Would you ever consider living on a cruise ship?

**Ally** · 06-20-2006, 03:43 AM

It has been said that living on a cruise ship is cheaper than a retirement home, would you like to live on a ship and sail around the world fulltime?

Or have you considered one of the purpose built ships, such as Residensea's The World?

Does the idea appeal or not?

If you are already lucky enough to have a permanent home on a ship, what's it like?

Would you recommend it?

**Ally** · 06-20-2006, 08:07 AM

A new company in this field has just announced that their first ship is almost sold out before its completed....

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The new cruise line that pioneered affordable luxury cruise ship condominiums is already working on its next two medium-sized ships.

Erin LeCel Jones, Executive Vice President of the company, says, "We sold almost 80 percent of the available condos on our first ship in about twenty weeks - more than enough to go ahead and start the re-design and renovation process.

"The ship will be drydocked in Singapore and the renovations should be complete by early December," she added.

The as-yet-unnamed ship will then be delivered in mid-January to its homeport in San Francisco where it will begin the first of its two-year-long worldwide voyages.

The young cruise line gained notoriety last January when it announced it was taking semi-retired cruise ships and converting about two-thirds of the staterooms into multi-room luxury condo suites.

Condo Cruise Lines has four more ships targeted for conversion to condos, and the next two are already being re-configured by its world-class maritime partners. To do the renovations the company has enlisted the talents of one of the most renowned maritime interior designers in the world. Tillberg Designs, the marine interior designers that created the luxurious interiors of the Queen Mary II and many more of the newest mega-ships, will develop the condo suites.

The first ship's condo prices started out at $349,000 and went as high as $529,000 last January, but after two price increases, the condos that are left range from $562,000 to $1,280,000, according to Thomas Blackburn, the company's Senior Vice President and director of finance. "We didn't sell a single $349,000 suite as most people were looking for the higher rental income from the larger suites," he said. "So we eliminated the small, single suites and converted them to larger three-room penthouses and sold out."

Many real estate investors are opting for this variation to the pre- construction condo purchase because the rental income is about five times higher than a beachfront condo on the Gulf of Mexico.

Plus the ships move out of the way of hurricanes!

More information on the company can be seen at its website: http://www.condocruiselines.com.

riskey58 · 12-09-2006, 08:07 PM

I have never thought about livung on a ship before. I had no idea that you could do that.I am not sure rather I would want to or not. It is something that I would have to think about.

BarbO1999 · 12-10-2006, 12:40 AM

I dont think I could live on a ship it would start to get smaller and smaller!

gottabecruisin · 12-10-2006, 01:06 AM

I could live on a cruise ship...

BarbO1999 · 12-10-2006, 01:31 AM

The part that wuld be good is having everyone wait on you like a queen!