The guys often pretend their wives don’t exist, maybe until the day before she arrives.” Then the night his wife went home, the girlfriend would move back in as though nothing had happened. When his wife came on board for a holiday, the girlfriend would move out of his cabin for the week and basically pretend she didn’t know him. “Men who had a wife and kids at home, and a girlfriend on the ship. “The main thing I didn’t like was the cheating,” she told last June. Queenslander Cathryn Chapman worked throughout the Carribbean and Bahamas during her 20s and 30s, and she wrote a fiction called Sex, Lies and Cruising based on her experiences. The claims have been echoed by other cruise ships workers in the past. And for the most part nobody was loyal to anyone,” he told Matt Meltzer. So any time a new girl started working on the ship, the first night at the crew bar was a free-for-all. “I think the ratio of men to women was like 9:1. While guests experience a sun-drenched high-life above decks, Blake describes a dark world of low pay, cramped rooms and rampant sex on the levels below. “THE ships were the most incestuous workplace I’ve ever been a part of.”Ī man known only as “Blake” has revealed the truth about life on the high seas, in a no-holds-barred interview with Thrillist.
