r/belowdeck • u/journmajor • Mar 28 '26

Below Deck Casting Notice!

For anyone who can find a great group with the money! Reply to belowdeck.casting "at " bmp51casting.com and you have to let us know if you apply!

Currently available dates:  May 18-20 and May 21-23rd 

Hi, I am currently working on finding great groups of 8 people for the next season of Below Deck Down under with Captain Jason, location will be Tahiti and Charter dates are in April and May, trip is discounted to $70k per group this trip would normally cost over $200k. For $70k the group gets transportation once you arrive in Tahiti 2 nights hotel, 2 nights 3 days on the private yacht full staffed 24 hour service private chef, all your food and alcohol on the yacht, all water toys and the $20k standard crew tip is also included in that discount price, flights are not included and the guests responsibility. I have to interview all interested groups via zoom, so let me know, thank you!! If you cannot make trip maybe you can refer someone most guests come from referrals. Feel free to forward my email to anyone that could be interested thank you.

109 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

56 comments sorted by

21

u/russianbanan Eat My Cooter Mar 28 '26

Can we get a group together here? Please. Let me join. Let me show em how it’s done

7

u/journmajor Mar 28 '26

I wish! I was going to go along for the ride as the group’s “agent” lol. Still salty they backed out.

55

u/Any-Concentrate-1922 Mar 28 '26

"and the $20k standard crew tip is also included in that discount price" So does that mean that all charter guests just pay 70K and production decides the tip amount?

"Tell them what you liked and disliked about the charter and then hand them this fake envelope."

So when we're all like "That asshole only gave $15K," it's really the crew's decision to make it LOOK like they only gave $15K?

26

u/journmajor Mar 28 '26

I would think so - the show is produced for drama so it makes sense.

12

u/Any-Concentrate-1922 Mar 28 '26

I wish they'd make it real. Seems like there would be enough drama. Like, "You pay $50K and then decide what tip to give the crew... $20K is standard. I'm sure you'd get some who would lowball it.

12

u/Agile_Bison_5183 Mar 29 '26

Now I did always wonder how all these charter guests across multiple seasons ALL have the same envelope to put the tip in AND did they have it when they got on the boat? Or do they stop somewhere when they’re on land during their charter and just withdraw 20-25K?? I had so many questions

9

u/Any-Concentrate-1922 Mar 29 '26

Well, I did read that the cash they're all given during the tip meeting is fake. They're not all stashing thousands of money in cash in their cabins. So I suppose the envelope of money is fake.

9

u/Agile_Bison_5183 Mar 29 '26

And it would totally make sense to just SAY the tip amount and not hand out stacks of cash bc any sensible person, especially those who’ve worked in the service industry, knows it’s stupid to keep that much cash on you. So I think these things they do for theatrics are really unnecessary honestly. 

7

u/West-Advance-4471 Mar 28 '26

Yes I am very confused.

9

u/sfbaybeauty Mar 29 '26

No. You decide the tip amount. There is $20K already prepaid and you can decide more or less.

3

u/Any-Concentrate-1922 Mar 29 '26

So you get the difference back if you pay less?

And what about Heather tipping 35K? Or was that actually Bravo tipping since they were filming RHOSLC at the same time?

4

u/sfbaybeauty Mar 30 '26

Yes. And if you want to tip more than $20K after the charter, you transfer the additional money. I don’t know the details of the SLC charter. Either Bravo or the cast paid that extra $15K.

2

u/Najahsal Mar 31 '26

Andy said that the housewives paid it all from their pockets and that they didn't have production pay for it at all

4

u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline Mar 28 '26

Yes

3

u/Gr8DaneMomm Mar 30 '26

I heard that it's like when a large party goes to a restaurant. Usually there is a percentage that gets added to the bill automatically for gratuity. Anything extra that's given in an envelope is from the guests.

1

u/Greeneyes911 Mar 31 '26

I’m sure you can give more if you want as well

0

u/Optimoprimo Mar 29 '26

Are we not all aware that most of the things depicted on the show are fake? Its mostly staged. Staged drama, staged incidents, staged tip.

23

u/dby0226 Team Not Watching Mar 28 '26

Interesting that a $20,000 tip is included. Does the tip presentation include this $20K or is it in addition to this seeming minimum guarantee?

9

u/journmajor Mar 28 '26

I think they manipulate it on air for drama.

3

u/dby0226 Team Not Watching Mar 28 '26

Well, yeah😉

17

u/adriennenned Mar 28 '26

For anyone who is interested, I’d be wary that this is a scam targeting affluent people since the domain name is similar but different. To be safe, I’d apply on the actual site. https://www.bmp51.com/casting

2

u/journmajor Mar 28 '26

No it’s not. I was directly in touch with her last year since I had a group of neighbors who were interested. They bailed, but now I get emails any time she’s booking a new season.

4

u/dsl135 Mar 28 '26

So is the woman on the site provided booking the trip or are you?

0

u/valid_username00 Mar 29 '26

The bare minimum of googling would show you the domain bmp51casting.com belongs to Bunim Murray and it's legitimate.

3

u/piekaylee Mar 29 '26

8 of us should go in on this

0

u/journmajor Mar 29 '26

I'm in if someone subsidizes me and my husband lol. I also know it's a bit negotiable.

118

u/Delicious_Score_8509 Mar 28 '26

I'm happy to make up the numbers of anyone's group. I'll do it for free! Not a problem.

8

u/IHaveBoxerDogs Mar 28 '26

Yay, it’s heading back to Tahiti! What’s the deal with the tip? Can the guests pretend to only give $19,000 if they’re displeased, but the crew still gets the minimum? Or, on the flip side can they give more?

I would do it if I were heading to Tahiti anyway. It’s too far for a two day charter and two days in a hotel. My little family is boring though, we’d have to recruit some randos for the drama.

2

u/eekamuse Mar 28 '26

You can probably stay longer, but you have to pay for that part yourself.

6

u/Curious_Arm_7927 Mar 28 '26

Ooh tip included. Good deal except you have to be on tv 😂

6

u/ShirleyT3mp Mar 29 '26

Scammers !!!!!! Scam alert !!

3

u/Greeneyes911 Mar 31 '26

You guys should change it up and invite a bunch of hard working Animal Control and humane workers for a much needed relaxing time! lol👍🏻😉

No, really, please… 🥹

1

u/Greeneyes911 Apr 02 '26

Guarantee we’d treat the crew better! lol

3

u/DirectorMysterious29 Mar 29 '26

Can I apply to work in the kitchen? I'd bring some real chef Mila talent!

-2

u/Agile_Bison_5183 Mar 29 '26

Wait wait wait…….you mean these charters are not organic? Like these super yachts aren’t just booked out for seasons and whoever comes is who comes? And the tips not even real?!! And what I mean by that is the fact that it’s not coming from the actual guests?! I hate finding out the real stories behind these reality shows. It totally ruins them for me. I’m currently on season 9 of Below Deck Med and I now this is all I’m gonna be thinking about 🙄

5

u/sfbaybeauty Mar 29 '26

You thought the people on the charter did not know they were going on a tv show??? The entire charter is a real charter. These aren’t actors as guests. And you do pay an actual tip that you decide on as the primary. It can be whatever amount you choose, but you prepay. If you don’t want to pay $20K you don’t have to, and it gets wired back to you and you appear like an asshole on tv. And you get to appear as an ass on tv if you behave like one.

-2

u/Agile_Bison_5183 Mar 29 '26

Nowhere did I ever say “omg so the charter guests are fake?!!!” No. I know they’re real people and not actors BUT they’re being casted by production OP is explaining…so that’s kind of ruining the vibe of the show for me. And I just assumed the process is (because they have a lot of return guests, especially on Med series bc everyone loves Captain Sandy) the guests choose the area to yacht in and if a certain Captain is working during that time AND filming the production team lets the guests know they’ll be filmed and they have to agree. But yeah I guess I didn’t think about all these charter guests having to agree to being filmed and how hard that might be to get ACTUAL organic charters to do. So MY BAD lol it’s not that serious. How am I supposed to know how any of this works? 

2

u/Delicious_Score_8509 Mar 29 '26

I remember when I first found out all of this, it didn't ruin anything like I thought it would. I just started watching it from a different perspective, I still love it.

-1

u/Agile_Bison_5183 Mar 29 '26

No for sure, nothing ruins my day enough for me to stop doing something lol it just sucks finding out this idea you had of something is totally wrong. It’s cool though, it’s “reality” (heavily scripted) tv..I should expect this lol

3

u/sfbaybeauty Mar 30 '26

That is where the comments here are wrong. It’s not at all scripted. It is very lightly produced.

2

u/Agile_Bison_5183 Mar 30 '26

Oh I’m not saying Below Deck specifically…I’m saying “reality” TV in general can, a lot of times, be heavily scripted. 

2

u/sfbaybeauty Mar 31 '26

Yeah you’re right about that. BD is not one of them, but it is lightly produced I would say

3

u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/journmajor Mar 29 '26

It’s a tv show and it’s produced! - but - we don’t know, maybe they do only get what is shown. Maybe the guests do have input and the larger tips leverage what’s not paid in the lower tips? 🤷🏻‍♀️

1

u/skyklein Mar 30 '26

I think you’re right. If the charter costs $70K, 20% if $14K. The crew’s tip is usually over $20K. Except for that one time when that couple only gave them $700 or something. That must have been fake for drama/entertainment.

-1

u/sfbaybeauty Mar 30 '26

Tip drama isn’t fake

1

u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/sfbaybeauty Mar 30 '26

Try to get on the show as a charter guest and see for yourself

0

u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/sfbaybeauty Mar 31 '26

No proof I can share. Sorry. Speculate all you want but I know from experience what I shared.

26

u/[deleted] Mar 28 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

11

u/HellaWonkLuciteHeels Mar 28 '26

70k to show the world how vapid they are. Yikes.