Cruise line gives ‘escape’ from Trump presidency with multi-year packages

As Donald Trump prepares to start his second four-year time period, one cruise firm is giving Individuals the selection to decide out and escape.

The residential cruise line Villa Vie Residences introduced earlier in November that it’s launching a program that may permit vacationers to hitch its ship, the Odyssey, at any port because it traverses all over the world for the following a number of years. The journey is predicted to journey to 425 ports throughout 140 nations, and this system will price lower than $40,000 a yr, in keeping with an organization assertion.

This system is being supplied in one-, two-, three-, and four-year packages. The one-year package deal known as Escape From Actuality and the two-year package deal known as Mid-term Choice. The three-year package deal known as Anyplace however Dwelling and the four-year package deal known as Skip Ahead. The journey consists of stops within the Caribbean, South America and an Antarctic sail-by.

Villa Vie’s CEO, Mikael Petterson, informed the information outlet WFLA in Fort Lauderdale that the corporate put collectively this system earlier than the outcomes of the presidential election had been introduced. However the cruise package deal might be a great possibility for individuals who had been sad with the outcomes, he mentioned.

“Though the marketing campaign was put collectively earlier than the outcomes of the election, we really feel we have now an ideal product for individuals who mentioned they’d go away the nation if XYZ wins the election,” he mentioned in an announcement. “We had two teams watch election events onboard the place half the group watched Fox Information on one finish of the ship whereas the opposite half watched MSNBC on the opposite. We could have differing political opinions, however our group comes collectively via our ardour for exploring the world in a really possible way that goes far past politics.”

Whereas it’s not clear if Individuals really will go away the nation attributable to Trump’s presidential victory, advisers to high-net value households informed CNBC forward of the election that they had been fielding many queries from rich purchasers about methods to transfer overseas.