The three-year cruise is canceled

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• Tygr@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wow! I highly recommend taking the time to read this one. It just keeps giving and giving the further you read. Unbelievable.

  Oh man, I want to drop spoilers so bad, lol. Just read.

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  • mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn I’m glad you said that. I wasn’t really interested in reading about people who would do this, but I went back, and what a total shitshow. Norovirus not required.

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  • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can echo this 😂🤣 actually a decent article, with lots of info. And it’s a rollercoaster, those poor idiots that bought tickets…

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    • Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s the company that’s the idiot! Those people were essentially scammed. It’s not their fault.

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And the whole situation still has so much more to give as well.

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  • XbSuper@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a news article, not a tv show. There’s nothing to “spoil” lol.

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    • Tygr@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I disagree. What I was going to say would mess up the reading adventure of this article. It was so good I read it aloud to my wife. lol

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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  3 different 'businesses' pushing long term cruises... none of which actually own ships. what could go wrong?

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• CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some of the passengers who booked the 111 cabins sold are still in Istanbul, having made their way there ahead of the original departure date. Others say they have nowhere to return to, having sold or rented out their homes in anticipation of the round-the-world voyage, as well as jettisoning their possessions.

  oof. Regardless of the class makeup of the passengers that fucking suuuuuuuuucks.

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  • Sinonatrix@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think people who sold all their things to make this work couldn’t have been too rich

    Maybe boomers who planned to just die before the cruise was over??

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    • skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cruises are surprisingly cheap. Often considerably cheaper than a retirement home. Some people literally just take back to back cruises when they get old.

      If it were a choice between some depressing elder care facility or cruisin and boozin til I go out for the same price, I know which one I’m picking.

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• mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One norovirus outbreak would see to that anyway.

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  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Floating shit prison.
    I’ll pass.

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• clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been on a few cruises with both reputable companies; it’s pretty fun. On one of them I met an older couple and a retired guy who are (unrelated to each other) living their retirement on cruise ships. They found it cheaper than living on their own, and there’s laundry, food, and entertainment included. They stay on the ship between cruises, and when a ship goes in for maintenance they move to a different one. Honestly, it doesn’t sound half bad.

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  • almost1337@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds great except for the absolutely massive environmental impacts

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    • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re retired, they won’t likely be around for the aftermath of the environmental impact of that lifestyle

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    • soviettaters@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Doesn’t seem that bad to me. It’s not like they’re the only ones on the ship.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How is this cheaper?

    Even with food and laundry included. What does this cost a month?

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    • Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I imagine it would depend on where home is to adjust cost of living. In the Northeast United States, just property taxes in many areas run north of $1000 a month with a paid off house, and/or rents are $2000 a month to just maintain shelter(not even heated or with electricity yet, or the side necessities such as insurance and a vehicle/transit pass). The Life at Sea cruise was $2500/month with food and drink included and supposedly competitively priced so I imagine deals like this are not too rare. A couple could spend 60k a year easily being homebodies or traveling the world with a staff available for their requests.

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• Irv@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I believe the route was planned such that wherever you go, the weather was nice. It sounded amazing to me: travel the world, no home maintenance, no car maintenance, no commuting, no packing/unpacking, food included.

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  • CloutAtlas@hexbear.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well yeah, we’re melting all the sea ice so hitting up Antarctica would yield you a nice vista of flowers blooming.

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• magnetosphere@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He said that while the company had made the down payment for the ship, the investors “declined to support us further due to unrest in the Middle East.”

  What a completely unpredictable, unprecedented turn of events! No wonder the investors pulled out!

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• muse@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It's like a reverse fire festival

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• theodewere@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Others say they have nowhere to return to, having sold or rented out their homes in anticipation of the round-the-world voyage, as well as jettisoning their possessions.

  oops lol wtf YOINK level 9000 achieved

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