About 2 years ago, two friends of mine were on a cruise through the Mediterranean aboard a Princess liner. At dinner, they noticed an elderly lady sitting alone along the rail of the grand stairway in the main dining room. They also noticed that all the staff, ships officers, waiters, busboys, etc., all seemed very familiar with this lady. They asked their 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 they left the dining room one evening they caught her eye and stopped to say hello. They chatted and my friend asked, "I understand you've been on this ship for the last four cruises?" She replied, "Yes, that's true." My friend 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 about $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, if I want to!
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/day 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'll upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life.
10. Now hold on for the best! Do you want to see South America, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, or name anywhere you may want to visit. 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 can just dump you over the side at no charge