Mud from her Agatha Christie novels: the Orient Specific model is scheduled to hit the seas in three years.
Paris-based resort conglomerate Accor plans to launch a superyacht division of the Orient Specific model in spring 2026 with the 722-foot Orient Specific Silenseas. Whereas the Orient Specific model is commonly related to ultra-luxury thriller because of Agatha Christie’s “Homicide on the Orient Specific,” its grip on luxurious journey past the rails is rising.
Accor is already engaged on Orient Specific motels in Rome and Venice and is launching a practice providing (to not be confused with Belmond’s current Venice Simplon-Orient Specific) in 2024. Each Orient Specific motels are additionally scheduled to open subsequent yr.
Increasing the model to cruises would carry Accor face-to-face with Marriott’s assortment of Ritz-Carlton yachts, which lastly set sail in October after years of delays.
Bloomberg first reported on Accor’s plan to launch an Orient Specific superyacht division. An Accor spokesman declined to supply further particulars to TPG, saying extra info can be offered later this week.
The three-masted Orient Specific Silenseas can be the world’s largest crusing superyacht, Accor claims, and is anticipated to launch with routes spanning the Mediterranean and Caribbean. The reserves are anticipated to start out working subsequent yr.
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With 54 suites accommodating a complete of 120 visitors, Silenseas can be a extra intimate cruising setting than the Ritz-Carlton’s 298-passenger superyacht Evrima. As a consequence of decrease passenger numbers, count on fares to be costlier at Silenseas, Accor chief government Sébastien Bazin instructed Bloomberg.
Charges on the Evrima throughout its first season common between $700 and $900 per particular person per night time on Caribbean voyages and begin at $1,100 per particular person per night time within the Mediterranean, TPG reported in October.
Suites aboard the Silenseas will common 750 sq. ft, and 6 suites on the higher deck may be mixed to kind a 15,230-square-foot Presidential Suite with a non-public terrace.
Public areas will function two swimming swimming pools, two eating places, an oyster bar and speakeasy, a cabaret, and a spa. Given its namesake model, Silenseas is anticipated to function extraordinarily detailed constructions and companies. French architect Maxime d’Angeac, already engaged on the upcoming Orient Specific practice and Accor’s Orient Specific resort in Rome, can also be overseeing the superyacht’s inside design.
Accor guarantees to make the Orient Specific superyacht a extra sustainable choice. The Silenseas is not going to use diesel gasoline and can as a substitute depend on a hybrid propulsion system that depends totally on wind energy. One engine will even run on liquefied pure gasoline.
Accor already has plans for a second superyacht to debut someday in 2027.