🚢 I Live on Cruise Ships & This Is What It Cost Me (May 2025 Expenses)
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Lenel, a full-time cruise ship resident, provides a detailed breakdown of her May 2025 expenses and YouTube income. She explains her strategy for maintaining a monthly budget of approximately $2,000, which covers cruise fares, port fees, and miscellaneous living costs. During this period, she traveled on the Carnival Valor from New Orleans to Barcelona and spent time in Vietnam. She notes that while her typical daily cruise cost averages around $40, her total expenses for May were influenced by a vacation period in Vietnam where she utilized hotel reward points to keep housing costs at zero. Lenel also discusses her YouTube earnings, revealing that her May income reached $6,300, which covered her entire monthly budget and allowed her to avoid drawing from her personal savings. She concludes by reflecting on her year-to-date spending, noting that she remains close to her goal of a $2,000 monthly average despite fluctuations caused by seasonal travel and vacation splurging.
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I live full-time on cruise ships, mostly Royal Caribbean and Carnival.
My YouTube income was $6,300 for the month of May 2025.
I've taken 36 cruises. I've spent 252 days on cruise ships.
My goal is to spend no more than $65 per day, which comes to about $2,000 per month.
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