Woman Lives On Cruise Ship Instead Of Nursing Home

She sold her five-bedroom Fort Lauderdale-area home on 10 acres and became a permanent luxury cruise ship.

Woman lives on cruise ship instead of nursing home. Kulp notes that a reservation on Princess Cruises averages 135 per day while the average cost of a private room in a nursing home averages 229 per day. A staggering 98 percent of all disease is due all or in part to lifestyle--not genetics. Crystal Cruises Talk about sailing into the sunset.

Her husband died aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 while on a world cruise in 2000. When I get old and feeble I am going to get on a Princess Cruise Ship. And in Washington DC the average rent for independent living in 2015 was 3462.

She replied Yes thats true I stated I dont understand and she replied without a pause Its cheaper than a nursing home So there will be no nursing home in my future. I have checked on reservations at Princess and I can get a long term discount and senior discount price of 135 per day. She replied Yes thats true.

Thats what 86-year-old widow Lee Wachtstetter has been doing for the last seven years. Her husband had passed away while the couple was on a world cruise. Gratuities which will only be 10 per day.

Most of the time Norovirus the most common cause of illness on a cruise ship is only a minor annoyance. Bea Muller an 86-year-old retiree took up residence on Cunards Queen Elizabeth 2 on 5 January 2000. Mama Lee as Wachtstetter is affectionally called by the crew has been cruising since her husband died in 1997 but not before telling her Dont stop cruising.

That leaves 65 a day for. Instead of moving into a retirement home in her golden years she decided to use her money to buy passage after passage on Princess cruises essentially living on the cruise ships and seeing the world as she aged. The average cost for a nursing home is 200 per day.