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Sailing like a First Lady: the Onassis yacht
Posted Dec 18, 2009
The Christina O, an embodiment of understated luxury...
One may not think of the Onassis family yacht as a likely destination for their next break but think again as the ultimate luxury experience is now available to ... if not most then at least a lot more than before (see here for details). In April and May next year mini-cruises will be organised along the French Riviera onboard the Christina O, an extravagant (verging on the ridiculous as far as the whale foreskin bar stools are concerned...) floating mansion as well as a piece of history. Rather scandalous history (the best kind): you may very well have heard of it as the "Love Boat" as it became the backdrop to one of the most glamourous affairs of the past decades, Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis' affair.
Onboard most of the original features have been kept (save from the more obscene of Onassis' indulgences... dolphin gold taps and other humble features) and so you can down it like a party-mad heiress sat in Ari's bar (on the infamous whale foreskin... Onassis liked to tease his female guests about their sitting on the world's biggest penis, making him sound in turn like the world's biggest tool...), keep the party alive on the deck pool/dancefloor... Or settle for the gourmet billion-course meal and lyrical hour courtesy of modern-day divas.
What Onassis affectionately called his whale penises... We can only imagine what these walls have seen!
Check out the talent around the pool by day (hidden behind the compulsory Jackie O-style shades), make out with the talent on the dancefloor at night!
A spiraling staircase combined with seasickness are the perfect camouflage for the next-morning hangover... They're just so unchic!
Walking up and down this hotel-like corridor you might end up seeing ghosts... Hopefully dead divas rather than creepy twins...
Do it like an A-lister, indulge in the Maria Callas experience; adultery strictly optional.
* Callas frenzy! Read more about the new battle of the divas here on Swide!*
*More inspirational chic travel suggestions*
Aurelie Bellavigna
Source: The Independent
Photo credits: Various
TAGS: onassis yacht christina o jackie o jackie kennedy luxury cruise
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