Take a look inside the 'never-ending' Villa Vie Residences Odyssey cruise ship stranded in Cambodia
Source: Business Insider ·
Villa Vie Residences' Odyssey was designed with the idea of residents being able to spend the rest of their days aboard a luxurious cruise ship.
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The Odyssey cruise ship was designed to live on.Villa Vie ResidencesVilla Vie Residences' Odyssey ship was meant to be a 'never-ending' luxury cruise.But its voyage ended just over 2 years after it first set sail.From its luxurious suites to gym facilities, take a look inside the doomed cruise ship.In the famous ancient Greek poem "The Odyssey," Odysseus' journey home took him 10 years. The voyage of the Villa Vie Odyssey cruise ship was much shorter.The promise of Villa Vie Residences' Odyssey cruise ship was that passengers could purchase or rent one of the rooms, with the idea of spending the rest of their days aboard a luxurious cruise ship.The company had retrofitted the 33-year-old ship and sold permanent cabins priced from $119,999 to $439,999.However, the company suspended the cruise ship's operations on October 27, 2026, just over two years after it first set sail. Villa Vie Residences cited rising fuel costs as the reason."I think we would have been absolutely fine — and we…
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