A sailing we will go!

So! Here we are once again in fantastic Freeport! But never mind, we are shortly on our way to New York and from there we will disembark our happy tourists and send them all home, tanned, fatter, more tired and drunker than when they first came on board. In essence the cruise line industry can be considered a business of excess. On our ships you will find free food in abundance, plenty of alcohol, lots of sun and time to lie around and do nothing but, for New Yorkers…well…they don’t know how to relax and so, every waking moment for them is an epic struggle and fight in their little lives.

An example of this would be at the lunch time buffet line, here there is plenty of food, enough to feed a small, hungry country but the guest’s battle and push and shove and fight each other just to get a meal. You would think that this was their last meal on earth! Come on people! This is a buffet line, you take, you eat and you come back for more, ad nauseam…but no, they have to stack their plates high with all kinds of food and then rush off to find a table not occupied by a European guest, quietly supping his esspresso while reading, and then to rush back again for more plates of food. Quick! Quick! Winter is almost upon us! We need to stock up on our food supplies!

I have seen guests, make their way down to the casino midnight snacks table and empty the large platters into handbags, hats, etc…really folks! Have you not heard of room service? Room service is the best! No matter what time of day or night it is, you can order up food from the Bell Box and it is delivered faster than any pizza delivery…except of course during spring break or on a rough sea when everyone orders from Room Service and the poor waiters have to run up and down a heaving ship serving food to seasick or drunk guests.

I make no apologies, the American tourist is really not my favourite, but hey! I get paid in the almighty dollar…well, not so almighty now…but in some third world countries, the dollar is still king. So I have no cause to complain that much.

As for the European guests…well, there is a different kettle of fish! But more of that the closer we get to Europe.