1. Can you tell us how long you have been working for Carnival Cruise Lines? What year did you start and what is your current position?
I have worked for Carnival Cruises Lines for almost 5 years .I started in 2003 and my current position is Laundry Manager on board the Carnival Freedom
2. Where are you from and what is the best thing about living there.
I come from Indonesia, I live in Bali. This interesting place is a tourist place where you can see the nice white beaches, places of interest and natural geographic culture of different art, Hindu ceremony in the biggest temple with attendance from most of the Bali society also special, everything related to the ceremony is economic, good and safe
3. Are you married and tell us about some of your family.
No, I am still single. I have two brothers and one sister all of them are married and live in Bali.
4. What does your job involve? Describe what you do each day.
My job is to run the laundry operation onboard. Providing laundry services to our guests and crew taking care of all the linen on board from bedding to clothes for the guests and crew – also I am involved to the safety issues and environmental compliance in our large laundry operation!
5. What is the best thing about working on a cruise ship?
For me- I have just increased my experience and job knowledge, and enjoy seeing the world, and of course looking the capital to secure plan.
6. What is the hardest thing about working on a cruise ship?
The hardest thing sometimes is having a high quantity of laundry with little manpower to do the job well done on time — it can get a bit manic!
7. Please tell us your favorite things.
FOOD: Asian Food
MOVIE: I like the action movies with lots of explosions. I do not like love films as they have no explosions
MUSIC: Hard Rock
FAVORITE WAY TO RELAX: Snorkeling, Surfing, Diving
8. If you could any other job on the ship for a day what would you like to do? And why
I would maybe prefer to work as a waiter and earn more and also I do have some experience as a tour guide
9. FAVORITE PORT
For me a lot of the ports seem the same as I don’t get much time off in port, they can be our busy laundry days whilst the guests are ashore. My favorite is Barcelona as there are good eating places and one place that serves spicy Yak meat my favorite Indonesian food.
10. If you could meet one famous person in the world who would it be and why
No one famous, I would just be happy to meet up with my girlfriend!
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Iketut Suardika, I’m glad to meet the person John will have doing all my laundry while I’m on the FREEDOM. Great interview and I hope you do meet up with that girlfriend one day.
“BIG” ED
PS, no starch and easy on the bleach, Thank You
Uh Oh.
First of all you praise your Balinese Hindu ceremonies as economic, good and safe and then you only like movies with explosions which are none of the above.
I hereby charge you with finding a good chick flick.
You might also find your girl friend!
I have to admit that wordy dark dramas either put me to sleep or I would rather go off and scrub toilets.
You might try Last Holiday with Queen Latifah. There is a designated bad guy, good food, let me make that excellent food, and enough idiocy with potential for bodily harm to offset your hankering for spectacular destruction.
And I love Bond, James Bond, and Sean Connery is the Only Bond the others were poor subs, but Daniel Craig, I gotta admit, is a fine second choice, and I must be a pyromaniac because I love to watch the explosions, also. Did you count the flips when he didn’t run over the girl tied up on the road? We turned the dvd onto slo mo. There is a half gainer in there, too. As a tribute to the Aston Martin, when they were practicing for this, they couldn’t get the car to roll on its own. They had to use controlled explosions – got their moneys worth out of that.
Thanks for your conscientious attention to our laundry. This is another way to combat the plagues which could ruin a vacation.
Bless you.
11. Can you please tell us what it is like to have to deal with John Heald’s dirty undergarments?
I am sorry – I am unable to respond to this question on the advice of my therapist.
12. go back and answer number 11.
You do a great job keeping everything clean i’m sure it’s a hard job to do but I thank you for it on behalf of well me and everyone else who diden’t comment, John Please buy this great person Iketut Suardika dinner in the supper club. And don’t spare the free drinks for him either, and maybe you can help him reconnect with his girlfriend we all need a Thursday night after all. Best wishes
Kevin
Hi John,
Way to go on the award. Congratulations! Great Job!
We just booked the Splendor to Buenos Aires. Same cabin as the one from London to Rome. I should have asked my favorite personal travel coordinator, Leah Jopling of CCL, whether it would be OK to leave my slippers in the closet when we leave the ship temporarily in Rome. What are you going to do? Are you going to go with the Splendor around South America to San Francisco, or are you going to transfer to yet another new ship? Or better yet, get an on-shore job with Cunard in London? Like you’ve said before, you’ve earned I nice position on shore where people won’t sneer at you.
Take good care.
Thank you on behalf of everyone. I appreciate everything that you guys do.
I’m sure there is a beautiful lady waiting for you Iketut
David
Thank you for all the work you do, one of the unsung heros onboard!
As for laundry load- do they change the sheets every day? I have stayed at Disney World, and other nice hotels and they have a card to put on your bed if you want to help the enviernment and have your sheets changed every 3 days. Might be a good idea. How many people change thier sheets every day?
Marilyn