Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline: Where the Crew Lives, Eats, Wars, and Parties. One Crazy Year Working on Cruise Ships (Travelers' Tales)

Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline: Where the Crew Lives, Eats, Wars, and Parties. One Crazy Year Working on Cruise Ships (Travelers' Tales)
by Brian David Bruns

Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline: Where the Crew Lives, Eats, Wars, and Parties. One Crazy Year Working on Cruise Ships (Travelers' Tales)
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Author: Brian David Bruns
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-01
ISBN: 193236160X
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Travelers' Tales

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Book Review: Cruising without the Perks
Summary: 4 Stars

I found Brian Bruns' account of his year in a kind of seafaring bondage to be by turns amusing, shockingly illuminating, disturbing in its revelations of slave-labor crew conditions, often compelling in its details, and finally, well, appalling. Appalling? Yes. That in a cruise world of not just conspicuous, but even at times gargantuan, consumption and luxury, to discover that the folks who make it all work are really treated by their employers as little more than smiling automotons is indeed appalling.
Bruns' account of the enormous (in all senses of that word) family from Alabama ordering, if not always consuming, as many as six entrees each, and their Munster family children who like to trip tray-laden wait staff for amusement had me rolling on the floor on the one hand and wondering how to go about abandoning my US citizenship on the other.
If Bruns' account of crew conditions below the waterline is true, even in part, maybe by cracking the door ajar just a bit for us he will shame cruise ship management into cleaning up their act. In the meantime he has given us a very readable and enjoyable book. I just hope that, even with identities disguised, some of his crew mates and passengers don't find out where he lives.

Summary of Cruise Confidential: A Hit Below the Waterline: Where the Crew Lives, Eats, Wars, and Parties. One Crazy Year Working on Cruise Ships (Travelers' Tales)

In Cruise Confidential, Brian David Bruns spills the dirt - or in this case, the dirty water - on those romantic, fun-filled vacations at sea. His hilarious chronicle of the year he spent working for Carnival Cruise Lines takes readers down into the areas where the crew works and lives, leaving readers gasping with laughter as they're assaulted nonstop with events that range from the absurd to the utterly bizarre. Stewards fighting over food. Cutlery allowances and other nonsensical rules. What the crew calls those onboard (no, it's not "passengers"). And of course, the sex. An abundance of ready, willing, and able bodies eager for action on a vessel replete with nooks and crannies leads to love in some mighty strange, and seemingly impossible, places. Breezy, entertaining, and informative, Cruise Confidential is essential reading for those planning a cruise or for anyone who just needs a good laugh.

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