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Odyssey residents face journey home after selling homes for cruise

Passengers describe the loss of their life aboard as the operator blames fuel costs and seeks a financial backer.

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Les 200 passagers d'une "croisière à vie" contraints de débarquer au Cambodge｜TF1 INFO

Some had sold their houses to make the ship their home. Now residents of the Odyssey are trying to arrange a return journey or waiting for another solution after their residential cruise ended abruptly in Cambodia.

France's TF1 INFO reports that 203 passengers were required to leave the vessel at Sihanoukville, a port in the country's southwest, with just seven hours to pack. Its short report focuses on what that departure meant for people who had invested both money and plans for their future in life aboard.

The American company Villa Vie had offered a continuing voyage around the world, with cabins sold for between $120,000 and $440,000, according to the report. The journey ended a little over two years after it began.

One passenger struggles with her sadness as she remembers the good times aboard. Another says residents were lied to and had not been warned that this would happen. A woman emphasizes how much money they had invested.

Villa Vie Residences attributes the interruption to sharply higher fuel costs linked to the Middle East conflict. In a company statement read during the report, it says significant efforts to reduce fuel consumption had not solved the problem.

The report ends with passengers seeking a way home or awaiting help, while the company looks for a financial backer.

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