Researching for my first potential cruise. And I agree, this is a silly little interaction to give a smile to an unknown stranger, hoping for nothing in return, except possibly finding a smile left by another. We could all use a little more childlike joy in just giving someone a smile!
I went in my first cruise last year and didn't know about the ducks until right before we left. We then found about 6, even when we weren't looking and it absolutely made us smile! So much so that I have 65 ducks ready to go with us on our 2nd cruise in 3 weeks! It's such a great piece of joy for kids and adults alike!
I take over 100 of varying size & colour to hide each time I cruise. I try to give some to the kids & my favourite crew members before hiding the rest ❤😅
I bring about 2 dozen ducks with us when we cruise. Can't hardly get them placed and the crew snags them up. Set one on the bar,crew instantly grabbed it and yelled "Who's got the ducks* bartending staff went crazy as I tossed ducks to them.....word got out I had ducks and got free drinks the rest of the cruise. Personally handed one to the Captain who had his wife with him. She took it from him and invited the wife and I to their table... Do not underestimate The Duck! We have labels made up with Cruise, ship,date of cruise and our names on them.Then attch the lable with rubber bands around rhe ducks neck. CruiseTip: You can never take too many ducks.
My wife bought some ducks for our cruise in February, on the Oasis of the Seas, and she hid 5 or 6 of them, and was so happy when she found one (which she kept, I think). We had joined a FB group for our cruise and people were posting a bunch of cruise duck pictures on there during the cruise.
Great Lucy. As former international flight attendant, we would leave general notes, usually in a log book in a crew lounge. Every international hotel that took crew had lounges where we could check in our rooms, have coffee or internet, or meet friends for an evening dinner out. For security reasons, we always stayed at many very "posh" and fancy high-end hotels. These lounges kept us out of the common guest areas and provided the items and services. They often would have a concierge to book theatre tickets or dinners at restaurants, just lots of things. For several years a parent who had a child in elementary school would bring a book for the crew to sign the give it to us to pass around. We could see everywhere in the world the book traveled and the dates. There was always a note in the back with the childs name and address and the date they requested someone try to mail it back to them, say after six months. It was good fun for the youngsters and fun for the crew because we, too, could see where in the world and on which airline the book had traveled.
I remember the first time I ever found a duck on a cruise ship, and it blew my mind. Now though, I love wandering round and finding them hidden in plantpots etc - I get so buzzed every time I find one!
Lucy, thanks your this! 🦆Just showed it to my almost 102-yr-old Mom. 🦆She laughed and smiled....and said "this IS silly, but cute"! 😀 This (along with some sailing videos), made her weekend! Thanks again! 😀 Fair winds. John
Oh my god this is so funny I actually collect rubber jacks for completely unrelated reason, when I was a child my mom and I used to go to a rubber ducky race so now it’s a sentimental thing for me. But I’ve seen the rubber duck shop in other UA-camrs videos and I thought the same thing because I didn’t know about the rubber ducks on the cruise ships I literally thought why would they open a shop of just rubber ducks they can’t sell enough rubber ducks to stay in business 😂 thanks for the heads up on all this when I finally get to go on a cruise I’m definitely bringing ducks! I’m going to be on the lookout for the most interesting ducks I could find between now and then!
I have been cruising for over 20 years and I found my first one on my last cruise (Regal Princess 3/12/2023). I never heard of them (Ducks) either. Nice informative video. Thanks
Lucy, Thanks for a fun video! 😀 🦆 (something I really needed after this past week) I've never heard of Cruising Ducks either (but, then I've never been on a cruise ship). 🦆🦆🦆 I can just see it now....little Cruising-as-Crew Ducks "paddling" around from ship-to-ship. 🦆🦆🦆 (once you find the one, or ones, that you like....maybe you could even sell 'em as Cruising-as-Crew Merch, for all your viewers to spread around) Ya' know, with the Bimini Crew Tour, Captain Giovanni interview, (and your sharing of your "up's" and "down's"), and now this fun video....wow, you've started this contract out with some fantastic productions! Keep up the wonderful work! But, don't forget to "take 5" once-in-a-while (maybe even have a glass of red). 😀 Fair winds. John
My whole family has rubber ducks on our dashboards of each of our vehicles and a couple of us have multiple. We even a few scattered around the house that we got on vacation or other places with a special memory.
When I was in college 1982 I found a message in a bottle on Miami Beach. It had a message. Long/Lat date and a name/add/address in West Germany. It was tossed in the Sea off a cruise ship in NE Canada. Took a year. And circled the whole north Atlantic. We wrote the people and got the story.
I found one, brought to my then 7yr old niece for her to open and it turned out to be a note to dead person. Like they went to ocean to drink to their dearly departed and then wrote them a goodbye letter and put it in the wine bottle. Awkward to try to explain to a kid. Needless to say we took it back to same beach and put it back in the water. I no longer open the messages in a bottle. Your experience was far better than ours.
@@bizburgess1947 for sure, but awesome, never met anyone else who has found the fable bottle. The one I found had a screw cap that was so corroded that we ended up having to break the bottle to get to the note. Would have loved to have been able to keep it together. Was learning German in college at the time. Was able to decipher the letter. The name and address ended up being the granddaughter, a teenager at the time of the people who dropped it off the ship. We sent our letter to her both in english and German. She was much better at English than my German. For the letter that was returned. She was quite surprised her grandparents never told her about it and had forgotten about it themselves till they got our letter.
I recently heard that people with a certain jeep put a little duck on the windscreen. That's awesome that it exists in cruising as well. I would definitely collect them.
My wife bought them from party shops and Amazon. We got some rather nice ones, including St. Paddy's Day ducks (we cruised on the Anthem of the Seas during St. Patrick's Day), and even a small box of tiny ducks, which we hid without labels because they were too small. My wife probably had the most fun just hiding them. We were looking for them everywhere. I even overheard a little girl saying she just found her first duck on day 5 of a 7 day cruise, so I surreptitiously pointed her mother to a duck that my daughter just hid. It was wonderful to see the joy on the little girl's face when she found her second duck in just a couple of minutes.
Last year on our Alaska cruise we found our first quackery. We hid ours in the ship for someone else to enjoy. It did have the note to keep it or hide it again. Was really fun and neat idea
It's funny how these things happen. A friend once gave me a rubber duck dressed in my career field so I set it on my desk. Friends and family got the idea I was a rubber duck collector and over the years I had to put a 3 meter by 50 CM shelf on my wall that is covered in ducks!
I found one on the NCL Bliss yesterday. I left it there for someone who wanted to participate. On my next cruise if I find one I'll take it and hide it on the next cruise. Might be nice to see how far it goes.
I found one on our last cruise and got quite a chuckle. I rehid it for someone else to find. I don't know if you can get mail order, but Oriental Trading CO has tons of ducks!
We don't actively go looking for cruise ducks, but my wife gets a cute little thrill when we stumble upon them. We were on Wonder of the Seas in mid March (Spring Break cruise, so there were lots of kids) and she found 3 or 4 ducks, and we actually saw 2 different people hiding them right in front of us. We did NOT pick those up. Kinda spoils it if the "hiders" are standing ten feet away. 😊
Love you...You post very interesting subject...From Lifeboats to rubber ducks. Very informative to very intertaining, In each of your videos all the readers be it a futur crew member to the guy who is interested about the cruise industry but has ner been on a cruise find content to suit their curiosity. Great work, fun videos. Continue your great vlog. There is always something for everyone.🌷🌷🌷
On our cruise last year a lady had made 4 felt ducks, I'm crocheting some later in the year so when I'm on Resilient lady I'll ask them to take one back for you and Danni if you would like
Hi, was on a the Carnival Miracle to Alaska in September of 22 when we found our first duck. Then we started paying attention to the nooks and crannies in the public areas and found several more. Was cruising on RCL Enchantment in December of 22 and found one. I usually write down the information from the duck and re-hide them for others to find. Looking for ducks? They can turn up just about anywhere but places like plant bed and pots, window sills, the ledges of pillars in public areas. They are sometimes just above or below where your normal gaze falls. I have never seen/found one in a location that would put you at risk when you attempt to retrieve it...meaning, they will be found in locations that where they can be casually and inconspicuously hidden. Happy Duck hunting!
That’s one of the things I like about you Lucy…just when I think you couldn’t possibly come up with another unique subject for your channel…you do! Lol.
Some hotels used to provide rubber ducks in their bathrooms (maybe they still do) - it was fun collecting different ones. Since cruise ships tend not to have actual baths in their ensuite bathrooms, could you put the ducks in the whirlpools?
That’s hilarious Lucy! I’d love to leave a duck when I’m cruising and become part of the duck revolution. I’ve only heard of it from views&queues vlogs who r obsessed w them 😅
HI Lucy I found my first duck on the Norwegian Sprite in Alaska in August 2022. I re-hid the duck for kids to find. FYI ...I'm off to Alaska again in 2023
I have 15 ducks bc I was dating a guy from Casino and they have these machines where you can take the ducks out of there. He gave it to me as a present, but later I had an entire collection of different colors.
Hi Lucy, It looks like someone has a new obsession. 🙂 🦆 Unfortunately I don’t know where to buy some in Miami. It looks a little bit like a geocache on a cruise ship. Best regards, Ralf
Ducks are not really a thing on Virgin because Virgin tries to be more environmentally friendly. It’s also why people don’t decorate their doors as much. I’ve heard the cleaning crew on Virgin just throw out the ducks if they find them so they are landfill destined.
There's a rubber duck shop in Dubrovnik, Croatia which is a popular cruise port. But I feel like I've also seen them in London. I knew of the trend to hide ducks on cruises, but I still found it strange that a business would open only selling them, so I think there may be other trends to collect them other than just cruising. I've been on 4 cruises in the last year and I've only seen one duck so far, but I'd like to hide some on my next cruise on P&O Iona in May or on Brilliant Lady in January.
Our first duck was found by our son the first night on NCL Breakaway in Dec 2021. He was thrilled, and I explained the whole thing to him. He hid it again a couple of days later, and then went and retrieved it to hide again before we left (he found a better spot, he said.)
I heard of this game before ever sailing. I didn't see one on my only cruise, but didn't really look for them. My question is what the staff think of this game? I guess that people who would see them more are the cleaning staff and they may find it annoying since it's in their way to do their job, is it so?
I've been doing it for 2 years. On carnival its much more popular and a few people do it on Royal. I found 4 ducks in my week cruise on the Carnival Panorama last week.
Some people embellish the ducks with rhinestones and feathers making them works of art. They come in all sizes and mediums from purses to shirts to key rings-as long as they have ducks on them.
It started in 1992 when a ship spilled containers and exposed thousands of rubber ducks into the ocean. I think Abby bought light to the trend but definitely didn’t create it. I have never been on a cruise and have known about them for 10+ years from family etc…
G'day. I'm from Australia and on a Christmas cruise from Australia to New Zealand in 2019 my kids were finding ducks. We didn't keep them. We would hide them for someone else to find. Everywhere we went we were looking for ducks. I didn't realise it was a worldwide thing. I hope I find a duck from you one day.
I personally don’t like the labels because I find them bulky and tacky, so I just write on my ducks with a Sharpie. I add the ship name, date, and sign our name. For my next cruise, I’ve actually made keychains with little duck charms on them. I wouldn’t think it was a big thing on Virgin, but definitely on the family cruise lines for sure!
Ducks have been around for a while. I have found a couple, still have one. Found one on celebrity and hid it on princess. Second duck will hide on next cruise.
Chew on it just to see how long it takes for someone to ask if it tastes like quackers. Do they all wake up at the quack of dawn ? Leave them by the soup in the galley.
The company I work for sells those ducks wholesale you can buy them by the dozen or 100’s. Any kind you can ever imagine,, all the ones you showed are ones we have. I can almost bet the company name if on the bottom of it of where I work on at least one of those- Oriental Trading - I have a ton of those ducks myself and keep them in my car, when my son was younger he would hand them to other little kids in restaurants, now we put them on jeeps for “ duck a jeep”.. yes that’s a thing….
we have hid ducks for the last two years. its fun, especially when there are kids that find them. we also just give them to kids. virgin is the one cruise ship we dont do it on.
i have hidden a few ducks in the last few cruises its fun if you hide one in your room tell the steward so he knows to leave it there for the next guest
hi i am from turkey i am looking job in cruise for an entertainer i doing this job for 9 years in Antalya Turkey in 5* hotel so is there possibility for turkish in cruise job how do you think and what should i do can u help please
Theres a lady that 3D printed a whole bunch of octopus and put them all over Valiant Lady when we were on it! (december '22) I think hiding octopus is going to be a virgin thing now as well lol
I saw a girl set one back in February, I had no idea what she was doing. I picked it up, was confused, so I left it, lol. Hopefully someone in-the-know found it.
If you’d ever wish to have a very pretty and sparkly duck, I would absolutely send you one for free so if you want one please let me know……i rhinestone them for purely for fun and have a cruise over a year away so, lots of ducks here, lol!! Happy hunting!!
Researching for my first potential cruise. And I agree, this is a silly little interaction to give a smile to an unknown stranger, hoping for nothing in return, except possibly finding a smile left by another. We could all use a little more childlike joy in just giving someone a smile!
I went in my first cruise last year and didn't know about the ducks until right before we left. We then found about 6, even when we weren't looking and it absolutely made us smile! So much so that I have 65 ducks ready to go with us on our 2nd cruise in 3 weeks! It's such a great piece of joy for kids and adults alike!
I take over 100 of varying size & colour to hide each time I cruise. I try to give some to the kids & my favourite crew members before hiding the rest ❤😅
I bring about 2 dozen ducks with us when we cruise.
Can't hardly get them placed and the crew snags them up. Set one on the bar,crew instantly grabbed it and yelled "Who's got the ducks* bartending staff went crazy as I tossed ducks to them.....word got out I had ducks and got free drinks the rest of the cruise.
Personally handed one to the Captain who had his wife with him. She took it from him and invited the wife and I to their table...
Do not underestimate The Duck!
We have labels made up with Cruise, ship,date of cruise and our names on them.Then attch the lable with rubber bands around rhe ducks neck.
CruiseTip: You can never take too many ducks.
My daughter and her partner are obsessed with rubber ducks. Now they’re talking about cruising just to play this!
My wife bought some ducks for our cruise in February, on the Oasis of the Seas, and she hid 5 or 6 of them, and was so happy when she found one (which she kept, I think). We had joined a FB group for our cruise and people were posting a bunch of cruise duck pictures on there during the cruise.
Fun idea, I’ll have to remember for my next cruise 🚢 🦆
Great Lucy. As former international flight attendant, we would leave general notes, usually in a log book in a crew lounge. Every international hotel that took crew had lounges where we could check in our rooms, have coffee or internet, or meet friends for an evening dinner out. For security reasons, we always stayed at many very "posh" and fancy high-end hotels. These lounges kept us out of the common guest areas and provided the items and services. They often would have a concierge to book theatre tickets or dinners at restaurants, just lots of things. For several years a parent who had a child in elementary school would bring a book for the crew to sign the give it to us to pass around. We could see everywhere in the world the book traveled and the dates. There was always a note in the back with the childs name and address and the date they requested someone try to mail it back to them, say after six months. It was good fun for the youngsters and fun for the crew because we, too, could see where in the world and on which airline the book had traveled.
I remember the first time I ever found a duck on a cruise ship, and it blew my mind. Now though, I love wandering round and finding them hidden in plantpots etc - I get so buzzed every time I find one!
I have 150 ducks all packed and ready to go on Ruby Princess later this week.
yes it is something we look forward to😊
Lucy, thanks your this! 🦆Just showed it to my almost 102-yr-old Mom. 🦆She laughed and smiled....and said "this IS silly, but cute"! 😀
This (along with some sailing videos), made her weekend! Thanks again! 😀
Fair winds.
John
I crochet ducks, make duck purses, duck key fobs, and other duck items to hide on cruises. I have about 100 duck items for my fall cruises this year.
If there were an option to attach a photo, zip coukd show some of the duck items I have made.
Thanks Lucy. I enjoyed your video. Didn't know about these rubber ducks😂.I have a family member that does a lot of cruises, so I shall tell her.
Oh my god this is so funny I actually collect rubber jacks for completely unrelated reason, when I was a child my mom and I used to go to a rubber ducky race so now it’s a sentimental thing for me. But I’ve seen the rubber duck shop in other UA-camrs videos and I thought the same thing because I didn’t know about the rubber ducks on the cruise ships I literally thought why would they open a shop of just rubber ducks they can’t sell enough rubber ducks to stay in business 😂 thanks for the heads up on all this when I finally get to go on a cruise I’m definitely bringing ducks! I’m going to be on the lookout for the most interesting ducks I could find between now and then!
Love this. Glad to see you seem to be settling in. Sorry I'm just catching up with the last couple weeks of vids 😅
I have been cruising for over 20 years and I found my first one on my last cruise (Regal Princess 3/12/2023). I never heard of them (Ducks) either.
Nice informative video. Thanks
Lucy,
Thanks for a fun video! 😀 🦆 (something I really needed after this past week)
I've never heard of Cruising Ducks either (but, then I've never been on a cruise ship).
🦆🦆🦆 I can just see it now....little Cruising-as-Crew Ducks "paddling" around from ship-to-ship. 🦆🦆🦆
(once you find the one, or ones, that you like....maybe you could even sell 'em as Cruising-as-Crew Merch, for all your viewers to spread around)
Ya' know, with the Bimini Crew Tour, Captain Giovanni interview, (and your sharing of your "up's" and "down's"), and now this fun video....wow, you've started this contract out with some fantastic productions!
Keep up the wonderful work!
But, don't forget to "take 5" once-in-a-while (maybe even have a glass of red). 😀
Fair winds.
John
Boarding Ovation tomorrow, ducks ready to go. "Keep or hide, you decide" lol, just a bit of fun.
Kyle Pallo (a orlando vlogger) has just come off the scarlet lady and he hid a duck on board, it was by the enterance to one of the restaurants
I had seen on a couple of cruises but didn’t find out the why of rubber ducks till our last one last Sept. I think it would be fun!
Thanks for your videos, you're my preparer because I haven't gone into training yet and now I'm not that overwhelmed anymore
My whole family has rubber ducks on our dashboards of each of our vehicles and a couple of us have multiple. We even a few scattered around the house that we got on vacation or other places with a special memory.
When I was in college 1982 I found a message in a bottle on Miami Beach. It had a message. Long/Lat date and a name/add/address in West Germany. It was tossed in the Sea off a cruise ship in NE Canada. Took a year. And circled the whole north Atlantic. We wrote the people and got the story.
I found one, brought to my then 7yr old niece for her to open and it turned out to be a note to dead person. Like they went to ocean to drink to their dearly departed and then wrote them a goodbye letter and put it in the wine bottle. Awkward to try to explain to a kid. Needless to say we took it back to same beach and put it back in the water. I no longer open the messages in a bottle. Your experience was far better than ours.
@@bizburgess1947 for sure, but awesome, never met anyone else who has found the fable bottle. The one I found had a screw cap that was so corroded that we ended up having to break the bottle to get to the note. Would have loved to have been able to keep it together. Was learning German in college at the time. Was able to decipher the letter. The name and address ended up being the granddaughter, a teenager at the time of the people who dropped it off the ship. We sent our letter to her both in english and German. She was much better at English than my German. For the letter that was returned. She was quite surprised her grandparents never told her about it and had forgotten about it themselves till they got our letter.
I recently heard that people with a certain jeep put a little duck on the windscreen. That's awesome that it exists in cruising as well. I would definitely collect them.
My wife bought them from party shops and Amazon. We got some rather nice ones, including St. Paddy's Day ducks (we cruised on the Anthem of the Seas during St. Patrick's Day), and even a small box of tiny ducks, which we hid without labels because they were too small.
My wife probably had the most fun just hiding them. We were looking for them everywhere. I even overheard a little girl saying she just found her first duck on day 5 of a 7 day cruise, so I surreptitiously pointed her mother to a duck that my daughter just hid. It was wonderful to see the joy on the little girl's face when she found her second duck in just a couple of minutes.
first cruise last May 22 I hid 25, second cruise in Jan 23...I might have gone a little overboard..50...it's fun!
Last year on our Alaska cruise we found our first quackery. We hid ours in the ship for someone else to enjoy. It did have the note to keep it or hide it again. Was really fun and neat idea
Yes Lucy adults need some juvenile fun.
I have never heard of that. Very interesting.
It's funny how these things happen. A friend once gave me a rubber duck dressed in my career field so I set it on my desk. Friends and family got the idea I was a rubber duck collector and over the years I had to put a 3 meter by 50 CM shelf on my wall that is covered in ducks!
If you are a programmer, they might have thought you needed one! :)
I found one on the NCL Bliss yesterday. I left it there for someone who wanted to participate. On my next cruise if I find one I'll take it and hide it on the next cruise. Might be nice to see how far it goes.
Brilliant I’ll look out for them on my next cruise and might remember to take one. ❤
I found one on our last cruise and got quite a chuckle. I rehid it for someone else to find. I don't know if you can get mail order, but Oriental Trading CO has tons of ducks!
I found one near the elevators on debarkation day😊 Scarlet Lady March 12-17 I kept it
These are popular in the Jeep Wrangler world. Ducking Jeeps is a big deal! I’ve seen several ducks on Carnival Cruises 😊
I wish classroom teaching is also this entertaining and easy to understand.
We don't actively go looking for cruise ducks, but my wife gets a cute little thrill when we stumble upon them. We were on Wonder of the Seas in mid March (Spring Break cruise, so there were lots of kids) and she found 3 or 4 ducks, and we actually saw 2 different people hiding them right in front of us. We did NOT pick those up. Kinda spoils it if the "hiders" are standing ten feet away. 😊
Love you...You post very interesting subject...From Lifeboats to rubber ducks. Very informative to very intertaining, In each of your videos all the readers be it a futur crew member to the guy who is interested about the cruise industry but has ner been on a cruise find content to suit their curiosity. Great work, fun videos. Continue your great vlog. There is always something for everyone.🌷🌷🌷
On our cruise last year a lady had made 4 felt ducks, I'm crocheting some later in the year so when I'm on Resilient lady I'll ask them to take one back for you and Danni if you would like
You are excellent Lucy. Thank you so much for your videos. I am about to emabark on Disney Magic. Do you have any info on DCL?
I would love to find one of your ducks! We just finished our 21st birthday cruise ducks.
Also, the Freedom of the seas is my second favorite royal ship next to the Allure! The crew are amazing!
🦆 I guess it's similar to Emma and her "Hudson"😁
Hi, was on a the Carnival Miracle to Alaska in September of 22 when we found our first duck. Then we started paying attention to the nooks and crannies in the public areas and found several more. Was cruising on RCL Enchantment in December of 22 and found one. I usually write down the information from the duck and re-hide them for others to find.
Looking for ducks? They can turn up just about anywhere but places like plant bed and pots, window sills, the ledges of pillars in public areas. They are sometimes just above or below where your normal gaze falls. I have never seen/found one in a location that would put you at risk when you attempt to retrieve it...meaning, they will be found in locations that where they can be casually and inconspicuously hidden. Happy Duck hunting!
That’s one of the things I like about you Lucy…just when I think you couldn’t possibly come up with another unique subject for your channel…you do! Lol.
Some hotels used to provide rubber ducks in their bathrooms (maybe they still do) - it was fun collecting different ones. Since cruise ships tend not to have actual baths in their ensuite bathrooms, could you put the ducks in the whirlpools?
Would love to see your collection up on the purple wall behind you to watch it grow ❤
Try Key West. Plenty of eclectic little shops there along Duval.
I think you should get a gold Sharpie and draw a little nose ring on your ducks, and put a little red shirt on them - they’d be unique Lucy ducks!
That’s hilarious Lucy! I’d love to leave a duck when I’m cruising and become part of the duck revolution. I’ve only heard of it from views&queues vlogs who r obsessed w them 😅
HI Lucy
I found my first duck on the Norwegian Sprite in Alaska in August 2022. I re-hid the duck for kids to find. FYI ...I'm off to Alaska again in 2023
I have 15 ducks bc I was dating a guy from Casino and they have these machines where you can take the ducks out of there.
He gave it to me as a present, but later I had an entire collection of different colors.
Like you, never would have guessed 👍👍🤷♂️🎁
I noticed that fun thing on princess cruises and p and o.
I remember I saw a ducky on a Princess ship once, I thought a kid forgot it, so I left it in the same place
Hi Lucy,
It looks like someone has a new obsession. 🙂
🦆
Unfortunately I don’t know where to buy some in Miami.
It looks a little bit like a geocache on a cruise ship.
Best regards,
Ralf
I've got 3 from my first contract on Liberty OTS, we would always find them near AO in the arcade
Ducks are not really a thing on Virgin because Virgin tries to be more environmentally friendly. It’s also why people don’t decorate their doors as much. I’ve heard the cleaning crew on Virgin just throw out the ducks if they find them so they are landfill destined.
Yes, rubber ducks are a HUGH thing with Carnival (and others) I’m going on the Breeze in a few months. Guess what I’ll be packing?? 😂
There's a rubber duck shop in Dubrovnik, Croatia which is a popular cruise port. But I feel like I've also seen them in London.
I knew of the trend to hide ducks on cruises, but I still found it strange that a business would open only selling them, so I think there may be other trends to collect them other than just cruising.
I've been on 4 cruises in the last year and I've only seen one duck so far, but I'd like to hide some on my next cruise on P&O Iona in May or on Brilliant Lady in January.
Is it like "geocaching" or a giant easter egg hunt?
Our first duck was found by our son the first night on NCL Breakaway in Dec 2021. He was thrilled, and I explained the whole thing to him. He hid it again a couple of days later, and then went and retrieved it to hide again before we left (he found a better spot, he said.)
I heard of this game before ever sailing. I didn't see one on my only cruise, but didn't really look for them. My question is what the staff think of this game? I guess that people who would see them more are the cleaning staff and they may find it annoying since it's in their way to do their job, is it so?
I've been doing it for 2 years. On carnival its much more popular and a few people do it on Royal. I found 4 ducks in my week cruise on the Carnival Panorama last week.
Some people embellish the ducks with rhinestones and feathers making them works of art. They come in all sizes and mediums from purses to shirts to key rings-as long as they have ducks on them.
It started in 1992 when a ship spilled containers and exposed thousands of rubber ducks into the ocean. I think Abby bought light to the trend but definitely didn’t create it. I have never been on a cruise and have known about them for 10+ years from family etc…
I learned about rubber duckies watching Captain Kate McCue skipper of Celebrity Beyond.😊
We have a ruber Duck store here in Barcelona🦆
G'day. I'm from Australia and on a Christmas cruise from Australia to New Zealand in 2019 my kids were finding ducks. We didn't keep them. We would hide them for someone else to find. Everywhere we went we were looking for ducks. I didn't realise it was a worldwide thing. I hope I find a duck from you one day.
The forbidden duck!!!! 😲😲😲😲😲
Thanks Lucy
I personally don’t like the labels because I find them bulky and tacky, so I just write on my ducks with a Sharpie. I add the ship name, date, and sign our name. For my next cruise, I’ve actually made keychains with little duck charms on them.
I wouldn’t think it was a big thing on Virgin, but definitely on the family cruise lines for sure!
His ducks on a recent Celebrity cruise. Just as much fun to hide as it is to find.
Just out of curiosity, have you ever seen Jay from the ship life UA-cam channel on your ship?
Dollar Tree sometimes has duckies! $1.25 each!
Ducks have been around for a while. I have found a couple, still have one. Found one on celebrity and hid it on princess. Second duck will hide on next cruise.
Chew on it just to see how long it takes for someone to ask if it tastes like quackers.
Do they all wake up at the quack of dawn ?
Leave them by the soup in the galley.
Mmmm 😋 crispy asthmatic duck 🦆 with pancakes!
The company I work for sells those ducks wholesale you can buy them by the dozen or 100’s. Any kind you can ever imagine,, all the ones you showed are ones we have. I can almost bet the company name if on the bottom of it of where I work on at least one of those- Oriental Trading - I have a ton of those ducks myself and keep them in my car, when my son was younger he would hand them to other little kids in restaurants, now we put them on jeeps for “ duck a jeep”.. yes that’s a thing….
Oriental Trading company has lots of cute ones you can order from. Happy hunting 😂
Have about 30 to hide on my October cruise!
we have hid ducks for the last two years. its fun, especially when there are kids that find them. we also just give them to kids. virgin is the one cruise ship we dont do it on.
If you posted this on April 1st, I would not have believed it…
Keep a log book of all the ducks you hide and where. Serial number each one also. That way you can check them off as they get reported.
i have hidden a few ducks in the last few cruises its fun if you hide one in your room tell the steward so he knows to leave it there for the next guest
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Never done it myself, but I have seen a lot of videos where people show hiding their ducks and checking back later to see if anyone has found them.
Think you signed up to the wrong group. There is 178k members of the cruising ducks tm - original group.
How many months contract for Waiter in Virgin? Please
I went on my first cruise on the Disney Wish and I went home with like 7 ducks
amazon sells a bunch of ducks for a great price
I saw this. I saw my 3D printer. I smiled evilly.
Rainbow 3D printed rubber duck.......
Never heard of it either, but apparently I've been living in a hole while on my cruises.
I hid a bag of 25 on my last cruise. Its a grown-up version of an Easter Egg hunt.
So, you can hide ducks on virgin!??? I will bring a few for the end of july for you guys to find. 😊
Theres a lady that 3D printed a whole bunch of octopus and put them all over Valiant Lady when we were on it! (december '22) I think hiding octopus is going to be a virgin thing now as well lol
We just got off Anthem of the Seas and my kids hid a dozen and found two.
I saw a girl set one back in February, I had no idea what she was doing. I picked it up, was confused, so I left it, lol. Hopefully someone in-the-know found it.
If you’d ever wish to have a very pretty and sparkly duck, I would absolutely send you one for free so if you want one please let me know……i rhinestone them for purely for fun and have a cruise over a year away so, lots of ducks here, lol!! Happy hunting!!
We jeep owners do it too. We leave a duck on other Jeeps lol. Duck Duck Jeep
I've had my Jeep 2 1/2 years and this is the first I've heard.