{"id":897485,"date":"2026-10-28T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897485\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:54:10","slug":"us-cruise-ship-ends-global-voyage-due-to-fuel-costs-200-passengers-lose-their-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897485\/","title":{"rendered":"US cruise ship ends global voyage due to fuel costs; 200 passengers lose their homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A U.S. cruise ship on a residential world voyage suspended its operations in Cambodia<\/a> due to fuel costs, forcing hundreds of passengers to abandon their floating homes.<\/p>\n

The Odyssey set sail two years ago on a three-year voyage to the seven continents marketed as combining long-term living at sea with global travel.<\/p>\n

The Florida-based company said monthly fuel expenses per cabin that historically averaged $1,800 has recently reached an estimated $6,000 to $8,000 in parts of Asia during the war in Iran.<\/a> Villa Vie Residences said it sought to reduce fuel consumption by slowing the itinerary and spending more time in port, but was unable to offset the surge in fuel costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been unable to continue carrying the resulting operating losses,\u201d it said. \u201cPassing the full increase on to residents is not a realistic solution. Our focus now is on supporting residents, crew, and employees” while it tries to restructure.<\/p>\n

Sihanoukville Autonomous Port said in a statement last week that the ship docked on Oct. 23 for a five-day visit. It was to head to Vietnam but remained in the port Wednesday. <\/p>\n

The ship carried 203 passengers with 15 nationalities, mostly Americans, and 156 crew members. It had a capacity of 650 residents.<\/p>\n

Passengers have been told to leave the ship, but the crew’s status was unclear.<\/p>\n

The Odyssey had a confirmed itinerary into November 2027. The company planned for a second residential cruise ship to enter service in early 2029, but the statement on the suspension of the Odyssey’s voyage did not address the second ship.<\/p>\n

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This version has corrected the date when the voyage was expected to end from 2030 to 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A U.S. cruise ship on a residential world voyage suspended its operations in Cambodia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,793,795,965],"class_list":["post-897485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-general-news","tag-u-s-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}