Cruise director since 2007
Twenty years on board, two ways to make them work for you
I am David García-Carazo. I have run life on board for nine cruise lines and set foot in 94 countries. I teach you how to work on a cruise ship and I advise you on booking your own.
+20 years
working on board
9 cruise lines
from Royal Caribbean to NCL
94 countries
visited in port
Two ways to put what I have lived to use
You can learn how to get on board yourself, or let someone who worked inside for twenty years plan the cruise for you.
Training
Learn how to work on a cruise ship
Two courses built on what I learned across nine cruise lines. How the hiring process really works, what they are actually looking for and how to land that first contract.
- 19 lessons and 2 h 49 m of video
- Database of recruiter email addresses
- Lifetime access and certificate
Advice
Book with someone who lived it from the inside
I help you choose ship, cabin and itinerary knowing what really happens on board and what is worth your time in every port.
- Choosing ship and cabin
- What to do in every port
- No cost to you
A ship is not run from an office
A cruise director opens the show, closes the night, calms down the passenger who lost their suitcase and runs a team of twenty people from eight countries. All on the same day.
The show
Opening the show, hosting every night and holding up the mood of fifteen hundred people who are on holiday.
The team
Twenty people from eight countries, shifts that never stop and not a single day off for months. You either lead that or it sinks.
The port
Knowing what is worth it in every port because you have walked off the ship yourself, not because you read it in a brochure.
On video
This is what the job looks like from the inside
The Crown Princess Wake Show. Opening the morning in front of fifteen hundred passengers and ending up inside the jacuzzi still wearing the tuxedo, because the programme called for it.
Twenty years of this do not fit on a CV.
94 countries, nine cruise lines, one single career
Everything I teach and everything I recommend comes from having done it.