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“奥德赛号”居民被要求离开在柬埔寨的水上住所
据一则说法,居民获准离开的时间大约只有7小时。维拉维生活居所公司为期60天的融资行动并不保证他们能够返回,住房和还款问题仍未解决。
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上午7点刚过,通知便到了:所有人必须在下午2点前离开。对住在“奥德赛号”上的人来说,这意味着大约只有7小时准备离开家——这并非只是一次邮轮之旅提前结束。他们接下来住在哪里、在那里居住要花多少钱,以及何时可能返回船上,都没有定论。1
这是居民兰迪·卡辛厄姆对10月26日星期一张贴的通知的描述。一天后,维拉维生活居所公司公开宣布,已暂停这艘住宅船在柬埔寨的运营,并正在寻求新的融资。这个区别很重要:公开公告是在通知居民离开的指令之后发布的,而不是他们收到的第一条警告。1 2
运营方已设定一个为期60天的重组和资本重整期,即重组业务并寻求新的资金。与此同时,居民面临在其他地方居住的即时开支。公司的财务时间表并不是住房安排,也不保证他们能够再次入住船舱。
维拉维生活居所公司表示,正在与居民合作,协调下船事宜并寻找临时居住安排。但现有报道并未证实已有任何住房安置完成、提供航班协助或作出报销承诺。谁来承担这次中断造成的费用,仍是一个实际问题,并未在公告中得到解决。1 12
融资期限,不是返航日期
该公司将暂停运营归因于燃油成本大幅上涨。公司称,降低消耗的措施未能抵消成本上涨,而将全部新增成本转嫁给居民并不现实。NBC新闻将这一解释与伊朗战争期间全球石油供应受到的干扰联系起来。运营方自身的财务状况,以及燃油成本在多大程度上导致此次暂停运营,均未得到独立证实。1 2
我们目前的重点是支持居民、船员和员工,同时在未来60天内推进重组和资本重整。这项工作仍在进行中,结果并无保证。
最后一句是至关重要的限定说明。60天指的是尝试修复财务状况的期限,并不保证重新运营、偿还款项或保留居民进入其住所的权利。
卡辛厄姆称,公司通知宣布“临时停航”,并将此次中断归因于“一连串问题”;在NBC新闻引用的这段说法中,他没有详细说明这些问题。据《新闻周刊》报道,停航期间船员仍留在船上。目前没有记录证实重启日期。现有证据也无法证实该船遭海事主管部门扣留、正式申请破产或确定永久关闭。“临时”描述的是宣布的状态,并不能表明恢复运营所需资金已有着落。1 14 17 2
受影响人数也不明确。这艘长642英尺的船宣传称可容纳650名居民,维拉维生活居所公司则称“奥德赛号”的售出率为85%。这两个数字都无法说明运营停止时有多少人住在船上。柬埔寨的具体港口或下船地点也尚未确定。1
暂停运营前的警告
在要求离船之前,已有关于财务压力的说法。59岁的帕梅拉·雷坎普和丈夫租住了一间船舱,并于10月初离船。她向NBC新闻谈及9月初在越南下龙湾举行的一次会议。她回忆称,一名公司官员要求船舱所有者协助筹集100万美元,以便船只启航。1
据雷坎普说,这名官员警告称,如果拿不到这笔钱,船只大约只剩4天的运营时间:“然后灯会熄灭,空调也会停。”这是她对警告的回忆,并不能证明这两项服务后来确实中断,也不能证明所要求的资金已经筹到。尽管如此,这一说法表明,早在10月下旬暂停运营的数周前,就有人报告了现金方面的担忧。1
雷坎普回忆说,几周后的另一次会议上,一名女子表示,她在8月购买船舱时,没人告知她财务问题。雷坎普记得她说:“我卖掉了房子。我卖掉了汽车。我买下了这艘船上的家。”这名女子的处境尚未得到独立证实;这一说法来自转述。但它说明了为何不能把这次中断仅仅视为假期取消。对已经把家搬到船上的人来说,住所和投入其中的资金都面临同一家企业倒闭的风险。1
雷坎普对居民和工作人员表示同情。谈到自己较早离船一事时,她告诉NBC新闻:“我们躲过了一劫。”1
关于运营方财务状况陈述的问题,在此次暂停运营之前就已存在。2025年,一家以469,000美元购买船舱的公司提起诉讼,指控维拉维生活居所公司欺诈,并称其歪曲了自身的财务稳定状况。原告要求由陪审团审理,并索赔超过100,000美元。维拉维生活居所公司否认这些指控,此案仍在审理中。此次暂停运营并非法院认定这些指控属实。1
合同各不相同,眼前的问题却相同
船舱可供购买或租赁,因此居民面临的财务风险不能简化为一个宣传价格。2024年,维拉维生活居所公司宣传住宅起价为119,000美元。另据特拉华州法院的一项命令,一份个人租赁合同于2023年12月签订,期限为1,289天,价格为162,745美元,之后有所修改。这些历史数字并非当前价目表、退款安排,也不能证明其他居民享有何种权利。1 4
公司的一般条款是对《船舱权利购买协议》的补充。所提供的条款并未确定个别居民权利的期限、经常性费用或与暂停运营有关的付款规定。要回答这些问题,必须查看适用的协议及其修订内容,而不能假定每位船舱持有人购买的内容都相同。9
“奥德赛号”的开局已经颇为坎坷。其原定的首次住宅航程为三年半,但在贝尔法斯特延误了17周,直到2024年9月30日才驶离港口。之后,该船一直停泊在唐郡近海,直到10月3日才继续航行。这一时间线表明,柬埔寨暂停运营发生在启航约两年后。计划中的航程长度并不能决定任何特定居民的船舱权利会持续多久。10
今年7月,高管米凯尔·彼得森表示,“奥德赛号”的初衷是证明住宅邮轮不仅可行,而且能够持续运营。他拒绝向NBC新闻提供有关暂停运营的更多细节;截至周二晚间,该公司尚未回应该媒体的进一步问询。1
播出原貌 20 行
- Villa Vie ordered residents off their floating homes in Cambodia.
- People who bought or rented cabins aboard Odyssey now face the cost of living somewhere else. The operator is seeking new financing, with no guaranteed outcome. What support will residents get, and what happens to the homes and money they've put into the ship?
- The 642-foot Odyssey offered cabins for purchase or rent while residents traveled the world. For people using those cabins as their homes, the order to leave meant finding somewhere else to live while the business behind their accommodation stopped operating.
- Resident Randy Cassingham says a company message appeared shortly after seven in the morning, requiring everyone to leave by two that afternoon. That gave residents roughly seven hours to prepare. He described the message as announcing a “temporary lay up,” and called the interruption the end of his journey.
- The residents' notice came on Monday, October 26. Villa Vie publicly announced the suspension on Tuesday, October 27. Those were separate stages of the same shutdown in operations. Crew remained aboard during the lay-up.
- Cassingham blamed a “cascade of problems,” without detailing them at that point. Villa Vie's explanation centered on fuel. The company says extraordinary price increases overwhelmed its efforts to reduce consumption, and that passing the whole increase to residents wasn't realistic.
- Odyssey's suspension leaves its residents ashore in Cambodia. The company hasn't named the precise port or disembarkation location. The wider fuel squeeze follows disruptions to global oil supplies during the war with Iran, with oil prices reaching their highest levels since spring this month.
- Villa Vie says it's coordinating disembarkation and looking for temporary living arrangements. Residents still need to know who will pay for accommodation and onward travel. The company hasn't explained what housing support has actually reached them. Its stated financial timetable stretches well beyond the few hours residents were given to leave.
- Villa Vie says it will work toward restructuring and recapitalization over the next 60 days. That means reorganizing the business and seeking fresh money. The company adds, “no outcome is assured.” It hasn't given residents a date for returning aboard.
- The number of people affected is still unclear. Villa Vie has promoted both the ship's capacity and its cabin sales, but those figures measure different things. Some cabins were rented, others purchased. Each resident's exposure depends on their own agreement and what they paid.
- Villa Vie advertises room for 650 residents. It also said Odyssey was 85% sold, repeating that claim in a 2026 announcement of a second ship. Nobody has said how many residents were actually aboard when operations stopped.
- A former renter describes financial warnings weeks before the suspension. Pamela Reckamp, 59, rented a cabin with her husband and left earlier in October. She recalls an early-September meeting where a company official asked cabin owners to help raise one million dollars so Odyssey could leave Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.
- Reckamp recalls the official warning they had about four days of ship operations left without that money. She remembers being told, “Then the lights will go off and the AC will go off.” Her account describes the warning given at that meeting.
- At another meeting a few weeks later, Reckamp recalls a woman saying she'd bought a cabin in August without being told about the financial problems. Reckamp remembers her saying, “I sold my house. I sold my car. I bought my home on this ship.” Reckamp expressed concern for residents and staff, and said, “We dodged a bullet.”
- A company that bought a cabin for $469,000 sued Villa Vie in 2025, alleging fraud and misrepresentation of financial stability. It seeks a jury trial and damages exceeding $100,000. Villa Vie denies the allegations. The case is ongoing.
- Residents also entered at different prices. In 2024, Villa Vie advertised homes starting at $119,000. One individual contract, signed in December 2023, covered a rental of 1,289 days for $162,745 and was later modified. Those historical amounts don't determine another resident's refund or continuing charges during the suspension.
- Executive Mikael Petterson said in July that Odyssey was meant to prove residential cruising could be sustainable. He declined to provide further details about the suspension. Villa Vie hadn't supplied an additional response by Tuesday night.
- Odyssey had already endured a long interruption before its maiden voyage. Its intended residential journey was three and a half years. Residents waited through 17 weeks of delays in Belfast before the ship left the harbour in September 2024. The Cambodia suspension came about two years after that departure.
- Odyssey left Belfast harbour on September 30, 2024, then stayed anchored off County Down until proceeding onward on October 3. The planned voyage length doesn't determine how long any individual resident's cabin rights last.
- Residents now face immediate displacement while Villa Vie seeks financing. The company hasn't explained how cabin rights, access to belongings or continuing charges will be handled during the suspension. It has announced no refund arrangement. Residents face the cost of living elsewhere while the future of their homes aboard remains unresolved.
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