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Post by ADMIN on Mar 7, 2006 9:50:43 GMT -5
No Nursing Home For Me
Author Unknown
3-7-6
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 that 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 on a 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, and 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.
PS: And don't forget, when you die, they just dump you over the side -- at no charge
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Post by Nicole on Mar 7, 2006 10:44:49 GMT -5
LOL!!!
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Post by dutchraven on Mar 7, 2006 12:06:20 GMT -5
This is sooo cool! What a great alternative! No nursing home for me either!!!
love,
Dutchy
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Post by Edward on Mar 7, 2006 12:20:13 GMT -5
Nursing home,? What's that. I plan on living for ever.............wait, I already do that?  as the song enters my mind, "Come on down to my boat baby, come on down where we can play, come on down to my boat baby come ond down we'll sail away..............................." ;D Peace, Love and Joy, Ed |
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Post by sama on Mar 7, 2006 14:14:12 GMT -5
cor! me neither.....i'll take a constant suite on The World....but i need me a multi-millionaire first, and d. beckham, esq., is already taken......decisions, decisions!
sama
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Post by LilliHart on Mar 7, 2006 16:30:11 GMT -5
No Nursing Home For Me 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 on a Princess and I can get a long term discount and senior discount price of $135 per day. That leaves $65 a day for: Don't laugh, this is actually true. I believe I heard not that long ago when the Qeen Eliz II was retired there was a woman who actually had been living like this for a very long time. The sad thing was that she couldn't afford to move to the New QE ship. One really needs a lot of money to live for approx. $150-$175 a day. figure it out. If you have the investments great, but if you piss it all away and outlive your investments then what? Same goes for a nursing home except at least in the states you can get long term nursing insurance that will cover these costs...but not the cost of living on a ship! Mind you, it might work if you have a friend and can share a cabin but it gets kinda close in these smaller cabins. Then at least you can cut the cost in half and hope you don't outlive your money. 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. {/quote} You can always have your rooomate push you down the stairs and break your hip. then you both can move up to the suite! PS: And don't forget, when you die, they just dump you over the side -- at no charge [/quoite] Concenient and much cheaper than anything you can get on land. Now you just have to like being on the water all the time. ;D |
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Post by LilliHart on Mar 7, 2006 16:30:43 GMT -5
OH well I tried those darned quotes. Never can get it right.
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Post by Nemue on Mar 9, 2006 4:11:08 GMT -5
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