The three-year cruise is canceled | CNN
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Life at Sea Cruises – which was due to launch its three-year round-the-world cruise in November – has called it off. There’s no ship, and passengers are being offered refunds – though the company says it still wants to launch a long-term cruise in the future.

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  • CrushKillDestroySwag
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    1 year ago

    Some of the passengers who booked the 111 cabins sold are still in Istanbul, having made their way there ahead of the original departure date. Others say they have nowhere to return to, having sold or rented out their homes in anticipation of the round-the-world voyage, as well as jettisoning their possessions.

    oof. Regardless of the class makeup of the passengers that fucking suuuuuuuuucks.

    • Sinonatrix [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      I think people who sold all their things to make this work couldn't have been too rich

      Maybe boomers who planned to just die before the cruise was over??

  • Irv@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    I believe the route was planned such that wherever you go, the weather was nice. It sounded amazing to me: travel the world, no home maintenance, no car maintenance, no commuting, no packing/unpacking, food included.

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Well yeah, we're melting all the sea ice so hitting up Antarctica would yield you a nice vista of flowers blooming. You could wear jorts and a Hawaiian shirt off the coast of what used to be permafrost.