CD Josh Riffe on Valor

[JTAIME]

Has anyone cruised with CD Josh Riffe. I was told he would be the cruise director on Carnival Valor in April? Does anyone know what ship John Heald will be on after his Vacation?

[gsb]

A liitle time has passed, but he was very good then, and I have seen reviews since that were all positive.

[JrMafia90]

Has anyone cruised with CD Josh Riffe. I was told he would be the cruise director on Carnival Valor in April? Does anyone know what ship John Heald will be on after his Vacation?

 

John Heald is on vacation? Where at? When is he coming back?

[dromMOM]

Josh was just okay... too corny.. not quick witted... which if you want to interact with your audience is necessary. Maybe its his age.. His comedy is basic..not too clever..

 

but he was a nice guy..

[chilldowns]

We have sailed with Josh twice in past 2 years. First cruise (Pride 3/03) he was not very good- more interested in getting a girlfriend and selling shore excursions and getting you to go to carnival approved shops.

We sailed w/ him again on the Destiny (6/04). He was better, same corny jokes. They hired a "super shopper" to promote the shops and that samed to ttake some stuff off his plate. We had some friends on the Dec 18th Valor and they said he was very funny and did a good job.

[Rescue156]

I sailed with Josh in 2003 on the Pride. I'm going w/ the general idea of everyone else, he was kinda corny, and uses the generic Carnival jokes, whereas some (John Heald, Corey Schmidt when he still was w/ Carnival, Greg Kneale and others i'm sure) at least spruce things up a little w/ things of their own.

 

 

As for John Heald, he is currently vacationing at his home in Essex, England. He will be back on the Carnival Glory sometime in February and stay there until Mid-April when I'm not totally sure where he'll be, but I THINK he'll go to bring out Carnival Liberty from there.

[Cyt4SoreEyes]

Just wondring if Josh will still be on in June if anyone knows please let us know thanks so much, Cyt

[Cyt4SoreEyes]

Just Bumping to see if there will be another CD in June on Valor...anyone know or will Josh still be there?

[OC Mom]

From reading other threads, it sounds like Josh is now off the Valor and isn't coming back, at least for a few months.

[kodiac]

The new cruise director is Brent Mitchell. From what I understand he will be on this ship for the next several months. You can read my thread here:

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=172035&page=1

[kfgarrow]

Josh was just okay... too corny.. not quick witted... which if you want to interact with your audience is necessary. Maybe its his age.. His comedy is basic..not too clever..

 

but he was a nice guy..

 

We sailed with him in January of this year and I totally agree with this assessment.