World’s Most Expensive Charter Yacht
You heard it here first, folks: The 280-foot Annaliesse, long ranked as the world’s most expensive charter yacht at a whopping base rate of $840,000 per week, has been sold. Her new owner has taken her off the charter market altogether, preferring to keep the use of the spectacular indoor spa all to himself.
That leaves Annaliesse’s virtually identical sistership, Alysia, as the world’s most expensive charter yacht–at a base rate of 661,500 euros per week. At today’s conversion rate, that’s a whopping $867,000 a week.
Why the immediate price push? Annaliesse’s departure from the market marks the first reversal in a recent trend of “super-size” yachts–those able to take more than 12 guests at a time–being brought into charter. She was one of about a half-dozen of these “super-sizers,” all of which continue to report fully booked seasons in both the Caribbean and the Mediterranean.
Interest in booking these gigayachts is at an all-time high. Annaliesse’s departure from the market simply makes supply even tighter than growing demand at this top-dollar end of the luxury charter scale.
Alysia continues to be owned and managed by the Greek company Liveras Yachts, which has already removed all traces of Annaliesse from its website.