I have a big fear of taking a jet to travel places.
The first and only trip I ever took out of the country ended with a lot of anxiety as someone had thrown up and had a seizure behind me and also there was turbulence and I hated it! It sucked so bad!
Is there like , boat services equivalent to the airliners? Like where I can just take a boat to say, England? Or Canada? Idk. I’ve been on boat before.
Boats are cool.
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You can also book a cabin on some cargo ships to travel places.
There are plenty of bloggers and vlogs of people doing this if your interested in what it is like.
https://wikitravel.org/en/Freighter_travel
They used to be called liners. Adding “air” on the front was done once aircraft could do the same job. Perhaps the most famous liner was the *Titanic* but there were many others which operated successfully for many years.
Today they have largely been replaced by cruise ships but, while these big ships are superficially similar, they’re designed for recreation rather than transport. It’s usually difficult to use them for transport because of the way their itineraries and booking systems are designed.
Ship travel is much more expensive because of the need to accommodate you for days instead of just hours. You need a cabin instead of just a seat.
There are ferries that cover short distances, like Seattle to Alaska or between coastal cities. Cruise lines provide long range cities. It can take days to cross the Atlantic, so it’s not really an airplane competitor.
Transatlantic cruises are definitely a thing you can do. It takes about 2 weeks and the cost varies just like planes, somewhere in the $1000 USD range most of the time.
The most popular option today would be a cruise ship. In the age of jetliners, there isn’t a practical reason to favor a ship over flying, so the only people doing so are people who use the journey as a vacation and make stops along the way. Most cruiselines do transatlantic crossings when the ships that were in Europe during the summer head to the Caribbean for the winter, then back to Europe in the spring.
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