Viking cruise

[1SEIACLONE]

My parents love them though the cruise across the North Atlantic was a bit rough. I read their marketing fliers and I want to know who signs up for their 3-6 months cruises that travel the world. I can’t imagine going longer than two weeks.

We have done one 14 day cruise and couple 11 day ones, the round the world cruises have a crazy number of stops, which would help, but most people cannot be gone that long. It's a very niche market looking at people that have money, they are expensive as hell and love the cruise lifestyle.
We did Alaskas out of SF three years ago, and boy sailing up that far gets really old, I can't imagine crossing the Pacific or Atlantic.

 

[Gary_ISU]

My wife and I are planning Basel to Amsterdam in mid-October for our 25th wedding anniversary. We did the pre-extension in Switzerland and plan on going to Lucerne and up the gondola. Everyone we have talked to said it’s terrific.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

My parents love them though the cruise across the North Atlantic was a bit rough. I read their marketing fliers and I want to know who signs up for their 3-6 months cruises that travel the world. I can’t imagine going longer than two weeks.

We've actually been talking about it a little, as a possibility in the future. We would need to be cat-less though. We can get cat sitters for a few weeks, but not for six months. Possible but not probable.

 

[Dirt Boy 2]

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We chose the more economical hawkeye cruise line down the skunk river for our anniversary. Highly recommend taking advantage of their evening keg beer specials on the Lerado deck.

Does it include a stop at the Eagles Nest in Coppock?

 

[t.m.]

We have done one 14 day cruise and couple 11 day ones, the round the world cruises have a crazy number of stops, which would help, but most people cannot be gone that long. It's a very niche market looking at people that have money, they are expensive as hell and love the cruise lifestyle.
We did Alaskas out of SF three years ago, and boy sailing up that far gets really old, I can't imagine crossing the Pacific or Atlantic.

I've seen some posts from people that have done the 180 day type cruises. Definitely need money saved up, but a small % of them have no actual home, and are living their retirement as "nomads". Spend 4 months on a cruise, then 3 months snowbirding in a rental house, another couple months road tripping to visit family, etc. Obviously, $80k for a 6 month cruise is still expensive, but "easier" when you don't also have mortgage/property taxes/multiple cars/insurance/utilities/etc. back home.

Personally, I hate the idea of cruising "big water", so a long weekend or 6 months, I'm not ocean cruising.

 

[wxman1]

There are so many cool places and things to do via cruises. I like watching the Mighty Cruise Ship show just to see destinations etc.

 

[1SEIACLONE]

I've seen some posts from people that have done the 180 day type cruises. Definitely need money saved up, but a small % of them have no actual home, and are living their retirement as "nomads". Spend 4 months on a cruise, then 3 months snowbirding in a rental house, another couple months road tripping to visit family, etc. Obviously, $80k for a 6 month cruise is still expensive, but "easier" when you don't also have mortgage/property taxes/multiple cars/insurance/utilities/etc. back home.

Personally, I hate the idea of cruising "big water", so a long weekend or 6 months, I'm not ocean cruising.

Interesting, I suppose it would not be any different then selling your home, buying an RV and traveling all over the place. I have heard of at least a couple people that retired and live on a cruise ship full time. They stated it was not any more expensive to do that than live in an upscale retirement community. Get free meals, housekeeping on the ship. On a smaller ship I could see a couple doing an inside room, for less than 2 grand a week.