The Pacific Princess has to be the only place in the world where it is considered acceptable for employees of a business to hit on customers. It was a funny show but all of them would have been fired at any place I ever worked at.
shareWell it was the 70s and early 80s....very laid back time, especially for cruise ships. Today it would be known as The Harassment Boat but back then it was all love baby.
shareI don't know, I constantly hear stories about cruise ship crew members getting cosy with passengers. Although relationships among the crew seem to be more common.
shareIt was a different time. Men and women actually liked each other and people weren't as easily upset. If someone hit on you, you declined. As opposed to now where they get all upset and start posting on Twitter etc rather than going to the cops and actually being expected to prove something.
shareI went on a cruise a few years ago. There were two of the crew who were obviously a couple. The singer in one of the bands also would hit on passengers, it was pretty blatant.
It was a TV show though and it would have been pretty boring not to see the crew interact with guests even if it was inappropriate which at the time, I don't think anyone really got outraged about.
What a sad life you must have - consenting adults don't have the right to choose who they can be with.
shareHit on customers? The captain not only hit on a customer, but he basically forced her into his cabin and groped her. True, the 'she' in this situation was really a man pretending to be a woman so he could get a cabin. But the captain didn't know that! This show needs to be canceled and removed from all memory!
shareI used to fantasize that Julie McCoy would have some of that inappropriate behavior with me!
shareI loved this show when I was a kid and I never missed it. Of course it was not a documentary on cruise ships or how the officers conducted themselves. It’s likely that some ship’s personnel have romances with passengers though.
In real life though, the officers would not have the TIME for all the adventures the crew of the Pacific Princess had every week. For one thing, they were working, not vacationing like the passengers.
A long time ago I worked with a guy who had a friend who was a hairdresser on one of the ships of the Princess Cruise Lines. He told me that she said the officers never go ashore when they visit ports of call. They are working! His friend, the hairdresser, and other staff on the ship could go ashore when passengers did. But the officers did not.
You just have to realize it’s just a fictional world on the show.