The Dion Meels Story: Cruise Control

A our first guest from Seabourn Cruise Line and The Netherlands, in 1994 Dion joins the Nordic Prince as a dining room waiter on it's last season for Royal Caribbean to get some ship experience before fulfilling his dream of working for Seabourn. He gets his first warning on his first day on the Spirit - but goes on to log 17 years on ships. Dion tells about the operation of the high-end cruise operation, a failed attempted at promoting Dutch chocolate with the owner of Lindt Swiss chocolate, stories from when the movie Speed 2 was filmed aboard the Seabourn Legend, being an extra in the production and meeting Sandra Bullock. Willem Defoe, and Jason Patric. He talks about his years on the only residential ship The World. And gives us a second-hand story of the pirate attack on the Spirit.