March 26, 2024
PEOPLE
We sold everything to live in a cruise ship.
Life’s been mostly smooth sailing for Monica Brzoska and her husband, Jorell Conley.
Since selling all their worldly possessions, ditching the daily 9-to-5 grind and becoming full-time cruisers, the toughest decision the seafaring sweeties have had to face each day is whether to luxuriate around an oceanliner’s pools or its spas.
- “All my meals are cooked by chefs, and staff change my bedding,” bragged Brzoska, 32, an ex-teacher from Memphis, Tennessee, to The Sun. “I haven’t stepped into a kitchen or used a washing machine for a year.
- “I’m not a millionaire,” she added. “I just live full-time on cruise ships.”
- “There are challenges, of course,” conceded the blond. “We miss our families but know we can fly home if there’s an emergency.”
In fact, a family crisis inspired the voyaging lovers to set permanent sail two years ago.
- “I was desperate to see the world,” said Brzoska. “When my dad Andrzej, now 68, needed a liver transplant in August 2022, my mom Lucyna, 60, said to me: ‘Don’t wait for retirement to follow your dreams. Do it now, she recently to tell The Post.
With her parents’ blessing, the holiday-making millennials — who met during a teaching gig in July 2015 and tied the knot in July 2020 — said “bye-bye” to the rat race and “aye-aye” to luxury boating.
- “We already had a week-long Caribbean cruise booked for March 2023,” said Brzoska. “Instead of coming back, why not keep booking consecutive cruises for as long as we could afford to?”
The couple carefully calculated the costs prior to taking the plunge. They’ve ultimately managed to make their ocean motion work for less than $10,000 a year.
- “Accommodations, food and entertainment would be included — we’d only need spending money,” said Brzoska.
She and Conley, 36, had previously taken a series of week-long Carnival cruises to hotspots such as Mexico, Belize, Grand Cayman and Costa Rica. The twosome’s frequent floating awards them massive discounts on future trips.
