Florida widow Lee Wachtstetter has lived the last seven years on the luxury cruise ship Crystal Serenity, shelling out $164,000 annually for her state room and all the perks, the Asbury Park Press reported.
Wachtstetter and her husband were big cruise fans so she took a dying request to heart. "The day before my husband died of cancer in 1997, he told me, 'Don't stop cruising.' So here I am today living a stress-free, fairy-tale life," she told the outlet.
She pays $164K a year to live on a luxury cruise ship and says it's a "fairy-tale life" http://t.co/GOOjz1J0nJ pic.twitter.com/9qlT29hQ8V
— Journal & Courier (@jconline) January 20, 2015The permanent passenger visits her three sons and seven grandchildren when the boat docks in Miami several times a year, the Press wrote, but she also considers the ship's crew and staff, who call her "Mama Lee," to be her family.
She picked her shipboard digs wisely. Travel & Leisure puts Crystal Cruises at the top of its "large ship cruise line" rankings.
ABC News noted that Wachtstetter is among a "small group of people" to sail into the sunset permanently on a cruise ship. A private residential cruise ship was launched in 2002 and has 165 homes.
Read the full story on Wachtstetter at The Asbury Park Press.
H/T Laughing Squid
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/22/lee-wachtstetter-cruise_n_6524822.html?utm_hp_ref=travel&ir=Travel and provided by entertainment-movie-news.com
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