Princess Senior Ship Staff, inc Cruise Directors & Entertainment Directors

[Caroline Murphy]

On 5/1/2024 at 3:35 PM, gerriv said:

Sun Princess May 1, 2024

Ralph and Simona must be on vacation as HGMs. 

[kstaffen]

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*Dates under ship name reflect the voyage from which the most recent photo of officers was shared here on CC.

SHIP	Captain	Cruise Director	Entertainment Director	Director of Restaurant Operations
CARIBBEAN (Dec 3, 23)	Vincenzo Lubrano (leaves Jan 2024)   Ozren Marelic (leave)	Gary Golding (Feb 2024)	Mathew Edward Joseph  🟢	Oscar Perego
CORAL (Feb 6, 24)	Domagoj Cuculic	Pat Carlos Milino	Lauren Meyer [photo with Jason]	Joachim Rothe
CROWN (Feb 25, 24)	Mario Juresko Vincenzo “Renzo” Lembo (leaves)	Jason Allen		Mariusz Czemarmazowicz
DIAMOND	Stefano Ravera	David Frost 🟢	Tim Donovan Fahey	Giuseppe Franchina
DISCOVERY (Feb 19, 24)	Alessandro Genzo (leave Jan 2024)   Tony Ruggero (active Jan 2024)	Cole Bockman (departs April and back in June)   Kristoff Greyling (takes over in April)	Kyler Mann	Paul Ciobanu   Catalin Ionel (on leave)
EMERALD (Mar 20, 2024)	Steven Lewis		Geof O’Rourke	Rui Pereira
ENCHANTED (Feb 27,24)	Nick Nash	DuVaul Gamble	Matt Thompson	Nicola Furlan
GRAND (Mar. 22, 2024)	Michele Bartolomei	Sophie Gideon	Drew Raitch	Jean Paul Musiu
ISLAND	Marco Cataldi (leaves Mar 2024)   Paul Slight (leave)	Jaclyn Friedlander (leaves Jan 2024)   Andi Sanders (returns Jan 2024)	Tobias Eland Stewart 🟢	Daniele Rosafio
MAJESTIC (Dec 10, 23)	John Foster (leaves Jan 2024?)	Kristoff Greyling (Feb 2024 for ~ 2 mths)   Olivia Guthrie	Ron Goodman	Douw Steyl
REGAL (Mar 20, 24)	Fabrizio Maresca	Allie Ambriano	Martyn Moss	Neville Saldanha
ROYAL (Mar 22, 24)	Steve Holland	Dan France	Kelvin Joy	Silvio Zampieri
RUBY (April 14, 2024)	Marco Fortezze	Michael (Micca) Reitano	Alex Valcan	Giuseppe Gelmini
SAPPHIRE (Feb 6, 2024	Todd McBain	Armando Merin	Ben Powney	Mario Propato
SKY (Mar 9, 24)	Heikki Laakkonen	Aaron Hawkins	Alexandra Smith 🟢	Ciprian Hoidreag
STAR	Gennaro Arma   Nick Nash (relief)	TBA	TBA	TBA
SUN	Craig Street	Corinne Steel	Neil Rose	Claudio Giuliani

 

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Giuseppe Gelmini as DRO on Ruby as of April 14, 2024

 

Edited May 4 by kstaffen

[kstaffen]

As of 4-14-24

[jvulgamore]

Just got off the Sky. 4/27-5/5

[CruisingRJY]

On 5/3/2024 at 10:07 PM, Wanderers2 said:

Write directly to John Padgett & you should be contacted by one of the management team. 

Thank you for this.  Do you have an email address for him.  I have not been able to find anything - they isolate these management people as much as they possibly can!  THanks in advance. 

[that]

[harleysmama]

Haven’t seen Callie Smit on any ships for a while does anyone know where he is?

[Princess Cruises Fann]

According to his IG it looks like Kevin Tugwell is currently the Cruise Director on the Grand Princess. 

[CruzeQueen2]

@kstaffen I took this officer board photo on the last day of our sailing. It has a few changes...as of 04/30/24. 

Nice meeting you at Adagio.

D

 

 

[kstaffen]

4 minutes ago, CruzeQueen2 said:

@kstaffen I took this officer board photo on the last day of our sailing. It has a few changes...as of 04/30/24. 

Nice meeting you at Adagio.

D

 

 

Thanks for posting! They must have changed some officers in Honolulu. I didn't even check. I know we lost Sheila, our Adagio bartender, in Honolulu 😞 . 

[CruzeQueen2]

1 minute ago, kstaffen said:

Thanks for posting! They must have changed some officers in Honolulu. I didn't even check. I know we lost Sheila, our Adagio bartender, in Honolulu 😞 . 

@kstaffen Yes, I missed seeing Sheila after Honolulu, but Jay was still there and ready to serve with a big smile every time! 

[Elua]

On 5/10/2024 at 2:16 PM, harleysmama said:

Haven’t seen Callie Smit on any ships for a while does anyone know where he is?

I believe he has left the company to go to MSC...

[kstaffen]

On 5/10/2024 at 2:16 PM, harleysmama said:

Haven’t seen Callie Smit on any ships for a while does anyone know where he is?

I just checked. He started there in March.

[Caroline Murphy]

Sapphire Princess

[startedwithamouse]

On 5/13/2024 at 6:09 AM, kstaffen said:

I just checked. He started there in March.

He went from ED with Princess to CD at Regent?

 

Believe he got married onboard last year to his partner, another Princess officer?

[Lance1224]

Anyone know where Jayson with a J is ?

[gerriv]

Jayson just returned to the Sun Princess today!  
I saw that on his Instagram post today.

[gerriv]

Jayson is on the Sun Princess.

[suzyed]

4 hours ago, Lance1224 said:

Anyone know where Jayson with a J is ?

Jayson with a Y?

 

[suzyed]

On 5/13/2024 at 9:09 AM, kstaffen said:

I just checked. He started there in March.

He was one of the best cruise directors we ever had....so fun and so nice!

[SonomaMist]

Appreciate all the Princess Officer information here.  What is the best way to contact Andy Sanders on Island Princess?  I want to see if there will be Bridge Card equipment on the July 5-26, 2024 sailing from NYC to Southampton.  I am  traveling with several bridge players.  

I thought Princess did carry it in general for sea days but on my last cruise on Royal Princess March 2-15, 2024 from Auckland to Sydney, I thought they did - but it turned out to be Mahjong cases instead.

All advice appreciated.  Thank you.

 

[SonomaMist]

22 minutes ago, SonomaMist said:

Appreciate all the Princess Officer information here.  What is the best way to contact Andy Sanders on Island Princess?  I want to see if there will be Bridge Card equipment on the July 5-26, 2024 sailing from NYC to Southampton.  I am  traveling with several bridge players.  

I thought Princess did carry it in general for sea days but on my last cruise on Royal Princess March 2-15, 2024 from Auckland to Sydney, I thought they did - but it turned out to be Mahjong cases instead.

All advice appreciated.  Thank you.

 

 

Name correction:  I am looking to contact Andi Sanders.  Thanks.

[Sweet Dreams]

Is Corinne Steel no longer on the Sun? 

[Justpackingmybags]

4 minutes ago, Sweet Dreams said:

Is Corinne Steel no longer on the Sun? 

Her contract’s finishing- holiday time for Corinne!

[startedwithamouse]

16 hours ago, SonomaMist said:

 

Name correction:  I am looking to contact Andi Sanders.  Thanks.

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