[quote="Arizona"]Re the Cruise Director on Saga: this role is particularly important because there are always going to be many sea days to be filled with the ships only operating from the UK. We had 3 days at sea each way to the Med. Saga has usually employed regular long standing CDs rather than agency people.
Just returned from 35 nights on SoD (Christmas New York cruise) and the good news is that there are now washing lines in the showers,
and Saga have another cruise director, name of Andy Levitt.
He has a tendency to gabble his announcements which, with his Australian accent, can make them sometimes hard to hear, but he is evidently experienced, unflappable, and with a great sense of humour (he did not turn a hair when, at the "welcome" cocktail party, a "code Bravo" came over the tannoy just as he started to announce the captain, who promptly disappeared along with other senior officers).
I believe this was his first cruise with Saga, so was probably still feeling his way, but let's hope Saga hang on to him, as he is going to be a real asset for them - and at the minute, they need all the assets they can get.
Despite the best efforts of everybody on board the ship, there are still far too many unhappy customers because of stupid mistakes that should never happen if the company was being properly managed.