I certainly remember the Regent Sun, as I worked on the ship in the bar back in 1991. It was very very hard work - up to 14 hours a day, and not a single day off. But it was positively the best time of my life!
I was 19 years old, and just wanted to travel and see parts of the world I wouldn't otherwise have seen. I met my husband while working on the ship. He was a croupier in the casino - and therefore had the status of an officer meaning he was allowed to sit and talk to guests, eat in the dining room etc. As bar personel I was certainly not allowed to be seen anywhere on the ship unless I was wearing my uniform. We weren't really allowed to go out as a couple. But we did anyway, and after we did another contract on Discovery Cruises - both working in the casino, we went back to Denmark, were I'm from. And we've been here ever since:-)
Since working on a cruiseship is not a holiday, I didn't get to see much on all the different Caribbean islands we visited, so for New Years 2007/08 we flew to San Juan and took a cruise of the Western Caribbean and visited our favourite islands and got to do the touristy things you do on a cruise:-)
I think Dan Stapleton was the Cruise Director when I was on the ship? The name certainly seems familiar.
Well I could go on and on for hours about the Regent Sun - I'm sad it wasn't around when we finally got around to doing our first cruise as passengers it would have been excellent to go on a cruiseship we'd worked on as passengers :D
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I certainly remember the Regent Sun, as I worked on the ship in the bar back in 1991. It was very very hard work - up to 14 hours a day, and not a single day off. But it was positively the best time of my life!
I was 19 years old, and just wanted to travel and see parts of the world I wouldn't otherwise have seen. I met my husband while working on the ship. He was a croupier in the casino - and therefore had the status of an officer meaning he was allowed to sit and talk to guests, eat in the dining room etc. As bar personel I was certainly not allowed to be seen anywhere on the ship unless I was wearing my uniform. We weren't really allowed to go out as a couple. But we did anyway, and after we did another contract on Discovery Cruises - both working in the casino, we went back to Denmark, were I'm from. And we've been here ever since:-)
Since working on a cruiseship is not a holiday, I didn't get to see much on all the different Caribbean islands we visited, so for New Years 2007/08 we flew to San Juan and took a cruise of the Western Caribbean and visited our favourite islands and got to do the touristy things you do on a cruise:-)
I think Dan Stapleton was the Cruise Director when I was on the ship? The name certainly seems familiar.
Well I could go on and on for hours about the Regent Sun - I'm sad it wasn't around when we finally got around to doing our first cruise as passengers it would have been excellent to go on a cruiseship we'd worked on as passengers :D