🚢 One Year Living on Cruise Ships: The SHOCKING Cost

Editorial Summary

The creator details her experience living full-time on cruise ships for one year, explaining how she transitioned from a high-stress life to a nomadic lifestyle by selling her belongings. She breaks down her financial strategy, which involves leveraging free cruise offers and matching discounts from various cruise lines to keep housing costs low. The video provides a granular look at her June expenses, including hotel stays in Barcelona and New Orleans, flight costs, and net cruise expenses. She explains her method for utilizing onboard credits to offset costs and discusses her ability to negotiate with cruise lines, such as receiving future cruise credits for canceling an overbooked sailing. The creator also shares her income from YouTube, noting that her earnings of approximately $60,000 for the year more than covered her $25,000 in total living expenses. She concludes by outlining her plans for a second year of full-time cruising, which includes 39 booked cruises and an increased budget to account for inflation and new travel adventures.

Written by TripBacon from this video's transcript.