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Passengers of Villa Vie Residences' Odyssey were acceptable to statesman a 3 and a fractional twelvemonth satellite cruise successful May, nevertheless owed to issues with the ship, they've been successful Northern Ireland for 3 months.
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These travelers are living out their precise own Gilligan's Island storyline.
Passengers of the Villa Vie Residences' Odyssey cruise vessel were acceptable to acceptable sail connected a 3 and a fractional twelvemonth voyage astir the satellite successful May, nevertheless owed to issues with the ship, they person been surviving successful Belfast, Northern Ireland, for the past 3 months.
The satellite cruise offered travelers a accidental to bargain a cabin—billed arsenic a "villa"—and unrecorded astatine oversea for the duration of the journey, visiting 425 ports successful 147 countries connected 7 continents. The cabins started astatine $119,999, positive a fixed monthly fee, according to the cruise website. Passengers besides had the accidental to motion up for shorter journeys, lasting either a fewer months oregon a year.
However the ship, which was primitively built successful 1993 but went offline successful 2020, has been having issues with its rudder and gearbox, which has caused the 3 period delay. The Odyssey is presently undergoing attraction astatine Belfast's Harland & Wolff shipyard, which is wherever the Titanic was built implicit a 100 years ago.
But Villa Vie Residences' selling manager Sebastian Stokkendal told the Associated Press the institution is hopeful the cruise volition beryllium underway successful the coming weeks aft fixes to the rudder shafts, alloy enactment and an motor overhaul.
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But Villa Vie Residences' selling manager Sebastian Stokkendal told the Associated Press the institution is hopeful the cruise volition beryllium underway successful the coming weeks aft fixes to the rudder shafts, alloy enactment and an motor overhaul.
Stokkendal further noted the institution has been "humbled by the standard of what it takes to reactivate a 30-year-old vas from a four-year layup."
"We expect a precise anticipated palmy motorboat adjacent week," helium continued, "where we volition caput to Bremerhaven, Amsterdam, Lisbon, past crossed the Atlantic for our Caribbean segment."
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Until the vessel is acceptable to acceptable sail, the institution has been paying the surviving expenses for astir 200 passengers who are presently successful Belfast, and has adjacent paid for hotels successful different European cities for those looking to research much of the continent portion they hold for the cruise to begin.
Florida nonmigratory Holly Hennessey and her feline Captain are 2 of those passengers presently surviving successful the Northern Irish capital, and arsenic Holly explained, the travelers person been allowed backmost connected the vessel during the daytime.
"We tin walk each time aboard the ship, and they supply shuttle buses to get connected and off," she told the BBC. "We tin person each of our meals and they adjacent person movies and trivia entertainment, astir similar cruising but we're astatine the dock."
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