What Will It Cost You To Live FULL-TIME On A Cruise Ship?

It’s not for everyone. Maybe 1 in a million 😂

You lost me at "there are no escaping taxes" part.

If you have the funds, I would rather live on ship instead of an old folks home.

A very BIG THANK YOU 💐to you, Gary. You saved me from signing up on "Life at Sea". I took your tip of NOT signing up for new cruise ship n it worked! Look what happens to those who made their committment to "Life at Sea"

this would be like being a truck driver never getting out of the truck and not getting paid.

Imagine spending millions to buy a penthouse at sea and... it sinks.

When the wi-fi prices go down, there will be so many more clients! Great info in this video

Oof, I hope the resident on the ship who the staff wanted 'to leave' doesn't watch this video! Cringe.

Can I have one of those cruise ships?

I'd live on a cruise ship for a couple weeks. After that, I'd be bored af.

Yes please better than a nursing home yes same ports lol yes but better than the same 4 walls

Um so they want to put you in a large closet with thousands of others on a large boat an costs hundred thousand a year an that may not include stuff like food , have fun in retirement 🙂

Too much yack not enough facts

Well there goes that dream. 😂

Really outstanding video. Addresses many points I've long wondered about. well done.

Someone should do a ship for seniors n care .. with love

No thanks! Living on a floating hotel in rhe Caribbean. Yuk

I would get unbelieveably fit. Working out and a full buffet?! Outstanding

It would like being in a comparative hamster wheel would going completely mad.

No thanks !

My dream is living FOREVER on a ship. Absolutely LOVE the sea!

It’s sad that these people don’t have family that are interested in showing them a better way of life.

We live fulltime in a rv, most of the time we are moving around every couple of weeks. We took an Alaska cruise this year and the one thing i was going to miss was not having to cook and clean. 😊😊

I think live in a cruise ship will be a nightmare apart of that is extremely expensive .

I rather choose Expat living in some Asian country where the cost of living is pretty affordable. for example that you can live in Vietnam comfortably for 2K a month.

75k.... on the cheap side..pass

I’m glad you have done this video and been very realistic bout the actual costs, and what you do or don’t get within a basic rate. As an accountant I am sick of people saying it’s cheaper to live on a cruise ship, it’s obvious to me it’s not a cheap option but if you have plenty of money it’s a lifestyle choice. I wonder what the insurance / medical costs are to some passengers, or do they simply not insure for a medical emergency?

Wow, it sounds like "hell-on-earth" to me . . . stuck with institutional food (likely NEVER organic -- all "industrial"), stuck with scads of Other People whom you'd never choose as friends (who MAY be a shallow as "we" are), and literally imprisoned by hundreds of miles of water -- ever being passively "entertained" -- since people who want this fake/manufactured "lifestyle" have ZERO "life of the mind" and likely no culture, plus a desire to be "waited on" by "servants." Sounds like a nouveau-riche hell on the waves.

I am nowhere near retirement age, though this sounds appealing, I don't think this is for me due to the simple reason that you can't have pets on board. I may want to take cruises when I am around that age, but not every day of the year.

The video is so fantastic and informative!

Great video and thank you for sharing a few different perspectives. I think the best part of vacations and cruising is going home and realizing how great it is to be home! I realize that as I get older that may change. We all need to realize that everyone is different and from what I've read and the videos I've watched about Mario, he is very happy and gets to meet many different people on all his cruises. A couple of additional thoughts...Mario had mentioned that he takes advantage of using RCI's 'future cruising' offers to book his on going itinerary utilizing his Crown and Anchor standing as well as additional discounts. He also does have a home base (condo) that he takes breaks a few times a year to get his regular life in order. I think I would certainly do this for a shorter duration through the year, but not year round.

Thank you for this very informative video… I enjoyed it a lot🚢

Interesting video. I am going on my first cruise at the end of this month. When I paid for my cruise, I was asked if I wanted the service charge paid at the start of the cruise or at the end. I chose to pay at the beginning. Now, I'm a little confused. Will I see the service charge gratuities broken down each day? Another question for my cruise booking rep next week. Hope my post made sense!

Great Reality Check RE: Medical, Dental etc. Emergencies happen.

As a senior, with no family, I find this idea really quite tempting. Living in a floating small town/village. Still having the ability to jump ship from time to to time for time on land and picking up again in another port along the way. Now, just need the money... 😊

Even the inside cabins is rather expensive for me and my wife ... and that doesn't even include excursion. I thought excursion and seeing the world is the main reason you are on a cruise ship to begin with. Retiring on a cruise ship sounds like only workable for the rich people, not an average Joe like me.

Living full time on a ship, as much as I love ships and designed them FOR A LIVING AS A PROFESSOR OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, is a horrible thought. A SENTENCE, indeed. Now if you live on your OWN 40-100 meter yacht, that's another story altogether.

Unless your traveling on an up scale line like Canberrs or P and O....cruise ships are so common and full of common low class individuals with no idea how to behave. No thanks. That couoled with bed bugs virus and nut jobs..you can keep this sess pool.

I think people who wanna live on the cruise ships should buy a yacht. Then have Meals on Wheels deliveries.

Employmed in a facility the starting price is around $8500 a month. Price goes up as care needs increase. You get a room and food plus once a day your vitals are taken. Bingo and finger paints.

everything he said about friendships and repetitiveness is the same you experience on land

Sounds good on the face of it, but it also sounds like too much of a good thing. How long would it take to get old? Someone once told me that he loves banana pudding but if you could have all you wanted every day it would quickly cease to be your favorite.😊❤❤

Thanks!

Six months out of the year the Caribbean is in hurricane season! I guess i don't understand how it is on the ship during that time.

It does seem as if there should be a way for a savvy company to find a profitable balance somewhere in between a cruise ship that is only designed for people to come on a short-term basis (and where therefore living on it full-time would involve the hassle of booking cruise after cruise after cruise) and the megaexpensive one designed for permanent residence but set up more as a floating condo where people "buy" a unit and then pay maintenance fees than as a floating apartment building where people pay monthly rent and the landlord (well, "sealord") uses that rent both to pay expenses and make a profit. Would the latter be workable at a rent level closer to going on one cruise after another, I wonder?

The fantasy that I see make the rounds on social media is that a retired person can take the money it would have cost them to live in a progressive care retirement community and instead spend it on a cruise ship. Like the retirement community, they'll have their own little space, bigger community spaces with planned activities, nutritious meals prepared for them, etc. But, as this video points out, the problem with this fantasy is that it only works as long as you remain so healthy that you don't really "need" to move into a retirement community of any kind … yet. Once you develop a chronic health issue (and unless you drop dead of a sudden stroke, you eventually will), then in the retirement community you would be moving from your independent apartment into assisted living, and eventually from assisted living into the nursing home. When you need more care than the community is set up to provide at each level, you have to move to the next, where your life gets worse but it costs more money. The cruise ship fantasy only works while you are at the entry level of that independent apartment. As soon as you actually need assistance, it's over. It's basically a young healthy person's fantasy that the only reason so many old people have crappy lives is because they just didn't do it right. But even if you're rich, you can't keep living on a cruise ship when you reach the point where you would otherwise be getting home health aides or moving into assisted living or a nursing home. In the United States, unless you are INCREDIBLY rich, if you live a long time after you begin to need a high level of care, it will become so expensive that you will have to "spend down" your assets so you can go on Medicaid. Medicaid is not going to pay for you to live on a cruise ship.

$70k-$130k?……Yeah, everyone makes that at old age…..😏👍🏽

That year long cruise sounds awesome actually. I would never want to live on a ship permanently, but if I'm retired, I would love to see 60 countries in a year, all planned out for me.

I don't know about living on cruise ships indefinitely but I find the idea of spending a few months every year very appealing (especially to escape winter). I think it will become a popular option in the future if cruise lines can guarantee good reliable wifi (for remote workers like me).

It kind of reminds me a little of van life where you probably don't see or here about the bad stuff it sounds really romantic but must be scary during storms ect