The Cruise

It is Cielo's birthday while on board and her partner Callum is keen to make it a special one, while fellow passengers Michael and Christael are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary and waste no time in signing up for a rather energetic exercise class.

A look at the work of the night-shift crews, including scrubbing out the hot tubs, cleaning the pots from the restaurants, and baking the breakfast pastries. Meanwhile, passengers Christael and Michael continue with their 10th wedding anniversary celebrations and have booked themselves a detoxifying treatment in the Redemption Spa.

Sheridan Smith narrates the return of the documentary about life on board ships in the Virgin Voyages fleet, following cruise ship crew and passengers around the Mediterranean. In the opening edition there is a 50th birthday, a couple take their first-ever trip without their daughter, services manager Dane does his best to solve passengers' problems, and there's a turn from the ship's resident drag queen.

Nicole is keen to make some friends to party with, but travelling alone brings challenges and she must figure things out for herself when she gets lost looking for a place to relax. The ship docks in the busy port of Marina di Carrara in Italy and the pressure is on Shore Things manager Nico to make sure every passenger who wants to disembark for a day trip is on the right bus, while front of house manager Dane goes undercover to check out one of the excursions.