Aurora Tales – Shocking Cruise Ship Stories From Working Onboard
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Before I stepped on board to start my first contract, I thought the racism was a thing that people remembered from football matches in the 1980s.
The sight of a white Englishman taking a seat at a Filipino table was so wild to people who knew the rules.
For these crew members, life outside of work is spent in crew areas only. White metal walls, white metal ceilings, fluorescent light tubes, and a lot of sitting around in corridors eating instant noodles.
By week two at sea, you're in the middle of an acrimonious land divorce.
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There are TWO worlds on a cruise ship… The one you see as a guest — all smiles, cocktails, and “nothing is too much trouble.” And the one we lived in as crew — below deck, white metal walls, fluorescent lights, gossip flying faster than the ship itself. In this video I reveal some of the things that genuinely shocked me working on cruise ships: ⚓ The unspoken rules of the crew mess ⚓ Deck privileges and why some crew are invisible in guest areas ⚓ Friendships and relationships that move at warp speed — then vanish overnight ⚓ Gossip that spreads faster than Norovirus ⚓ The crew bar where everything costs 25p ⚓ And the prison-style economy of internet cards, pot noodles and black-market movie USBs Think of it as a mix between Below Deck, Porridge and the Star Wars Cantina — but with more karaoke and fewer lightsabers. 00:00 Intro 00:23 Racism At Sea 01:35 Who Goes Where? 02:47 Coming Next Week 03:00 Intense Friendships 04:24 Supercharged Relationships 05:30 The Truth Doesn't Matter 09:56 The Horror Of Crew Bar 10:30 If You Get Drunk... 11:22 Cruise Ship Black Market Economy 👉 Next week: 10 Types of Cruise Passenger – Which One Are You? Subscribe so you don’t miss spotting the Hyacinths and Farages on your next holiday at sea. #Cruise #CruiseLife #CruiseShip To preserve other peoples anonymity some AI was used to make this video but every word is 100% true!