I swear by St Crispin's coaxle, I don't get it

[mikester]

What is St Crispin's coaxle?

 

[ultrarunner]

Have a friend and his wife doing the cruise ship in retirement and 100% love it.

They have also scored some real deals.

Panama Canal and Alaska enjoyed so much going back...

Only been on a cruise by default... it had been paid for and I was the substitute...

Seasonal change of waters... picked up in San Francisco and up the coast to Vancouver Canada....

I really liked it as shot as it was.

Went under the Golden Gate twice and a Bay Cruise which captain said was a first for Holland America...

A bus load of travelers delayed and captain sailed... got word to go back and pick them up... it was blue sky, no breeze and 80 degree afternoon that happens once in a blue moon...

On the Columbia river only two or three visits all year... the entire town showed up including the High School marching band...

 

[Root Cause]

Ok, I will bite.

A nursing home for 2 is probably more expensive than a 1 cruise
The view never changes
The employees are not glad to see you
There is no nightly entertainment
Limited food and drinks
The sea breeze probably smells better than many of the retirement homes I have visited.

 

[Cycledude]

Different people like different things

 

[Oaktree]

Ok, I will bite.

A nursing home for 2 is probably more expensive than a 1 cruise
The view never changes
The employees are not glad to see you
There is no nightly entertainment
Limited food and drinks
The sea breeze probably smells better than many of the retirement homes I have visited.

But almost no one goes voluntarily to a nursing home.

A cruise has no appeal to me whatsoever. I'm way too much of an outdoors person to want to be cooped up on a ship with little to do. I can sit on a chaise and read a book at home.

 

[Raul-02]

I've always wanted to tour Italy on a Vespa.

I wanted to buy a moto guzzy and tour the Coast. I like moto guzzy, they have the powerband right in the middle where you need it.

 

[Raul-02]

Different people like different things

Oh now you just wait a minute buddy boy.
I don't know what you're doin' but whatever it is, if'n ya ain't doin' it my way, nothing will ever come out right~!!

 

[dmccarty]

Ok, I will bite.

A nursing home for 2 is probably more expensive than a 1 cruise
The view never changes
The employees are not glad to see you
There is no nightly entertainment
Limited food and drinks
The sea breeze probably smells better than many of the retirement homes I have visited.

Exactly.

I could not read the OP's link because it is behind a pay wall but the Wall Street Journal had an article years ago about people retiring to a cruise ship. It makes quite a bit of sense for some.

The cost to cruise full time is expensive but so is a good retirement home in a retirement community. On the cruise ship,

• they have full time medical staff,
• a variety of restaurants to visit so they do not have to cook,
• people to clean their room,
• different and changing entertainment,
• travel to different ports,,
• changing scenery
• new people to meet as people come and go on the ship,
• no worries about traveling to stores and doctor appointments.

It can be a good thing for some people as long as their health is reasonable, or if they get lucky and just suddenly die. A good retirement community can provide some of the services found on a cruise ship, but not all.

 

[Root Cause]

But almost no one goes voluntarily to a nursing home.

A cruise has no appeal to me whatsoever. I'm way too much of an outdoors person to want to be cooped up on a ship with little to do. I can sit on a chaise and read a book at home.

Well Oaktree, I've never been on a cruise and don't plan on going to one. The question was asked and I submitted a plausible but comedic explanation. (obviously the comedic part failed)

And I would say your first sentence is a good defense of why someone might just go on a cruise to avoid one.

If we are being sincere, I don't think this would land in my top 20 list of strange things people are doing in our world today but that's me.

 

[kenmbz]

I would get so bored on a cruise ship. I did one regular cruise and we had fun, but the noise and so little space.
We did a few adventure cruises, really liked those but big $

On a cruise you don't really get to live the local life, like you do when you stay overnight.
Having drinks with the local vendors in Greece was one fun time, talking about the "waves" of people coming off/on the ships, running frantically to and fro.

Been to a lot of countries for work and vacation, always seems more fun to me to be a bit off the (well) beaten path.