Cruise a la Carte

Discover life below the waterline, where dozens of nationalities combine to create a culture of their own. Gleaned from four years working on cruise ships around the world, Cruise a la Carte offers 30 behind-the-scenes snapshots into a life that's unlike anything else in the world.

• What is a crew cabin like?
• Why roving packs of waiters steal silverware.
• Living on a haunted sailing ship.
• The weirdest thing in the purser's lost & found.
• The truth about falling overboard.

We enjoy vacation. They live adventure.

Brian David Bruns was the only American waiter in Carnival Cruise Lines history to complete a full contract without quitting. And he would have quit, too, had he not already abandoned everything at age 30 to chase a woman who worked the sea. His chronicles about living aboard the world's largest cruise ship became instant bestsellers and winners of numerous Humor Book of the Year awards.