An ex-'Below Deck Med' cast member now crews a private luxury yacht in the Bahamas with her boyfriend. They work 16-hour days but say it's the best hospitality job they've ever had.

• This couple takes guests on eight-day luxury yacht trips priced at $34,000 per trip.
• They work intense 16-hour days, cooking and cleaning, and are also tour guides and onboard entertainers.
• But they say it's way better than other hospitality jobs they've had in the past.

The British couple Lily Davison and Nik Dorward are the faces that'll greet you when you board the Sailing Location , a private luxury yacht that takes passengers around the Bahamas for $34,000 a trip.

Davison, who starred in the eighth season of " Below Deck Mediterranean ," a reality show about staff who work on luxury yachts and serve demanding clients, now works primarily as the private chef on board Sailing Location.

But because it's a two-person crew working a 55-foot yacht, the couple wears multiple hats. They do everything from cleaning and steering the boat to acting as tour guides and taking their guests snorkeling and spearfishing.

It's a demanding job: The couple works 16-hour days for 18 weeks a year. But they say it tops all the other hospitality jobs they've had.

Life working on board a luxury yacht

The crew takes guests on eight-day trips in the Bahamas, starting in Nassau on the island of New Providence and going to the Exumas islands.

They do two trips a month during their nine-month sailing season, which is from November to July.

Dorward started working on the yacht in April 2022. Davison joined him in October that year, and they started dating shortly after.

Their yacht has a maximum capacity of eight guests, who are housed in four guest rooms — a large queen owner's suite and three queen guest suites.

The yacht also has a large upper deck, a lounging area, an open kitchen, and a convertible saloon area, which can be opened for 180-degree open-air dining.

Davison, 25, told BI the couple steer the yacht to the Bahamas' most "Instagrammable" locations.

Experiences include seeing Pablo Escobar's sunken plane at Norman's Cay, swimming with nurse sharks at Compass Cay, seeing the filming location of James Bond's "Thunderball" in Staniel Cay, and feeding the Exumas' iconic swimming pigs.

A large chunk of their clientele is American, given Nassau's proximity to Florida.

Long days for the two-men crew

The duo wakes up at 6:30 a.m. every day before their guests rise. The first task on Davison's schedule is to prepare a hot meal for them as soon as they're up.

Being a private chef on a yacht in remote islands means she must thoroughly prepare in the days before each voyage. She gets her guests' dietary requirements and other food specifications in advance, which allows her to plan the meals.

"We go to the most remote islands you could probably ever go to, and so we have to buy everything before," Davison said. "I plan my list and literally triple-check it because once we're at sea, there is really no place to get anything."

After breakfast is done, she clears it down and sets the table with Dorward's help. She then jumps straight into preparing lunch, followed by a snack, dessert, and dinner. Besides cooking and steering, the two also work hard to keep their guests entertained.

"We take people snorkeling probably twice a day," Dorward, 32, said. "We'll do wakeboarding and tubing off the boat and take them spearfishing."

Even after it's dark and their duties are winding down, Davison said she tries to keep things interactive with the guests by hosting game nights "just to make sure everyone's having a great time."

They normally work until 9 p.m. when their guests retire to their suites, but Davison said they're technically on call 24 hours a day, for eight days straight.

Tops other hospitality jobs

Before getting the yacht job, the couple both worked in several hospitality gigs, from teaching sailing to working in the food and beverage industry.

But they say that working on board the Sailing Location is the best hospitality job they've had despite the long hours and strenuous work.

For one, their living expenses are low, because on the boat, they don't need to pay rent.

They do need to pay for their own food and drinks, which they estimate comes to about $500 a month per person.

Dorward said being on the yacht is a great job "if you can take the hit of being away from people like your family."

And Davison said they hadn't had any nightmare guests, unlike when she was on "Below Deck Med."

"One of the guests was so drunk he came into our cabins all the time when we were trying to sleep," she said.

But mostly, the experience of being on the yacht itself is rewarding, Davison said.

"I love it because yet to be on the water all the time," she said, "and you're basically living on a beautiful boat and in a beautiful place."