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The new Royal Caribbean cruise ship Quantum of the Seas features robots and state-of-the-art technology.
- news.com.au
- 28 Aug 2014
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For most this is a fleeting holiday retreat but for one woman, this is home. Source: Supplied
CRUISE SHIPS can be a polarising way to spend a holiday. It seems people are either enamoured by the glamorous spectre of floating ballrooms or deterred by the claustrophobic idea of them.
An 86-year-old Floridian retiree rests firmly in the former category. So much so that she pays nearly AUD $200,000 a year to live out her days on a cruise liner.
She pays $164K a year to live on a luxury cruise ship and says it's a "fairy-tale life" http://t.co/GOOjz1J0nJ pic.twitter.com/9qlT29hQ8V
— Journal & Courier (@jconline) January 20, 2015 According to USA Today, Lee Wachstetter sold her home and took to the sea after the death of her husband in 1997.
In her former life she was a registered nurse but now she is simply known as Mama Lee by the staff and fellow passengers on the ship that can accommodate 1,070 travellers.
Ms. Wachstetter has lost count of how many countries she has been to and seldom bothers to leave the ship when it docks anymore.
“And when most everybody goes ashore, it’s so quiet, and I have almost the whole ship for myself,” she told USA Today.
The permanent resident on the cruise liner has been on the open seas for nearly seven years and says she was previously on a Holland America ship for three years until they ceased their dance program.
“I enjoy dancing, and this was the best of the remaining ships that still use dance hosts,” she said.
Ms. Wachstetter appears to have no intentions of returning to a landlocked life saying, “I’m so spoiled I doubt that I would ever be able to readjust to the real world again.”
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