Princess Senior Ship Staff, inc Cruise Directors & Entertainment Directors

[kamelia]

9 minutes ago, Thrak said:

 

Hmmm... Callie Smit is listed in the chart as being on Grand Princess...

We were with him on the Grand in May, so likely he has jumped ship.  Lucky Crown guests!

[Arya3]

Callie told me he would be on the Crown Princess until November. K. Greyling got off the ship when we boarded. Callie was a lot of fun  and highly visible throughout the ship!

[Guest sparklyandcute]

[AFVet1982]

On 8/4/2023 at 6:44 PM, lstone19 said:

I concur with Thrak and that applies to captains as well. 

 

the captain and his senior staff wasn't paying attention inside the ship (did the Ultimate Ship's Tour on one of those and he didn't even show up for the bridge reception that concludes the tour leaving a cadet (student) to host it (I believe the captain is who is supposed to host that reception as when I mentioned it to the CC host on another cruise, she was shocked that the captain had skipped a UST bridge reception). 

Agree 100%.  The "command climate" (or whatever term one might choose to use) that a senior leader sets (no matter what the industry or business) is always noticeable by the public/customer base.  The captain that you mention above (skipped the bridge reception) was probably what we referred to as "Retired On Active Duty (ROAD)."

[AFVet1982]

On 8/4/2023 at 6:37 PM, snoozecrooze said:

If you have additional Princess-specific questions, I'd suggest moving the discussion out of this specific thread as it's limited to just cruise staff discussion.

I do have some questions, and I'll find the appropriate forum(s) to post them to.  Thanks again for the info!

[suzyed]

On 8/7/2023 at 7:57 PM, Arya3 said:

Callie told me he would be on the Crown Princess until November. K. Greyling got off the ship when we boarded. Callie was a lot of fun  and highly visible throughout the ship!

Callie is one of the best!!

[suzyed]

On 7/30/2023 at 10:13 PM, Princess Cruises Fann said:

I think DuVaul is on every email talking about your upcoming cruise. Same with Commodore Nash. I have got those emails and DuVaul wasn’t my Cruise Director and Commodore Nash wasn’t the Captain. 

I would love to sail with DuVaul having "met" him on a Cocktail Zoom during Covid!  He was a hoot!

[Skys the limit]

[Thrak]

Still no info on Grand Princess. Poop.

[serifelogue]

Just boarded the Grand today. Not sure how to add pic but the Cruise Director is David Frost and the Captain is Raffaele Di Martino

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Edited August 12, 2023 by serifelogue
Update

[startedwithamouse]

10 minutes ago, serifelogue said:

Just boarded the Grand today. Not sure how to add pic but the Cruise Director is David Frost and the Captain is Raffaele Di Martino

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We had David on the Emerald during his first contract.

[MissiCruzs]

[Thrak]

Converted the iPhone .heic format posted by @startedwithamouse into a .jpg so it works for all. Sorry it's so small. I've blown it up a couple of times but it still stays small here. Artifact from the conversion from the idiotic proprietary iPhone format.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 13, 2023 by Thrak

[marypat01]

21 hours ago, startedwithamouse said:

We had David on the Emerald during his first contract.

I worked with David earlier this year, great CD.

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Ship	Captain	Cruise Director	Entertainment Director	Director Restaurant Ops
CARIBBEAN	Vincenzo Lubrano	Jody Miles	Robert Boyd	Oscar Perego
CORAL	Gavin Pears	Aaron Hawkins	Sara Romera	Joachim Rothe
CROWN	Christopher Lye	Kristoff Greyling	Michael Kujawski	Mariusz Czemarmazowicz
DIAMOND	Stefano Ravera	Natalie Costa & Mikiko Ikemoto	Tim Donovan Fahey	Jean Paul Musiu
DISCOVERY	Tony Ruggiero	DuVaul Gamble	Neil Rose	Silvio Zampieri
EMERALD	Martin Stenzel	Fernando Duran	Geof O'Rourke	Carlos Marques
ENCHANTED	Mario Ciruzzi	Jayson Douglass	Ron Goodman	Francisco Patricio
GRAND	Raffaele Di Martino	David Frost	Sara Romera	Giuseppe Franchina
ISLAND	Rikard Lorentzen	Karen Rogers	Susan Rawlings	Jacques Ghennai
MAJESTIC	John Foster	Kevin Tugwell	Marissa Wurms	Douw Steyl
REGAL	Tim Stringer	Sophie Gideon	Martyn Moss	?
ROYAL	Andrea Spinardi	Corinne Steel	Caitlin Messerschmidt	Claudio Giuliani
RUBY	Mario Tani	Cole Bockman	Lauren Meyer	Jacques Ghennai
SAPPHIRE	Todd McBain	Armando Merin	Tobias Stewart	Mario Propato
SKY	Marco Fortezze	Dan France	Matt Barnard	Ciprian Hoidreag

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Grand Princess Updated Information provided by @startedwithamouse

Edited August 13, 2023 by Thrak

[dands154]

The very latest as of 12 August sailing:

[Grego]

18 hours ago, Thrak said:

Converted the iPhone .heic format posted by @startedwithamouse into a .jpg so it works for all. Sorry it's so small. I've blown it up a couple of times but it still stays small here. Artifact from the conversion from the idiotic proprietary iPhone format.

 

 

 

 

 

Good to see Mark Turner as Associate Hotel GM.  We got to know him many years ago when he was Assistant CD and he was terrific.

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Ship	Captain	Cruise Director	Entertainment Director	Director Restaurant Ops
CARIBBEAN	Vincenzo Lubrano	Jody Miles	Robert Boyd	Oscar Perego
CORAL	Gavin Pears	Aaron Hawkins	?	Joachim Rothe
CROWN	Christopher Lye	Kristoff Greyling	Michael Kujawski	Mariusz Czemarmazowicz
DIAMOND	Stefano Ravera	Natalie Costa & Mikiko Ikemoto	Tim Donovan Fahey	Jean Paul Musiu
DISCOVERY	Tony Ruggero	DuVaul Gamble	Neil Rose	?
EMERALD	Giuseppe Castellano	Fernando Duran	Geof O'Rourke	Carlos Marques
ENCHANTED	Mario Ciruzzi	Jayson Douglass	Ron Goodman	Francisco Patricio
GRAND	Raffaele Di Martino	David Frost	Sara Romera	Giuseppe Franchina
ISLAND	Rikard Lorentzen	Karen Rogers	Susan Rawlings	Jacques Ghennai
MAJESTIC	John Foster	Kevin Tugwell	Marissa Wurms	Douw Steyl
REGAL	Paolo Arrigo	Sophie Gideon	Matt Thompson	Nicola Furlan
ROYAL	Andrea Spinardi	Corinne Steel	Caitlin Messerschmidt	Claudio Giuliani
RUBY	Mario Tani	Cole Bockman	Lauren Meyer	Jacques Ghennai
SAPPHIRE	Todd McBain	Armando Merin	Tobias Stewart	Mario Propato
SKY	Heikki Laakkonen	Dan France	Matt Barnard	Silvio Zampieri

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• Made edits to Sky, Regal, Emerald as per photos provided.

[lstone19]

Currently on Ruby Princess and cannot find where they have the board with the officer pictures on it. Anyone know where it is on Ruby? I haven’t had a chance to ask anyone on board who might know.

[LACruiser88]

Usually on deck 7, mid-ship, near the elevators/staircase.

[lstone19]

Thanks. Found it. They must have had it blocked or something else on the screen yesterday during embarkation.

 

Changes for Ruby Princess (unable to edit the list right now):

Ruby Princess

Captain Steven Lewis

Restaurant Operations Dir. Giuseppe Gelmini

Edited August 16, 2023 by lstone19

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Ship	Captain	Cruise Director	Entertainment Director	Director Restaurant Ops
CARIBBEAN	Vincenzo Lubrano	Jody Miles	Robert Boyd	Oscar Perego
CORAL	Gavin Pears	Aaron Hawkins	?	Joachim Rothe
CROWN	Christopher Lye	Kristoff Greyling	Michael Kujawski	Mariusz Czemarmazowicz
DIAMOND	Stefano Ravera	Natalie Costa & Mikiko Ikemoto	Tim Donovan Fahey	Jean Paul Musiu
DISCOVERY	Tony Ruggero	DuVaul Gamble	Neil Rose	?
EMERALD	Giuseppe Castellano	Fernando Duran	Geof O'Rourke	Carlos Marques
ENCHANTED	Mario Ciruzzi	Jayson Douglass	Ron Goodman	Francisco Patricio
GRAND	Raffaele Di Martino	David Frost	Sara Romera	Giuseppe Franchina
ISLAND	Rikard Lorentzen	Karen Rogers	Susan Rawlings	Jacques Ghennai
MAJESTIC	John Foster	Kevin Tugwell	Marissa Wurms	Douw Steyl
REGAL	Paolo Arrigo	Sophie Gideon	Matt Thompson	Nicola Furlan
ROYAL	Andrea Spinardi	Corinne Steel	Caitlin Messerschmidt	Claudio Giuliani
RUBY	Steven Lewis	Cole Bockman	Lauren Meyer	Giuseppe Gelmini
SAPPHIRE	Todd McBain	Armando Merin	Tobias Stewart	Mario Propato
SKY	Heikki Laakkonen	Dan France	Matt Barnard	Silvio Zampieri

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• Made edits to Ruby, as per post above this one.

[toofewcruises]

On 8/7/2023 at 7:44 PM, sparklyandcute said:

Your favorite! 

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Ship	Captain	Cruise Director	Entertainment Director	Director Restaurant Ops
CARIBBEAN	Ozren Marelic	Jody Miles	Ben Powney	Neville Saldanha
CORAL	Gavin Pears	Aaron Hawkins	?	Joachim Rothe
CROWN	Christopher Lye	Kristoff Greyling	Michael Kujawski	Mariusz Czemarmazowicz
DIAMOND	Stefano Ravera	Natalie Costa & Mikiko Ikemoto	Tim Donovan Fahey	Jean Paul Musiu
DISCOVERY	Tony Ruggero	DuVaul Gamble	Neil Rose	?
EMERALD	Giuseppe Castellano	Fernando Duran	Geof O'Rourke	Carlos Marques
ENCHANTED	Mario Ciruzzi	Jayson Douglass	Ron Goodman	Francisco Patricio
GRAND	Raffaele Di Martino	David Frost	Sara Romera	Giuseppe Franchina
ISLAND	Rikard Lorentzen	Karen Rogers	Susan Rawlings	Jacques Ghennai
MAJESTIC	John Foster	Kevin Tugwell	Marissa Wurms	Douw Steyl
REGAL	Paolo Arrigo	Sophie Gideon	Matt Thompson	Nicola Furlan
ROYAL	Andrea Spinardi	Corinne Steel	Caitlin Messerschmidt	Claudio Giuliani
RUBY	Steven Lewis	Cole Bockman	Lauren Meyer	Giuseppe Gelmini
SAPPHIRE	Todd McBain	Armando Merin	Tobias Stewart	Mario Propato
SKY	Heikki Laakkonen	Dan France	Matt Barnard	Silvio Zampieri

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Made edits to Caribbean. Credit to Vickie Bowne (who is also on CC!) for her photos on August 8.

[Babybusser]

Thanks to all who keeps this list up to date.  Really appreciate it. 🤩