Royal Caribbean guitarist, YouTube star, shows off his crew cabin

Numerous the renowned cruise crew members on YouTube, Bryan James works on a lot of the biggest cruise ships on this planet. He just finished four months on Royal Caribbean's Utopia of the Seas, the cruise line's newest ship.

James is a pub guitarist, which in point of fact implies that while he is a crew member, he also gets a lot of passenger-like privileges. He can eat on the buffet or main dining room (despite the fact that or not it might probably possibly be customary to tip because crew members did now not pay the same on a each and every day basis gratuity that passengers did).

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Alternatively, while he has a lot of onboard freedom when compared with many passengers, James lives in a crew cabin and can eat in crew areas. It is able to be now not uncommon for solo musicians to finally find yourself in passenger cabins, but, on the big ships James works on, there are normally enough crew rooms.

He showed off his cabin on Odyssey of the Seas, a Quantum-class Royal Caribbean ships or not it might probably possibly be huge, but now not reasonably as large as Utopia of the Seas.

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Solo cabins are rare for crew

"I'm providing you with a room tour of the cabin that I've been living in for the past four months on Odyssey of the Seas. It may possibly possibly be a solo cabin, and or not it might probably possibly be my very very very final day on the ship so I go to point you what or not it might probably possibly be all about earlier than I percent up the general lot and I'm out of here," he shared.

While solo musicians are entitled to now not have a roommate, they still often finally find yourself in rooms built for two.

"Now or not it might probably possibly be like various of the typical types of rooms which you may discover on a cruise ship not lower than when it involves Royal Caribbean ships...You are always going to have two beds. It is able to be now not necessarily going to fold up like this," he added.

"You are going to have a desk area. You are going to have a dresser and you may be going to have a bathroom to my right," he said.

Some newer Royal Caribbean ships offer more crew members solo rooms, but they are smaller and that they have a shared bathroom. James gets his own bathroom and acknowledges how a lot better his situation is than many crew members.

"So yeah, two people living on this space right here for upwards of six, seven, eight months. It just in point of fact relies in your contract. For me, I'm a musician. So, my contracts are in most cases a little bit of bit shorter," he shared."I'm in point of fact lucky that I get all of this space to myself."

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James shows off his bathroom

"Aall right let's go into the toilet there's storage in here for a complete host of things and your sink. It truly is great because having a sink in your actual bathroom is nice. There are reasonably a lot of cruise ship cabins that have your sink in the room like in actual fact next to your bed right next to your bed right here may possibly be a sink where you would brush your teeth and get things done," he said.

Some solo cabins, as mentioned above, it might probably possibly be easy to have your individual sink, but share a shower and bathroom with some other crew member.

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"Those are on a regular basis also is termed single-share cabins so you technically have your individual space or not it might probably possibly be a ways just hilariously small," he added.

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