![]() ![]() But, all of that aside, there are a lot of good things about the Breeze. I hate to say this, but unless/until Carnival offers a more competitive pay rate for their performers (which would mean an increase in cruise prices), the shows are never going to get any better. I also agree with k2 about the production shows in the theater. The putt-putt golf course is showing signs of wear and tear and needs some attention. A couple of (very) minor complaints about the Breeze: Unlike other ships, the Aft pool area is NOT adults only, and tends to get almost as crowded as the main pool. The Liberty is still my favorite, with the Breeze coming in a very close second. So for me, newer does not automatically mean better. ![]() It just did the best job at providing the complete experience, for all that I enjoy on a cruise. The Dream is by far in the way my favorite ship of all. Putting it all together, the Breeze falls somewhere in the middle of the pack, if I were to rank the ships I've been on. The aft pool area is really nice, with how it's open to the sea, unlike Conquest class ships. If you need food after that, you'll have a long wait for pizza. The waterslides & ropes course are so much fun!!! Plenty of great food options by day, but fewer options than previous ships after about 8:00. I bought the weeklong pass for the 3D theater, which gave me something fun to do in the evenings. Those slippery floors were introduced with the Magic, 1 ship prior to Breeze.īut, it was still a great ship & a nice cruise. And the floors in there are extremely slippery. The design of the lido deck inside area has lots of walls & sections, which creates for worse bottlenecks than her sister ships. So when I'm on vacation, I like the glitz for something different. In my regular life, I'm surrounded by plenty of toned down (aka boring) decor. The decor has been very popular among many people, but I actually prefer the glitzy Vegas style decor that Carnival had before. Some people thought the ship was boring at night. The nighttime shows have been downgraded: no live music, far fewer performers, half the length, no props, fewer people attending, plenty of people walking out, minimal audience response. Royal Caribbean says the company doesn’t comment on individual deaths out of respect for crew privacy.The Breeze is a great ship, but some aspects were disappointing. (Virgin Voyages didn’t respond to requests for comment. Four days later, another worker from the Philippines died in an apparent suicide on Virgin Voyages’ Scarlet Lady. Next was a Filipino cook, Kennex Bundaon, who was found dead in his cabin on Carnival’s AIDAblu. A crew member aboard the ship says many believed it was another suicide, though the company said he’d died of natural causes. Around this time a Chinese contractor was found dead on Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas. ![]() Two weeks later, on May 10, Evgenia Pankrushyna, a waitress from Ukraine, died after jumping overboard from Carnival’s Regal Princess near Rotterdam. Ship security cameras captured him leaping into the water that morning, according to Greek authorities. On April 29, an electrical engineer from Poland on Royal Caribbean’s Jewel of the Seas disappeared while the ship was anchored in the Saronic Gulf, south of Athens. The pay per hour is low by American standards, but workers say that it’s more than they could earn at home and that they appreciate the opportunity to travel the world. Their salaries can range from about $650 to $2,000 a month, depending on seniority. Lower-level crew-such as junior housekeepers and galley staffers-often come from poorer countries and commit to half-year stints or longer at sea, working 8 to 10 hours, seven days a week. ![]() High levels of depression stem from the jobs’ long contract lengths and stressful demands. An October 2019 study on the mental well-being of crew, commissioned by a group affiliated with the International Transport Workers’ Federation, the big maritime trade union, found that even before the pandemic about a fifth of mariners surveyed said they had suicidal thoughts. Interviews with affected crew members and their families suggest that despite assurances from cruise operators that crew were well cared for, their mental health was at times an afterthought. ![]()
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