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I remember there used to be an excursion to tour the ship and get a behind the scenes view of the cooking, crews quarters, etc.. I have not seen it offered on the last few cruises. Am I just mis-remembering or has it indeed gone away?
Original poster, when Carnival offers these tours back up, don't hesitate to book. It is very fascinating to see everything behind the scenes. You have to book on the ship. This tour is only limited to 16 people so get to the shore excursions desk as soon as you get on the ship and book it. It sells out fast.
Some cruise lines allow cameras and some don't. I think Carnival doesn't allow them because part of the tour is in the engineering control area. I've done the tour on Carnival and NCL. On NCL they actually encouraged us to take our cameras, but we didn't go to engineering.
Done the behind the fun tour and agree with those who say it is well worth it and very interesting. In addition, when we first became platinum (they had just started the program, we were on the ecstasy. We were one of the two plat couples on the ship. We got a behind the scenes look at the kitchen done by the hotel director, More in depth as we spent all the time in the kitchen area, but one could tell the pride they had in showing us their world. The storage area pics made me think back to the experience.
I've done the Behind the Fun tour around ten times and have always learned something new. I highly recommend them. I learned about the BtF Tour's existence from right here on Cruise Critic -- Carnival doesn't go out of their way to advertise them.
I really hope they bring them back before my Horizon cruises, too. The Engineering Control Room on the Vista looked much like a starship's bridge, with digital displays all around and a digital "plotting-table" -- a big touch-screen monitor set on a pedestal, which the engineering officer used to show us things like an underwater view of one of the azipods and a schematic of which hole does what on the famous Carnival whale-tale funnel. It was really nifty and I figure the Horizon has the same arrangement.
It does. One reason we took the tour again in 2018 on Horizon was we figured the technology had changed enough to make it worth doing again. A "bonus" for us was that we were trying to avoid a hurricane so they had the stabilizers deployed - you could see it on the camera.
Per the ISPS (International Ship and Port Security) Code, the engine spaces are "restricted spaces", where even those crew who are not engineering are not allowed, and therefore any photos there can be both a security risk (terrorists) or liability risk.
During my tour I remarked on the reminder sign on the console that said "Fin stabilizers are out." The engineering officer did a doubletake. "No, they're not." And the watch officer sheepishly removed the sign. Officer jokingly asked me if I wanted a job there. ?
Yep. I've noticed on our tours that we were shadowed by a security officer, who was usually well in the background...but became suddenly MUCH more visible when we visited Engineering Control and the bridge.
Surprised. There should be status lights both on the bridge and the ECR for the stabilizers. And, the stabilizers usually retract when the ship is below 7 knots, to prevent damage if they are accidentally deployed while docking.
Oh, I have no doubt those systems were fine. The sign was a little stand-up sign they'd placed above the console, apparently as a physical reminder...that the watch officer had neglected to remove when the stabilizers were retracted.
In fact, during December of 2018, mega-star Tom Cruise was filming a pivotal winter action scene for Top Gun: Maverick aka Top Gun 2 in Washoe Meadows State Park. This relatively small state park is located in South Lake Tahoe, and happens to be in my (figurative) backyard.
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Why is this interesting (at least to me)? Because I work at Tahoe Donner Cross Country in the winter. And, one of my friends and former co-workers was the person who drove the scouting team around the property.
Along those lines, there was a fantastic rumor about taking unauthorized photos of the production. Basically, authorities would confiscate your recording device (whether that be a phone or camera) if you were caught.
About the high cadence there can be no doubt. His turnover is blistering, and that more than anything else is what makes any other actor running in the same frame with him look at least a little bit out of shape.
But as this scene continues and he turns corners, grabs things, decelerates and accelerates again, and generally responds to his environment, his arm technique breaks down. His elbows swing wide, his hands (still determinedly held open) arc to the middle of his chest instead of staying to either side.
(To clarify: it sounds sensible to say that any side-to-side movement is wasted movement in running. But the fact is we have two legs and each of them is on one side of the body, and we need to be supported by them in alternation. So some side-to-side movement is in fact optimal, and when you stop it from happening you have to work harder to run at any given speed. In sprinting, Usain Bolt was a master of this side-to-side movement, so it is definitely functional and fast.)
Meanwhile the front-to-back armswing activates the muscles on the back of the body excessively (they have to work to keep the hands from coming to the center of his chest) and this effort pushes the chest forward, bringing the runner upright or even, in the Mission Impossible clip above, slightly leaning backwards.
I remember first stepping onto a cruise ship very clearly. It was in July 2014, when I joined a Celebrity Eclipse cruise ship and it was like walking into Oz. It was a whole amazing mini city that I hadn't known existed. I remember feeling overwhelmed and that I'd entered a different world that I didn't know anything about. There were endless places to eat, a library, gym, theater and even a little hospital and the decor was really amazing. It felt almost otherworldly.
When that first ship began to move, I was singing 'I Dreamed a Dream' fromLes Miserables and it happened all of a sudden, in the middle of the show. I realized I had to get through a performance, while finding my sea legs, in front of a thousand people.
I've worked as a singer and performer on around 15 cruise ships now and they're always a bit "wow." Some are more traditional and classic in style, very Titanic-esque, and others are neon coloured and bright, like a mini city. I originally worked as a guest entertainer where you fly out, spend a week on board performing and then leave. Then, I spent a couple of years as part of the production cast, so I would be on board for months at a time. When you're a guest entertainer you're treated as a guest and you have all those privileges and when you're on board for a long contract, you live in crew quarters. Crew cabins vary, but as a performer you're treated very well. I've generally had a small double cabin with my own bathroom and a porthole. Of course, there are crew bunk bed cabins and cabins without natural light, so it is different for everyone.
Over the past nine years I've worked for six different cruise ship companies including Celebrity Cruises, Royal Caribbean International, Aida and Saga. The largest ships I have been on, the Royal Caribbean Quantum of the Seas and Ovation of the Seas ships can take 1,500 crew and almost 5,000 guests at full capacity.
On those ships, we would arrive at little ports in New Zealand or Japan where the population of the town would only be around 2,000 people. So just by wandering around the town when we disembarked, we would almost triple the population that day. I also worked for the British company, Saga, and they have gorgeous ships but a slightly lower capacity of 600-1,000 passengers.
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