{"id":50424,"date":"2026-11-10T02:35:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T01:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/villa-vie-odyssey-timeline-how-four-months-of-delays-a-shock-suspension-and-a-ship-arrest-unfolded\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T02:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T01:35:02","slug":"villa-vie-odyssey-timeline-how-four-months-of-delays-a-shock-suspension-and-a-ship-arrest-unfolded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/villa-vie-odyssey-timeline-how-four-months-of-delays-a-shock-suspension-and-a-ship-arrest-unfolded\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Vie Odyssey timeline: How four months of delays, a shock suspension and a ship arrest unfolded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When cruise company Villa Vie announced it would sail its vessel <em>Odyssey<\/em> around the world in a three-and-a-half-year stint, it was expected that headlines would focus on the fact that it is the first-ever residential <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/cruise-ship\">cruise ship<\/a> designed for full-time living. <\/p>\n<p>Yet problems have plagued this ship, casting a shadow over the pioneering cruise. This culminated in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/cruise\/cruise-ship-villa-vie-odyssey-cambodia-stranded-passengers-b3076105.html\">passengers being left stranded in Cambodia<\/a> on 27 October as fuel money dried up.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the <em>Odyssey<\/em> vessel has been \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/arrested\">arrested<\/a>\u201d in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/singapore\">Singapore<\/a> amid ongoing financial issues.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of its launch, Villa Vie promised an around-the-world sail starting in 2024, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/cruise-line-unlimited-holidays-villa-vie-residences-b2546978.html\">visiting more than 425 ports in 147 destinations over the course of three and a half years<\/a>. Passengers were not required to leave the ship after the sailing, as the cruise offered a permanent residence-at-sea programme, allowing people to stay aboard the rest of their lives if they so wished.<\/p>\n<p>As it turned out, however, the new residents endured four months in 2024 stuck in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/uk\/northern-ireland\/belfast\/best-belfast-hotels-a8720521.html\">Belfast <\/a>after a string of last-minute repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Delay after delay haunted the vessel as its sailing date continued being pushed back.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/cruise\/villa-vie-odyssey-cruise-ship-belfast-cambodia-timeline-b3081868.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When cruise company Villa Vie announced it would sail its vessel Odyssey around the world in a three-and-a-half-year stint, it was expected that headlines would focus on the fact that it is the first-ever residential cruise ship designed for full-time living. Yet problems have plagued this ship, casting a shadow over the pioneering cruise. This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[856,36,42],"class_list":["post-50424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-cruise","tag-mixtv","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}