This is from Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas shortly after the Covid restrictions were lifted and cruising was allowed to resume. Note that masks were supposed to be worn and close contact was supposed to be limited.
-PJ
Posted on 10/01/2023 10:03:31 PM PDT by dennisw
A retired Australian couple became the stars of the sea as they spent nearly 500 days cruising around the world after booking 51 back-to-back cruises.
Marty and Jess Ansen took off on their first cruise on June 16, 2022, after a long two years of strict COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia. They have yet to stop, booking a total of 51 trips so far.
The great-grandparents have stayed on board Princess Cruises’ 2,000-passenger Coral Princess for more than 450 days — longer than most of the crew, including the captains — and expect to stay onboard the ship for two years.
“Eventually, I said to my [travel] agent: ‘Look, what ever comes, just book it,'” Marty told A Current Affair.
The couple claim it’s cheaper to cruise around the world for two years than pay for a retirement home.
“It’s our lifestyle,” Jess told the outlet. The couple enjoyed cruises for decades prior to making it their full-time living situation.
Among the perks of the lifestyle are that there’s always something to do, from dancing to dinner, and it comes with a maid to clean your room.
“Where else can you go where you go for dinner, you go to a show, you go dancing?” Jess said. “Through the day, you have all these activities.”
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You need to get some sleep!
I made no such claim. What I do claim is that medical care might be limited when you are at sea two days out of Miami. On the other hand, the hospital ER was a ten minute drive away for my parents in their care facility
You need to develop some more humor!
Regards,
OK. I’ll give you real-life numbers from California.
LODI, California. Last stop before ya hit the rural foothills.
The INEXPENSIVE retirement home — $3500/mo.
The NEWER place — $6200/mo.
For ONE person.
Now let’s look at an SF suburb. Pleasant Hill.
A studio for one — $6000/mo.
Now, all these places include 3 meals/day, and they usually also do your towels and bed linens for you once weekly.
As you might expect, fare at the less expensive places is more like Denny’s menu, and portions are “modest.”
At a more expensive place, you can expect an upgraded menu, but not much larger portions; less fried stuff, more real meat, more menu options at each meal — that sort of thing.
Bottom line:
Call it a “Life Hack”; this couple ‘re dumb like foxes.
Good for them but I couldn’t stand the people day in and out.
“a sonogram and a ct scan. These would not be available on a cruise ship.”
Hubby visited the medical facility on Sky Princess in January 2020 (probably Covid, but it wasn’t a “thing” yet). It was top of the line, and he got excellent care by a South African medical team. (Better than we get post-Covid in TN now.) There’s a separate ICU unit, too, so I expect they had extensive equipment.
“Retirement homes cost between $2,000 and $5,000 per person per month.”
Wow. $2,000/mo. Where is that? DH’s parents were spending around $7,000/mo/pp 10-15 years ago.
We’ve met many people who’ve retired on cruises. Haven’t met any who spend all the time on one ship, though. Usually, they arrange back-to-backs and rotate ships. We actually have considered that ourselves.
“Just think if there were orgy cruises.”
There are, I think. When I worked hospitality we’d get trade journals, and some cruises are homosexual only. That was back in the late ‘90s, and I was disgusted then. Imagine now ...
“They’re fools.”
Each to his own. They probably think we’re fools for one reason or another.
I spent a week on the sister-ship Island Princess for a cruise to Alaska five years ago.
It was a nice ship, but I don't think I would want to spend a year and a half on it.
-PJ
Island Princess is my favorite ship — sister to Coral, I think.
It’s small, but (used to be) beautiful. We took it to/from HI, and also through the Panama Canal.
If I were to retire on cruises, I’d rotate to some of the larger ships often just for a change of scenery.
I’m not familiar with the cruise world, but the couple could probably lower costs without a travel agent.
This is from Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas shortly after the Covid restrictions were lifted and cruising was allowed to resume. Note that masks were supposed to be worn and close contact was supposed to be limited.
-PJ
Looks like the 3rd circle of hell. No thanks.
OH, MAN! I did NOT need to see THAT before breakfast.
-PJ
If this ship's rocking, don't bother docking.
-PJ
You’re right. We did the Panama cruise about 10 years after the HI cruise. They had made a mess of the layout and itdefinitely wasn’t as nice.
On one them (maybe Island), it used to be possible to walk around the entire ship, but they stuck in extra cabins so that was no longer possible.
Does the cruise ship have a nursing and housekeeping staff that will clean your crappy sheets when you poop your bed?
That is my definition of hell.
It depends on the retirement home and the life style they want to live.
You can make the numbers do anything you want {provided you have enough money to start with}.
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