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No Housing Slump for Residential Cruise Line
Condos and Penthouses Are in Demand Onboard The Magellan
PHOENIX, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Although the rest of the country may be feeling the housing slump, condo and penthouse sales onboard the $750,000,000 private residential cruise ship, The Magellan, have been so brisk a new sales center has been opened to deal with demand. Residential Cruise Line, Ltd., the parent company of The Magellan, has opened a 5500 square foot sales office and added more than 10 new sales representatives in less than a month. The Residential Cruise Line Sales Center is headquartered at 4145 E. Baseline in Gilbert just adjacent from the parent company's corporate headquarters.
The new sales center features 24 private offices and can accommodate up to 30 sales representatives. Various recruiting firms and in-house sales team recruiter has been hired to fill the remaining sales force positions.
"With our sales exceeding expectations, it became evident for the need to staff up our sales team in order to better accommodate our potential new owners," said Randall B. Jackson, president and CEO of Residential Cruise Line, Ltd. "Rapid customer responsiveness is one of our hallmarks. We want to make sure that our owners have a stellar customer service experience from their initial point of contact to when we hand them the keys to their new condo or penthouse onboard The Magellan. Additional sales staff will insure we stay true to our hallmark."
The most luxurious private residential cruise ship ever conceived, The Magellan features the amenities and services of the world's finest resorts. On-call housekeeping staff, a world-class spa and marketplace, a 24-hour concierge staff, indoor and outdoor pools, four fine dining restaurants, a 450-seat theatre featuring Broadway-quality entertainment, a casino worthy of Monte Carlo are just a few of the features that make owning a home onboard The Magellan a unique experience.
Private residences on The Magellan range in price from $1.875 million to $8 million for penthouses and from $156,250 for fractional ownership condos. For more information about ship specifics and fractional ownership opportunities, call 480-497-8833 or visit the Web site at www.residentialcruiseline.com.
Source: Residential Cruise Line, Ltd.
A three year from deposit deadline for refunds IF the ship had not been built clause. The "refund in this scenario" rules locks resale of lease until after the build.
We have had no announcements here about this, if memory serves. If a residential ship was being built wouldn't industry watchers be on top of this? If course watchers here would have caught the new build going to keel laying or a contract being signed.
It just seems a little ambitious with a new build and all and it seems that they will give The World a run.
Maybe I am wrong...
Joe at TravelPage.com
Call me cynical but I can't see this one being succesful either. I could never understand why someone would pay multi-millions for a huge cabin on a ship instead of buying their own yacht.
For a regular cruise ship, the line has to book a berth over two years in advance these days, especially time specific places like the Monaco Grand Prix or Rio's Mardi Gras which are more like 3 years. How do these ships find berths when the community makes the decision of where to go on short notice. In addition, the ports will much prefer to turn over 6 mega cruise ships with all the head taxes that generates than one residential ship for 6 days with only a few hundred heads to tax once.
Beats me...
Pam
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