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An article mentioned that there are 1000 crew members on the Grand Princess cruise ship. I thought that number must surely be a typo; maybe they meant combined passengers and crew.
So I checked how many crew members a cruise ship normally has:
https://www.cruisewatch.com/top-10/ships-passenger-crew-ratio/
According to that page, the minimum passenger to crew ratio is 1 to 0.1 (ie. 1 crew member per 10 passengers), but that is only one ship out of almost 200 listed. Most ships listed have at least a 1 to 0.3 ratio, and several even 1 or more crew member per 2 passengers.
Those numbers are not even per room, but per passenger. What do they all do? Clean, cook, activity guides, ship maintenance, actual navigation and such...
Considering that crew members are likely aboard ship for months at a time, they won't all be on duty at the same time; they need days off as well as having different work shifts. So that must increase the number of crew that are necessary.
But still, I had no idea. For a large ship, I would have guessed a few hundred at most.
So I checked how many crew members a cruise ship normally has:
https://www.cruisewatch.com/top-10/ships-passenger-crew-ratio/
According to that page, the minimum passenger to crew ratio is 1 to 0.1 (ie. 1 crew member per 10 passengers), but that is only one ship out of almost 200 listed. Most ships listed have at least a 1 to 0.3 ratio, and several even 1 or more crew member per 2 passengers.
Those numbers are not even per room, but per passenger. What do they all do? Clean, cook, activity guides, ship maintenance, actual navigation and such...
Considering that crew members are likely aboard ship for months at a time, they won't all be on duty at the same time; they need days off as well as having different work shifts. So that must increase the number of crew that are necessary.
But still, I had no idea. For a large ship, I would have guessed a few hundred at most.
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Date: 2020-03-09 05:11 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2020-03-09 07:06 pm (UTC)From:1) A very fancy hotel, with some things made extra complicated by not having a good supply chain, usually with multiple hotel bars
2) A big entertainment venue, generally at least including a theatre, a swimming pool, a casino and a spa, plus a lot of incidental musicians and other entertainers, a kids program, an internet cafe etc.
3) Several restaurants and cafeteria, including ones to feed the staff
4) A big ship, with some things made extra complicated by having all the other stuff
5) A shore excursion provider, including a load of transport arrangements especially at tender ports
6) Often, a massive upsell operation involving an art auction, photo sales, future cruise sales, selling many premium services etc.
There is a lot of stuff going on, you need a few hundred just to keep the ship going to a standard that cruise guests expect (this includes e.g. constantly repainting everything...)
Plus your guests are generally drunk and demanding, so you need a bunch of people whose job is basically to de-escalate conflicts and do front line customer service.
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Date: 2020-03-10 02:41 am (UTC)From:no subject
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