{"id":17608,"date":"2026-11-09T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17608"},"modified":"2026-11-04T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:54:00","slug":"covid-spawned-forever-cruise-goes-bankrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17608","title":{"rendered":"Covid spawned ‘forever’ cruise goes bankrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Villa Vie Residences was one of the cruise ships spawned as a ‘cruise forever’ package<\/a>. Sell your house on land, buy one of the residences cabins, and sail around the world – forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, only a few years later, all 200 passengers were forced to depart in Cambodia and were told the party is over<\/a>. The company running the cruise are citing the ever-rising cost of fuel that went from an average of $1800\/passenger to between $6000-8000\/passenger. This simply wasn’t viable anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CEO claims to be trying to find new partners, but it just left port with just the crew <\/a>and is likely headed to Singapore where it is likely to become property of the receivers as it files bankruptcy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Villa Vie Residences was one of the cruise ships spawned as a ‘cruise forever’ package. Sell your house on land, buy one of the residences cabins, and sail around the world – forever. Well, only a few years later, all 200 passengers were forced to depart in Cambodia and were told the party is over. The company running the cruise are citing the ever-rising cost of fuel that went from an average of $1800\/passenger to between $6000-8000\/passenger. This simply wasn’t…<\/p>\n

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