailed on sea-worthy sailboats with friends. Usually about 8 people on-board. Wonderful experience. Sail out to some islands, stay the night in port and go ashore, visit restaurants and the town, sometimes stay on-land in bnb places or just stay on the ship. Go sailing some more the next day. You do have to contribute though; a proper captain will give everyone an assignment of checking lines, changing them, managing the berth, etc. It's fun though if you are up to taking some orders and enjoying the sea. Plenty of touristy stuff you can do when you make it into the various harbors. Also pulling into to quiet harbors/bays that you have to yourselves and swimming/snorkeling/diving. Whether a friend or a charter, nothing like quite like getting hit with sea spray 20 times a day.
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I wasn't on the project but like a decade ago a few of my former coworkers did security testing on a cruise ship's control systems. Apparently, they had to sleep in the crew quarters and it sucked.
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i did a cruise with my family shortly after our mother died of cancer. my mother was the passionate/outgoing person in the family, dad was (and is) always the kind/practical one. consequently the heart of the family was just suddenly not there any more, and my father's solution was a cruise to try to weld the family back together. in that context, it worked. we did some incredibly chintzy carribean thing that stopped in puerto rico, belize, and mexico over the course of a week. we had a few days at sea where we largely left each other to our own devices, but everything is so social on a cruise ship you can't help but talk to people to some extent. i ate a lot of lovely pizza and talked to randos while soaking in a hot tub. i also napped a lot until the evening shows came on. the excursions when we stopped were whatever. you get off the boat and go to some sickeningly overly-curated event, but even then it's at least different and we had to do it as a family. so all in all i'd say it was positive. that said, if i were to plan a vacation today for the same purpose, i would probably prefer some kind of train trip instead. if you're going to be gone for a week or whatever, trains actually have a pretty nice setup. it's like a road trip only you can move around a bit and nobody has to drive. some trains even have dining cars and bar cars. sleeper cars also still exist. also, train schedules in the US are kind of hilarious because amtrak is largely an artifact of a bygone era, so if you ever change trains to get some place, you are probably staying at least a day at a specific city or station. which, in the context of a vacation, is fine; yeah, chicago might not be a great destination, but if you hang out there for a day and a night waiting for your train, you can walk around, see some stuff, take it easy. have a decent meal, maybe tour a museum. whatever you want. then at the end of the vacation you just book a one-way plane ticket back home, so when you're done, you're done.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:cruises are where the gilfs flow like milk and honey The party boat, the Carnival Conquest, had very few old broads but thousands upon thousands of fine African American women who were not shy about showing off the bumper.
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Thinking to hit a cruise now just to spite tha haters. Diarrhea be damned.
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Chinatown posted:Thinking to hit a cruise now just to spite tha haters. Diarrhea be damned. Gooncruise
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Gooncruise the cruise i worked on was the closest thing to a "goon cruise" that probably exists irl. it was called a "nerd cruise" and it was organized by an npr guy named jonathan coulton and a couple of "filk" musicians named storm and uh.. another guy. it used to be like a sub-section of more normal cruises but the year i was there they sold enough tickets to take over an entire cruise ship. like half of the passengers stayed inside playing board games and ttrpg's most of the time, and the creator of steven universe was there and gave everyone on the boat a free ukelele which, well you can guess how that sounded. strongly suspect there were a bunch of other goons on that cruise in addition to myself, tho i didnt go around asking lol it was kind of funny because all the normal stores on the cruise ships were still there, so there were salesmen used to selling cubic zirconium and sharkskin suits to old vacationers that were just milling around doing nothing because the nerds wanted nothing to do with that stuff. if they'd swapped those stores out for a comics/gaming store or sold funko pops they'd have made a killing Earwicker fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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I've been on two Carnival cruises in the last year. Both were fine, but both were "free" for me (one was a free balcony, the other was a free inside cabin but I paid like $700 to upgrade to a balcony since I brought my mom on that trip). Both cruises were 7 nights long. Cruising is a decent vacation if you keep your expectations in check. I enjoyed the food a lot. Lunch options had a decent burrito bar and a kick rear end burger joint. The buffet was rear end, didn't go there too often. The BBQ restaurant sometimes offered a separate BBQ buffet for lunch that was really good. The comedy shows were fun. The stage shows that I actually caught ranged from ok to poo poo. I spent a ton of time hanging out on my balcony on both cruises just watching crap I downloaded on my tablet. We got off the ship at each stop but we didn't stay long, I prefer being on the ship during shore days since you get a lot of it to yourself. The pools were actually bearable those days. There were lots of upcharges, but on both of my cruises it was really easy to stick with the free stuff. Between the two cruises I did pay for like 3 upcharge restaurants, and all 3 were good enough that I didn't feel ripped off. I'd probably try some of the other upcharge restaurants if I go back in the future. The booze was charged but it wasn't too different from if you ordered at a restaurant here. Beers were around $6, cocktails and liquor around $8-$12. Easy skip for me since I don't drink. pezzie fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Earwicker posted:the cruise i worked on was the closest thing to a "goon cruise" that probably exists irl. it was called a "nerd cruise" and it was organized by an npr guy named jonathan coulton and a couple of "filk" musicians named storm and uh.. another guy. Wait, Storm DiCostanzo and Paul Sabourin? One half of early 2000s nerd comedy a capella quartet Da Vinci’s Notebook? And current composers for Mystery Science Theater 3000? And Jonathan Coulton, who wrote the closing songs for the Portal games? That loving rules. How did you work on a nerd cruise and not know who these guys were 
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I didn't read the thread. My mom is taking us on a Viking Cruise in october this year. Were supposed to go to Croatia to see the GOT place. Not sure if we are going to stop there now
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Hazo posted:Wait, Storm DiCostanzo and Paul Sabourin? One half of early 2000s nerd comedy a capella quartet Da Vinci’s Notebook? And current composers for Mystery Science Theater 3000? yeah, thats them. i was there to perform background music for a podcast that a lot of nerds like. i like nerdy stuff too, just not those particular guys i guess. more of a prog rock, metal, and techno nerd myself. i didn't know mst3k was even still on the air! ive met storm a few times in several different contexts he's a very nice guy. paul was a lot more into his "celeb status" on the boat, it seemed, tho he also handled a lot of the administrative stuff Earwicker fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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The Alaskan Cruise I took was my favorite vacation but that’s because of the excursions and location which you could technically do without the cruise such as Dog Sledding after a helicopter ride over a glacier and on top of a mountain, Zodiac Boat, the Yukon, etc. Cruises themselves are pretty solid as you’re on a boat and with the drink package can get wasted as you like and there are activities on the boat. But it’s a notch below, say Vegas or visiting a place straightforwardly. It depends on the ship, imo, and what it can offer. Being over the ocean is cool, stopping at a remote island is and having a beverage or going wave running is cool, there’s good elements to it. I’ve been on a Holland America Cruise to Alaska but the ship itself was just ok. I’ve been on a MSC Caribbean Cruise for 2 weeks on a new ship which was solid and the land excursions were fun. I’ve also been on a Royal Carribean cruise with friends as the best man and it was great due to that vs the ship which was just ok. Gatts fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Earwicker posted:yeah, thats them. i was there to perform background music for a podcast that a lot of nerds like. i like nerdy stuff too, just not those particular guys i guess. more of a prog rock, metal, and techno nerd myself. i didn't know mst3k was even still on the air! That’s cool as hell. Check out Da Vinci’s Notebook a little at least, they have a bunch of original songs but they cover a lot of pieces too. Can’t recall any prog rock covers though. And yes, MST3K rebooted a few years ago under Joel. There’s been three new seasons with him and two new hosts. We’ve got a whole thread about it in TVIV! Join us https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3784246
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neurobasalmedium posted:Don't plan to connect to the internet on the boat unless you are rich. what the gently caress im never going on a cruise nevermind
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pencilhands posted:what the gently caress I've always gotten wifi on a cruise but it's not great. It's limited to what you can do with regards to downloading/uploading and forums.
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Gatts posted:I've always gotten wifi on a cruise but it's not great. It's limited to what you can do with regards to downloading/uploading and forums. a week without shitposting would render me insane
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pencilhands posted:a week without shitposting would render me insane Like I get it...but disconnecting for a while isn't that bad.
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the ship i was on had an intranet but no internet. but we stopped in a couple towns in mexico and you could get wifi in most bars and restaurants etc. was kind of nice to not have access to the 24/7 news cycle actually, but i was only doing a week long thing. a lot of musicians and other performers do six month contracts and that sounds like a bit much. tho i do think about it sometimes.
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