Live Year Round On A Cruise Ship Affordably!
09/28/2007 01:09 p.m.
With the huge spike in house prices of the last few years, many people have found themselves saddled with monthly mortgage payments of $2,000, $3,000 or even much more. In any large North American city, this huge expenditure may only allow you to live in a cramped condo or a small sliver of a townhouse. However, if you are either retired or are living on alternative income, you can live 365 days a year on a phenomenal cruise ship, and likely end up saving money!
Travel agents can inform you of the cruise lines that offer these types of arrangements, and when you calculate what you are currently spending your money on vs. what it costs to just move onto a cruise ship, you will be surprised at how the equation is favorable to cruising living.
If you are a couple paying $2,000 a month in mortgage and add on your utilities and taxes, the total comes up to close to $3,000. Naturally, you have to add on your living expenses such as your car, fuel, insurance, entertainment and all of the little extras that add up. Now you're up to about $4,000 and you still haven't spent a penny on food! If you like to enjoy a meal out every once in a while, you are now easily into the $5,000 category.
A consultation with your specialized travel agent can allow you to discover a wide range of luxurious ocean-going cruise ships where you can enjoy all the amenities, service, entertainment, spectacular food, onboard physician and medical services, and magnificent ports of call stops while cruising year round at a price that can be less than the monthly expenditure that it currently costs you to just "live".
Your travel agent can help you choose your ship carefully so that you can spend summers cruising the Mediterranean and winters in the balmy seas of the Caribbean. There are even options to live on ships that sail the Pacific. Imagine what it would be like to cruise between Hawaii, Fiji, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia and all the other exotic ports of the South Pacific for the rest of your life! And you can do all of that for a price that you certainly don't have to be a millionaire to afford.
Whether you're spending your kids' inheritance or just want to live in an unique and adventurous fashion, living full time on a cruise ship can be an extremely tantalizing option that your travel agent can help turn into magnificent reality.
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