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\u539f\u6587\u5730\u5740\uff1a<\/b>The viral nine-month cruise is ending. Here\u2019s what it was really like on board<\/a><\/font>
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Within weeks of Royal Caribbean\u2019s nine-month-long world cruise setting sail in December 2023, the voyage unexpectedly became the center of a social media storm. The prospect of nine months on a two-decades-old ship, sailing to more than 60 destinations with hundreds of strangers, captured the public\u2019s imagination as passengers began posting on TikTok. It sounded more like the premise for a reality show than the trip of a lifetime. For a moment it felt like everyone \u2013 even if they were previously oblivious to world cruises \u2013 was talking about the nine-month cruise and its \u201creal life reality show\u201d potential. Social media followers waited to see how this social-experiment-at-sea unfurled. Would there be romance, conflict, drama, twists and turns? \u201cAnything can happen,\u201d is how one social media user ND, who was following along from land, put it to CNN Travel back in January.\u00a0 Nine months later, the voyage \u2013 dubbed the Ultimate World Cruise by Royal Caribbean \u2013 is finally wrapping up, reaching its last port, Miami, on September 10. To mark the voyage\u2019s end, CNN Travel caught up with those on board to find out what it was like to spend nine months living at sea with the world watching along at home. Passengers\u2019 perspective The passengers chronicling the nine-month cruise on TikTok ranged from a fiftysomething widowed solo traveler named Anthony McWilliams \u2013 who aimed to inspire followers to live life to its fullest, to a 26-year-old South African influencer called Amike Oosthuizen \u2013 who could always be relied on for a glamorous take on life at sea. Also in the mix was lovable boomer couple Joe and Audrey Martucci, new to social media and posting under the handle @spendingourkidsmoney (this is a joke, Joe Martucci stresses to CNN Travel, there\u2019s still plenty of money left for the kids). Fortysomething sisters Brandee Lake and Shannon Marie Lake demonstrated how to live with an adult sibling and not go stir crazy, while a Gen Z traveler known as Little Rat Brain posted chaotic, wry dispatches from sea. Former NASA employee Bobbi Waterman and her partner Tam, posting @tam.and.bobbi, gained fans for candidly talking about traveling as an LGBTQ+ couple and Bobbi\u2019s experiences as a trans woman. American traveler Angie Linderman garnered attention after she spoke movingly about her path to the Ultimate World Cruise, which included the untimely death of her parents and the discovery that Linderman lives with the BRCA gene, making her more susceptible to breast cancer and ovarian cancer. For those looking for a behind the scenes glimpse at life on board, Royal Caribbean crewmember Julian Mendoza AKA @cooljul1 produced \u201cday in the life\u201d videos on board, while performer Daniele Salvatore Arbisi once managed to get the ship\u2019s captain to came on his account @singing.sailor. Each person offered a different perspective on the cruise. These multiple points of view perhaps partly explains the voyage\u2019s virality \u2013 there was someone for everyone to relate to, and there was potential for clashing personalities. \u201cYou\u2019re putting all of these people on a ship for nine months and when they\u2019re on the ocean, when they\u2019re sailing, there\u2019s no escape,\u201d says British social media user Beth Anne Fletcher, who chronicled the cruise \u2013 largely from land \u2013 on her own TikTok account, @livingmy_bethlife.\u00a0 \u2018What drama is going to happen?\u2019 Fletcher wasn\u2019t surprised by the viral appeal of the cruise. \u201cIf you\u2019re interested in travel and you\u2019re also interested in psychology and people, what more could you want?\u201d Fletcher tells CNN Travel. \u201cThey\u2019re all there together, but they\u2019re going to see the world as well. It\u2019s almost like (reality TV show) \u201cBelow Deck,\u201d but a nine-month episode.\u201d Still, for many of the passengers, the early social media furore was surreal and unexpected. Joe Martucci didn\u2019t know how to spell TikTok before he posted his first video, spurred on by his kids. Even travelers like Oosthuizen, who had a pre-established TikTok presence, were shocked. \u201cI honestly did not think it would explode as much,\u201d Oosthuizen told CNN Travel back in January. Over the first month at sea, the viral fame reverberated through the ship. \u201cSoon, we had billions of people watching us and saying, \u2018What drama is going to happen?\u2019\u201d recalls the passenger known as Little Rat Brain \u2013 or LRB for short \u2013 a 24-year-old American who has asked for her real name not to be included in this article for privacy reasons. LRB, speaking to CNN Travel on the eve of the cruise\u2019s end, says she understands it seemed like the \u201cperfect setup for a reality TV show.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of people in a small area where pretty much everything is free,\u201d she says. (Technically nothing was free \u2013 the nine month cruise cost anywhere from $59,999 to $117,599 per person \u2013 but unlimited onboard food and drinks was included in that sum) \u201cAny food you want\u2026 All the alcohol you could possibly want\u2026 You really have no responsibilities\u2026\u201d LRB continues. In the end, those at home waiting for shocking dispatches from the Ultimate World Cruise were largely left wanting. Headlines announced at least one on-board death, but elderly passengers passing away from natural causes is somewhat expected on a months-long voyage. The ship also rerouted from time to time due to world events, protests and extreme weather events \u2013 but it\u2019s not unusual for itineraries planned years in advance to shift. While those on board were occasionally irritated by one another, the people who predicted, as LRB recalls, \u201cthat there\u2019s definitely going to be divorces, someone\u2019s going to get thrown overboard,\u201d were seemingly wrong (although divorce rumors were rife throughout the nine months). Inevitably, social media interest in the cruise diminished as the weeks rolled on \u2013 after all, nothing stays viral for nine months. \u201cWe definitely did see the interest die off,\u201d says passenger Anthony McWilliams, adding that some travelers \u201ctook a hit emotionally\u201d when their engagement dropped. There was TikTok-based drama too \u2013 Amike Oosthuizen says her account was banned and then deleted. \u201cThey said I was selling counterfeit goods, which I was not selling at all,\u201d she tells CNN Travel. Oosthuizen set up another account, which never quite reached the dizzying heights of the six million-plus people who watched her early video chronicling the Serenade of the Seas crossing the treacherous Drake Passage. For many travelers, the decline in online scrutiny was a relief. \u201cThe attention sort of evened out as the trip went on, which I think was good as it allowed some of the pressure or energy around the trip to normalize, and allowed me to focus more on this experience,\u201d passenger Angie Linderman tells CNN Travel. Still, even nine months in, Linderman still saw people discover her social media for the first time. \u201cI still have people who are finding my page and reaching out because they also have BRCA or have also lost a parent and want to connect with someone else who has that shared experience,\u201d she says. While some TikTok users dropped off, others tracked the nine-month cruise to its end, living vicariously through the passengers as they explored the globe. \u201cWe had people messaging us to say, \u2018Thank you so much for taking me along on this journey,\u2019\u201d says Audrey Martucci, of @spendingourkidsmoney, who recalls a surreal moment when she and her husband were recognized by fans in Halifax, Canada. \u201cI have people that have been along for the whole nine months,\u201d says McWilliams. \u201cBut then there\u2019s also some people that are like, \u2018Oh, we thought y\u2019all were dead.\u2019\u201d Forming connections Fletcher, following along on land, responded to the ebbing public interest by posting fewer recaps as the months went on. But, as she switched to posting about actual reality television shows, Fletcher continued to stay up to date with those on board, gradually building relationships with passengers, realizing \u201cthese people are just on their vacation, having a nice time.\u201d When the Serenade of the Seas docked in Southampton, in the UK, some of the passengers and crew invited Fletcher on board. \u201cIt was such a surreal day, because we have been talking about these people for this long, and then to actually spend time with them, it was like being with old friends,\u201d says Fletcher. She particularly bonded with Joe and Audrey Martucci, dubbed \u201cCruise Mom and Dad\u201d by their followers. The couple lived up to their moniker, welcoming Fletcher wholeheartedly. \u201cIt was like meeting one of our kids,\u201d says Joe, of their day together in Southampton. \u201cBeth Anne\u2019s one of those people we will keep in touch with, probably forever,\u201d says Audrey. \u201cShe\u2019s such a special person, and we\u2019re glad to be her friend.\u201d For Joe and Audrey, befriending a British TikToker some 20 years their junior \u2013 who wasn\u2019t even on board the ship \u2013 was one of many unexpected, special connections they made over the past nine months. Many of the passengers cite the friendships and community as integral to their experience on board the Serenade of the Seas. McWilliams calls fellow passengers Brandee and Shannon Lake his \u201csisters\u201d and says he also bonded with Fletcher, as well social media user ND \u2013 who went from following the cruise from afar on her account @nchimad to joining the voyage for a week. \u201cThe older you get, the less likely you are to make these kinds of friendships,\u201d McWilliams says. \u201cWe\u2019re really fortunate.\u201d Little Rat Brain says it\u2019s been fun to be part of a \u201csupportive, creative community on board\u201d \u2013 even if she jokes the cacophony of camera phones occasionally gave \u201cTruman Show\u201d vibes. Brandee Lake says she connected with different people on board in different ways \u2013 from shared love of adventure excursions or art, to the older travelers she sees as her \u201cship aunties and uncles.\u201d What unites everyone on board, Lake says, is \u201cthe underlying thread of this awesome experience.\u201d It\u2019s an experience Lake suggests will \u201cbe hard to talk about to people when we get off the ship.\u201d The group also helped one another through trickier times together too. While living a permanent vacation might sound appealing, the travelers say it wasn\u2019t always easy. Joe and Audrey Martucci stress that while they \u201ccouldn\u2019t ask for a better trip and a better opportunity\u201d they did \u201cget a little tired being on vacation.\u201d They missed their kids and struggled being far away as major life events played out on land. \u201cNine months is a long time,\u201d says Joe. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t do a nine-month straight cruise again. It\u2019s just way too long away from family, away from everyone and we started to feel burned out.\u201d \u201cWe couldn\u2019t really catch up with sleep,\u201d says Audrey, of the nonstop nature of the itinerary, before adding: \u201cWe do realize how first world problems this sounds.\u201d The couple says they eventually regained a sense of balance by taking time off and slower days when needed. Sometimes they\u2019d skip Royal Caribbean-run excursions to \u201cjust wander in the wild\u201d around a destination. Preparing for the end Many of the passengers were predicting a culture shock after stepping off the Serenade of the Seas for the final time. \u201cIt was liberating to give up everything before I came,\u201d says Lake, who abandoned her California rental lease to live out of a suitcase for nine months. \u201cNow I\u2019m like, \u2018Oh, shoot.\u2019\u201d Passengers were able to maintain connections with loved ones on land via regular video calls and even the occasional ship visit, but say long-distance relationships were tricky to maintain. \u201cThese kinds of experiences, I think, sometimes prune your friendships at home,\u201d says Lake. \u201cSome will stay strong and maintain after \u2013 some might fall away.\u201d \u201cAt some points it was kind of difficult,\u201d agrees LRB. \u201cBecause friends would be texting, \u2018Oh, I had a sucky day at work,\u2019 and meanwhile you\u2019re like, \u2018I saw the Great Wall of China, or I snorkeled on the Great Barrier Reef.\u2019 Sometimes it did feel like a bit of a disconnect.\u201d Passengers also adopted different approaches to staying on top of world news and current events. For Oosthuizen, as the months unfurled and she saw more and more of the globe, she felt like she developed \u201ca world perspective.\u201d \u201cIt was so educational, seeing different cultures, seeing how different people get by,\u201d says Oosthuizen. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say I felt removed on the cruise.\u201d Joe Martucci adds: \u201cYou can\u2019t go away for nine months and stick your head in the sand like an ostrich and say, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019ll worry about it when I get home.\u2019 Because the world keeps changing so fast.\u2019\u201d But Brandee Lake says she made a conscious choice to disengage and stay in a \u201cbubble.\u201d Consequently, she found a recent cruise stop off in New York City a bit of a shock. \u201cWe haven\u2019t been in the US since February, since we stopped in LA,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s much different now, because it\u2019s high election season.\u201d Some of the American travelers on board say the atmosphere on board has become more tense as the US election approaches. \u201cI\u2019m waking up to realizing that a couple of the people that I genuinely care about have different political views than me, and that has been something to navigate, a challenge to navigate,\u201d says McWilliams. And while there\u2019s a sense of fellowship on board, naturally not everyone gets on. \u201cThere is of course a small group of people that I will be completely fine never interacting with again,\u201d says Linderman. \u201cBut that is how it goes, sometimes you don\u2019t connect or click with everyone.\u201d Travelers living in close quarters with family members also developed conflict coping mechanisms over the past nine months. \u201cWith families, you all know when you push each other\u2019s buttons sometimes,\u201d says Lake, who traveled with her parents as well as her sister. \u201cYou just have to walk away and then come back.\u201d Little Rat Brain, who shared a windowless interior cabin with her mother, insists this wasn\u2019t the recipe for disaster it might sound. LRB just took time to herself when she needed it. Many of the travelers emphasize that more than anything, they were grateful to experience this trip with their loved ones. \u201cEspecially with my parents,\u201d says Lake. \u201cYou just think how lucky that they\u2019re here.\u201d There were also constant new faces in the mix, as some passengers joined the trip for shorter voyages. Among the short haulers was American TikTok influencer Marc Sebastian, who got sponsored to join the cruise for a short stint, promising to \u201ccause chaos\u201d on board. This chaos never seemed to particularly materialize. Instead, McWilliams spotted Sebastian getting emotional as he admired the icebergs of Antarctica. \u201cThat makes sense that he gets it. He understands,\u201d McWilliams recalls thinking. A trip of a lifetime As the cruise comes to an end, the travelers are reflecting on everything they\u2019ve seen and trying to process the past nine months. Lake says picking just one highlight is almost impossible, but the ship\u2019s period in Antarctica was particularly special. Her pick is echoed by Little Rat Brain: \u201cThe water was perfectly flat, and it was a mirrored reflection of these gigantic icebergs and there were just so many different shades of white, and it was absolutely incredible,\u201d LRB recalls. Meanwhile Angie Linderman speaks fondly of catching a train across India, as well as a stop off in Portofino, Italy, where she went \u201cswimming in the water all day on this small little beach with the colorful houses above us clinging to the hills.\u201d Linderman says she will hold onto the feeling of watching \u201cthe sunrise over the falls at Iguazu Falls\u201d or marveling at \u201cthe Great Wall of China at night with only my fellow cruisers around.\u201d Sea days were also special, Linderman says, especially \u201cthe countless nights dancing in the Vortex Lounge or at a silent disco or movie night with friends.\u201d The TikTok-famous passengers are now considering how to pivot their online presences. Some have income coming in from social media (\u201cNot enough to live on, by any means,\u201d stresses Little Rat Brain. \u201cBut it\u2019s enough to go out to dinner with friends when I get back.\u201d) But they suggest their main motivation to continue posting is to connect with now-loyal followers. Many of the passengers have future travels planned, which they intend to chronicle on TikTok. Meanwhile Linderman has upcoming surgery to remove her ovaries and says she will be \u201csharing that journey online\u201d with her supportive social media community. There\u2019s also talk of a reunion cruise, albeit for a much shorter stint, which will likely be chronicled online. While there are upcoming world cruises on the horizon \u2013 such as four-month voyages run by MSC Cruises and Princess Cruises \u2013 there\u2019s nothing quite as long as the Ultimate World Cruise on the horizon right now for the major cruise lines. Royal Caribbean hasn\u2019t responded to CNN\u2019s request for comment about any plans for future nine-month cruises. As for Beth Anne Fletcher, her interest\u2019s been piqued by the prospective three-year cruise that\u2019s currently stuck in Belfast, Northern Ireland, operated by start-up Villa Vie Cruises \u2013 but she\u2019s not seen much social media content stem from that ship so far. \u201cI don\u2019t think anything\u2019s ever going to have the virality of the nine-month cruise,\u201d Fletcher says. \u201cI\u2019m not really sure if it will ever occur again,\u201d agrees Little Rat Brain. \u201cWe just kind of just had a perfect storm situation, while, luckily, we haven\u2019t sailed through any perfect storms. So I\u2019ll take it.\u201d \u201cEverything\u2019s been as well as you can expect, for nine months living on a very tiny ship with the same people,\u201d LRB says. \u201cIncredible memories that will last a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

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