Kim Poirier was close to being picked as one of the female leads of the show when she was 15, but when they asked her to remove her tongue ring, she refused and didn't get the role.
While the show is set in various locations around the world in the primary set being a cruise ship, it, with the exception of stock footage interscenes, is entirely filmed in the Greater Vancouver, Canada area.
In the show, the name of the ship is Universe Explorer, and is registered in Panama.