Cruise Ships And Old Age

[Hils]

Now we know why OAPs (no names mentioned of course) go on cruise ships!

QUOTE:

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 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 cruise". 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, 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 needs 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 charge !

[Calamity Jane]

I Love It !

What a great idea. :thumleft:

Mind you I have just booked my first cruise next year for my honeymoon which is just before my fourth birthday so think i will need a few more years working before I can pay for a cruise or a nursing home!
Jane

[HW tenpin]

Hils this is very naughty of you, for years Mrs T and I have kept this secret to ourselves, in order to take advantage of the splendid offers given to us of advancing years. Now every Lady with a blue rinse and complete with Zimmer frame will be getting under our feet. No doupt I will now have to go to the �Grab a granny night' and strut my stuff, to the sounds of Glen Millers band.

Thanks a lot.

[HW Jan.C]

You go tenpin, shake yer groove thang, They will be falling at your feet,,,,EERRRR,, MEDIC
jan

[Calamity Jane]

I thought rich old ladies with bule rinses was the reason you went tenpin?

[HW tenpin]

"I thought rich old ladies with bule rinses was the reason you went tenpin? " --- Calamity Jane


Whats with you 'girls' telling the whole world my secrets, not only will I have to put up with hundreds of lonely widows, they will now all know I'm looking to 'pull'

[Hils]

Tenpin, you must agree it was funny! As soon as I was sent this email, I couldn't resist putting it on HW so we could all have a laugh! Makes you think though, I'll have to look into it further so when you see a 60 going on 16 year old wizzing round the decks (no blue rinse mind you), it will probably be me escaping all those lonely males on the lookout for someone to do all their cooking, cleaning, washing etc but on the cruise ships I hear there are no kitchen sinks!

[Calamity Jane]

sounds fab to me

see you all aboard in 30 years ccasion1 ccasion1

[carol bozward]

love all the cruise banter... tenpin, girl in every port..going on my second cruise, in a few weeks, must book myself in for a 'blue rinse' quick..do we think tenpin has a 'big gold medallion'?

carolB

[Calamity Jane]

lol

i now have this mental picture of tenpin, with a curly wig hairy chest and medallion ( sorry ten pin)