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Boodleheimer
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 Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject: Non-flying to the USA |
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| my boyfriend is terrified of flying. i want him to visit my country, but he won't fly there. anybody heard of trans-pacific sea routes? |
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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd be interested in this myself as I am dreading the flight back. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject: Re: Non-flying to the USA |
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| KWhitehead wrote: |
| my boyfriend is terrified of flying. i want him to visit my country, but he won't fly there. anybody heard of trans-pacific sea routes? |
You can book passage on a freighter going from Incheon or Busan to Seattle, SanFrancisco or LA. It is Usually MORE expensive than flying (up to triple depending on the length of the route they take) and can take up to 30 days or more. IT is NOT a cruise ship and the amenities are quite limited.
You will usually get a cabin with a double berth, head (toilet with shower) TV and VCR. Meals are included and usually served every 4 hours or so (round the clock). The food is often similar to what you would get in a college cafeteria or military messhall. Simple but adequate.
Get him some valium or some other sedative from his doctor and take him on a plane. The travel is done in 12 hours and he can sleep his way through it. |
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| you have been my answer guru today, ttom! many thanks again |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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wow.. 30+ days in a freighter ship going across the sea vs. 12-hour plane trip.
can't imagine being that afraid of planes to consider that. |
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semphoon
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: Where Nowon is
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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Ah pitty da fool who do wanna get in no airplane.  |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think it's 30 days. 7 days from west coast to Pusan sounds more reasonable. There are some schedules somewhere I found.
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Hanjin & Senator
(German) A fleet of 18 containerships, some of them the largest passenger-carrying freighters on the seas today, sail weekly from Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA across the Pacific to Pusan, South Korea; Tokyo and Osaka, Japan; Hong Kong, China and via Singapore to Europe and back.
Senators also sail every few weeks from the US east coast via several ports in the Mediterranean to the mid-East and India.
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12/28 $1,200/$2,800 |
http://www.freighter-travel.com/travel-itineraries.html |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
I don't think it's 30 days. 7 days from west coast to Pusan sounds more reasonable. There are some schedules somewhere I found.
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Hanjin & Senator
(German) A fleet of 18 containerships, some of them the largest passenger-carrying freighters on the seas today, sail weekly from Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA across the Pacific to Pusan, South Korea; Tokyo and Osaka, Japan; Hong Kong, China and via Singapore to Europe and back.
Senators also sail every few weeks from the US east coast via several ports in the Mediterranean to the mid-East and India.
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12/28 $1,200/$2,800 |
http://www.freighter-travel.com/travel-itineraries.html |
Actually I said, "up to 30 days" and the site quotes 12-28 days. Call me a liar for 2 days... 
And the typical cost is about US$100 per day., |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| One way, ol' chap: but let's not spat. |
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Hotpants
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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I was looking at the same thing last month.
Here is an exact costing for Busan to various US ports:
http://www.freighterworld.com/places/fareast.html
You then have to add on travel to and from your US port and Busan as well as port taxes.
You would have to be an extreme airophobe or extremely rich to put up with the time and costs of sea travel. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| Hotpants wrote: |
I was looking at the same thing last month.
Here is an exact costing for Busan to various US ports:
http://www.freighterworld.com/places/fareast.html
You then have to add on travel to and from your US port and Busan as well as port taxes.
You would have to be an extreme airophobe or extremely rich to put up with the time and costs of sea travel. |
Indeed, it is truly the wangja way. |
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