Residential world cruise startup Villa Vie Residences has progressed to a different key milestone within the deliberate launch of its three-year round-the-world voyage.
The startup not too long ago acquired the 924-passenger MS Braemar from Fred. Olsen Cruise Strains. Renamed Villa Vie Odyssey, Villa Vie has secured a dry dock slot for a multimillion-dollar refurbishment.
The ship can be refurbished on the historic Belfast shipyard
The Harland & Wolff shipyard has over a century of historical past and famously constructed the Titanic eighty years earlier.
It undergoes a 10-week refurbishment program. The corporate introduced offers with numerous contractors for reworking and managing shipboard capabilities. The ship was final refurbished in 2019.
| Stats | Villa Odyssey | Titanic |
|---|---|---|
| Entered Service | 1992 | 1912 |
| Size | 642 ft | 882 ft |
| Gross tonnage | 24,344 GRT | 46,328 GRT |
| Passengers | 924 | 2,453 |
| Cabins | 485 | 883 |
“We’re past excited to take possession of Odyssey and head to the Belfast Yard with such wonderful historical past,” stated Villa Vie CEO, Mikael Petterson.”We’re hiring solely the perfect operational companions within the business to execute on our aggressive timeline.”
What cruisers can count on?
As soon as it’s accomplished, Villa Vie Odyssey will provide an “intimate, new cruise way of life, in a position to attain elements of the world that bigger ships can not entry,” it stated.
It would have eight decks, a wrap-around promenade, three eating places, a pool, health heart, a spa, and a library. The ship can even home a big enterprise heart to cater to digital nomads. Residents can select stateroom choices: Inside Villa, an Oceanview Villa, or a Balcony Villa.
Scheduled to depart in Might 2024, the dry dock transformation is crucial for the corporate. Additionally it is a serious milestone for the trendy residential cruise business as an entire, which has taken a success resulting from rival startups’ struggles. The high-profile collapse of Life at Sea Cruises, which was unable to obtain a ship, had considerably dented confidence within the feasibility of the residential cruise business.
Villa Vie Residences will spend 1,300 days at sea, visiting over 400 locations. It affords each a villa possession mannequin or a ‘pay as you go’ choice to sail a number of segments, with every various in size from 35 to 120 days.
