I’m so curious about this! A friend of mine used to work on cruises and from her stories I derived that there was no middle ground: cruise ship life is either utterly horrific or utterly amazing, and it changes from day to day! She also talked a lot about the work hard / party hard culture that you mention. I was always incredulous as to how people continued functioning and didn’t get sick from lack of sleep and space, and excess of booze. Did you ever find it too much? Do you think you have to be a certain type of person to do this? Or a certain age? Does the crew consist of mainly those below 30?