Living on a Cruise Ship

[Loyal]

Ok you rich bastids, time to go on a year long cruise!
Mt wife and I discussed this and wondered what it might cost to do it and it's not cheap. The example used was the Carnival Horizon, which I believe is the newest Carnival cruise ship with the most amenities. The cost of a double occupancy stay onboard per the average cost (per cruise), would work out to be about $175,000. This takes care of everything: passage, port fees & taxes, tipping, and average amounts spent for extra things. for the year The cabin is a open balcony cabin, which the YouTuber thought would be a livable space for that length of time. I watched a separate video of the ship and it's a lively time, 24 hours a day it seems (if you want that). The ship would reach every tourist spot in the Caribbean.

For me, this would be fine for me in patches, but it's a bit like having an apartment inside a mall. The part that attracts me the most is watching the ocean go by, which is a pleasure I miss from my time at sea. I would spend hours reading and being near the water, watching the dolphins race the ship.

Does this sound fun if you had the disposable income to do it, like our boy @Merlin ?

 

[12intheBox]

A year would be a long time - but if you could find quiet places - adults only balcony / pool areas - places you could get away from the party to read or nap without being tucked in your tiny room - I’d be willing to give it a go.

 

[Merlin]

Dude for that much buy a nice trailer or RV and hit the road. You could do it again each year too instead of a one shot deal. Or do the same thing with a boat if you got money to burn.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to do that, the ports are all great and just thinking about being on the sea again excites me but don't think my wife could handle two consecutive deployments with me in a cabin. Even a luxury cabin.

 

[IowaRam]

I was on a 3 year cruise once

it was OK

 

[1maGoh]

I was on a 3 year cruise once

it was OK

Three years living on that orange buoy must have been rough.

 

[Memento]

Hell no. I don’t want to be on the next Titanic and drown.

 

[CGI_Ram]

I could not do that for a year, no.

For me… I would start to feel boxed in after a week or two.

 

[IowaRam]

Ok you rich bastids, time to go on a year long cruise!
Mt wife and I discussed this and wondered what it might cost to do it and it's not cheap. The example used was the Carnival Horizon, which I believe is the newest Carnival cruise ship with the most amenities. The cost of a double occupancy stay onboard per the average cost (per cruise), would work out to be about $175,000. This takes care of everything: passage, port fees & taxes, tipping, and average amounts spent for extra things. for the year The cabin is a open balcony cabin, which the YouTuber thought would be a livable space for that length of time. I watched a separate video of the ship and it's a lively time, 24 hours a day it seems (if you want that). The ship would reach every tourist spot in the Caribbean.

For me, this would be fine for me in patches, but it's a bit like having an apartment inside a mall. The part that attracts me the most is watching the ocean go by, which is a pleasure I miss from my time at sea. I would spend hours reading and being near the water, watching the dolphins race the ship.

Does this sound fun if you had the disposable income to do it, like our boy @Merlin ?

is that all you would do for an entire year , is cruise around the Caribbean ?

if it was a world cruise , then I'd think about it

 

[Dodgersrf]

I dont want to do anything for a whole year.

 

[RhodyRams]

so @Loyal , is there wifi on this cruise, and if so would you still be posting here?

If yes to both, it doesnt matter to me


if no to both, please go !!!!

 

[Loyal]

so @Loyal , is there wifi on this cruise, and if so would you still be posting here?

If yes to both, it doesnt matter to me


if no to both, please go !!!!

YOUSONOFA...

OF COURSE they have WiFi!

 

[Loyal]

is that all you would do for an entire year , is cruise around the Caribbean ?

if it was a world cruise , then I'd think about it

Not much different than cruising the Indian Ocean for a year, except no STD's after a Port o' Call in Subic Bay...

 

[Merlin]

God bless Subic. The first time I was there as soon as we finished our tasking the flight engineer did his trick with the window heating element and downed the plane. Gave us an extra week it was goddamn glorious. Think I fell in love at least 5x that trip.

I was also there on the Iron Nickel a handful of years back when that Marine killed the tranny. That shit was terrible man. We were due to pull out and pull back into Manila for a week and that rat bastid ruined it all.

 

[Loyal]

Hell no. I don’t want to be on the next Titanic and drown.

Think of the stories you could tell!

 

[Memento]

Think of the stories you could tell!

You can't tell stories if you're dead.

 

[Loyal]

You can't tell stories if you're dead.

Mere technicalities.... You could crank out several books on the RMS Titanic II!

 

[Loyal]

I could not do that for a year, no.

For me… I would start to feel boxed in after a week or two.

The Sports Bar with huge flat screens is pretty perfect.....

 

[Memento]

Mere technicalities.... You could crank out several books on the RMS Titanic II!

Fine, but when I die, I'm haunting you for the rest of your earthly days.

 

[bluecoconuts]

I knew a few lads who worked on a cruise, said it was a nightmare, employees who stick around that line are usually real feckin weird. A cruise in general sounds like an awful experience to me personally, so I'm probably not the guy to ask, especially after the stories about cruises being weird covid hubs during the onset of the pandemic. I think I'd rather save myself 150g's and just rent out a small flat on one of the islands, plenty of opportunities to hire a boat and see the ocean.

Or go down to the tip of South America and pick up a boat cheap. Knew a fella who did that and traded first class tickets and a week in a luxury hotel back to NYC for a boat from some couple that made it halfway around the world before calling it quits.

 

[Loyal]

Thinking of Subic, I miss the LBFM's ~ @Merlin