Nov 30, 2007
A 35-day cruise of the Pacific, spending almost all that time simply at sea, is a stunning opportunity for at $123 a day
Have you a need for a long stretch of time to simply ponder your life and reach fundamental decisions, free from outside distractions? Have you a novel to write, an autobiography requiring a month of sheer isolation, with nothing to do except take three meals a day and then retire to your cabin for 18 hours of simply writing? If the ability "to get away from it all," at a cost of only $4,300 ($123 a day) for 35 successive days, is what you crave, then do I have a cruise (on a passenger-carrying freighter) for you!
It's a round-trip, from Long Beach, California and back, on a giant container ship called the MSC Uganda sailing across the entire Pacific Ocean to Korea without making a stop en route (14 consecutive days at sea), then making three short stops on the coast of China, and one in Japan, and then returning non-stop from Yokohama to Long Beach (10 more consecutive days at sea), for a total cruise time of 35 days. There's no need for you ever to leave the ship.
The dates of departure are December 30, 1997; February 5, 2008; March 11, 2008; April 15, 2008; May 20, 2008; and June 24, 2008. The giant vessel will carry a maximum of only eight persons in four comfortable two-room suites; and the large living room in each suite has a good-sized writing desk and chair. The cost is $4,340 per person in a double cabin, and only $4,611 for a cabin occupied as a single. And if you'd care to book, or want to know more, you contact Freighter World Cruises, Inc., 180 South Lake Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91101-2655, or call tel. 800/531-7774 or 626/449-3106.
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It's a round-trip, from Long Beach, California and back, on a giant container ship called the MSC Uganda sailing across the entire Pacific Ocean to Korea without making a stop en route (14 consecutive days at sea), then making three short stops on the coast of China, and one in Japan, and then returning non-stop from Yokohama to Long Beach (10 more consecutive days at sea), for a total cruise time of 35 days. There's no need for you ever to leave the ship.
The dates of departure are December 30, 1997; February 5, 2008; March 11, 2008; April 15, 2008; May 20, 2008; and June 24, 2008. The giant vessel will carry a maximum of only eight persons in four comfortable two-room suites; and the large living room in each suite has a good-sized writing desk and chair. The cost is $4,340 per person in a double cabin, and only $4,611 for a cabin occupied as a single. And if you'd care to book, or want to know more, you contact Freighter World Cruises, Inc., 180 South Lake Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91101-2655, or call tel. 800/531-7774 or 626/449-3106.
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