The world's best retirement plan.
01-05-2006, 02:18 PM
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The world's best retirement plan.
About 2 years ago my wife and I were on a cruise through the western Mediterranean aboard a Princess liner. At dinner we noticed an elderly lady sitting alone along the rail of the grand stairway in the main dining room. I also noticed that all the staff, ships officers, waiters, busboys, etc., all seemed very familiar with this lady. I asked our waiter who the lady was, expecting to be told she owned the line, but he said he only knew that she had been on board for the last four cruises, back to back. As we left the dining room one evening I caught her eye and stopped to say hello. We chatted and I said, "I understand you've been on this ship for the last four cruises". She replied, "Yes, that's true." I stated, "I don't understand" and she replied, without a pause, "It's cheaper than a nursing home." So, there will be no nursing home in my future. When I get old and feeble, I am going to get on a Princess Cruise Ship. The average cost for a nursing home is $200 per day. I have checked on reservations at Princess and I can get a long-term discount and senior discount price of $135 per day. That leaves $65 a day for:
1. Gratuities, which will only be $10 per day.
2. 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).
3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free washers and dryers & shows every night.
4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.
5. 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.
6. I will get to meet new people every 7 or 14 days.
7. T.V. broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress replaced? No Problem! They will fix everything and apologize for your inconvenience.
8. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don't even have to ask for them.
9. If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip you are on Medicare; if you fall and break a hip on the Princess ship they will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.
Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, or name where you want to go? Princess will have a ship ready to go. So don't look for me in a nursing home, just call shore to
ship.
P.S. And don't forget, when you die, they just dump you over the side at no extra charge!
1. Gratuities, which will only be $10 per day.
2. 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).
3. Princess has as many as three swimming pools, a workout room, free washers and dryers & shows every night.
4. They have free toothpaste and razors, and free soap and shampoo.
5. 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.
6. I will get to meet new people every 7 or 14 days.
7. T.V. broken? Light bulb need changing? Need to have the mattress replaced? No Problem! They will fix everything and apologize for your inconvenience.
8. Clean sheets and towels every day, and you don't even have to ask for them.
9. If you fall in the nursing home and break a hip you are on Medicare; if you fall and break a hip on the Princess ship they will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.
Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, or name where you want to go? Princess will have a ship ready to go. So don't look for me in a nursing home, just call shore to
ship.
P.S. And don't forget, when you die, they just dump you over the side at no extra charge!
01-06-2006, 10:49 AM
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We thought along these lines a couple of years ago. We were having our hardwood floors refinished in our living room and hallway. Because we could not walk on them for a few days, we stayed in a local Residence Inn for about a week. It was great!
We had free cable, free Internet (if needed) free breakfast with hot items prepared every day."Nibbles" were served around 5 or 6 PM, and best of all we had "people". They cleaned our rooms, changed our linens and washed our dishes. Each suite had the full kitchen and a living area. There was a washer/dryer down the hall. The cost was just over $700.00 for the week. A lot less than a nursing home, and more lively than assisted living with a mall down the street, and restaurants all over the place.
So, when we're old, before we need assisted living, we may just check into the "Residence Inn."
The staff told us they often have elderly people stay for three months in the summer, and they then return to FL, to avoid our MA winter. As far as I know, the negotiate long term rates as they also are a favorite with travel nurses, etc.
We had free cable, free Internet (if needed) free breakfast with hot items prepared every day."Nibbles" were served around 5 or 6 PM, and best of all we had "people". They cleaned our rooms, changed our linens and washed our dishes. Each suite had the full kitchen and a living area. There was a washer/dryer down the hall. The cost was just over $700.00 for the week. A lot less than a nursing home, and more lively than assisted living with a mall down the street, and restaurants all over the place.
So, when we're old, before we need assisted living, we may just check into the "Residence Inn."
The staff told us they often have elderly people stay for three months in the summer, and they then return to FL, to avoid our MA winter. As far as I know, the negotiate long term rates as they also are a favorite with travel nurses, etc.
01-06-2006, 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Lainey8484,Jan 6 2006, 03:49 PM
We thought along these lines a couple of years ago. We were having our hardwood floors refinished in our living room and hallway. Because we could not walk on them for a few days, we stayed in a local Residence Inn for about a week. It was great!
We had free cable, free Internet (if needed) free breakfast with hot items prepared every day."Nibbles" were served around 5 or 6 PM, and best of all we had "people". They cleaned our rooms, changed our linens and washed our dishes. Each suite had the full kitchen and a living area. There was a washer/dryer down the hall. The cost was just over $700.00 for the week. A lot less than a nursing home, and more lively than assisted living with a mall down the street, and restaurants all over the place.
So, when we're old, before we need assisted living, we may just check into the "Residence Inn."
The staff told us they often have elderly people stay for three months in the summer, and they then return to FL, to avoid our MA winter. As far as I know, the negotiate long term rates as they also are a favorite with travel nurses, etc.
We had free cable, free Internet (if needed) free breakfast with hot items prepared every day."Nibbles" were served around 5 or 6 PM, and best of all we had "people". They cleaned our rooms, changed our linens and washed our dishes. Each suite had the full kitchen and a living area. There was a washer/dryer down the hall. The cost was just over $700.00 for the week. A lot less than a nursing home, and more lively than assisted living with a mall down the street, and restaurants all over the place.
So, when we're old, before we need assisted living, we may just check into the "Residence Inn."
The staff told us they often have elderly people stay for three months in the summer, and they then return to FL, to avoid our MA winter. As far as I know, the negotiate long term rates as they also are a favorite with travel nurses, etc.
01-07-2006, 04:21 AM
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[QUOTE=matt_inva,Jan 6 2006, 11:08 PM] Kind of like the "Cruise Ship Retirement
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