Filling a King-Size Hole
So, I spent two days last week flying back and forth to Mexico to interview the owner of a new boat for one of my regular magazine gigs, at Power & Motoryacht. I can’t tell you what boat it was–that might tip off competing magazines about what we’re planning to feature in our next issue–but I can tell you that what I saw onboard this motoryacht left me drooling for the time when somebody buys one just like it and puts it into charter.
The boat had a master suite on the main deck plus a VIP cabin on the bridge deck. The VIP connects to the sky lounge, but instead of leaving that space for guest use, these owners had converted the whole area into a VIP suite.
In essence, that means the boat has two full-on “master suites”–something hard to find in the charter industry. It’s a great feature because it means two couples can split the bill on a charter without either couple feeling like they got a lesser stateroom.
But wait, there’s more! This particular boat also has two guest cabins on the bottom deck with king-size beds, plus a third guest cabin on the bottom deck that has twin beds that convert into a king. So if you wanted to, you could have two full-on suites plus three king-size cabins for a charter–an ideal setup for five couples, without anybody sleeping in “a kiddie cabin.”
I’ll link from this blog to my review of this boat as soon as it’s up on the Power & Motoryacht website, so you can see which boat I’m talking about and just how cool the arrangement plans are for charter.
And then we can all hope that the next guy who buys the same model will make the boat available for charter bookings. It would be great to have a yacht like this filling the king-size (bed) hole that exists in the crewed charter market today.