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I was wondering if you could still book ship passage places easily these days (without it being a cruise, which is another possibility for select routes), and c
by kbenson 8y ago
I was wondering if you could still book ship passage places easily these days (without it being a cruise, which is another possibility for select routes), and came across someone talking about booking rooms for ~$100/day (including food) on cargo ships.[1] Seems like it takes ~7-10 days to do a transatlantic leg of a route, so it would definitely take a while (and it has very limited routes, so some flying or overland travel might also be required for many routes), but it might be an interesting way to take a vacation before or after a business trip.
1: https://matadornetwork.com/notebook/how-to-travel-by-cargo-ship/ https://matadornetwork.com/notebook/how-to-travel-by-cargo-s...
- notyourwork 8y agoAs a developer, if I had internet access (at least intermittently) I could work remotely during the transit and be productive. Interesting thought
- kbenson 8y agoFor developers in certain areas (SF for example), $100/day might be cheaper than (or on par with) local housing. With a good internet solution, that might be an interesting way to work and travel at the same time.
- matt_the_bass 8y agoI remember hearing once about a company trying to turn an old cruise ship into a floating hotel off the coast of California. The idea was also to keep it in international waters so that visas and taxes were not a thing. I wonder what happened to that idea?
- chevman 8y agoA few years ago at SFDC Dreamforce, a company actually did this - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/step-aboard-the-dreamboat-salesforces-floating-hotel-for-dreamforce-2015-09-14 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/step-aboard-the-dreamboat-...
- matt_the_bass 8y agoThanks! The one I was thinking of was for non-us it workers to work close to the us. They even were going to fly out US residents for meeting on the boat.
- jordanthoms 8y agoThat's blueseed - https://blueseed.com/ https://blueseed.com/ . They could never get the funding needed to make it happen.
- matt_the_bass 8y agoThanks! That was it!
- dalore 8y agoNot the first person to think it. Cruise ships offer wifi packages and so it's possible. http://tynan.com/cruisework http://tynan.com/cruisework https://medium.com/@wouthermans/what-i-learned-when-i-quit-my-corporate-job-and-sailed-across-the-atlantic-on-a-cruise-ship-62c292d2f316 https://medium.com/@wouthermans/what-i-learned-when-i-quit-m...
- eloff 8y agoIf you go to cruisesheets.com you can sort cruises by price per day. I've seen transatlantic cruises at $30 a day (including food). That's actually somewhat tempting if I had work I could do without needing the internet more than once a day.
- discordance 8y agoCheck out cruisesheet.com
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoI think I'd prefer 20 hours of discomfort over 10 days of being in transit. Depends on the transit of course, if it's a cruise + vacation then I wouldn't mind so much.
- kbenson 8y agoWell, the way they market it on the site looked to be sort of like "chill, low-key cruise". I imagine if your idea of a vacation is to get to the beach and read a book most the time, it might be somewhat comparable.