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The Pandaw Team

We are committed to recruiting local people of both genders from the communities through which we pass. In all the countries we operate in a job on a Pandaw is prized. In Myanmar many of our original crew from 10 years ago remain with us. In fact, in Myanmar a Pandaw steward earns about 4 times a month more than a waiter in an equivalent 4 or 5 star hotel. Nearly all our team members support wide family circles in their home villages. We give language and vocational training to all our teams. We are proud that many of old team have risen to managerial level acquiring an excellent level of English and management skills.

We have mixed crews of Myanma, Thai, Cambodian and Vietnamese overseen by a directorate of Swiss, German, Austrian, Swede and Scots. Europeans are there primarily as educators, guiding and advising our local management teams.

All our team are dedicated to making your sailing as special as possible. In training our teams and managers we try and pass on our own philosophy, which makes us so unique in the world of cruises. We never force a passenger to do something he does not want to, like join a group excursion. If a passenger prefers to go off alone or stay aboard he/she is welcome to do his/her own thing. Our team should never be too busy not to be able to spend time with our passengers answering their questions and giving out information. We ask our team everyday to think how to make the Pandaw experience even more beautiful than it already is!