$30k per year - sail the world

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Can't seem to find anything on this to see if it is legit.
Their website doesn't inspire confidence based on how big it should be.
$30k per person and you couldn't get a photographer and a media design team?
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Wingboy said:
Might try an Alaska cruise this year. Can't imagine living in a shoebox tho.
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Alaska cruise is on my bucket list before I croke.

Just need to convince my wife as she doesn't like cruises
 
It seems cool but....

Just regular cruise ships are sometimes a breeding ground for outbreaks, COVID, Norovirus, etc. Not all the time of course, just really "bad luck" to get hit on a one week trip (statistically low). Imagine around the world, people in and out of ports all over than all cooped up on the boat, 52 one week cruises all back to back. Bad luck becomes statically very likely IMO. Then the boat gets quarantined and no one will let people disembark, floating "leper colony".... like what happened to regular cruises in 2020. The entire thing could go sideways.
 
Alaska cruise is kind of an oddball one. It's cold and very wet on the ship most of the time. Take a good rain jacket.
 
edit: trying to figure out the math on this one. It's 33k per year per person (198k total, over the 3 years) with 2 people per cabin. If you do it as a single, it's about 56k/year.
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backmarkerducati said:
It seems cool but....

Just regular cruise ships are sometimes a breeding ground for outbreaks, COVID, Norovirus, etc. Not all the time of course, just really "bad luck" to get hit on a one week trip (statistically low). Imagine around the world, people in and out of ports all over than all cooped up on the boat, 52 one week cruises all back to back. Bad luck becomes statically very likely IMO. Then the boat gets quarantined and no one will let people disembark, floating "leper colony".... like what happened to regular cruises in 2020. The entire thing could go sideways.
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great point.
maybe that's why they advertise having a hospital on board. quarantine rooms and wings maybe? mandatory ship-wide testing?
 
we have done 14 cruise ship cruises , never been sick, always fun. Alaska is a truely great trip, fly into Alaska , see denali and some interior and then take the ship backwards down to Van or Seattle where we went. Get warmer all the way down, yes it rains a bit and there can be bugs on shore , its Alaska....

10 yrs ago helping a friend take his boat from Oakville to Tahiti cost over 30K for the 6 months. It was $1200 for the panama canal fee

it costs $20,000US to get a cruise shipo through the panama canal
 
Alaska cruise was our first...because it is The Inside Passage you usually have land on both sides all the time. It's the only way to see the John Muir Glacier.
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It's also worth it to spend a few days in Seattle. We went in June, no rain, sit on the balcony with our feet up. Always calm water.
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Glad we got to St Petersburg to see The Hermitage was on my bucket list. All closed off now afaik. Fuckhead Putin. :mad:
A Baltic Capitals cruise.....again close to land and we go because we sample places to go back to ...Alaska was one. Iceland was another.
 
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Cruises are not my thing, but it is a cost-effective way to live if you approach it like you do not have to pay a mortgage/rent, car and home insurance, restaurants/groceries *and* you get to travel as well, if that is the ultimate end goal.

We traveled full-time and lived for 20-25% of our living costs in Canada. Save up a year of living expenses in Toronto and you can travel the world for 4-5 years...
 
If the odds of other people pissing me off was less than 80% I’d probably enjoy cruises more. As it is I’ve had a 100% increase in vacation enjoyment since we started avoiding crowded hotels and the like about 15 years ago.

No getting up at ridiculous hours to play the towel game, no watching children smear their grubby little mits over the food you want to select from a buffet, no fighting with the tattooed German over the toaster/umbrella/palapa, no trying to get to a bar barricaded by drunk spring breakers.

Hell truly is other people.

Bah humbug.
 
jc100 said:
If the odds of other people pissing me off was less than 80% I’d probably enjoy cruises more. As it is I’ve had a 100% increase in vacation enjoyment since we started avoiding crowded hotels and the like about 15 years ago.

No getting up at ridiculous hours to play the towel game, no watching children smear their grubby little mits over the food you want to select from a buffet, no fighting with the tattooed German over the toaster/umbrella/palapa, no trying to get to a bar barricaded by drunk spring breakers.

Hell truly is other people.

Bah humbug.
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Buffet? Sheesh, ballin'.

We usually hostel (private room) or guest house it. 'Overpriced' hotels don't make sense to me, all i need is a place to lay my noggin and a shower. Spending as little time indoors as possible is always the M.O.
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