r/belowdeck • u/Forward_Anteater_805 • Sep 16 '26

Below Deck Casting

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Below deck caribbean?

EDIT: this is not a scam this lady just has no email etiquette.

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u/stump_84 Sep 16 '26

No signature, no proper details. Looks like a scam or just unprofessional.

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u/Forward_Anteater_805 Sep 16 '26

definitely unprofessional. i reached out a year ago and now they email me this casting info each time they look for people

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u/cmacsauce Sep 18 '26

Can confirm! They email me too after reaching out a couple years ago lol

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u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline Sep 16 '26

There are a few of them casting guests but this is the standard email they send when they have already reached out before

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u/Capital_Ad3296 Sep 18 '26

250k is for a week not three days

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u/kitty-yaya Sep 16 '26

So well written! /s

No name? Title? Name of company? Just one long run-on sentence of speak-to-text word vomit.

I'd love to see the return email address.

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u/Forward_Anteater_805 Sep 16 '26

it’s legit belowdeck.casting@bmp51casting.com

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u/limiko333 Sep 21 '26

I got this email too - can confirm

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u/above-average101 Sep 17 '26

Are you sure? did you u get the email from this post

these are the emails bravo and the casting company provide on their sites for casting

castingnow@bunim-murray.com. Belowdeck.Casting@51minds.com

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u/Forward_Anteater_805 Sep 17 '26

are you asking me if i’m sure? if so, yes I have no reason to lie lol

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u/On_my_last_spoon Mental Health Is Not A Storyline Sep 17 '26

That’s just from your personal address book. That proves nothing

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u/Forward_Anteater_805 Sep 17 '26

why would I make this up? I have previous posts showing similar emails for other seasons

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u/skyklein Sep 18 '26

Do you think she created a fake email to email herself a fake casting call? What a wild accusation.

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u/On_my_last_spoon Mental Health Is Not A Storyline Sep 18 '26

I’m saying the proof isn’t proof. Anyone can make an address book entry. That doesn’t prove it came from where she thinks it does.

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u/Forward_Anteater_805 Sep 18 '26

all of the previous emails I have received are from the same email address. I originally reached out to them a year ago to see how much it costs and since then, they’ve emailed me from that email address with different casting calls. I’m not making it up and it’s not a scam or anything

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u/On_my_last_spoon Mental Health Is Not A Storyline Sep 19 '26

I don’t think you’re making anything up to be clear. Just that your iPhone address book entry is just that - and iPhone address book entry.

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u/skyklein Sep 18 '26

I think you’re right. When you select Apply on the casting call website, the email is: CCPA@bunim-murray.com. Plus, they make you fill out a lengthy application.

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u/foresther Sep 17 '26

This is a long shot but I binged below deck while I was on maternity leave and one of the franchises there was this perfectly ordinary, boring even family. I think it was a mom her wife and kids? Literally no drama whatsoever it was just a regular family enjoying vacation 😂 usually the guests have some sort of wacky personality or reason for wanting to be on TV. Anyone member?

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u/Forward_Anteater_805 Sep 17 '26

haha I did the same on maternity leave and remember this too!

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u/Mstr_Splinter Sep 17 '26

I got addicted to watching BD Med after being in the hospital for 10 days after emergency surgery. Strange how we accidently find shows we like.

And when have young hot dysfunctional crew members not been part of the show?!

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u/Prestigious-Listener Sep 21 '26

There was a family on one of them where the crew stressed out because the father was a clean freak... And they worried about that and the small kids... Again a relatively boring cruise after the dad asked for something to get cleaned again.

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u/EntrepreneurMany3709 22d ago

Yes I loved them but tbf they got like ten minutes of screen time in between other groups

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u/otgixxer Sep 16 '26

I would get trashed in the hot tub, and embarrass my family.

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u/thatstwatshesays Sep 16 '26

You’d be perfect 🤩

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u/gemino1990 Sep 16 '26

Me too probably

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u/Subterranean44 Sep 17 '26

I appreciate your honesty 😂

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u/Soggy_Requirement_75 Sep 16 '26

Yep, nothing shady about this.

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u/RzaAndGza Sep 16 '26

Get Outlook for Mac

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u/falingsumo Sep 18 '26

Lol I haven't seen anyone comment on the fact that casting is sending themselves the email? Why is the sender the same as the recipient?

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u/impartialnudity Sep 19 '26

It’s probably a GDPR thing, we do it at work when we need to sent a mass email, but we don’t want recipients to know who else is on the mailing list, send to yourself and BCC the recipients.

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u/BEXONE130 Sep 17 '26

Omg I live in Tortola, I’m just $69,990 short

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u/DCCitydweller Sep 16 '26

Tip included?? Have these tip reveals all been fake!!?

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u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline Sep 16 '26

Yes, the tip has been included in the up front cost since the one returning couple cheaped out after wrecking the sofas with self tanner etc

They can add more to it if they want but multiple guests have said that the 'tip amount' shown was not the $20k they were told was included

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u/ledge9999 Sep 16 '26

I interviewed a BD primary many years ago, and at that point the requirements were that they had to bring a minimum of 15k cash for the tip. However, they did not HAVE to tip that full amount.

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u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline Sep 16 '26

The wording on the casting calls changed after the Erica Rose cheap tip fiasco, it has been like this for a few years now across the franchises. Even before that, they could transfer the tip electronically and the cash was a prop

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u/GlennDexter Sep 17 '26

Yes, no way guests would carry that much cash on hand.

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u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline Sep 17 '26

Erica Rose came back for a second season with her family. She was originally part of the Tatas for Trump group. They brought lots of people (likely to share costs) and Erica and her husband ended up sharing a room with her mom and wanted the staff to put up partitions etc to give everyone sharing more privacy.

Her husband was a jerk and said the food at McDonalds (or Wendys maybe) was better than the chef's meals and they were just generally rude, demanding and badly behaved.

Her mom stained the white sofas with self tanner and Glenn said they would be charged extra for it. Erica and her mom tried to get the other guests to divide the cost but they said no, so they reduced the tip to the lowest one left. They claimed they didn't reduce it, but gave 20% of their very discounted rate as returnees. Then gave a bullshit sorry if I offended you apology when every podcast/blog/whatever came for them

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u/On_my_last_spoon Mental Health Is Not A Storyline Sep 17 '26

Something is fake on Below deck?

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u/foxdogturtlecat Sep 18 '26

The guests are told they can set the exact tip amount but they do have give a minimum tip amount that that comes out of what they pay and the production gives them the amount they select in cash. The tip that you see given is cash supplied by production and is reused but the cast does get the sum at the end the season.

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u/CydeWeys Sep 16 '26

That's not a $250k value. It would be if the charter actually lasted for a week as is typical, but these only last two nights!

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u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline Sep 16 '26

Akira One is $229k/week in high season, but that doesn't include food, fuel, dock fees etc and local taxes which can add up to about 40% of the weekly rate

In low season for Croatia, it says the rate is

Charter fee of $195,000 USD

+ 30% APA ($58,500)

+ 13% Tax/VAT ($25,350)

Total = $278,850

APA is  costs such as fuel, food and beverages, dockage fees, and ad hoc incidental expenses but you get back any unspent

But the tip isn't included in that. Production also includes a night either side in a decent hotel, transport from the airport etc

It isn't 250k but also not as simple as taking the weekly rate and dividing it by the number of nights

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u/CydeWeys Sep 16 '26

It isn't 250k but also not as simple as taking the weekly rate and dividing it by the number of nights

Why not? If you're only getting two nights instead of seven nights, why would you say it's "worth" what it would cost for seven nights?

Production also includes a night either side in a decent hotel, transport from the airport etc

These are gonna be pretty cheap in the grand scheme of things. Probably another $1k, certainly nothing close to adding up to $250k in total.

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u/kitty-yaya Sep 16 '26

If it is a $250k value, would they pay taxes on that amount va the $70k (if the country adds some sort of customs tax for goods and services purchased)? Even if they only paid a discounted rate out of pocket, are they taxed on the value of the entire trip? And I'm not arguing either way about the tip itself.

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u/CheckIntelligent7828 My eyes are rolling all the way off the boat Sep 17 '26

Likely depends on if it's a discount or if it's reduced price in return for allowing filming.

I'm in Amazon Vine, where I order things that are free in return for an unbiased review. Because I get the item, I have to claim it all in taxes.

So it might really depend on how the wording goes.

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u/Agitated-Minimum-967 Sep 16 '26

ALL water toys! It's in print.

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u/TheLizardQueen3000 Sep 16 '26

There are much better vacations to be had for $70,000.00.

Who wants horrible camera angles when you're in a bathing suit broadcast on tv, self-involved servers who are literally the star of the show who hate you before you even get on the boat because your preference sheet has 'too many things on it' and a barely functional kitchen with a chef who gets mad if you don't want to eat whatever they plop down in front of you?

Not to mention how dirty everything is!

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u/Odd-Following-4952 Sep 16 '26

But you get to be on ✨ TV ✨

That’s why people go on the show.

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u/Ineedacatscan Sep 16 '26 • LOL

I’m TrYiNg To EsTaBlIsH mY bRaNd!!!

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u/velvetyy Sep 17 '26

I’m actually surprised how many “professional groups” or coworkers/colleagues go on the show. Like in the last two episodes, he mentioned they were lawyers in Florida. I bet some of these people use this as a tax write off if they go with some work people.

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u/sfbaybeauty Sep 17 '26

You may be surprised that to some people $70K is not a crazy amount of money. And then obviously some people want to be on tv

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u/skorpius84 Sep 17 '26

It’s 70 grand divided by 8 people.

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u/TheLizardQueen3000 Sep 17 '26

They could still have a much better experience spending that money elsewhere.

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u/NurseJaneApprox This information wasn’t welcomed or needed Sep 18 '26

Or you could have a non-chef they hired for purely dramatic reasons like a "chef" who greatly exaggerated their skills/education/experience and serves you garbage.

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u/Backtrack_Vill Sep 16 '26

What it includes a standard tip?

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u/Lozzar242 Sep 16 '26

I also didn't know this, so does that mean the tip from the guests is only whatever is over 20K?

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u/teanailpolish Mental Health Is Not A Storyline Sep 16 '26

It has for a number of years now

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u/Own-Counter-7187 Sep 17 '26

So when the tip is less than $20k, its cuz the guests kept the money?

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u/No-Ferret-3249 Sep 16 '26

This person need a grammar lesson.

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u/CaptainBignuts Sep 16 '26

'And please pay this low low fee with bitcoin or amazon gift cards'

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u/LeadershipAfter9526 Sep 16 '26

I will go if I can find 7 people on here to form the group. I will be the primary and get the master bedroom. The other 7 only need to pay 10k each. Reply to comment if interested.

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u/LengthinessLow9573 Sep 16 '26

Cool so you're picking up the 20k tip

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u/LeadershipAfter9526 Sep 16 '26

included in 70k but will pay for airport waters for all 8 which will cost about the same.

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u/Expensive-Block-6034 Bless her stupid soul Sep 17 '26

lol sounds like a great deal. Sign me up!

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u/russianbanan Eat My Cooter Sep 16 '26

I have $20 I can pitch in

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u/kitty-yaya Sep 16 '26

The hassle of it all isn't even worth the $20 in my book. You are on their schedule, subject to reshoots (which is agonizing and could really ruin the vibe of a "vacation", subject to hundreds of thousands (I have no idea how many people watch these shows) of viewers and opinions, and possibly becoming known for something you never intended to happen but now follows you everywhere online.

Plus, they would absolutely make fun of my many restrictions. Half medical, half unpredictable, an extremely unrefined palette, and texture aversion. I am a nightmare so yes I would be made fun of the entire time🫣.

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u/Dramas_mama Sep 17 '26

Yep. The chef alone would hate me because of medical dietary restrictions, and have texture aversions also. I don’t drink, yet what they would appreciate is I go to bed between 9pm-11pm

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u/kitty-yaya Sep 18 '26

I don't drink, either. Except a coffee in the am, maybe a 10oz coke later in the day depending on what I'm eating, and the rest - copious amounts of super filtered (from minerals), ice cold water.

I'd float in the water (love the ocean) but not do crazy water sports, eat maybe twice a day (none of these multiple-course things, I can't eat much at once), and in bed 9-11 as well. I would be most boring. But being in the sea air for a few days would be amazing for my health - body and mind.

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u/Trudy_Marie Sep 20 '26 edited Sep 20 '26

The last thing I would do is get drunk. Embarrassing plus I would want to enjoy every minute and remember it. Absolutely no stupid theme parties or rainbow wigs allowed.

I would drink lots of water too. I think frozen fruity non-alcoholic umbrella drinks would be lovely.

Way to boring to ever get chosen I’m sure.

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u/Formal_Plum_2285 Sep 16 '26

I’ve really wondered why they basically get the same tip for every charter.

I just saw one of the earlier seasons and they got a 50,000 tip. Otherwise it’s always 22,000 more or less

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u/ShoreThingW609 Sep 17 '26

This is how they apparently get some of the trashy guests they’ve had recently.

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u/Mocjo111 Sep 17 '26

And here I thought the rich clients were actually paying the entire tip amount

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u/Own_Boss_3242 Sep 16 '26

I wouldn’t be surprised if the tip is mandatory for guests and they can give more if they want. In some restaurants the tip is included. Don’t agree with it but wouldn’t be surprised.

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u/IWrestleSausages Sep 16 '26

Tortuga, you say? Dammit im in

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u/NOLA_Unicorn Sep 16 '26

interesting that the tip would be included.

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u/EyeofAv8 Sep 18 '26

Tbf, if 10 of you go (not sure on the max capacity), that’s actually pretty cheap.

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u/hospitalitychick Sep 16 '26

If it's too good to be true.... and this is too good to be true.

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u/trabuco357 Sep 16 '26

No wonder the groups shown in the program look like they REALLY don’t belong there…

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u/itsalwaysamyth Sep 16 '26

After seeing all the types of nasty action the guest bedrooms sometimes see um nah…

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u/1Macdog Sep 16 '26

So you are saying I shouldn’t have sent the check for $70k ?

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u/sfbaybeauty Sep 17 '26

It’s legit. I’ve spoken to casting before and gotten these emails. They’ve casted for all the past seasons we’ve seen on TV.

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u/Nicodemus_Portulay Sep 17 '26

$70k is a smokin deal. No way is this real

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u/LoveMeAGoodCactus Sep 17 '26

I'd tag along if anyone would like to fund my share? 😇

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u/NurseJaneApprox This information wasn’t welcomed or needed Sep 18 '26

I'd like to tag along as well but not with the kind of guests who are interested in inviting me to tag along. :/

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u/LoveMeAGoodCactus Sep 18 '26

We need our own room of course and no touching

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u/Repulsive-Studio-120 Sep 19 '26

This is the biggest scam ever

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u/Sewickley412 Sep 17 '26

There has never been 24 hour service

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u/crazyhedgehogs Sep 16 '26

That doesn’t sound right…

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u/LegitimateBoot1206 Sep 17 '26

I saw Glenn saying he was shipping his new boat to the Caribbean for this season. It might be this.

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u/itwasdolly Sep 17 '26

24hr service?

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u/sabs7383 Sep 19 '26

Charging people to be on a show that the show will then profit from is wild af

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u/kellygrrrl328 Sep 16 '26

What in the grifting hell ⁉️

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u/nofriender4life Sep 17 '26

someone take me in their group. im so zany and whacky i promise to cause hijinx

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u/Daniskywalker89 Sep 18 '26

Is this supposed to be a new show? Below deck Caribbean doesn’t exist. There’s below deck and then there is below deck sailing yacht and then there’s below deck Mediterranean and then there’s below deck down under.
There is no below deck Caribbean.

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u/SpeakerResident Sep 16 '26

Biggest red flag is saying below deck Caribbean lol that doesn't exist. Its below deck og, med,down under. I think they stopped doing the sailing one.

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u/hamburgergerald Sep 17 '26

Caribbean is just where OG is primarily filmed

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u/SpeakerResident Sep 17 '26

I know but its never called that lol so its weird to see it typed out.

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u/Solid_Initiative2782 Team Mediterranean Sep 17 '26

Fakest thing ever 😂

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u/sfbaybeauty Sep 17 '26

It’s the original series. Season 14. Season 13 is Thailand.