Canceled port calls and cash appeals: Inside the final months of the Villa Vie Odyssey's doomed round-the-world cruise
Source: Business Insider ·
The Villa Vie Odyssey kept circling one corner of it while finances worsened, services deteriorated, and cash calls mounted.
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The Villa Vie Odyssey was bogged down by financial trouble in its final months at sea.Suy SE/AFP/Getty ImagesVilla Vie Residences promised residents the world. The company's cruise ship, the Odyssey, kept circling one corner of it while finances worsened, services deteriorated, and cash calls mounted."We were going in a smaller and smaller circle," said Claude Sadovsky, who joined the Odyssey when it first set sail from Belfast in September 2024. "I signed up for a world cruise, and I was in purgatory."By early October, Sadovsky was frustrated enough with the itinerary changes that he left the ship and returned to his home in Maui. For Starr Davis, who also joined in Belfast in 2024, it was the constant appeals for fuel money that got her to jump ship in late September. "I got so sick of all the cash calls," she said.For those aboard the Odyssey in its final months, the crisis grew so acute that some passengers began fundraising for crew members, residents told Business Insider.The…
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