Did You Know Retirees Can Travel Free?

Instead of traveling cheap, you could be traveling free with your knowledge. This includes transportation by air or sea and can include lodgings, meals, and entertainment. Most free travel requires no special skills, credentials, or contacts. And it can be just as luxurious, and often more pleasurable, than the most expensive paid vacation.

Cruise lines generally offer a free passage to anyone who recruits 10 to 15 paying passengers. (Many airlines offer similar deals.) If you can’t lure that many customers, you can get a prorated reduction on your fare. While you are on the cruise you can record your experiences in your own Automatic Authority Site Builder website and earn additional income from what you teach others about your great experience.

You can also cruise free as an expert in a pertinent subject. Historians, anthropologists, naturalists, and ornithologists are in especially high demand. Your job on the cruise would be to present a series of lectures and to be available for informal questioning. It helps to have a PhD (or at least a Master’s) and to have published articles on the subject, but an affable personality and a willingness to share your knowledge with others can stretch your credentials. After your first cruise in this will be a good reference will ease the way at other lines.

Free cruises are available to doctors and nurses who are willing to be on 24-hour call (plus a salary is an added inducement). They are also available to athletic directors and coaches who can help organize recreational activities as well as musicians and entertainers willing to perform. Many are offered to cosmetologists who can barter their services for a ride.

There is also a strong demand for “hosts” and that simply means a distinguished single gentlemen who is usually 55 years old and up. They serve by dining and dancing with the many unattached older women taking these vacation cruises. Besides free room and board, hosts are encouraged to make use of an unlimited bar tab available for themselves and their new female friends.