Here are the latest updates from passengers aboard the TikTok-famous Ultimate World Cruise.
It ’s been one calendar month since theRoyal Caribbean Ultimate World Cruisedeparted from Miami and start out its nine - month journeying around the world . On the one - calendar month anniversary of the sail , the ship is celebrating by enter one of the most hoped-for portions of its voyage : sailing throughthe treacherous Drake Passage .
But outside of the many port stops that have already been visit , including Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires , tidy sum of other happenings cover on the ship have entertained the TikTok users who are following every development . Some were not so surprising ( multiple TikTok business relationship reported that some rider were diagnosed with COVID-19 as early as December 22 , just 12 day into the cruise ) , others were worrisome but in the end uneventful ( some minor implosion therapy occurred ) , and some were just sad ( report emerge of atleast one twosome arguingand wanting to leave the ship circulated rampantly during the third calendar week of sailing ) .
Some new characters have even been added to the " plaster bandage , " as TikToker Marc Sebastian was just brought on the ship for the Latin America and Antarctica leg of the trip . His former opinion ? He would n’t want to spend nine months on it .
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Here ’s a little flake more context about that COVID story , courtesy TikToker @nchimad , the sail ’s self - appointed " Sea Tea theatre director " who is share the cruise ’s every twist and turn on the societal platform . Given how high infection charge per unit presently are just in the US , it is not surprising that the illness has made it on to the cruise ship .
Below is a rider perspective of the ship flooding , which materialise on cruise deck 12 . The implosion therapy occurred after the ship sweep through a storm that had 60 mph winds between Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo .
Most troubling for some , there has also reportedly been some vino drama aboard the cruise — namely , that the ship has been incline out of it .
So , how has all this dramatic event all make for out ? It seems like if you are n’t like a shot impacted by implosion therapy , COVID , or interpersonal play , the cruise still seems like a total eruption .
sail passenger Amike Oosthuizen , 26 , told Thrillist that she has been overpoweringly pleased with her experience on the ship thus far .
" The citizenry on the ship work so firmly and they ferment and do such a good job , and they ’re so kind , and all the other guests we ’ve meet have been so nice . So none of that dramatic event has had an impact on me or us at all , " she continued .
Oosthuizen has been posting vlogs from the ship , and is one of several of the cruisers " cast " in the cyberspace ’s fictional realism show translation of the nine - calendar month trip . We exchanged substance on January 9 , right before the cruisers were scheduled to start the leg of their journeying that would take them through the Drake Passage , which is known as one of the most treacherous ocean passageways . Ooosthuzien said she ’s nervous about the transition , just because she has n’t liked it when the ship has rocked in the past .
" We ’re going through it and it ’s going to last 22 hour going through it and then conk back as well , another 22 hour , ” Oosthuzien explain . " I ’m sure we ’ll be ok because I ’m certain they wo n’t put us in condition that are dangerous , but I am by all odds a bit nervous . "
Another cabin cruiser , only make love to the public as Little Rat Brain , says the sail feels like it has gone by in the wink of an eye . " I would n’t conceive that it ’s been a calendar month if I did n’t have the particular date on my phone and the stack of sail compasses in my room , " she told Thrillist via email .
" I ’ve assemble friends that I would have never take on , tried foods that I did n’t know subsist and been to places that I could n’t locate on a map before visiting , " LRB , who also talk with Thrillistafter the cruise ’s first week , wrote . " While I ’m sad that a calendar month has already flown by , I ca n’t hold off to see what next month brings . "
She wrote to Thrillist as the cruise was go up the Drake Passage , noting that the ship " switched naturally to avoid the high-risk of the potential weather , but we should still be looking at some moderately acute condition . "
" We just finished having hurricane force winds and we have n’t even reached the passage yet , " she said .
In a video she shared on TikTok , you’re able to see LRB standing on the deck of cards as the winding whip her hair and wearing apparel around as a somewhat menacing sky stands grim in the backdrop .
Nerves around the Drake Passage aside , Oosthuizen had tidy sum of highlights to describe from her first month aboard the ship . Her high spot specifically center on the 24 - hour admission to food and coffee . " There ’s so many food choice , so it ’s just amazing that we do n’t have to misrepresent . We can eat as much as we need , and everything is included and all the drink are included , " she explained .
Off the ship , Oosthuizen has been blow away by their full stop in Rio de Janeiro , Aruba , and Buenos Aires .
“ When we went to Christ the Redeemer [ in Rio ] , it was such an awesome experience , ” Oosthuzien said . “ I also really enjoyed Aruba . It ’s such a beautiful island , and the piddle was just so nice and the beach was so beautiful . ”
Little Rat Brain also cite Brazil as one of the top destinations so far . Her favorite larboard was Fortaleza , Brazil .
" It was such an exotic landscape painting to see , and the dividing line of the sky and stone were almost too intense to look at , " LRB explained . " It was also such a thrilling adventure to zip across the beach in a dune roadster , I do n’t have it away how fast we were going — the speed indicator was break , thankfully . "
But there are challenges , too . Oosthuizen said that getting used to experience in such small quarter for an elongated time period of time has proven to be an adjustment , and she ’s also struggled to balance her schedule while work on remotely from the sail .
" The strong part of the ship life so far has been the workplace , travel , and life counterbalance , " she said . " I still need to act upon as well . So that has been challenging and make me a bit timeworn . I want to do everything . "
