in today's video I'm going to talk about my plan to live on
nothing but cruise ships for at least a year so let's go
what is going on YouTube greetings from my cabin here on board Ruby Princess out in the middle of
the Pacific I'm on a 16 day Panama Canal cruise it's been pretty great so far we're on day seven
I believe we just pulled out of Puerto Vallarta yesterday got a day at Sea today so it's been
super exciting so like I mentioned in the opening this video is about my plan to live on nothing
but cruise ships for at least one year I'm not going to live on the same cruise ship I'm gonna
hop from cruise ship to cruise ship I'm going to use different cruise lines as a matter of
fact I'm booked on four different cruise lines at the moment and I plan on adding more as I
go along so let's jump into why I'm doing this whether you've been on my channel for a while or
maybe you're new to my channel I've been making travel videos for three years now every year
of travel I have traveled in a different way my first year I traveled in a group program called
remote year where we traveled for 12 months we lived in a different country every 30 days
and it was pretty cool it was great traveling with the same group of individuals I went home
in March 2020 and covet hit I'd only been travel vlogging for one year I was a new
travel vlogger and I didn't have any way to travel so I bought an RV a van a Winnebago
Travato and I started traveling the country the United States and my Winnebago Travato after a
year I sold my van I moved over to the country of Thailand to ride out the rest of whatever
was going to happen during the pandemic and I lived in Thailand for a year I went from
City to city and tried out different things in Thailand and then I came back to the US
and now I was looking for a new way to travel it's always been been in the back of my mind to
return to see whether it was on a sailboat or maybe a cruise ship but I figured now was the
time to you know try to live on a cruise ship for at least a year so that's the Genesis of
the idea of trying to live on a cruise ship for a year so it should be pretty awesome okay so your
your next question might be well how much is it going to cost you to cruise for a year straight
and live on nothing but cruise ships so to be honest with you I haven't done it yet so I'm not
100 sure but my goal is to keep the cost at about a hundred dollars a day so about three thousand
dollars a month what does that cost include so that hundred dollars a day includes Cruise fare
port fees taxes and gratuities those are the four costs that you're always going to have to
pay on a cruise everything else is optional shore excursions drink packages internet all of that
kind of stuff are optional fees that you don't you you don't have to pay and we'll talk about
those later in other videos but when I talk about what it costs to live on a cruise ship for me I'm
including those four costs so far I have booked eight cruises and I've been able to keep that cost
below a hundred dollars a day for instance the cruise I'm on right now this Panama Canal cruise
16-day cruise fair port fees taxes and gratuities all included it cost me 74 dollars a day I'll do
another separate video on the cost of this cruise but I just want to give you an idea of of what
it costs to cruise nowadays for a solo person now that's another thing I am cruising completely solo
the cost that I'm talking about is as a solo if I was traveling with someone else that was paying
their own way it would actually be cheaper but I'm a Solo Traveler and that's how I like to travel so
that's what we're going to talk about today okay so let's talk about the type of cruises I'm going
to be doing first we'll start off with the length of the cruises so every cruise that I'm going to
book is probably going to be seven days or longer and most of them are going to be much longer than
seven days the reason for that is they tend to be cheaper cost per day that's one of the big reasons
and the second reason is it just tends to be a more older crowd travel crowd less kids and that's
just the kind of cruising that I prefer to be on although I will probably do some shorter cruises
just to give you an idea of what those kind of cruises are like and if they fit into my schedule
you know I have no problem booking a three four day cruise currently the shortest cruise I have
looked is an 11-day cruise on MSC maravillia I have a few 14-day cruises booked on princess I
have a 20-day Cruise booked on NCL all the cruise companies do it differently like for instance
princess I have a bunch of 14-day cruises booked it's actually two seven-day cruises that they
allow you to book as a 14-day cruise maybe there's a seven-day cruise going to the Eastern Caribbean
and that ship comes back and they do another seven day to the Western Caribbean well you can book
that as a 14-day cruise but it's really two seven day cruises so I have a lot of cruises like that
that are 14 day cruises but they're actually seven day cruises I've also booked some back to back to
back to back on a Royal Caribbean ship I booked an eight day cruise a 12-day cruise and an eight
day cruise which are back to back to back and so it'll be 28 days total on board the exact same
ship but all three of the cruises go to different places that's why I booked it that way and I kind
of like the idea of being on a ship a little bit longer okay let's talk about what I'm going to
bring on the cruise so if you've been following my channel for a while you know I am a carry on only
traveler and that's not going to change I plan on traveling carry on only we'll see how that
works in the cruise life I know a lot of people that cruise often will be like I can't believe
you're doing that but I am going to do that I am not bringing my traditional 20 liter backpack
to travel you're just coming to my channel I traveled for three years with a 30 or 20 liter
backpack and did just fine but I decided to get a rollable carry-on that I could still travel carry
on only but was a little bit bigger I think it's 44 liters so for me that's a lot of space I did
make a video I'll link it somewhere up here where I go through exactly what I brought on this cruise
this 16 day cruise is kind of my Shakedown Cruise figuring out what I need to bring for a year of
travel I figured 16 days was perfect and so I'm gonna do a video completely dedicated to that
but I wanted to address it really quick because I know someone would ask down in the comments but
I did an entire video about what I packed on this cruise and I will do an update again in the future
lastly I'm going to be completely honest with you this is only my third Cruise ever I have two more
cruises one on Carnival one on princess so I'm new to this so any help you can give me down in
the comments any suggestions you have about how to find an affordable Cruise how to pack what to
bring all that stuff make sure you comment down below actually let me preface that while I'm new
to cruising I am not new to being to life at Sea I did 20 years in the US Navy almost 10 years of
that is sea time and so I have a lot of time at Sea I've done around the world Cruise so life at
Sea isn't new to me but life on a cruise ship and life at Sea in the Navy are completely different
so I am kind of like a fish out of water with this whole cruising trying to figure out my my
day-to-day routine all those kind of things so like I mentioned if you've got any advice
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spend so many nights living out at Sea that my heart has gone bacon
so now I'm driving back