Dance Hosts and Hostesses

[Dancer Bob]

For several months, Costa has contracted with a Hungarian agency (http://www.enerdance.com) to provide Latin dance teams (two couples) for several of their ships. The Diadema clip on the site has been jazzed up but is pretty accurate, except they perform in the Grand Bar, in theatre-in-the-round, much different from a stage show.

More to the point, although not officially dance hosts/hostesses, they do dance with passengers. The male dancers are very competent and popular with ladies who can dance; having female dance partners on every cruise who know every syllabus figure up to silver level is to the best of my knowledge, unique on any cruise line, except possibly a couple of ultra-expensive ones. Even specialist dance cruises struggle to provide partners of this quality. The ones providing dance teachers have a conflict of interest.

Anyone else with good experiences?

[SandraDJ]

Cunard employs dance hosts. They also assist in the daily dance lessons on sea days.

[mef_57]

Holland America also has hosts on their longer cruises, but I don't think hostesses.

My only Costa cruises were with a ballroom dance group. We chose Costa as it had good dance floors and musicians who played appropriate music. We took our own instructors for daily lesson. As often the case, more women than men in the mix and no Costa staff were around for us to dance with. Now this group go on Cunard instead, but again, fewer men than women.

I have just booked my first Holland cruise, but as it is only 7 days, I don't anticipate much dancing opportunities unless there are 'lessons'. Wish Costa wasn't out of my price range (thanks to Cdn$ and single supplement). It could have been fun having a dance partner once in a while.

Sadly, Holland America no longer has Dancing With The Stars cruises.

[Dancer Bob]

To avoid confusing any casual readers

Holland America is for decrepit old geezers and geezer-wannabes. Dancing With The Stars was a farce, bimbos who wanted to be performers but couldn't do simple bronze level routines. In any case my agent was just on the refurbished Eurodam, big changes, he was definite I wouldn't like it and he won't be booking any more dance groups.

Cunard isn't what it used to be. The music seems to vary wildly, recent reports were good but my experience was mediocre at best. On QM2 at Christmas I was told one host could dance, 3 couldn't even keep time with the music. That's consistent with other reports and my observations.

Crystal had nice floors but was otherwise a badly over-priced disappointment.

I agree it's best to travel with a group when you can find one, as a single I now only book Costa.

[Saint Greg]

Dance hosts....reminds me of the movie "Out to Sea."

 

 

 

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[Nancyluvs2cruise]

Oh my, that movie trailer was a riot! I don't remember seeing that movie, I will have to find it somewhere. Thanks for posting the link.