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Bea and the best agers ...

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There are more than enough prejudices against cruises. One that has persisted for at least as long as the ship's biscuits is the cliché of the "floating retirement home" - a fact that even on-board tattoo studios (new on "Mein Schiff"), high-performance sports programs, techno and rocker cruises or gymnasium-sized kids' clubs obviously can't change ...

The young old people don't mind anyway, because they have long known how fine and varied life on board can be. Beatrice Muller once explained this to me many years ago, and I recently came across her again by chance while researching for an article. I met the then still very sprightly old lady in the early 00s on a transatlantic crossing on board the legendary QE2. It was my first time on the ocean liner on a six-day crossing from Southampton to New York. Beatrice was already celebrating her 450th crossing and more than a million nautical miles traveled. She has never regretted her decision to make the ship her floating home, with which she has traveled for at least ten months a year at a time. "Because it's much more fun and luxurious on a ship than on land and because it's also cheaper in the end." At the time, a year on board cost her around 60,000 US dollars - including everything from champagne to hairdresser visits and tips. "No retirement home can manage that ..."
The question is whether it wouldn't actually be a good idea to invent a floating retirement home with a fixed address for all the Beas and other cruise-loving best-agers of this world - with a tattoo studio, disco and gym, of course... After all, tea dances and a cup of broth in the late morning were yesterday! Why am I thinking of this right now? Well, Beatrice Muller would have turned 100 these days - and I'm already 50, so the prospect of a life as a sea nomad is actually pretty wild and tempting, isn't it?



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