Bryan James works as a guitarist for Royal Caribbean and posts popular videos on various social media services.
He often shared a look behind the curtains of the crew's life. The musicians on board live in an interesting middle ground in many crew lines.
On Royal Caribbean, for example, a solo guitarist or pianist at the Schooner Bar has similar privileges to passengers. They can eat in the passenger areas, hang out with their audience after the show, and even use the pools and hot tubs.
They are also crew members because they have some of the same exercises and requirements that non-performers have. They also face the same medical requirements and are subject to the same code of conduct.
Solo musicians also get solo booths which can sometimes be in passenger areas. They can request room service at the same flat rate that passengers pay, but do not receive traditional room hostess service. In most cases, crew members who are lucky enough to be in this position will pay a butler to clean their room and change their sheets and towels once or twice a week.
James has worked both as a solo guitarist and in a band, so he has had his own room and has had to share it with another member of the band. It's much nicer than the cabins where most of the crew lives.
In a popular TikTok video, he took his viewers through each class of crew cabin, from the smallest to the spacious cruise director's quarters.
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Royal Caribbean crew cabins, from smallest to largest
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There are so many different types of cabins that cruise ship crew members stay in.
I will show you the rooms, from the smallest to the largest. From these small cabins to the huge ones, like the ones that house cruise directors.
Alright, let's start little by little. These are individual actions. You have your own space, but you share the bathroom with another person. It is a cabin that many crew members want to stay in because of the privacy it offers. Yes, you share a bathroom but you have your own space like, oh, it's gold on a cruise ship.
Speaking of privacy, you won't have privacy in one of these rooms. It is a room with bunk beds where two people stay. It's bigger, of course, but you'll be here with a stranger, someone maybe from your department, maybe someone not from your department, maybe you have a similar background, maybe you have nothing in common.
You just get what you get.
Couples tend to request this cabin because it has decent space and then they can live together.
Then we have individual cabins. This is what everyone wants. It's very similar to the last cabin, except it's built for just one person. The bed is bigger. It's a folding bunk bed and if this is your cabin, you can have anyone visit you.
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They could stay in their cabin practically for free. It's amazing.
Now, one of the best cabins on the ships is the cruise director's cabin. Everyone wants it, but only one person can have it.
It's two separate rooms, a kind of kitchenette and then you have a big old porthole with seats. You can have meetings here. You can have parties, I mean, whatever you want, and then have a space that is just your bedroom.
It must be very pretty.
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