5 Secrets Cruise Ship Staff Think You Should Know

 

Thank you to Aly Walansky and BravoTV for including me in their Jet Set article on Secrets Hotel Staff Think You Should KNOW:
A Secrets Cruise Ship Staff LISA NIVER Thinks You Should Know

5. They get asked lots of dumb questions — and they judge people for them.

For example, Lisa Niver of We Said Go Travel spent years on board at Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean International and Renaissance Cruises, and was asked questions like “What time is the midnight buffet? Is this the same moon we have at home? Does this elevator go to the back of the ship? Does the crew sleep on board? These are real questions, I promise,” she says — and she got in trouble occasionally when she couldn’t contain smartass replies.

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“Depending on the amount of dough you shell out, and the amount of stars the property has, you have certain minimum expectations for your hotel and its staff. But what you see on the surface isn’t always what you get when it comes to your stay. Here are some of the BTS things hotel employees think you should know.

1Cleanliness isn’t always guaranteed.

2They do try really hard to meet your special requests.

3They have feelings, too.

4They wish you would stop booking through third-party websites.”

Read about Lisa in Business Insider: 

Who did Business Insider interview? Lisa NiverAfter quitting her job as a teacher, this woman traveled to 95 countries and turned traveling into a career

Read about Lisa on Yahoo Style: Confessions of Cruise Ship Insiders

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Lisa Ellen Niver

Lisa Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries on six continents. This University of Pennsylvania graduate sailed across the seas for seven years with Princess Cruises, Royal Caribbean, and Renaissance Cruises and spent three years backpacking across Asia. Discover her articles in publications from AARP: The Magazine and AAA Explorer to WIRED and Wharton Magazine, as well as her site WeSaidGoTravel. On her award nominated global podcast, Make Your Own Map, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors, and as a journalist has been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty-two times. Named a #3 travel influencer for 2023, Niver talks travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, her YouTube channel with over 2 million views, and in her memoir, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty.

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