Housekeeping / Laundry Assistant

This is an entry role in a large interior team. You run the laundry: washing, drying, steaming and ironing guest clothes, bed linen, towels, table linen and crew uniforms. You learn fabric care properly, because a guest's silk shirt or cashmere jumper can be worth more than a month's salary. You fold to the yacht's standard, label and return clothes to cabins, and keep the laundry room organised, stocked and safe.

Outside the laundry you help with housekeeping. That means turning down cabins, changing beds, cleaning bathrooms to hotel standard, polishing brightwork, dusting and caring for delicate surfaces like lacquer, marble and leather. On bigger yachts you work with the Housekeeping Steward and Head of Housekeeping on a rota, so some days are mostly laundry and others mostly cabins. You rarely do front of house service, though you may cover it on busy nights.

It suits someone tidy, patient and happy to work quietly behind the scenes. Charter days are long, often 12 to 14 hours, and the laundry runs in shifts so guests always have clean towels. In return you live aboard with food and lodging paid, travel with the yacht and gain the core skills every senior stewardess needs. Many Chief Stewardesses started exactly here.