A business opportuntity

I was reminded by the Saturday DT about the price of cruising, in this advertisement varying between £1,500 and £2,500 a week. So on this showing, a floating care home commands quite a premium on a landed one, which might come in at between £1,000 and £1,500 a week.

But given the number of cruises about, there must be plenty older cruise ships heading for the breaker's yard where they command a very poor price, with all the cheap steel which is flooding out of China.

So why don't we bring them back into service as floating care homes, second class. That is to say that are much the same sort of thing as a regular cruise liner, but they don't move about much, which should get fuel costs well down. Maybe cut down a bit on the dancing girls, perhaps going for the holographic alternative, the prices for which are coming down all the time.

Probably best if these liners are flagged out of somewhere like the British Virgin Islands or Panama, so as to keep red tape and staff costs down.

Then the customers pay according to size of cabin and location of liner. You pay more for a bigger room and you pay more for a liner which is anchored somewhere within easy reach of your nearest and dearest, say in the Thames estuary. Places like the White Sea or the Sulu Sea much more affordable.

I associate to the prison hulks of old.

PS: and I dare say, provided the liner was not anchored in territorial waters, one could have on-board Dignatas facilities. See reference 1.

Reference 1: http://www.dignitas.ch/.