Costacruiser98

15 hours ago, BrianCruiser said:

I'm not sure which jobs you are eligible for but I can say onboard jobs are very low paying and Costa is the lowest paying of all cruise lines even lower than other Carnival brands like Aida. Also it depends where you are from whether they have a hiring partner in your country or not.

You need to get used to 8months on board and 2 months off. Work every day. Depending on department you will probably get a couple hours between breakfast and lunch especially if you are waitress/waiter or galley team. Usually even though you will only work 10hr/day its not 10hrs straight. The break it up to have you work bfast lunch dinner which is a real pain.

The pay in galley is $495usd/month but its tax free. Obviously free room and food. Though food is horrible. Internet is expensive. That is base salary plus guaranteed over time (40hr week + 30hr OT). That way they never pay you more. But they do pay you around $20/month for incentives based on itinerary, passenger numbers, feedback. This is to try and even out the different ships and itineraries.

Other departments are similar but you definitely want to have contact with passengers as you can get tips and if you have 20rooms to clean or 20 passengers to serve and a repeating 7day cruise you will double your salary in tips.

Thanks very much for the information. Will check more about hiring partners. I was thinking something to do with hospitality or entertainment. It does not have to be Costa of course. Just wanted to try it out for a year contract or so for the experience. After all as I said its not quite my path so I dont know whether I`ll be able to pursue a career on a cruise ship. But I`m definitely considering trying it for once. Are you currently working for Costa?

Wendy

1 hour ago, tenpin said:

Type in Jobs for Costa there is a link that shows what jobs are available.

 

Good luck I hope you find something, as an ex-merchant navy man at 15 I had already been to Australia, New Zealand & USA. 

Thanks. Will do :)

This might sound stupid but lately I’ve been dreaming of working onboard. I really like the idea of meeting new people and traveling around the world whilst working on a ship. The thing is I have just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Not quite in the field of tourism 😕 Anyone can suggest any jobs related to my field onboard? 😂

I have only been in the Med and Northern Europe so far so cant really tell about other destinations (although they sound epic). Yes indeed the ones leaving from where I live always take the same route. What I really like about costa are the themed nights and parties. They don’t do that on every cruise line. 

We were thinking to try out the MSC lirica in September next year. Thanks for the info 😁😁😁

Anyone knows if there are a lot of differences between MSC and Costa. We’d like to try MSC too for once

The bests so far is Favolosa for me. We really liked the chocolate bar and were a bit disappointed when we realised that not all the ships have it. Anyways but Med and all the smaller ones were also fantastic in terms of food, service and entertainment..

😂😂 

True. 

Was just curious. 

Anyone knows who is the current cruise director on Costa magica?

Wow! So far I’ve only been on Mediterranea, favolosa and neoriviera. Last one was a bit small but still fantastic. The good thing was that there were more crew compared to guests so we got more attention. But still overall I prefer the larger ships. I’ve only been in the Med and Northern Europe tho 😅😅 

Anyone knows if theres CD list for Costa? 

Anyone has a favourite Costa ship and why? 

I know right 😕 its impossible to know. Hopefully we get another nice one this year 

Its the cruise director Daniela. I believe shes on vacation right now. But im wondering if we’ll have her again next year. 

Thanks tho I will try to ask around :)))

This year the director changed whilst we were on board and the hand over was not that great as some of the parties were repetitive 😞

That is true. In fact only this year we met a really nice director who interacted more with us. Even the shows at the theatre and night parties were much more lively when she was around. Thats why im wondering if its possible to know which director we’ll be having next year 

Does anyone know if I can access the directors schedule of the costa fleet for next year pls? We would really love to meet our previous director again :))

Hello all! I have been on 3 cruises till now with costa. I was wondering which is your favourite director and why? In my opinion there are much better directors than some. I wish I could find a directors schedule to look out before booking my next cruise. Anyone has some info pls?