Success of The Cruise!

The TV show The Cruise that finished last week went down a storm.  I watched the series and I must say I thought it was really good.  Sometimes these TV shows don’t do Cruise Ships justice and they can come across quite cheesy.  This series really showed a lot of sides to the ship.  The series was based on board Regal Princess which celebrated its Birthday in one of the episodes.  They had filmed the cruise on its Baltic season.  I like the fact that the series followed certain staff and showed you the ins and outs of their job.  I didn’t realise quite how many peoples luggage didn’t make the ship on each cruise and that the staff had a mission on their hands to get passengers luggage back.  The man who did this did a brilliant job.  It was good to see the chefs at work and also the staff taking out the shore excursions.

Princess has also seen a rise in interest in the Princess brand and also the Regal Princess itself after the show.  They have had a lot of positive feedback.  Princess have said

“We’ve also seen a notable increase in new people visiting our website, in fact the sessions on our website over the past six weeks has been three times more than usual. We’ve also seen the number of brochure requests double.”

Hopefully the show will be a uplift for the whole cruise industry and not just Princess Cruises.

I really though that this series was very well filmed and hopefully they will do another series after this one going down so well.