I have done 2 contracts of 4 months on the Seabourn Legend (on which the movie Speed 2 was filmed) and the Seabourn Pride as a waiter. On these ships, the price for the passengers was all-included, so we wouldn’t get tips. I made about 2,500/month, which for me at the time was nice, since I was a student.
Keep 4 things in mind:
1: nothing needs to be spent on rent or food, or travelling to and from the ship, because these things come with the job. So I could’ve saved 10,000 in 4 months. What I did spend money on, was: beers in the crewbar, lunch and dinners in nice restaurants ashore in places we would stop, sometimes clothing or nice gadgets, for personal use.
2: for this money, I worked often more than 80 hours a week, and had NO days off. It’s a physically very demanding life. For 4 months each time, I was looking so much forward to that first morning my alarm wouldn’t go off.
3: When you want to make it a long term living: while you’re on leave (in my position that would be for 2 months) you don’t get paid. So for that time you need to live on what you made while working.
4: Working on a cruiseship definitely counts as one of the best experiences of my life: the places I’ve seen, the adventures I’ve lived, the friends I’ve made. All while getting richer, not poorer. So many stories… I would recommend it to anyone.
(sidenote: When I applied the first time, I lied about having experience as a waiter, they hired me anyway, and I just managed to learn quickly on the job…)
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