She's already at 10 years apparently, one of the source articles said she's been aboard her current ship for 7 years. She was on another ship for 3 years previous to that, but switched when they eliminated the ballroom dancing activity.

very good. Now swab the deck.

She would have to spend some money living somewhere. She has the money and should be able to spend it as she pleases. What dollar amount would you allot as being acceptable for an annual budget for a retiree?

Generally ships are our of service for repairs for 2 weeks every year or two depending on the size of ship and every 5 or so years for a good, full refurbishment which can last 6mo-many years depending on the plans for the ship. This happened for my company's ships in Norway and Finland... I'm pretty sure most…

I believe the preferred term is "totes jelly".

I could tell by your accent.

You could retire to a cruise ship for a lot cheaper than this lady is doing it. She's buying a lot of extras and is on a relatively expensive cruise line. You can get 7 day cruises on other lines for around 500 bucks for one person.

Just think of all the free days she's earned from Frequent Cruiser points!

There are worse things in the world. You could be a person from Idaho who never wants to travel anywhere else I guess...

You caught me. I am a tourist from Idaho.

And you get included for the price turn down services, clean room everyday, and treated better than most assisted living or nursing home conditions. So yeah I am thinking this would be a pretty good retirement home

It's less rent than I pay right now. It's also considerably less space, but then again I have to do the grocery shopping and the cooking too, so it really doesn't look at all like a bad deal to me!

That sounds awesome, plus we can probably use her blood to create an elixir that will eradicate norovirus from the planet.

Zero.

The cost of living like a goddamn queen? A steep $164,000 per year.

That doesn't strike me as a bad deal at all if she has the money. A regular retirement home is $80,000 a year according to Google, and you don't get lobster or ballroom dancing every night at one of those.

This is actually a genius retirement plan (minus the six figures, of course). You get to meet new people, see the world, but still have something of a family around you. Privacy when you want it, socialization when you want that, and all the 3 dollar tourist trinkets you can get from Cozumel.

This is somewhat similar to that time I went on a Disney Cruise with my parents at age 12 and refused to get off the cruise ship because I was reenacting the Babysitters Club Super Special "Baby-Sitters On Board!" and yet also not like that time at all.

To be fair, when NFP is practiced correctly, it's effectiveness rate is quite good.

TINFOIL HAT KEN DOLL WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE OH GOD PUT DOWN THAT GUN.