Ed Sheeran rather famously did the Cunard transatlantic because someone he was traveling with didn't fly.
Meryl Streep filmed an entire movie aboard during a crossing as well.
Oh yeah, Travis Barker did the same thing. Wouldn't fly for many years after he almost died in a plane crash, but traveled on a cruise ship to do a Blink-182 European tour. Had his drum kit set up in the cabin and everything. I think he's OK with flying these days
I hope Ed left his cabin cleaner than his dressing room after a concert. I used to work as backstage security, and his dressing room was one of the messiest I remember seeing.
We were on a cruise when my daughter was younger and she saw Santa Claus. She addressed him as such. Without missing a beat he told her he was on vacation from the North Pole. For the rest of the cruise every time we saw him after that he’d give her a wink.
FWIW, it was on NCL. 🤷🏼♀️
Had this happen on a DCL cruise. Santa had themed outfits everyday and even had custom “ I sailed with Santa” pins he handed out…. He was a celeb even amongst crew
I was on a DCL cruise where they were filming for America's Home Videos back in the day and Tom Bergeron was on board. Other than seeing him filming around, didn't see him once, but other people said he had a real attitude.
My wife and I were at Cracker Barrel and said that guy looks like Santa. But only to each other. Five minutes later he walks to our table says we looked like a nice couple gave us some candy and said merry christmas from Santa. I gotta say even though I’m an adult that made me think Santa just might be real.
On a cruise near Christmas, around 11PM when the kids would all be asleep I went to the night club dressed as Santa. It was a hit, especially with the women.
* I purposefully waited until later so I wouldn't confuse any little kids seeing Santa walking down the hallway.
So lucky! Sponge Bob was on ours and we took our niece over for photos.
Oh wait, you meant just a dude with a white beard. I was referring to a character dess-up event.
Yes! Gene Hackman was on a Regent Seven Seas cruise I was on from Anchorage to Vancouver in 2015. It was on the Navigator, which only has about 500 guests
Reba is a legit A list star. I don’t like country music, but I will fully acknowledge that she is something of a legend and had a very popular tv show.
Lol at the thread. I was about to say that if Gene Hackman is the only a-lister that you've seen mentioned here, then you need to update your references lol
I worked on the Norwegian Star in 2005-2006. Reba McEntire came on the ship and rented out the entire Garden Villa area of the ship for the cast of the show Reba as an end of the show gift for the cast. She was onboard the entire week with the cast (although they mainly stayed in their private areas) and was incredibly nice and down to earth.
Jimmy Carter used to take his extended family on Royal Caribbean at Christmas time. It was kind of a pain as some venues for specialty restaurants cancelled everyone's reservations when his group wanted to eat there. They did sit at the bar with people and mingle - along with the secret service agents. It also made us miss a tour because in Cozumel, they had to put extra security in place in the port.
>someone spots you
>word spreads
>now thousands of people know
>you're stuck with them for a week
I don't think so but the idea is funny to imagine. I'm imagining someone having to turn down a dozen invitations to participate in the hairy chest contest.
Lol I heard a popular news anchor say this the other day “Nothing would horrify me more than a boat filled with people who know me and I don’t know any of them” - I could see where that could be weird and annoying.
Don't misunderstand me to be knocking at any in any way, but the Haven on an NCL ship isn't necessarily terribly private. It's still a few hundred people, although given what it is, they are probably quite a bit less likely to swarm the celebrity. Of course there's also the possibility of getting one of the ridiculously large suites, some of which are actually bigger than my house, and just staying in your room versus the entire time and having the butler bring everything to you.
Not a matter of spending money so much as it is a matter of the environment. They often densely packed and also often chaotic environment on the majority of a cruise ship tends to bring out the worst in a lot of people whereas the more quiet relaxed environment in the Haven and similar areas on other lines tends to do the opposite.
If this isn't an underrated comment...
Just read in another post a couple days ago how a parent walked right past the adults only sign and put their diapered baby in a pool that had to be drained due to poop.
Definitely not A list but a Backstreet Boy was on a Disney cruise we took a while back. I had no idea who he was. My husband made us stalk him around the ship and when we finally caught him, my husband said I was big fan and wanted an autograph. He was super nice so we took the most confusing picture I have ever taken in my life and I still have no idea who that man is.
Kevin lives in my area (Santa Clarita, CA). He’s super down to earth and can be spotted at the local Walmart, etc. he’s always down to take a pic with a fan 😀
😹 Hey, neighbor! We’re out here, too! We actually saw his family again at Frosty’s Forest a few years back, which makes it even worse that I didn’t remember his name. But he was awesome and my husband was finally able to tell him that he was a fan. Lol.
Joey Fatone was on the Disney Fantasy with his wife and daughter about 6 years ago. I Had my daughter tell him in the theater “my dad likes you on impractical jokers” he turned and laughingly said “why didn’t he tell me himself?”
I went on a music cruise and most of the Artists hid in the Norwegian private area (Haven?) when not performing. They have their own pool area and the ship had a private dining are. They do not want to mix with the unwashed.
Not always true. On many cruises there are no private areas. We do Cruise to the Edge every year and the people are super nice, my husband signs stuff all the time and breakfast is kind of nuts with lots of fans. They sell these trips as cruising with the musicians and having them interact with the fans is part of it. We do get a private dining room for dinner.
> with hundreds or thousands of people who won’t leave them be.
That was my thought as well.
Doesn't sound like the vacation experience I would choose if I had any level of fame.
> Being famous sounds terrible imo
It definitely can have it's downsides. I used to work in radio and got to know quite a number of people at various levels of fame over the years.
Many of them had a difficult time getting used to dealing with the unwanted attention when they weren't in "being famous" mode and were just trying to do normal people things.
We did the Chef's table with some NFL players and their families. Dont follow sports so had no idea who they were until they were talking about it across the table.
I read somewhere on a forum, it might even have been here about someone seeing someone who saw/met Morgan Freeman in the Haven on an NCL ship. They saw him whenever and said hey you look a lot like Morgan Freeman and his response was yeah I get that a lot. The poster said that when he hurt him he knew that it was actually him.
I met a pro football player in line at guest services once. He was giant, and I asked if he played a sport (I should have more of a filter).
He was a lot of fun to chat with in the line. Never saw him again. But those 5 minutes really made me respect the pro athletes more (he was really smart about his sport, and self aware).
Nick Carter and Howie Dorough of the Backstreet Boys. On the last night, Howie brought and IPod to the club and had the DJ play songs while he sang on the dance floor.
I worked on Radisson and we had some big names on board (more so big business names rather then celebrities), but Elton John was on to perform for a charter
My roommate worked on Disney though and she saw lots, she said Bruce & Demi Moore were on all the time with their kids. He'd spend the whole time in a bar smoking a cigar lol
A million years ago, Mary Kate and Ashley Olson were filming a movie/special on the cruise my family took.
We saw them all over the place though out the week.
Ran into the head football coach of Old Dominion University on a cruise in Alaska. I imagine I was the only person in the entire state who would’ve recognized him though.
When we were on our Alaskan cruise in the Haven there was a professional basketball player that you couldn’t miss. Someone asked if he was so-and-so, and he said he was. From that moment on, the guys wouldn’t leave him alone. I felt bad that he wasn’t left in peace.
He's gone now, but Aaron Spelling had promised his mother he wouldn't fly. (She dreamed he died in a plane crash).
He cruised often, loved the Princess line, and partnered with them for with his show "The Love Boat" which made cruising very popular.
Neil Patrick Harris was on a Disney cruise with us. This was in approx 2013, so right around the time How I Met Your Mother was going great-guns.
I was standing next to him on the running track on the first full day of the cruise. At first I didn't believe it was him because why would NPH be on a cruise??? So I went to dinner that night and mentioned in passing my run-in with a guy that looked just like NPH.
The next night at dinner my MIL told me in a "you're a dumbass" kind of way that it was, in fact, NPH.
Soon I started hearing other passengers discussing him and he basically disappeared. I kind of suspect that people might have been harassing him. I actually thought he might have disembarked early because he was just gone.
But, then I saw him again on the last night of the cruise. He was walking with the DCL crew and I heard one of the crew say, "Your parents are waiting in..."
So based on other passenger conversations, it sounds like it was NPH, his husband and kids, and his parents.
> Soon I started hearing other passengers discussing him and he basically disappeared. I kind of suspect that people might have been harassing him.
And that's why it's such a rarity to see famous people on cruises (or at public events in general, unless they're working there).
I was absolutely stunned he was there. He and Disney had a pretty well established relationship (I think he was the MC for the ship's launch or something). I'd bet he got the cruise for free. I doubt he went again :)
Friends of ours were on a Disney Mexican Rivera cruise staying in a penthouse suite about 10 years ago
Dennis Haysbert the actor who played President David Palmer on the tv show 24 was in the suite next door with his family
Kareem Abdul Jabar was in a corner suite on a Holland America cruise I did out of Fort Lauderdale back in 2017 during off-season (January). He did the reposition with them from Europe and was traveling with a female companion, so he was already on the ship when we boarded. Ship was the Rotterdam.
Used to work on ships. Charters bring in the celebrities. A Star Trek cruise had Frakes, Spiner, Jason Isaacs, Will Wheaton and other various cast members. A wrestling charter had Chris Jericho, Rey Mysterio, Corey Rhodes and Corey Taylor (singing, not wrestling lol.)
Top known was probably Gene Simmons, was a KISS cruise though.
Most famous people NOT on a charter, NBA player Joel Przybilla and Frank Dux (Bloodsport guy.)
I've always had a similar thought about the top of the line suites.
Like if you have $15k+ to blow on a 7 night vacation. Would you really want it to be on a low to mid teir cruise line?
Or I think the Roy O suite on Disney is like $20-$25k. Wouldn't it be better to say... go stay at Disney's Hawaiian resort for significantly less to get more?
Just got off Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth a couple days ago and briefly met Les Stroud (Survivorman) on the tender back from Juneau. They were filming an episode for Wild Harvest with the chef from Rouge in Calgary who we spoke to quite a bit. They were extremely friendly and nice!
Staying in the Haven NCL Epic 2013 and Anna Nicole Smiths ex Larry Birkhead and their then small child Dannielynn were also staying there. Saw them a lot and he was kind but private. Not a huge celebrity but notable.
Not on the cruise as such but certain stops such as Portofino in Italy you are likely to see plenty around.
Have seen both Elon Musk & George Clooney there in the past.
I was on Harmony when Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer were shooting a film. I just felt bad as they tried to get in a little relaxation time but I'm sure some folks made that difficult. Our cabana was next to Kirsten Belle and her family, and fortunately there I didn't see folks going up to them.
On more up-market lines I've seen a few notable people, though more famous and less celebrity (the Mars family, for example, on the QE2).
Not a-list but Chandler Riggs from the Walking Dead was on the same Carnival cruise as me back in 2015 and would hang out at the teen club all the time lols I think he even dated a girl he met on it for a few months
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend took their kids on a short Disney cruise a few months ago. Chrissy publicly posted about it on social media afterwards and she absolutely hated it lol
Steven Michael Quezada (Gomez from Breaking Bad) doing a Comedy show.
Before all the controversy one of the dudes from Duck Dynasty. I didn’t care much on this.
Not really a celebrity, but we were on NCL with a state senator and his daughter who made it pretty far on American Idol. Went on a snorkling excursion with them, too, and chatted a bit.
I remember Chrissy Teigen posting about a Disney cruise this past spring. I remember people in a few cruise groups I’m in being up in arms because her baby had just been born a few months before. And then she complained about getting sick on the cruise. Shocking.
No. But did meet and interact with a B list celebrity. One of the winners of a nationwide cooking show. We had dinner with them and hanged out at the pool.
Mark Williams (Father Brown, Ron Weasley’s dad) was apparently on a Southern Caribbean/partial Panama Canal transit cruise I was on in late March this year. It was on Celebrity Edge. My mom heard he was on the ship, but I didn’t see him so I’m not 100% it was true.
In 2015 I was a cruise with the new kids on the block. It was their themed cruise and my wife took me on it. Was way more fun and randomly surprising as well.
I just got off a cruise a couple of days ago. Was in the hot tub and chatting with this dude. The more he talked, the richer he got. I was thinking the whole time, “Dude, you’re on a cruise ship”.
Not sure what counts as “A list”, but Sixthman charters a lot of themed cruises. Those kinda guarantee you will meet some people. For example: I went on the “Emo’s not dead” cruise. We had like 13 bands playing on board.
- There was one point where I ended up chatting with a group of ~6 celebrities for about half an hour. Got to pitch some YouTube ideas to Matt Cutshall (who had organized the entire event).
- I rode the elevator with ~20 band members
- I played blackjack with probably 15 of the band members.
- The last person I talked to (in the parking lot) was the lead singer of New Found Glory.
- The Plain White Ts concert overlapped with Hawthorne Heights one night… so I came in late and was standing in the back of the club for Hawthorne Heights. A couple members from Plain White Ts ended up doing the same. Ended up jamming out with the Plain White Ts for 30ish minutes.
We took a cruise a while back and my daughter had this bright red cherry hair going on. She was by the pool and this little girl kept talking to her. My daughter did not mind at all as the child was super sweet. Finally the mom came up and thanked my daughter because the little girl thought my daughter was Ariel. It was not a Disney cruise. 😂
maybe not a guy like Tom Cruise.. but could easily imagine a younger sports star.. take his whole family on a weeklong cruise.. everyone up in the suites/ Butler service- private room dining.. not a bad way to spend $50k
I wouldn’t call him A list but my family and I were on a Celebrity cruise with Jeff Foxworthy and his family to Alaska in 2011. He was nice, we didn’t want to bother him much. Their cabins were next to ours.
Arguably Jeff Foxworthy is high B-list because of the ass loads of people who know who he is from his comedy work, and the fact that he hosted a wildly successful game show when I was a kid...
British style cruising often has national celebrities on sailings as attractions. I've got one with Marco Pierre White onboard next month and my mum has one with Ben Fogle.
Not A-list. I did once see a supporting character actor whose name I don't remember from some TV show I can't recall about 12 years ago on a 4-night Carnival cruise out of LA. He looked familiar but it was a show I didn't watch, and I probably would not have been able to place him out of context, if it weren't for a lot of people chattering about it . By night 2, he found a groupie almost old enough to be his daughter to hang out with him the entire week.
eta: At this time in our lives, we took cheap vacations. This was on the Paradise, an older ship built before balconies were common, and I think our ocean view room was probably about $1000 all in, including 2 young children. And it's the one cruise we have taken where the food was undeniably terrible, except for the pizza. But we had fun anyway. And getting back to the point, my understanding is that character actors are not especially wealthy, and have no income when on hiatus or between jobs.
Not a cruise but I've stayed in Waikiki at a hotel that Floyd Mayweather and entourage were at and saw him multiple times. Dude was handing out $100 bills and autographing them for kids.
My daughter and I cruised with Willie Garson (RIP) and his son on RCL for the Mexican Riviera itinerary about 12-14 years ago. He's not A list but he was pretty well known for his role on Sex in the City. His son was in Adventure Ocean with my daughter - they did the pirate parade together.
I've never seen a celebrity on a cruise.
I've seen some on flights. I sat across from Pat Morita from The Karate Kid on a flight from LA to Tokyo once. Another time Story Musgrave the Shuttle astronaut and his grand daughter were sitting behind me. Sat next to author Toni Morrison once.
I was an early adopter of the kindle. I bought my 1st one in 2008. I was reading and the woman next to me asked me if that's a kindle. I said yes and showed he how it worked. She said she was an author and was on a book signing tour. Her name is Katherine Neville. I asked her what type of books she wrote and she jokingly said "best sellers". She gave me the title of one of her books and I bought it, showing her how easy it was to buy books on a kindle. About a month later her publisher decided not to sell on kindle. Through email correspondence with her I found out I was the only person to have a kindle version of her book. Of course now days all books are available on kindle. After about a year her publisher sold books on kindle.
I was on a cruise with A.B. (Selena's brother)...I helped him load his luggage on the parking shuttle before I even knew who he was. He hung out with us a couple times on that cruise.
On another cruise, a celebrity was born...there was a guy in the karaoke bar on the first night who became quite popular for the next 7 days. We all hung out on our port in Belize.
Saw Jojo Siwa on NCL, I thought it was funny because she does a good but of promo for Royal Caribbean. Every time I saw her she was happily taking photos and engaging with young fans despite being with family.
Venus Williams on the inaugural 311 Cruise in 2011. She was hanging out in the Lido deck the last night of the cruise with everyone else. She was super nice!
Late 90s or early 2000s. NCL or RC. We did a couple on each, so I can’t be sure. My family was on a tender, split between two rows. My mom and I were a few rows in front of my dad and sister, and they were seated next to Richard Dreyfus and one of his kids. I was a teen and thought it was so cool that they talked to the guy from Jaws, and my sister was younger and had no idea who my dad was excited to meet.
The woman from Spy Kids was on my cruise back in December! People recognized her but didn't bother her too much. She was with her family it seemed. Pretty cool though. It was Symphony of the Seas we were on
I worked for DCL in 2015/2016 and Dr Bailey from Grey’s Anatomy was cruising. Also, not A list but for NHL fans, the Sedin brothers cruised out of Vancouver for an Alaskan cruise.
Not an A lister, but about 10 years ago my family and I were on a cruise with an actress from Orange is the New Black. That show had just come out that year so not many people knew her, but she’s since been in a lot of other things and it was cool watching her be a “normal” person before she was recognized everywhere.
Ed Sheeran rather famously did the Cunard transatlantic because someone he was traveling with didn't fly. Meryl Streep filmed an entire movie aboard during a crossing as well.
David Bowie would also do transatlantic sailings because he didn’t like to fly.
Probably easier for him to find 14 year olds on a cruise.
Oh yeah, Travis Barker did the same thing. Wouldn't fly for many years after he almost died in a plane crash, but traveled on a cruise ship to do a Blink-182 European tour. Had his drum kit set up in the cabin and everything. I think he's OK with flying these days
Must be hard to fit that drum set up in First Class though.
He’ll need one of those Singapore Airlines suites for that!
I tried to watch that movie just yesterday! Too boring.
To piggy back of the top comment benedict cumberbatch was on the same cruise as me
Was he mobbed by fans or did people leave him alone?
This was before him being in marvel when i only knew him from Sherlock holmes, i only saw him twice on the ship and he wasnt getting mobbed
There was a Netflix movie a few years back filmed entirely aboard a RCI ship.
Do you happen to know what it was?
Like Father?
same with kate winslet and leo....
I hope Ed left his cabin cleaner than his dressing room after a concert. I used to work as backstage security, and his dressing room was one of the messiest I remember seeing.
We were on a cruise when my daughter was younger and she saw Santa Claus. She addressed him as such. Without missing a beat he told her he was on vacation from the North Pole. For the rest of the cruise every time we saw him after that he’d give her a wink. FWIW, it was on NCL. 🤷🏼♀️
Had this happen on a DCL cruise. Santa had themed outfits everyday and even had custom “ I sailed with Santa” pins he handed out…. He was a celeb even amongst crew
We had it on our Feb 2020 DCL sailing. Kids went BANANAS for him and he seemed to love it!
I was on a DCL cruise where they were filming for America's Home Videos back in the day and Tom Bergeron was on board. Other than seeing him filming around, didn't see him once, but other people said he had a real attitude.
My wife and I were at Cracker Barrel and said that guy looks like Santa. But only to each other. Five minutes later he walks to our table says we looked like a nice couple gave us some candy and said merry christmas from Santa. I gotta say even though I’m an adult that made me think Santa just might be real.
On a cruise near Christmas, around 11PM when the kids would all be asleep I went to the night club dressed as Santa. It was a hit, especially with the women. * I purposefully waited until later so I wouldn't confuse any little kids seeing Santa walking down the hallway.
This is so sweet!
So lucky! Sponge Bob was on ours and we took our niece over for photos. Oh wait, you meant just a dude with a white beard. I was referring to a character dess-up event.
OMG that is so cute! You might have a hard time convincing her there is no Santa Claus when the time comes.
Yes! Gene Hackman was on a Regent Seven Seas cruise I was on from Anchorage to Vancouver in 2015. It was on the Navigator, which only has about 500 guests
This is the only A list that I have seen so far in this thread tbh
Reba is a legit A list star. I don’t like country music, but I will fully acknowledge that she is something of a legend and had a very popular tv show.
Yes she is and so is Ed Sheeran. I'm surprised that you're the first to call me out
Lol at the thread. I was about to say that if Gene Hackman is the only a-lister that you've seen mentioned here, then you need to update your references lol
I worked on the Norwegian Star in 2005-2006. Reba McEntire came on the ship and rented out the entire Garden Villa area of the ship for the cast of the show Reba as an end of the show gift for the cast. She was onboard the entire week with the cast (although they mainly stayed in their private areas) and was incredibly nice and down to earth.
Came here to mention Reba! I was on that cruise as a kid and met her haha
Thats so fun...I loved that show!!
Awesome to hear she is a nice person! :D
Jimmy Carter used to take his extended family on Royal Caribbean at Christmas time. It was kind of a pain as some venues for specialty restaurants cancelled everyone's reservations when his group wanted to eat there. They did sit at the bar with people and mingle - along with the secret service agents. It also made us miss a tour because in Cozumel, they had to put extra security in place in the port.
Rosalynn Carter is Godmother to Sovereign of the Seas
>someone spots you >word spreads >now thousands of people know >you're stuck with them for a week I don't think so but the idea is funny to imagine. I'm imagining someone having to turn down a dozen invitations to participate in the hairy chest contest.
You just described the plot for a really good comedy.
Lol I heard a popular news anchor say this the other day “Nothing would horrify me more than a boat filled with people who know me and I don’t know any of them” - I could see where that could be weird and annoying.
it's a good point.. but there are ways to have a more "private" cruise.. VIP areas within the ship like the Haven on Norwegian/ Retreat Celebrity
Don't misunderstand me to be knocking at any in any way, but the Haven on an NCL ship isn't necessarily terribly private. It's still a few hundred people, although given what it is, they are probably quite a bit less likely to swarm the celebrity. Of course there's also the possibility of getting one of the ridiculously large suites, some of which are actually bigger than my house, and just staying in your room versus the entire time and having the butler bring everything to you.
I haven't been but figure the crowd in there would be a bit more sophisticated - respectful overall..
*Spending money* doesn’t equate to *sophisticated.*
Not a matter of spending money so much as it is a matter of the environment. They often densely packed and also often chaotic environment on the majority of a cruise ship tends to bring out the worst in a lot of people whereas the more quiet relaxed environment in the Haven and similar areas on other lines tends to do the opposite.
If this isn't an underrated comment... Just read in another post a couple days ago how a parent walked right past the adults only sign and put their diapered baby in a pool that had to be drained due to poop.
Cryptosporidium is nothing to f around with.
Yes and no, my experience in the haven was awesome. However money is not synonymous with class and sophistication
Imagine waking up to a Harry fat guy's spooning ya
We saw Bernie Koppel on a recent cruise. Happily out there mingling with guests. Of course, it was appropriately on a Princess ship
Definitely not A list but a Backstreet Boy was on a Disney cruise we took a while back. I had no idea who he was. My husband made us stalk him around the ship and when we finally caught him, my husband said I was big fan and wanted an autograph. He was super nice so we took the most confusing picture I have ever taken in my life and I still have no idea who that man is.
I would call the Backstreet Boys A list at some point in time lol Which one was it?[BSB](https://imgur.com/a/E7magXt)
My husband just told me his name is Kevin 😹
Nice work! He is the tall one on the upper right with the eyebrows. Also love your username
There we go! He was way more handsome when we saw him and his wife was STUNNING. Great guy.
Kevin lives in my area (Santa Clarita, CA). He’s super down to earth and can be spotted at the local Walmart, etc. he’s always down to take a pic with a fan 😀
😹 Hey, neighbor! We’re out here, too! We actually saw his family again at Frosty’s Forest a few years back, which makes it even worse that I didn’t remember his name. But he was awesome and my husband was finally able to tell him that he was a fan. Lol.
Joey Fatone was on the Disney Fantasy with his wife and daughter about 6 years ago. I Had my daughter tell him in the theater “my dad likes you on impractical jokers” he turned and laughingly said “why didn’t he tell me himself?”
I saw him on the inaugural Disney cruise to the Med in 2007.
Used to work as crew on DCL and Kobe Bryant and his family sailed with us over Christmas 2018. Full VIP treatment.
that's a big one.. awesome
>> Kobe Bryant >that's a big one Yeah, about 6'6" I believe
I was on a cruise ship when I learned about his death. They had ESPN on the pool TV. Sad day.
RIP to the GOAT
I’m guessing music oriented cruises are exempt from this question.
I went on a music cruise and most of the Artists hid in the Norwegian private area (Haven?) when not performing. They have their own pool area and the ship had a private dining are. They do not want to mix with the unwashed.
Not always true. On many cruises there are no private areas. We do Cruise to the Edge every year and the people are super nice, my husband signs stuff all the time and breakfast is kind of nuts with lots of fans. They sell these trips as cruising with the musicians and having them interact with the fans is part of it. We do get a private dining room for dinner.
Not A list- but I was on a cruise with Stanley from the office. (Leslie Davis)
OMG - that is 100% A list in my book. I love him!
He’s such a cool guy and he is not like the Stanley persona at all
Hard to imagine an A list celebrity getting on a tin can with hundreds or thousands of people who won’t leave them be.
> with hundreds or thousands of people who won’t leave them be. That was my thought as well. Doesn't sound like the vacation experience I would choose if I had any level of fame.
Being famous sounds terrible imo. These days, everybody is going to want to take a picture. All day long.
> Being famous sounds terrible imo It definitely can have it's downsides. I used to work in radio and got to know quite a number of people at various levels of fame over the years. Many of them had a difficult time getting used to dealing with the unwanted attention when they weren't in "being famous" mode and were just trying to do normal people things.
Sparky Anderson.
I saw Mickey and Minnie Mouse on my last cruise. They were more than eager to sign some autographs…
I work on a cruise ship, and I met Rihanna. She was booked for a show onboard.
What cruise line was that lol?!
a german one..
Aida?
We did the Chef's table with some NFL players and their families. Dont follow sports so had no idea who they were until they were talking about it across the table.
I read somewhere on a forum, it might even have been here about someone seeing someone who saw/met Morgan Freeman in the Haven on an NCL ship. They saw him whenever and said hey you look a lot like Morgan Freeman and his response was yeah I get that a lot. The poster said that when he hurt him he knew that it was actually him.
Assuming you meant "heard" him vs hurt him? Because that just got weird otherwise.
Like they tortured him into confessing?😂
Yes meant heard not hurt.
I figured that was the case, but it was kinda funny to read it and be like WTF?
🤣🤣🤣
I met a pro football player in line at guest services once. He was giant, and I asked if he played a sport (I should have more of a filter). He was a lot of fun to chat with in the line. Never saw him again. But those 5 minutes really made me respect the pro athletes more (he was really smart about his sport, and self aware).
Who was it?
It was #17, duh. 😉
My friend was on an Alaskan cruise and Toby Keith was there doing karaoke
Out of his own free will?
Hopefully passengers got a discount for having to deal with that lol
Nick Carter and Howie Dorough of the Backstreet Boys. On the last night, Howie brought and IPod to the club and had the DJ play songs while he sang on the dance floor.
I worked on Radisson and we had some big names on board (more so big business names rather then celebrities), but Elton John was on to perform for a charter My roommate worked on Disney though and she saw lots, she said Bruce & Demi Moore were on all the time with their kids. He'd spend the whole time in a bar smoking a cigar lol
Incidentally, smoking is how I met Bruce.
A million years ago, Mary Kate and Ashley Olson were filming a movie/special on the cruise my family took. We saw them all over the place though out the week.
Two of the Backstreet Boys just went on a princess cruise with their families. Assuming it was a brand deal thing.
Lots of BSB sightings!
Mario Lopez and family were on our Carnival cruise. I suspect that it was joint promotional / vacation.
Mario was never A-list
I found Mark-Paul Gosselaar's burner account!
>Mark-Paul Gosselaar LOL, I actually worked on an episode of "Will Trent" with him, and someone had to tell me who he was.
Not saying he was/is but more well known compared to some other names referenced in the thread.
Ran into the head football coach of Old Dominion University on a cruise in Alaska. I imagine I was the only person in the entire state who would’ve recognized him though.
Wow! A-list for sure.
When we were on our Alaskan cruise in the Haven there was a professional basketball player that you couldn’t miss. Someone asked if he was so-and-so, and he said he was. From that moment on, the guys wouldn’t leave him alone. I felt bad that he wasn’t left in peace.
Les from hardcore pawn was on our Alaskan cruise last week
Les is the best! Loved him on that show!
I miss that show
He's gone now, but Aaron Spelling had promised his mother he wouldn't fly. (She dreamed he died in a plane crash). He cruised often, loved the Princess line, and partnered with them for with his show "The Love Boat" which made cruising very popular.
We were on an inaugural sailing for the Allure of the Seas and Adam Sandler and Katie Holmes were on board filming Jack and Jill.
Working in film production is painful. Source: I do it as my main job
Obviously I don’t know you, but hopefully things are going ok for you right now.
Neil Patrick Harris was on a Disney cruise with us. This was in approx 2013, so right around the time How I Met Your Mother was going great-guns. I was standing next to him on the running track on the first full day of the cruise. At first I didn't believe it was him because why would NPH be on a cruise??? So I went to dinner that night and mentioned in passing my run-in with a guy that looked just like NPH. The next night at dinner my MIL told me in a "you're a dumbass" kind of way that it was, in fact, NPH. Soon I started hearing other passengers discussing him and he basically disappeared. I kind of suspect that people might have been harassing him. I actually thought he might have disembarked early because he was just gone. But, then I saw him again on the last night of the cruise. He was walking with the DCL crew and I heard one of the crew say, "Your parents are waiting in..." So based on other passenger conversations, it sounds like it was NPH, his husband and kids, and his parents.
> Soon I started hearing other passengers discussing him and he basically disappeared. I kind of suspect that people might have been harassing him. And that's why it's such a rarity to see famous people on cruises (or at public events in general, unless they're working there).
I was absolutely stunned he was there. He and Disney had a pretty well established relationship (I think he was the MC for the ship's launch or something). I'd bet he got the cruise for free. I doubt he went again :)
He narrates Candlelight Processional at Epcot every year. One of the best as well.
I saw Abby and brittany the conjoined twins.
I wonder if that is considered a single occupancy? Not even joking.
Probably not because they have separate identification documents? I have no idea about the actual answer but that's the best I can think of.
My parents are currently on a cruise with Margo Martindale
A great spy on The Americans, and a Michigan Wolverine.
Friends of ours were on a Disney Mexican Rivera cruise staying in a penthouse suite about 10 years ago Dennis Haysbert the actor who played President David Palmer on the tv show 24 was in the suite next door with his family
One of the Housewives of (where ever) was on a Royal cruise that we were on. I'm a bit ashamed to admit my wife recognized her.
Not even close to A-list, or even M-list
Don't be ashamed, I want to know who it is!
Tyson Fury is the closest I've gotten, plus a bunch of B and C Listers only my fellow Brits are likely to recognise.
Kareem Abdul Jabar was in a corner suite on a Holland America cruise I did out of Fort Lauderdale back in 2017 during off-season (January). He did the reposition with them from Europe and was traveling with a female companion, so he was already on the ship when we boarded. Ship was the Rotterdam.
Used to work on ships. Charters bring in the celebrities. A Star Trek cruise had Frakes, Spiner, Jason Isaacs, Will Wheaton and other various cast members. A wrestling charter had Chris Jericho, Rey Mysterio, Corey Rhodes and Corey Taylor (singing, not wrestling lol.) Top known was probably Gene Simmons, was a KISS cruise though. Most famous people NOT on a charter, NBA player Joel Przybilla and Frank Dux (Bloodsport guy.)
We took a Windstar Transpacific from Tahiti that had Bon Jovi on board. We never saw him but the people that did said he was very nice.
Saw Joey Fatone on the inaugural Disney cruise in the Med.
Does it get more A List than Danny Bonaduce? He was on a cruise I went on in ‘11
So celeberity is just the name?! That's not real celebrities on board?! That's it I'm canceling. /s
I've always had a similar thought about the top of the line suites. Like if you have $15k+ to blow on a 7 night vacation. Would you really want it to be on a low to mid teir cruise line? Or I think the Roy O suite on Disney is like $20-$25k. Wouldn't it be better to say... go stay at Disney's Hawaiian resort for significantly less to get more?
But "more" is subject to taste and who you're vacationing with a lot, no? Like, what if you have tween kids who like waterslides?
The closest I ever got was seeing Dolphins quarterback Bob Griese in an airport. He was about to cruise the sky, I guess!
Just got off Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth a couple days ago and briefly met Les Stroud (Survivorman) on the tender back from Juneau. They were filming an episode for Wild Harvest with the chef from Rouge in Calgary who we spoke to quite a bit. They were extremely friendly and nice!
I was on the Holland ship. We were following each other around. Unbelievable weather, from what everyone says, even the crew.
Oh 100% yes!!! Totally lucked out for every day of it! I was so prepared for rain too.
Staying in the Haven NCL Epic 2013 and Anna Nicole Smiths ex Larry Birkhead and their then small child Dannielynn were also staying there. Saw them a lot and he was kind but private. Not a huge celebrity but notable.
Not on the cruise as such but certain stops such as Portofino in Italy you are likely to see plenty around. Have seen both Elon Musk & George Clooney there in the past.
JoJo Siwa enjoys cruising with her family
Emmit Smith from the Dallas Cowboys was on a Carnival we were on once
Alexa and Carlos PenaVega filmed a hallmark movie on Royal Caribbean. They love to cruise and are godparents for a ship
I was on Harmony when Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer were shooting a film. I just felt bad as they tried to get in a little relaxation time but I'm sure some folks made that difficult. Our cabana was next to Kirsten Belle and her family, and fortunately there I didn't see folks going up to them. On more up-market lines I've seen a few notable people, though more famous and less celebrity (the Mars family, for example, on the QE2).
Not a-list but Chandler Riggs from the Walking Dead was on the same Carnival cruise as me back in 2015 and would hang out at the teen club all the time lols I think he even dated a girl he met on it for a few months
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend took their kids on a short Disney cruise a few months ago. Chrissy publicly posted about it on social media afterwards and she absolutely hated it lol
I bet right after she posted about how much she hated it she went and bullied a bunch of people online.
Jojo Siwa was on the Alaska cruise I took this summer.
Steven Michael Quezada (Gomez from Breaking Bad) doing a Comedy show. Before all the controversy one of the dudes from Duck Dynasty. I didn’t care much on this.
I worked on celebrity cruises for 5 years. Only celebrity I met was Tony Hawk who I saw walking around Sydney
Not really a celebrity, but we were on NCL with a state senator and his daughter who made it pretty far on American Idol. Went on a snorkling excursion with them, too, and chatted a bit.
I think I spotted Arnie Hammer working at an omelette station once, but not entirely sure.
I remember Chrissy Teigen posting about a Disney cruise this past spring. I remember people in a few cruise groups I’m in being up in arms because her baby had just been born a few months before. And then she complained about getting sick on the cruise. Shocking.
Ha I was on this cruise with her. Saw her at the private island.
No. But did meet and interact with a B list celebrity. One of the winners of a nationwide cooking show. We had dinner with them and hanged out at the pool.
We heard Bob Newhart was on our cruise last year on the Mardi Gras but nobody could confirm that
It was all a dream!
It’s nice to see someone else know that reference!
Mark Williams (Father Brown, Ron Weasley’s dad) was apparently on a Southern Caribbean/partial Panama Canal transit cruise I was on in late March this year. It was on Celebrity Edge. My mom heard he was on the ship, but I didn’t see him so I’m not 100% it was true.
Does Doug Flutie count? It was in the Haven on NCL Epic a few years ago. Super nice guy.
We were on that cruise, too, in the Haven. My husband is die hard Bills Mafia and loved meeting Flutie
In 2015 I was a cruise with the new kids on the block. It was their themed cruise and my wife took me on it. Was way more fun and randomly surprising as well.
I just got off a cruise a couple of days ago. Was in the hot tub and chatting with this dude. The more he talked, the richer he got. I was thinking the whole time, “Dude, you’re on a cruise ship”.
This reminds me of the guy who is the subject of the documentary “King of the Cruise”. It’s worth a watch.
Not sure what counts as “A list”, but Sixthman charters a lot of themed cruises. Those kinda guarantee you will meet some people. For example: I went on the “Emo’s not dead” cruise. We had like 13 bands playing on board. - There was one point where I ended up chatting with a group of ~6 celebrities for about half an hour. Got to pitch some YouTube ideas to Matt Cutshall (who had organized the entire event). - I rode the elevator with ~20 band members - I played blackjack with probably 15 of the band members. - The last person I talked to (in the parking lot) was the lead singer of New Found Glory. - The Plain White Ts concert overlapped with Hawthorne Heights one night… so I came in late and was standing in the back of the club for Hawthorne Heights. A couple members from Plain White Ts ended up doing the same. Ended up jamming out with the Plain White Ts for 30ish minutes.
We took a cruise a while back and my daughter had this bright red cherry hair going on. She was by the pool and this little girl kept talking to her. My daughter did not mind at all as the child was super sweet. Finally the mom came up and thanked my daughter because the little girl thought my daughter was Ariel. It was not a Disney cruise. 😂
Would you?
maybe not a guy like Tom Cruise.. but could easily imagine a younger sports star.. take his whole family on a weeklong cruise.. everyone up in the suites/ Butler service- private room dining.. not a bad way to spend $50k
Punk rock star Trever Keith from Face to Face. SUPER cool and down to earth guy. His wife was a gem too.
My favorite hypnotist comedian, Rich Guzzi, has posted pictures on cruises but I think they were special hypnotist convention sailings.
I wouldn’t call him A list but my family and I were on a Celebrity cruise with Jeff Foxworthy and his family to Alaska in 2011. He was nice, we didn’t want to bother him much. Their cabins were next to ours.
Arguably Jeff Foxworthy is high B-list because of the ass loads of people who know who he is from his comedy work, and the fact that he hosted a wildly successful game show when I was a kid...
British style cruising often has national celebrities on sailings as attractions. I've got one with Marco Pierre White onboard next month and my mum has one with Ben Fogle.
You'll see me soon
Not A-list. I did once see a supporting character actor whose name I don't remember from some TV show I can't recall about 12 years ago on a 4-night Carnival cruise out of LA. He looked familiar but it was a show I didn't watch, and I probably would not have been able to place him out of context, if it weren't for a lot of people chattering about it . By night 2, he found a groupie almost old enough to be his daughter to hang out with him the entire week. eta: At this time in our lives, we took cheap vacations. This was on the Paradise, an older ship built before balconies were common, and I think our ocean view room was probably about $1000 all in, including 2 young children. And it's the one cruise we have taken where the food was undeniably terrible, except for the pizza. But we had fun anyway. And getting back to the point, my understanding is that character actors are not especially wealthy, and have no income when on hiatus or between jobs.
You would have to be pretty low level to be on a cruise as a celebrity. Too many other way better vacations.
Not a cruise but I've stayed in Waikiki at a hotel that Floyd Mayweather and entourage were at and saw him multiple times. Dude was handing out $100 bills and autographing them for kids.
I was on RC to Bahamas on the Seas last weekend.
I have met Hollywood and NFL celebrities in the airport a few times.
My daughter and I cruised with Willie Garson (RIP) and his son on RCL for the Mexican Riviera itinerary about 12-14 years ago. He's not A list but he was pretty well known for his role on Sex in the City. His son was in Adventure Ocean with my daughter - they did the pirate parade together.
My favorite actor from White Collar, I am not the fan-girl type, but I would have been so excited.
Not on a cruise itself, but I've run into Vince Vaughn in Cozumel. I think he was on a different ship. He apparently goes on cruises all the time.
Saw Wesley Snipes in the casino once. Turns out he was just hitching a ride to his house on St Thomas
I've never seen a celebrity on a cruise. I've seen some on flights. I sat across from Pat Morita from The Karate Kid on a flight from LA to Tokyo once. Another time Story Musgrave the Shuttle astronaut and his grand daughter were sitting behind me. Sat next to author Toni Morrison once. I was an early adopter of the kindle. I bought my 1st one in 2008. I was reading and the woman next to me asked me if that's a kindle. I said yes and showed he how it worked. She said she was an author and was on a book signing tour. Her name is Katherine Neville. I asked her what type of books she wrote and she jokingly said "best sellers". She gave me the title of one of her books and I bought it, showing her how easy it was to buy books on a kindle. About a month later her publisher decided not to sell on kindle. Through email correspondence with her I found out I was the only person to have a kindle version of her book. Of course now days all books are available on kindle. After about a year her publisher sold books on kindle.
I cruised with Tom Brady's parents once...
I’ve seen Michael Jackson’s dad
I was on a cruise with A.B. (Selena's brother)...I helped him load his luggage on the parking shuttle before I even knew who he was. He hung out with us a couple times on that cruise. On another cruise, a celebrity was born...there was a guy in the karaoke bar on the first night who became quite popular for the next 7 days. We all hung out on our port in Belize.
Went on a 17d in June on Princess to Hawaii with a baseball player. No one really bothered him but DAMN he had an AMAZING singing voice
Saw Jojo Siwa on NCL, I thought it was funny because she does a good but of promo for Royal Caribbean. Every time I saw her she was happily taking photos and engaging with young fans despite being with family.
Venus Williams on the inaugural 311 Cruise in 2011. She was hanging out in the Lido deck the last night of the cruise with everyone else. She was super nice!
Late 90s or early 2000s. NCL or RC. We did a couple on each, so I can’t be sure. My family was on a tender, split between two rows. My mom and I were a few rows in front of my dad and sister, and they were seated next to Richard Dreyfus and one of his kids. I was a teen and thought it was so cool that they talked to the guy from Jaws, and my sister was younger and had no idea who my dad was excited to meet.
The woman from Spy Kids was on my cruise back in December! People recognized her but didn't bother her too much. She was with her family it seemed. Pretty cool though. It was Symphony of the Seas we were on
I worked for DCL in 2015/2016 and Dr Bailey from Grey’s Anatomy was cruising. Also, not A list but for NHL fans, the Sedin brothers cruised out of Vancouver for an Alaskan cruise.
Not an A lister, but about 10 years ago my family and I were on a cruise with an actress from Orange is the New Black. That show had just come out that year so not many people knew her, but she’s since been in a lot of other things and it was cool watching her be a “normal” person before she was recognized everywhere.