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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by kbenson on Thursday August 30, 2018 @07:41PM (#17881788)
I was wondering if you could still book ship passage places easily these days (without it being a cruise, which is another possibility for select routes), and came across someone talking about booking rooms for ~$100/day (including food) on cargo ships.[1] Seems like it takes ~7-10 days to do a transatlantic leg of a route, so it would definitely take a while (and it has very limited routes, so some flying or overland travel might also be required for many routes), but it might be an interesting way to take a vacation before or after a business trip.

1: https://matadornetwork.com/notebook/how-to-travel-by-cargo-s...

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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by eloff on Thursday August 30, 2018 @10:37PM (#17882479)
If you go to cruisesheets.com you can sort cruises by price per day. I've seen transatlantic cruises at $30 a day (including food). That's actually somewhat tempting if I had work I could do without needing the internet more than once a day.
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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by notyourwork on Thursday August 30, 2018 @07:45PM (#17881809)
As a developer, if I had internet access (at least intermittently) I could work remotely during the transit and be productive.

Interesting thought

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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by kbenson on Thursday August 30, 2018 @07:49PM (#17881828)
For developers in certain areas (SF for example), $100/day might be cheaper than (or on par with) local housing. With a good internet solution, that might be an interesting way to work and travel at the same time.
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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by matt_the_bass on Thursday August 30, 2018 @08:37PM (#17882052)
I remember hearing once about a company trying to turn an old cruise ship into a floating hotel off the coast of California. The idea was also to keep it in international waters so that visas and taxes were not a thing. I wonder what happened to that idea?
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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by chevman on Thursday August 30, 2018 @09:05PM (#17882151)
A few years ago at SFDC Dreamforce, a company actually did this - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/step-aboard-the-dreamboat-...
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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by matt_the_bass on Thursday August 30, 2018 @10:41PM (#17882491)
Thanks! The one I was thinking of was for non-us it workers to work close to the us. They even were going to fly out US residents for meeting on the boat.
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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by jordanthoms on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:12PM (#17882628)
That's blueseed - https://blueseed.com/ . They could never get the funding needed to make it happen.
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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by matt_the_bass on Friday August 31, 2018 @07:24AM (#17884594)
Thanks! That was it!
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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by dalore on Thursday August 30, 2018 @09:25PM (#17882247)
Not the first person to think it. Cruise ships offer wifi packages and so it's possible.

http://tynan.com/cruisework

https://medium.com/@wouthermans/what-i-learned-when-i-quit-m...

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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by Cthulhu_ on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:30AM (#17884138)
I think I'd prefer 20 hours of discomfort over 10 days of being in transit. Depends on the transit of course, if it's a cruise + vacation then I wouldn't mind so much.
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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by kbenson on Friday August 31, 2018 @02:40PM (#17887842)
Well, the way they market it on the site looked to be sort of like "chill, low-key cruise". I imagine if your idea of a vacation is to get to the beach and read a book most the time, it might be somewhat comparable.
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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by discordance on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:57PM (#17882847)
Check out cruisesheet.com
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