On the weekend, we came across a story about “gentlemen hosts” on cruise ships. These are “jobs” for single men who pay $30 a day to go and have a good time on a cruise, with no romantic liaisons allowed.<\/p>\n
In other words, they have to be, well, gentlemen.<\/p>\n
The Gentleman Host Program<\/a> and others like it aren’t new. They’ve been around for two decades but are not widely advertised, which might explain why most cruisers have never heard of it. It operates on several cruise lines \u2014 Cunard and Silversea are the best-known \u2014 and candidates are carefully screened before they’re accepted.<\/p>\n Among the requirements: Their jobs \u2014 they are compensated for air fare and sometimes share in tips \u2014 are to socialize with, engage and interact like a crew member with the growing number of single women on cruise ships.<\/p>\n We have several friends who are single men who…never mind, none of them qualifies. No, we won’t tell you why.<\/p>\n DAILY DEAL:<\/strong><\/span> On the weekend, we came across a story about “gentlemen hosts” on cruise ships. These are “jobs” for single men who pay $30 a day to go and have a good time on a cruise, with no romantic liaisons allowed. In other words, they have to be, well, gentlemen. The Gentleman Host Program and others… Continue reading Gentlemen Who Prefer Cruises<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,19,15],"tags":[804,138,818,72,150,21],"class_list":["post-11198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-bargains","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-summit","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cunard","tag-silversea","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Sociable with excellent manners
\n\u2022 Ability to dance, especially ballroom dancing
\n\u2022 From 40 to 68 years old and, yes, single
\n\u2022 Drink no more than moderately and maintain sobriety
\n\u2022 Good listener and able to “refrain from showing favoritism towards one lady”
\n\u2022 Fit enough to dance until the “music stops playing”<\/p>\n
\nCelebrity Summit<\/a>
\n7 nights
\nMarch 3, 2012
\nSan Juan<\/a> (return): Barbados;<\/a> St. Lucia; Antigua; St. Maarten;<\/a> St. Thomas<\/a>
\nInside $589
\nwww.celebritycruises.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"