What happens at night on Royal Caribbean ships?

There are countless choices across the cruise line’s ships.

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00:00Good afternoon. I am Dan Klein, executive editor of Come Cruise With Me. That is comecruisewith.com.

00:06I'm with Dennis Post, our travel agent partner, along with his wife Amy Post at Postcard Travel Planning.

00:11We are in a bar that's unique on Royal Caribbean. Dennis, do you know why this bar is unique?

00:16Because it's a schooner bar and it's unique to Royal Caribbean.

00:20It's the only bar in the fleet that's on every single ship.

00:24There is a pub in almost every ship, but one is missing the pub.

00:28So there is a schooner bar, but we're going to talk about something a little ridiculous today.

00:32The first thing we're going to talk about is jokes you should absolutely never make on a ship.

00:36I'm not talking jokes about the Titanic or the ship going down or things that anybody would know are inappropriate.

00:41But I just saw three times in a row at the bar here, the bartender asks someone,

00:46would you like another one? And the person thinks for a minute and says,

00:49well, I'm not driving today. And the bartender laughs.

00:53The bartender does not find this funny.

00:56He wants to punch you in the face for this. This is a bad joke.

01:00So I'll go back to my retail days. I used to run a toy store.

01:03And any time I went to scan a product and it didn't come up, the customer would say,

01:08oh, I guess it's free, as if I'd never heard that one before.

01:12And I'd heard it 75 times that day. So I know the customer is always right.

01:16I know the bartender has to smile and laugh. But please, for the love of God, don't make that joke.

01:22And Dennis, you have one too as well.

01:24So what we see all the time is you've got command staff walking around and they introduce the captain.

01:30And he's standing in the main part of the ship, talking and greeting people.

01:33And it happens, like he said 75 times, it probably happens 100 times a day.

01:38Who's driving the ship if you're the captain?

01:41Bad. Bad.

01:43Here's the thing. The captain doesn't stand at a wheel and drive the ship anymore.

01:47I actually only learned that a few months ago.

01:49Captain Cade of Celebrity Beyond posted a video about how they actually steer the ship.

01:53And it's not a big wheel like you would think. It's all sorts of different systems.

01:57Anyway, I am Dan Klein. He is Dennis Post.

01:59We are Come Cruise With Me.

02:01We are on Voyager of the Seas and we'll see you soon.