This luxe superyacht for billionaires is bigger than the Titanic — and home prices can reach $90M
This residential gigayacht is looking for billionaires to drop anchor — and upwards of $90 million — on a high seas home.?
The ultra-luxury development, called Ulyssia, is marketed specifically to the 0.1%, with Billionaires’ Row prices and amenities to match.
Backers of the project, which has floated an estimated cost of $1.5 billion, told the Telegraph that there’s a healthy market of billionaires eager to offload the burden of solo super yachting in favor of a more communal life.
The 15-deck seafaring apartment block aims to set sail in 2029.
One-bedroom residences spanning 1,184 square feet will start at around $10 million, according to The Telegraph. Prices go all the way up to $90 million for 10,258-square-foot, six-bedroom penthouses. Each home comes with an ocean terrace, private infinity pools and a personal butler.
In addition to 133 ocean-terrace properties, there will be 22 guest suites to accommodate visitors.
The 1,050-foot-long Ulyssia more than earns the rare title of “gigayacht,” which is generally bestowed upon yachts over 300 feet. It will surpass the Titanic in length, as well as amenities. The well-heeled seafarers aboard Ulyssia can enjoy padel tennis courts, a 21,000-square-foot wellness area, communal pools and an entire watersports marina in the back.
There will also be a nightclub, art and dance studios, an observatory, seven restaurants and a beauty salon, according to a Ulyssia brochure. Residents will be well taken care of, according to the promotional materials, which boast among their health amenities onboard dentistry and an MRI machine.?
Ulyssia’s designer, Monaco-based Norwegian yacht designer Espen Oeino, told the Telegraph that he expects plenty of private yacht owners will be eager to trade in their captain’s hat for an apartment key.?
“Private yacht ownerships are often associated with hassle,” Oeino told the outlet. “On a big yacht you might have a 50 crew. It can be like operating a small company.”?
Swiss billionaire Frank Binder founded and funds the ongoing project, and has enlisted interior designer Francesca Muzio to craft the record-setting gigayacht’s luxe leather and light oak interiors.
The boat’s backers have lofty plans for Ulyssia. They want to attract a global community of like-minded 1 percenters, according to the Telegraph, eager to see and experience the world in its furthest reaches, like touring Papa New Guinea with ex-special forces personnel or climbing aboard one of two Triton submarines to explore the ocean’s depths.
