Speaking of other blogs, here’s something from today’s Time Goes By. If you haven’t already found this blog, you should. It’s a gem, with a new, thought-provoking story or discussion every day of the week. 

No Nursing Home For Me!
At dinner through the Mediterranean aboard a Princess cruise ship, an elderly lady sat alone along the rail of the grand stairway in the main dining room. The staff, ship's officers, waiters, busboys, etc., all seemed very familiar with her. When a waiter was asked who she was, he said he knew only that she had been on board for the last four cruises, back to back.

Wanting to know more, a fellow passenger asked her one evening if this was true. “Yes,” she replied and without a pause added, “It’s cheaper than a nursing home.”

The average cost for a nursing home, she explained, is $200 a day. With a long-term cruise discount and a senior discount, the price of a Princess Cruise is $135 per day. That leaves $65 a day for:
  • Gratuities, which will only be $10 per day.
  • I will have as many as 10 meals a day if I can waddle to the restaurant, or I can have room service (which means I can have breakfast in bed every day of the week).
  • Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free washers and dryers, and shows every night.
  • There are free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.
  • They will even treat you like a customer, not a patient. An extra $5 worth of tips will have the entire staff scrambling to help you.
  • I get to meet new people every seven or 14 days.
  • TV broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress replaced? No problem! They fix everything and apologize for your inconvenience.
  • Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don’t even have to ask for them.
  • If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip you are on Medicare; if you fall and break  hip on the Princess ship they will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.
  • And here's the best. If I want to see South America, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia or you name it, Princess will have a ship ready to go.
  • And don’t forget: when you die, they just dump you over the side at no charge.
Anyone want to join me at the dock in New York?
http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/2010/02/lets-retire-on-a-princess-cruise.html
 


Comments

Leigh Russell

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:32:07

Hi there, what a busy and lively blog you have here. I'm glad I found you! I often wander around the blogosphere, taking a short break from my writing, and I will be visiting here regularly. Please return the visit so I have a link to you on my blog and can find you again easily.

 



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