Ali Dunworth

And I know when you pay for the cruise, you get like a basic access to all inclusive and then you can kind of pay up to different levels of restaurants online.

Or there's restaurants on board that you can go to for like a special occasion if you want to add it on.

So like, and the food has to be like top notch and they have to offer so much to keep people entertained.

I was looking it up and the Symphony of the Seas, which is one of the largest, it's not the largest anymore.

They said that like 6,600 passengers, 2,200 crew.

So you're talking about like there could be 15,000, 20,000 meals a day that they're making.

So it was like 60,000 eggs a day, nearly 10,000 pounds of chicken.

They said 20,000 pounds of potatoes, 450 cases of champagne.

And like, I can't even imagine the chef that is at the top of that list.

Organising, the procurement, the health and safety, the fridges, the freezers.

It would be assembly lines, military precision.

I'd say there's a lot of form filling.

There's definitely someone going around checking that stuff all of the time.

I'd love to get on board a cruise ship kitchen and have a look around someday.

In December.

Yeah, so we it was the Belmond Eastern Orient Express.

the owners of the Orange Express yeah so it's the same so this is the Eastern Orange Express so it goes from Singapore up to Malaysia to the top nearly a Thailand and all the way back and you're on board for three nights four days and like it was exceptional it's the thing I have been asked the most about that I've ever done in my life I posted a little bit of it on Instagram but not much because I've written an article about it that should be out I think in the next few weeks in the business post but

there was just so much going on it was hard to even do a few stories to show it and this one was quite culinary based like the food in that part of the world is amazing anyway because you've got all those ingredients and all those amazing spices from Malaysia and it's a Malaysian chef who's like curating the whole thing but like we got on board and you've straight away got like bowls of beautiful exotic fruit and they're always giving you nice hand towels snacks everything is really glamorous and beautiful it looks and feels like you're in an Agatha Christie novel

And then the food, I was blown away.

Like multi-course menus for every meal.