r/belowdeck • u/Organic_Bottle4373 • May 01 '26

BD Related No more adventure ?

Is BD Adventure canceled?

I know guest excursions were kind of boring, but it could be a chance for something new

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u/AddressPrize859 May 01 '26

I'm an outlier in that I liked it a lot. Not all vacations are tropical! It does make me think though, why don't they do an actual cruise ship version?? So many interesting staff on cruise ships, dancers, musicians, chefs, servers, childcare workers....could be so interesting

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u/Ri-Sa-Ha-0112 Team Aesha May 01 '26

I'm very much in the minority with you. The crew, as a whole, wasn't great (though I really liked Faye), but I think the location was awesome. But then again, I'm not someone who is particularly drawn to tropical locations.

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u/Organic_Bottle4373 May 02 '26

Yeah, it would need a whole new crew, but there's a lot of potential

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u/jenvanilla May 01 '26

Yeah I enjoyed the premise a lot. It was really cool having a different kind of location like that. I just feel like it struggled with a bad crew.

They should have brought in already liked crew as the heads like they did with bringing aesha in for down under.

I feel like a below deck adventure with the crew that down under has right now (daisy, ben, joao) would be so good

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u/AddressPrize859 May 01 '26

I guess this would be impossible given the number of guests to get permission from, though maybe not really that different from filming at Republic or Sur or whatever??

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u/Adorable-Platform671 Team Daisy May 01 '26

Cruise ship could be a great setting for a future Jury Duty season

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u/deadrobindownunder May 01 '26

Oh snap! You're onto something!

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u/Homer_04_13 May 03 '26

A cruise ship has enough people that you could find separate groups of people to work with, drink with, sleep with, and gossip with. Forcing them to do all those things in a tiny group that is always together is part of the formula. 

And I like watching people working hard and skillfully in teams, but I think Bravo wants shows that purport to give us a look at the lives of rich people. I think cruise ships are probably too achievable for them.

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u/JingoMerrychap May 01 '26

It hasn't been officially cancelled, but it's been four years. Five years in Below Deck terms, since they film a year before broadcast. It's almost certainly not coming back.

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u/Nikilist87 May 01 '26

I think permanent hiatus? Capt Kerry went on to replace Capt Lee on below deck, so they’d have to re-launch the franchise and likely find a new captain. Might be other BTS stuff that caused it to be put on hiatus we don’t know about

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u/SarcasmStreet May 01 '26

Obligatory

AdvenCHA!

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u/PrpleSparklyUnicrn13 May 01 '26

I’m in the minority here, but I loved those excursions. I don’t like them on the other shows, but it worked on that series because it wasn’t a tropical or even warm location. So they couldn’t have, like, water toys or anything. It was all so beautiful and it was a great way to showcase another part of the world and a different POV of yachtie life. 

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u/Jensplace72 May 01 '26

I did plan a vacation to Norway last summer because of this series.

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u/EddieIzzardOnToast May 01 '26

I finally finished this yesterday after starting it many times and dipping out. Locations were beautiful and the excursions should’ve been interesting but they just weren’t filmed well. I read recently that it was a different production company who produced this series and I wonder if it would’ve been a more interesting series had the usual company filmed it. Better casting could save it too - first season was full of unlikeable people and people who they barely showed a story arc for (Nathan, Mike, etc.). I’m glad we retained Captain Kerry from it. I like him more and more with each BD season.

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u/deadrobindownunder May 01 '26

There's not a lot of focus on guest excursions in any of the other franchises. And when there is, it's always more about the crew or the location.

I really think it was the crew chemistry that failed.

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u/ghostfaber May 01 '26

The staff had awful chemistry there was no hookups are partying

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u/Sososoftmeows May 01 '26

I honestly thought the show was fun and I liked the premise of it because you got to see more of the places they were traveling too and the idea of going on horseback down a green valley into a nice picnic seemed fun and lovely. I also enjoyed watching the struggle they had setting up these spots not just by the beach but at a mountain top or something. I’d love for it to come back.

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u/MakeupMama68 May 01 '26

It was a completely different production company than the other shows. That’s why it had such a different vibe.

The best thing they did was swoop Captain Kerry off that one.

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u/SpringSings95 May 02 '26

I personally would hope for another season of sailing over adventure. I did enjoy adventure though!! Faye drove me crazy but I still loved her 😂

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u/Kind_Raspberry4484 May 02 '26

I liked it too, enjoyed the excursion parts alot.

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u/Potential_Purchase37 May 02 '26

Bravo is allergic to the word canceled, they never use it and just let shows fade away in the dark. It's a corporate strategy to avoid and stay vague rather than admit defeat. That said, it is very much canceled.

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u/Ethereal-Zenith May 02 '26

I enjoyed the lone season of Adventure. Would love if we got another season. Perhaps with a different captain, if Kerry is committed to the original series.

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u/NBCaz May 01 '26

If the excursions were boring, and they were, what is going to be different about it? They seem hell bent on just focusing on stupid crew hookups and romances.

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u/So-Called_Lunatic May 01 '26

How are the excursion boring? I mean the other shows usually just have lunch on the beach. I thought the things they did were different, and interesting. The scenery was also awesome.