I'm not a cruise person and I won't ever take one, but I love documentaries about the massive effort that goes into managing thousands of guests on a ship.
The Cruise is an adult-only "foodie" cruise that spends 5 days between Miami and the Bahamas. 2,000 guests and 1,200 crew. It's a lovely ship. The food is hilarious. It was nice to see fresh, whole fish being loaded, but I would have liked to see raw beef. They have a "high end" steakhouse and we see the usual black-striped steaks on a grill in the kitchen, but we never see a raw steak hit the heat.
Other cruise documentaries (maybe The Secret Life of the Cruise?) show beef and shellfish being partially cooked on land then being reheated on board. They stripe the steaks, heat them in ovens, then pack them up and load them onto the ship. This ship seems to cook most of their food fresh but the all-important steaks are never shown raw. I don't know about you, but if I'm paying thousands of dollars for a trip I want a properly rare steak, not some cafeteria grey slab. I was also surprised about how many thoings these people have to pay for. I thought food was free on cruises? One couple even paid $7 for a carrot smoothie. LOL, I wouldn't even pay that on land.
Anyway, this is a nice, no-stress series. Just people drinking, eating and swimming. The crew also has one person whose job is just to maintain crew morale, which is a nice touch.
