Streaming below-deck cruise content usually means one of two things: scripted drama or glossy brochure footage. Grand Voyages, now on Prime Video in the U.S. and U.K., does neither. The three-episode documentary follows a two-person crew through Uniworld’s S.S. La Venezia in Venice, Holland America’s Rotterdam in the Norwegian fjords, and the Riverside Ravel on the Rhône and Saône, cameras rolling through working galleys, crew quarters, and bridge operations most passengers never see.
I talked with producer Stacey Parks, a 35-plus-sailing cruiser herself, about how she talked cruise lines into that kind of access and why she thinks hosted travel shows are losing their grip on modern viewers. Season 2 is already filming aboard Windstar’s Star Legend and HX’s polar-ready MS Roald Amundsen, due out Q1 2027.
Read the full interview on CruiseNews for the details on her camera kit, her pitch to executives, and what changed for Season 2.
