Do major celebrities who perform on cruises stay on the cruise?
I was on a cruise where a celebrity performed for one night. It was a major celebrity, not the cruise-line's entertainers - I understand they travel with the cruise. The entirety of the cruise was 28 days.
But in this case, the show was in the middle of seven days at sea, and I couldn't imagine they would stay on the boat for the whole cruise. My question is whether a major, one-night-only celebrity (in this case, stand-up comic Chris Rock):
- Stayed on the cruise the entire duration,
- Arrived four days prior in Barbados, traveled the seven days at sea (performing in the middle) and departed in Portugal, or
- Had joined the cruise by a boat or helicopter (? is that possible) or some other means just for the evening.
We were a large group, arranged by a fortunate friend to be in several suites ($$$); presuming that is the section a star would stay and nobody would miss him about the boat, but we only saw the performance. I understand someone can spend the entirety of seven or twenty-eight days inside their suite, but I don't suspect they would.
Do celebrities spend the entire duration of a cruise, just the at-sea required days, or do they transport in somehow for the night of the event?
EDIT: If it needs clarification (for facilities that the celebrity could have used for transport), this was on board the Seabourn Odyssey between Barbados and Portugal.
Best Answer
Big stars don't want to be stuck in the middle of a few thousand tourists.
Cruiseships have totally separate cabin areas for crew members, including nice cabins for big name entertainers. There are also separate dining rooms, lounge and recreation facilities. And even within the crew area there can be further division with officer's facilities and general crew facilities, further allowing privacy for stars as they get to use the officers facilities.
Big stars will board and disembark at the ports that leave them onboard the least amount of time (likely Barbados & Portugal in the OP's cruise).
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Answer 2
Carnival is really good at this and they do the same thing with minor comedians.
Often times you will see two Carnival ships in the same port toward the middle of a longer cruise (7 days or longer). There the comedian teams will switch ships. The one that was on ship A moves to ship B, and the one that was on ship B moves to ship A. This gives variety of entertainment to the guests, does not cost the cruise line any additional money, and is only a minor inconvenience for the comedians. If they were on the road, they would have to travel to a new town and hotel anyway.
The same kind of thing could be done for major celebrities who may fly into the port of call. They fly in, get on the ship, do their routine, move to another ship, do their routine, move to a third, fly home.
Doing things this way allows the cruise line to advertise that "Chris Rock" or whoever, is on three cruises rather than one and gets the appropriate sales bump.
Or they might fly in to a port one day and only be on the ship until the next port of call.
Most decks of a cruise ship are spoken for, and there would not be much room for a helipad let alone have the skills for flight operations.
Answer 3
The cruise lines and performers are very flexible on this. So, there are several facets to the Answer:
- The performers stay on the ship as long as their contract stipulates
- The performers stay on the ship as long as practical
- The performers can embark/disembark at any port, they would never fly someone to or from the ship. It's very dangerous and they really, really, really, really don't like transfer procedure.
- The performers will often rotate ships at Ports of Call as well as Home Ports
- The performers can stay on the ship as long as they want if part of the contract
- The 'cruise' part can be part of the payment. The performer may have family aboard.
- The performers can be hired directly by the cruise line or by the organization chartering all or part of the ship.
The contracting process is relatively similar for all entertainment so process wise, there isn't a huge difference between the show performers who are on the ship for weeks or months and the guest performers who do 1, 2, 3 performances.
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