EVERYONE WHO SAIL WITH US
Code of Conduct
One page, and we mean all of it.
THE SHORT VERSION
Don't be the reason someone else has a bad week.
That's the whole thing. Everything below is just detail for the handful of situations where "be decent" turns out to need spelling out.
A lot of people save for years for this week. Some are travelling as themselves for the first time. Some are out at sea and nowhere else. The reason we write this down — and the reason we ask you to actually read it — is that a week like that only works if everybody agrees to protect it.
This applies to every Waves of Pride guest, everywhere on the ship, for the whole voyage. It applies to your friends, your partner and the people you brought with you. It applies at our parties, at dinner, in the lift, in the hot tub, and in the group chat afterwards.
Eight things.
Consent, every time
Ask. Listen to the answer. "No" is a complete sentence and so is walking away. So is someone not answering at all.
Flirting is part of the week and nobody's trying to legislate it out of existence. Persisting after someone has said no, or is too drunk to say anything, is a different thing entirely — and it is the fastest way to be put off this ship.
Harassment, including from inside the community
No racism, transphobia, biphobia, misogyny, femmephobia, ageism, ableism, fat-shaming or serophobia. Not as a joke, not as a preference announced at volume, not as "just being honest."
We're naming these specifically because a general "be respectful" line has never once stopped any of them. If you have a type, enjoy your type quietly. Nobody needs to hear who you've ruled out.
Photography and privacy
Not everyone here is out in every part of their life. Some guests have jobs, families or countries that make a photograph a genuine risk.
So: ask before you photograph someone you don't know — at our parties, on deck, anywhere. Don't post other people's faces without checking. If someone asks to be untagged, deleted or cropped out, do it immediately and without debate. Our own photographer works to exactly the same rule, and will always ask first.
Gender, names and pronouns
Use the name and pronouns a person gives you. Use whichever facilities match your gender — nobody is required to explain or justify that to anyone, and questioning another guest's right to be in a bathroom is itself a violation of this code.
If you get someone's pronouns wrong, correct yourself and move on. Nobody expects perfection; everybody notices effort.
What you wear, and where
Our parties are ours, and you can be as fabulous, as minimal and as theatrical as you like within Celebrity's rules — which do require that you're actually dressed, and that costumes aren't sexually explicit or built on someone else's culture as a punchline.
The rest of the ship is shared with other passengers, including families. Cover up between the pool and your cabin, wear shoes and a shirt to the buffet, and follow the dress code at dinner. It costs you nothing and it's the difference between us being welcome back and not.
Drink, drugs and looking after each other
Your beverage package is generous. Pace yourself accordingly — a seven-night cruise is a marathon and the first sea day is not the finish line.
Illegal drugs are not permitted anywhere on the ship, including cannabis, regardless of what's legal where you live. Celebrity screens luggage, the penalties are severe, and in some ports they're a matter for local police rather than the cruise line. We can't help you with that and neither can Celebrity.
If a friend is in trouble, get them out and get help. Nobody is ever in trouble with us for looking after someone.
Crew are not part of the entertainment
The people working this ship are working. They're away from home for months, and they're not permitted to say no to a guest as freely as they'd like to. That imbalance is exactly why this needs saying: don't proposition crew, don't touch crew, don't make a bar back the subject of a joke he can't walk away from.
Tip generously, learn a couple of names, and let them do their jobs.
Ashore
Key West and Cozumel are both long-established, welcoming destinations. The Cayman Islands are more socially conservative, and while there's no problem with visiting, some guests choose a bit more discretion there than they'd use on Duval Street.
We'll send a short factual port guide before sailing. Local law applies ashore, and we can't change that — what we can do is make sure nobody finds out the hard way.
Tell us. We'd rather know.
Find any member of the Waves of Pride team — we'll be visible all week and wearing something obvious. We will have a staffed desk with published hours on specific days — for questions, rebooking and anything else — and every guest will have access to The Cruise Boys® staff during the cruise.
For anything urgent or involving your immediate safety, contact Guest Services or ship security directly, at any hour. Then tell us, so we can do our part.
Email info@TheCruiseBoys.com. It's read by a person, not a queue.
Listen first, and believe you. Ask what outcome you want before deciding on one. Keep it confidential to the people who need to know. And tell you what actually happened afterwards, rather than leaving you to wonder.
Depending on what's happened, that might mean a conversation, keeping two people apart for the week, removing someone from our events, involving ship security, or removing someone from the group entirely. Serious conduct is Celebrity's decision as well as ours, and they can and do put people off at the next port.
A guest removed from our events or from the ship for breaching this code forfeits their entertainment fee and their cruise fare in full. No refunds, no exceptions, and travel insurance won't cover it either.
We have never wanted to do this to anyone. We will do it without hesitating.
Reporting something is never held against you, and we will never make you handle it alone.
ONE MORE THING
Look out for the person on their own.
Somewhere on this ship is someone who saved up for two years, booked alone, and is standing at the edge of the first party wondering whether to go back to their cabin. Go and talk to them. That's not a rule — it's just the single best thing you can do all week, and it costs you a drink and ten minutes.
Sound like your kind of week?
It's most people's. Come with us.