Your First Cruise A Complete Guide to Planning and Attaining the Perfect Cruise Vacation by T. Brian Chatfield

Author:T. Brian Chatfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cruise, vacation, travel, water, ship
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Group
Published: 2014-12-03T00:00:00+00:00

Interaction with the Cruise Staff

The cruise staff is on-board to help you. Customer service and interaction is the essence of their jobs, and they are more than happy to assist you with any of the available on-board activities. However, you should remember that they are people still and have other passengers and duties to attend to. Much like anyone in a service position that you might deal with in real life, a cruise staff member should be treated with the proper respect. Tip individuals who offer extra assistance or help and always be polite to cruise staff. They will be around the you and the other passengers for the rest of the cruise and can be very helpful.

Cruise Communication and Etiquette

For many years, families worried about how they would communicate while on-board a cruise ship. Because of the nature of a cruise — thousands of people in a single space — and the wide variety of activities always available, it was often the case that establishing meeting points and buddies for perusing the ship were necessary to keep anyone from getting lost, especially children.

However, as technology has developed, so too have the options for communication while on-board a cruise ship. Even as cellular phone technology grew in the 1990s, it was still not as developed as it needed to be for use on-board a ship hundreds of miles away from land.

That has changed with today’s technology. Today, with the strength of smaller cellular towers and satellites, most cruise ships offer cellular phone access, either through enhanced signals or by hookups on-board the ship. These can, on occasion, cost a little bit of extra money, but they work well and allow families to keep in touch while on-board and to call back home in between port cities.

Additionally, most ships offer Internet access now, often from within the room. This access can cost extra, but it is usually high speed and reliable, allowing passengers to stay in touch with their lives while at sea.

Alternate On-board Communication

There are still more options for staying in touch while on-board that do not cost extra money. Using walkie talkies or text messaging are both good options that allow people to stay in touch without the high cost of cellular phone use on-board. Walkie talkies can be cheap and even fun for children to carry around, but can also lead to problems if they get lost, are misused, or become annoying to other passengers.

Etiquette On-board

While the different options made available for communication are numerous, they need to be used carefully when on-board. It is one thing to make an occasional cellular phone call on-board, but the overuse of phones, or walkie talkies especially, can be considered rude by fellow passengers and ship staff. The best way to ensure the proper use of communication devices is to use them sparingly.

Do not allow children to run around playing games with communication devices unless they are in designated children’s play areas and try not to carry on full conversations on them when it would be just as easy to walk and talk to someone in person.

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