Why It Costs $1 Million Per Day To Run One Of The World’s Biggest Cruise Ships | Big Business

The logistics involved in having everything you need on-ship that every customer and crew member could possibly need is as impressive as anything else

working 10-12 hours a day for four months without a day off is insane. Hats off to these hard working people.

I used to be a cruise agent, responsible for the worker on the ships and their immigration documents, communication with authorities, logistics, etc. It was a fancy position, but legit one of the worst jobs I have ever had, it was miserable. This industry is borderline modern-day slavery and gluteny, as well as extreme ecological hazard. It is quite an amazing experience to be in one of those ships, but at the same time it feels almost nightmarish.

I work at a restaurant as a chef and our head chef has been on one of those during his early career years. I love to listen to his stories from the ship, it is fascinating that they produced so much in very limited spaces. And cruise ship kitchen staff work 14 hour days... not 10-12

The same people who complain about the worker’s pay, are the same people who go on cheap cruises and spend as little as possible 😂

7 day cruise, 7500 passengers, average cost of $1500(you have to factor in balconies, suites, variable pricing) is $11,250,000 in gross revenue for rooms. Now take into account royal Caribbean says customers spend roughly $100 per day as well. That’s another 5mil right there. If they’re spending 7-8mil per cruise to operate, they’re still making 5-6mil per cruise easily after any taxes and port fees easily. I’m strongly believe I’m underestimating how much net profit they’re making. I’m sure it’s much more

Can you imagine how much more the boat would cost if it wasn't registered in a no tax country and if they paid the workers more than $5 an hour.

the ship itself is an engineering wonder, and the management of resources is mind blowing. But all i can think of is how they should pay their people more and give them vacation days.

I have the most upmost respect for the cruise staff and crew. They do an incredible job making sure your voyage is seamless. All that goes on behind the scene simply mesmerizes me. I am definitely Royal Loyal.

I very much like that while these were made into independent videos a while back, when you compiled them, you changed the order of footage, used new stuff we hadn't seen before, and made a new voiceover, instead of just stringing the videos like most channels do. We like to see that extra effort, makes the video very entertaining.

Much respect to all the workers. I am sure they are all overworked and underpaid. Regardless, the workers are very kind and always smile while they work hard to provide to their families abroad. So many moving parts and it’s wild how massive these ships have gotten to handle so many guests.

i remember when i was like 12 i went into the liberty of the seas with my family , great experience and i was overwhelmed by the scale of everything. now royal caribbean cruise ships have gotten way more bigger and complex and now i'm more amazed by the whole magic going inside the ship to keep the equation running.

Glad you were able to use some of our footage, awesome video as a whole!

I used to work on one of these. I feel bad for some of the crew who work 10-14 hr shifts making as little as $600/Week with no days off 😌. These companies get away with the US Laws by registering their vessels in Bahamas, Panama, Liberia etc..

I tested positive when I went on a Royal Caribean cruise quite a few months ago. The room service was great, I got my own room, and nurses came twice a day to check up on me. They were very sweet. I got complimentary WIFI, too. We were also refunded for the 3 days I had to be in quarantine.

Wow, I never want to go on a huge cruse like that, but seeing the logistics of how the ship runs is fascinating. Like a self-contained city at sea

I had the pleasure of going on the harmony of the seas ship for a week and I have to say that they are incredible, however it becomes very clear who is what, what I mean is that the people with higher class tickets act a lot different to the more normal middle class people and I saw multiple people being very mean to the workers who clearly worked extremely hard every day. Either way it was worth the money but like one of the employees funnily enough said “money money money, it’s so funny, in a rich man’s world”

The wildest part is that I was ON that cruise where 50 people tested positive, and we never heard a peep about it until we had gotten off the ship after the week was over.

The amount of work the staff, chefs and crew do to keep the ship running is really admired, their work needs to be appreciated and honestly it's the true meaning of hard work

these people are truly unsung heroes, bless them for working so hard.