Hannah Waddingham to Become a Godmother (to a Cruise Ship)

[squirrels_oh_no]

🙌 Award-winning actress and performer Hannah Waddingham will serve the time-honored maritime tradition as Godmother of #SunPrincess! 🥂 💙 Stay tuned in the coming days for details on how you can join us virtually for the christening. #ILoveThis #PrincessCruises @hanwaddingham pic.twitter.com/lbl4jC8GaD
- Princess Cruises (@PrincessCruises) April 8,

Comments

[ohwutevernvm]

I’ve always wondered what it is like working on the cruise. In particular because there were plenty of job posts made from them on Indeed and others.

[squirrels_oh_no]

If you're in the entertainment staff you're better off for a variety of reasons (and most cruise staff influencers are either in entertainment or shop staff who don't actually work for the cruise line), but for most staff you have a 6-12 month contract where you're working 7 days a week up to 12 hours a day for around $1,000 a month (some positions also get tipped). But it does include room and board, although the room is a tiny room shared with another staff member with bunk beds and no window in most cases. If you're an officer or in leadership, though, you often can get a room with a porthole by yourself, especially if you're experienced. The captain's quarters are generally very big.

Most captains don't have a cat, though.

[yankeesarelove]

my friend worked on one- he was in charge of sound for the ship's Broadway musical each night- and as his guest, it only cost me $10 per day to be on the ship!!

[kindpaddington]

If I were famous and was asked to be a cruise ship godmother, I would demand that they let me break the bottle myself on the side of the ship, none of this press a button crap. I'd train for it like Rocky.

[squirrels_oh_no]

I think they're especially superstitious because the Godmother of the Costa Concordia didn't break the bottle when she did it by hand (Eva Herzigova) and we know what happened there. It's bad luck to not break the bottle.

[kindpaddington]

I think it's the cruise line's fault for not doing dress rehearsals and vetting their celebrities' bottle-breaking abilities beforehand. They need to keep the spectacle. I'm feeling very strongly about this 😂

[squirrels_oh_no]

They're even supposed to get special bottles specifically for the process LOL, but cruise ships are so big, you don't break the bottle directly, you release it from a distance on a rope and it swings to hit the ship. But as I said, most of the time now it's hanging from a cherry picker or crane and someone inside the terminal where the party is presses a button and then someone releases the bottle and it swings from a long distance to hit the ship. And as I said, special breakable bottles.

[archersangel]

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[therearewords]

Not very environment friendly, babe.