Cruise worker reveals what you should never do on a cruise ship – and the crew hate it

In fact, on Cruise Maritime Voyages’ ships, a crew member is assigned to each stairwell and spends all day every day cleaning the bannisters from top to bottom, reported The Telegraph.

Cruise ship doctor Ben MacFarlane recalled in his book Cruise Ship SOS what happened when they suspected “the dreaded noro.” 

“If there’s any risk that they’ve snuck in from land then we pretty much go onto autopilot,” he wrote.

“We’ve been rehearsing our protocols and procedures every few weeks. If the alert levels rise too far we pretty much lock the ship down.”

“At Code Red almost every member of the 1,000 strong crew will play some part in the fight-back procedure, even if it’s only washing their hands a few more times every hour,” he said.