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What I Spend In A Week Working On A Cruise Ship! 🚢

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0:00 I work on a cruise ship and probably the
0:02 top perk of this job is getting to save
0:04 a lot of the money that you make we have
0:06 very limited expenses when we're here on
0:08 Bo so if you wanted to spend $0 you
0:10 could I don't do that though so in this
0:13 video we're going to see how much I
0:14 spend on average in a week it is so
0:16 windy out here but first we need to talk
0:19 about what I do and don't pay for here
0:21 on
0:22 board so the first thing that I don't
0:24 pay for on board is is my cabin and no
0:27 it does not get taken out of my paycheck
0:29 along with our cabin we don't pay for
0:31 things like water or electricity so we
0:33 basically have no bills while we're on
0:35 board really the only bills that you
0:37 might have are the ones that you have
0:38 back home another free thing that we
0:40 have here on
0:41 board is laundry the laundry is free to
0:44 use besides having to provide your own
0:46 detergent I got this giant pack of
0:48 detergent from Costco before we got here
0:51 it was like $30 there's 104 pods in here
0:55 so 104 divided by like 30 is something
0:59 and then
1:00 times we probably use like two to three
1:02 pods per load like once a week that's
1:05 like actually have no idea maybe like
1:06 50ish cents a pod I don't know but to be
1:10 honest half of the machines are broken
1:11 so the laundry room is covered in water
1:16 one of the machines is missing it's
1:18 actively overflowing yeah okay this is
1:21 ship life my biggest spending category I
1:25 think is probably going to be food it's
1:28 most definitely going to be food
1:30 yes the food on the ship is free in the
1:32 crew mess and I do eat there most meals
1:34 but the rotation does get a little bit
1:36 boring so about once a week Robert and I
1:38 will go to the specialty restaurants
1:40 here on board we have a few options from
1:42 Italian at giovanis steak at chops and
1:45 sushi at isumi which are all a little
1:48 bit pricier but then we have playmaker
1:50 sports bar and Johnny Rockets which are
1:52 a little bit cheaper so we thankfully do
1:54 get a 20% discount and sometimes even
1:56 more if they're running a special which
1:58 I feel like they do pretty frequently
2:00 I'd say I tend to spend about $50 a week
2:03 at the specialty restaurants give or
2:05 take that's an
2:07 [Music]
2:10 average when it comes to like snacks and
2:13 drinks on board we do have a crew bar
2:15 and a SLO chest you can get soda alcohol
2:19 coffee smoothies snacks and toiletries
2:22 all of the things that you might need to
2:23 hold you over until you can get to like
2:25 a bigger grocery store if needed I'm
2:28 honestly not like a big snacker so I'm
2:29 never really coming to the slop chest
2:31 but I will occasionally come and get
2:33 like a Red Bull or a Coke and I always
2:35 buy water at the water sale once a week
2:37 for $3 and today I'm having a Red Bull
2:40 cuz we have a show the tropical version
2:42 is the best oh and really quick an
2:44 expense that I do save a lot of money on
2:46 is alcohol I will not be drinking this
2:49 before the show tonight I usually just
2:51 get a bottle of rum from kwar for about
2:53 $10 and maybe a Coke and I'll have a
2:55 drink every once in a while if you do
2:57 the math a drink if I make the drink
2:59 myself it comes up to like $150 but the
3:02 drinks in kwar are very cheap you can
3:04 get like a margarita for $4 where on
3:06 land it would be at least $10 depending
3:08 where you are we also have a lot of crew
3:10 parties here on board where HR will
3:12 provide free drinks and food not always
3:14 but often times they'll at least have
3:16 beer and soda these parties usually have
3:18 a really fun theme it just makes for a
3:20 great night out when you don't have to
3:21 Uber pay a cover fee buy overpriced
3:24 drinks and then find a way home it's all
3:26 in one place and for cheap
3:41 [Applause]
3:45 [Music]
3:53 one big expense I save on while on board
3:55 is a gym membership as a cast member we
3:58 are actually required to do five Gym
4:00 hours per week to keep up our stamina
4:02 and physique for the shows when I'm back
4:05 home I'll usually spend anywhere between
4:06 $10 and $50 a month for a gym membership
4:09 so it is really nice to have such a
4:11 beautiful gym to use for
4:14 free okay let's talk about what I'm
4:16 pretty sure is most crew members biggest
4:18 expense on
4:20 board Wi-Fi Wi-Fi on the ship costs
4:23 $3.99 per hour you can also purchase
4:26 bigger packages and the more minutes
4:28 that you buy the less it becomes
4:30 the crew also does get two free hours
4:32 per week but for many people that's just
4:34 not enough and so it can really add up
4:36 except for for Robert somehow he only
4:38 uses those two free hours a week I don't
4:40 know how he does it but he does for me
4:42 though I use much more but I actually
4:45 don't pay for it I have a side job at
4:48 the Wi-Fi desk so for 1 hour I will get
4:51 300 free minutes of Wi-Fi so I'll
4:53 usually help with Wi-Fi 1 to 2 hours per
4:56 week and get between 3 and 600 minutes
4:59 of free internet so I am very thankful
5:01 for my job at the Wi-Fi desk now let's
5:04 talk about what I spend off of the ship
5:06 I am a little bit
5:12 nervous so we are currently on two
5:14 different 7-Day itineraries in the
5:16 Caribbean that alternate each week we
5:18 visit places like St Thomas San Juan the
5:22 Bahamas Jamaica and Grand Cayman most
5:25 days of the week are spent grabbing
5:26 lunch off of the ship or visiting like a
5:28 nearby Beach which you wouldn't think
5:30 would cost a lot but the Caribbean isn't
5:32 as inexpensive as one might think day
5:35 one of this itinerary is always our
5:37 turnaround day in Fort Lauderdale and
5:38 it's basically an errand day for us we
5:41 usually take the $4 crew shuttle to
5:43 Publix to get things like almond milk
5:45 for our coffees and just whatever else
5:47 we might need that week we'll also
5:49 usually go to a coffee shop and get some
5:51 food and Wi-Fi to do things at the ship
5:53 Wi-Fi might not be strong enough for and
5:56 especially to download things for the
5:57 upcoming week like new music podcast and
6:00 Netflix day two we are always in Coco K
6:03 which is free for the crew you don't
6:05 have to pay for any transportation on
6:06 the island food or a beach chair there
6:10 are some additional things that you can
6:11 do like there's the water park
6:13 snorkeling gear and jet skis but we
6:15 never really do that so we actually
6:17 never spend any money here there have
6:19 been many days on this contract where we
6:21 also just don't get off the ship at all
6:22 and just have a day on board but
6:24 occasionally there's also an activity
6:26 that we really want to do somewhere
6:28 that's going to cost a little little bit
6:29 more so we'll get a bunch of the cast
6:31 together to like save on taxis and just
6:33 have a fun day out for example there was
6:35 a water park in nasau that we really
6:36 wanted to go to that was a little bit
6:38 pricier but every once in a while it's
6:41 worth it to spend a little bit more to
6:42 have a fun day out with the
6:45 [Music]
6:54 cast how do we think he's going to do
6:56 guys um I think he might fall the first
6:59 time um 20 seconds
7:03 oh all right good guess good guess I am
7:07 confident I am going to do amazing at
7:09 okay I'm actually really scared now all
7:12 right what's your thoughts on Kyle oh
7:15 not even two
7:18 [Music]
7:21 [Applause]
7:22 [Music]
7:24 seconds really good at that I knew I was
7:27 [Music]
7:29 [Applause]
7:34 [Music]
7:37 [Applause]
7:40 [Music]
7:46 [Music]
7:51 I went through some bank statements and
7:53 my onboard statement to see kind of the
7:56 average of What I spend in a week
7:58 because it really is is so different
8:00 depending on the week it's never the
8:02 same this week I have spent $5 so far
8:05 and we're on day six of the cruise so
8:07 that's why I wanted to do an average and
8:09 not just like one simple week in my life

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