Hello /trv/, I just got my Irish citizenship papers last month, and me and some buddies are planning a trip to Ireland and are going to stay in the house my family owns there. Thing is, we're pretty poor and want to be a fiscally care as possible, so we'd like to take a frieghter or cargo ship of some kind in order to save money. We live on the east coast near NYC if that's makes things easier. If you have any advice I would appreciate it greatly, I haven't found much information on traveling by freighters in this capacity. Thanks.
Its 279$ for a one way flight to Dublin from New York. Took a 3 minute search on kayak to find. I know there are equally as cheap shipping websites for your belongings. Almost postive this is cheaper, faster, and more convenient then freight.
>>1160547
The the cheapest option will taking a plane.
>>1160592
No, traveling by sea makes absolutely no sense to do when you're crossing the Atlantic unless you're transporting cargo. So, unless you want to smuggle yourself in on a cargo ship, you're just going to have to fly like every other normal human being
>>1160594
Thanks for the reality check.
Anything in Ireland I should look out for in particular. Sights, events, colloquialisms? I haven't been there since I was a babe.
>>1160594
>unless you're transporting cargo
Or you love sailing.
>>1160616
I guess, this time, he didn't take OP for a seaman.
>>1160547
I actually went from the canary island to brasil on a freighter, you just need to hang around in the port and ask for a passage exchange of doing work in the ship
>>1160625
Everybody else says you can't do that, that you need actual qualifications to get a job on a ship.
What flag was the ship?
>>1160547
>we'd like to take a frieghter or cargo ship of some kind in order to save money.
I wonder if this cunts as a /trv/ meme? We have so few, maybe I'm grasping at straws.
>>1160616
But it will almost always, almost everywhere, cost a lot more than flying.
>>1160638
Second, that sounds like complete horseshit, though weird shit happens, I guess.
>>1160703
>But it will almost always, almost everywhere, cost a lot more than flying.
Yes, and?
If I'm going to travel I'm not going to cheap out for the sake of cheaping out.