RDeagazio

YUGO or GREMLIN--- no matter how cheap the product it's still a piece of crap.

I've been in crew, staff and officer's cabins and they vary greatly. On the older ships the crew have 3-4 per cabin and they are nothing more than 2 sets of bunkbeds and a small desk. On the Voyager class the crew only share 2 to a cabin and 2 cabins share a bathroom between them. They also have in cabin computers for internet use.

Staff usually have larger, some single cabins that are on Decks 2 and 1.

The crew areas also vary from ship to ship.. I've been to the crew bar on most of the RCI ships and the nicest are on the Voyager class.

I'll try to dig through my pics and post some

Waiters --- Al from India on Majesty in 1995 was excellent-- best to date

Salmon Paradidi from Indonesia on Grandeur in 1996-- looked and talked like Tattoo from Fantasy Island-- what a riot!

Guersel from Turkey on Enchantment in 2001

Natasha from Trinidad on Serenade in 2003 and 2004-- very sweet and quite funny

Honorable mention goes to Andre from Jamaica on Vision in 2004-- not the best waiter but fun none the less-- you never knew what or IF you would get.

Can't remember all the others but we usually end up with very good waitstaff.

A lot of these guys may/will be changing ships with the launch of the Freedom. Quite a few of my crew friends have been picked for the "opening team". Also a lot of the "old timer's" on the Empress are leaving that ship for others in the fleet-- especially the bar staff-- as the bar management isn't the best to work for on that ship. If any of you have sailed the Empress/Nordic and remember these bar staff they've moved on to the following ships:

Charmie (bartender) going to Mariner in Oct.

Sylvester (bartender) on Majesty

Diana (bar server) on Navigator

Junior (bartender) going to Sovereign

Edmund (bartender) going to Mariner

Christine (bar server) is pregnant and went home last month