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cruises are the worst way in the world to travel from one place to another, they're not passenger liners lmao those are gone 4evr
people used to be able to book passage on freighters but i don't know if it's still a thing
still a thing though I think it costs more than it used to. Much like long distance train travel in the US, it takes so long that you end up paying more than the flight would have been (but it comes with lodging, meals and a unique experience)
Nope. The last few companies that allowed this stopped taking passengers during the first couple of weeks of COVID. Nobody seems to have any plans to start doing it again.
Back when it was "cheap," they were roughly the nightly price of a hotel room, and you'd spend about 2 weeks aboard for a trans-oceanic trip.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future features solar electric/sail hybrid passenger liners emerging after Crash Day (based ecoterrorists shooting down dozens of jets simultaneously)