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 just lately acquired the 924-passenger MS Braemar from Fred. Olsen Cruise Traces. Renamed Villa Vie Odyssey, Villa Vie has secured a dry dock slot for a multimillion-dollar refurbishment.
The ship shall 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 toes | 882 toes |
| 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 superb historical past,” mentioned Villa Vie CEO, Mikael Petterson.”We’re hiring solely the perfect operational companions within the trade to execute on our aggressive timeline.”
What cruisers can anticipate?
As soon as it’s accomplished, Villa Vie Odyssey will provide an “intimate, new cruise way of life, capable of attain components of the world that bigger ships can’t entry,” it mentioned.
It is going to have eight decks, a wrap-around promenade, three eating places, a pool, health heart, a spa, and a library. The ship may also 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 Could 2024, the dry dock transformation is essential for the corporate. It is usually a significant milestone for the fashionable residential cruise trade as a complete, which has taken successful as a result of rival startups’ struggles. The high-profile collapse of Life at Sea Cruises, which was unable to acquire a ship, had considerably dented confidence within the feasibility of the residential cruise trade.
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.
