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Welcome to the largest portal dedicated to sharing knowledge about working and living on board cruise ships and yachts worldwide!

Here, you’ll discover everything you need to know about #SHIPLIFE, from answering the most basic questions and understanding requirements to navigating the entire application process. Our platform empowers you to learn how to craft an effective resume, explore various job opportunities, compare salaries across companies, and so much more. Equip yourself with the knowledge to ace that upcoming interview and secure your dream job!

Since our establishment in 2015, all of our content has been and will always remain free of charge for our visitors.

Where to start?

Below you can quickly kickstart your learning process and explore our most accessed topics or, check out our full menu on the header. The most crucial step is to carefully read and follow the content on how the selection process works. The rest is largely up to you, so be sure to explore all our pages. We’ve created our content to make your life easier, providing guides for everything from “How to Pack” to “How to Send Money Home” and so on. We have created tutorials on these topics because we wished we had similar resources when we first started in this industry decades ago.

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Why work on board?

Many choose this lifestyle for the financial benefits. However, there are also additional perks, such as not paying rent, saving money on bills, enjoying an unlimited supply of food, water, and juices, the opportunity to explore the world (especially its popular destinations), the chance to learn or enhance a foreign language, and, of course, the ability to develop skills or acquire a new profession on board. This is why we use the hashtag #SHIPLIFE to celebrate the lifestyle!

We work together, live together, eat together, stress together and drink together (most of the nights), just to highlight a few of the things crew members experience beyond work. This website was created to assist you, your family, and friends in better understanding the process and expectations of employment. The content presented here is free and will always remain so.

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We are experts on the ship industry!

But more than that, we are driven to provide our community with better content, clear explanations, and useful tips to support your career growth and development on board. All that taking into consideration your own needs:

Visitors submit ideas

Through our social media, groups, and contact forms, visitors can submit requests and suggest topics they believe should be explained before employment.

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We plan how to execute

We keep a backup of all received messages and begin our own research on how to implement the submitted ideas. In the meantime, our translators start working on the topics before the final version is reviewed and published.

Our website gets updated

Some parts of our website are updated daily (such as the salary comparison table), while others receive monthly revisions. Every couple of years, we also revamp our code and layout for a cleaner and upgraded version.

Some of the testimonials we've received in the last ten years:

Would you like to submit your own review? You can do so by filling out this form or by leaving a review on our Facebook page.