It costs over a thousand USD to take some ocean liners.
What are alternative ways that are cheaper, and how would one go about it?
(No planes)
For context, I know someone who went from China to California by freight ship in the 1990s by bribing the captain with beer and their cooking skills.
Well this is just off the top of my head, but… bribe the captain with beer and cooking.
Or like… Get a job as a cook on a ship. Keep the beer for yourself
What you’re saying is that if you can cook well enough then the ship’s captain will bribe you with a free ride AND give you money? Amazing.
I think you can just purchase a passenger ticket on some freight ships. I remember stumbling on the subject on YouTube like 3 years ago. Try doing a search for “passenger on freight ship” into YouTube.
Edit: more like 5 or 6 years ago apparently. I’m old.
Unfortunately, https://web.archive.org/web/20240519145052/https://www.freightertrips.com/bookings/index.html
it seems that freighter trips no longer have official things because of covid.
That…makes sense.
You could find someone planning a sailboat crossing and volunteer to be a crew member using one of the crew finder sites. Although it might be difficult with no experience unless you’re a hottie
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The global hitchiker’s currency is gas, grass, or ass.
Cruise ships sometimes have repositioning cruises where they go one way across an ocean to start operating in another region, and they can offer significant discounts. I’m sure there’s cheaper ways but it’s an option.
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Which ocean? Do you care where you start and/or end your journey? Miami to Barcelona is going to be very different than Long Beach to Shanghai.
You can find some repositioning cruises for close to the price of a flight, but you’ll be in a shitty cabin and you would need to get to the departure port.
Stowaway.
Future fish food.
Many freighters rent cabins for passage. No idea how expensive this is, tho.
Sometimes ships get sold to another part of the world, like a Mediterranean Ship gets sold to the USA. The cabins for this one way trip are extremely cheap
Work your passage.
There’s plenty of free spare styrofoam and plastic in the great garbage patch in the Pacific, I hear that stuff floats…
Join the US Navy. They’ll pay you to cross an ocean on a ship and pay for your college tuition.
I don’t know why anyone would down vote this. It does answer OP’s question. Now whether you would enjoy
servingliving in a tin can with 200-5k of your closest coworkers is an entirely different question.I personally downvoted it because it’s a terrible idea, op wants to leave the US, not sign their life and soul away to it.
Then OP should have said so in their statement.
