For About $1 Million a Week, You Can Rent Paul Allen’s Obscene Superyacht

The tardy Microsoft co - founder Paul Allen ’s 414 - foot superyacht has finally been sold to an unnamed whodunit buyer for the low , low price of 235 million euro ( about $ 276 million USD ) . The vessel , nickname “ Octopus ” beforeAllen ’s deathin 2018 , is slimly long than the average football flying field , and considered one of the largest superyachtsin creation .

While the identity of the emptor is obscure , the Guardianreportsthat the racing yacht is planned to be made available for rental via the major yachting factor , Camper & Nicholsons . The firm has n’t yet announced a rental damage for the vas , but rest assure : it ’s plausibly going to be a batch of money . As The Guardian ’s report points out , other superyachts have been chartered out for about 1 million euro per week — or $ 1.2 million .

Yes , it ’s a lot of money . But it ’s a lot of yacht : the eight - pack of cards ship features 13 cabin that can match two guests apiece , with enough space for 63 additional bunch extremity . There ’s also two elevators , two helipads , and a full garage ! ) for parking car , whirlybird , and a separate 8 - person submarine .

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If that ’s not enough for you , here ’s a few more perks from the initialsuperyacht listingbefore it was bought : one of the eight deck is fully gear towards amusement , and contain a film , gym , spa , and full hoops court . There ’s a glass - bottomed submersed lounge where you may see fish flit by . There ’s a full puddle and jacuzzi . There ’s also a dive plaza — complete with hyperbaric chamber — for guests that might want to go scuba diving . uncalled-for to say , it ’s a reasonably fancy boat .

And it turns out the market for these kinds of boats is boom , especially as the lewdly wealthy look for new , fancier forms of socially distanced entertainment . As Bloombergpoints out , there weremore than 200superyachts sold in the first quarter of this yr , compare to just 131 being trade during the same stretching in 2020 . gratuitous to say , Octopus ’s high Mary Leontyne Price tag believably is n’t exit to make these the great unwashed flinch .

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