UK Pensioner Retires to Cruise Ship
L O N D O N, July 2 -- A British retiree has decided to sail round the world permanently on a luxury cruise shipbecause it costs no more than staying in an old people's home, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Beatrice Muller, 82, only pays 55 per cent of the officialbrochure price for making her home on the QE2 due to loyaltybonuses from five previous world cruises.
Muller chose to make the liner her full-time home after thedeath of her husband two years ago. She pays 3,424 pounds($4,818) a month to reside in Cabin 4068.
The very basic, minimum cost of living in an old people'shome in London is about 2,000 pounds, she told the SundayExpress.
A Self-Contained Community
And while her fellow pensioners while away their hours in aretirement home in Britain's damp climate, she travels the highseas, stopping at sunny destinations, playing bridge and dancingwith handsome stewards.
"This is where I live and I love it," she told thenewspaper. "I don't have to do any shopping, I don't need to doany shopping, I don't need a car and there aren't any gas orphone bills."
She enjoys films from the ship's cinema and communicateswith her family by e-mail from the computer room.
"I would have to pay around the same to stay in an oldpeople's home and it wouldn't nearly be as much fun as here,"she said.
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