article_snippet: It is the only way to sail around The World without ever leaving the comforts of home, but It doesn’t come cheap.
article_snippet: The World, a luxury vessel with 165 private residences, offers wealthy individuals the chance to live on a ship while visiting the most exotic or remote locations on the planet.
article_snippet: When residents of The World are at home on the high seas, residents of The World can enjoy the only full-size tennis court at sea, a 7,000-square foot spa and fitness centre, and swimming pools, and sample 12,000 bottles of wine with advice from an on board sommelier.
article_snippet: Since The 12-deck ship launched in 2002 the floating city has visited more than 900 ports in more than 140 countries while sailing on a continuous worldwide itinerary at a maximum speed of 18.5 knots.
article_snippet: This year The World set sail from Singapore and toured exotic islands in Southeast Asia before visiting Maldives and Seychelles.
article_snippet: From there board will visit Fowey in Cornwall before sailing to Dublin and on to the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland while residents and guests are taken care of by a crew of 270.
article_snippet: Before the end of the year the ship’s residents, who are from more than 19 countries, will have visited Canada, the US and several countries in South America.
article_snippet: The final expedition of 2015 will take the ship
article_snippet: ’s residents, who are from more than 19 countries to the Antarctic Peninsula, where the ship’s residents, who are from more than 19 countries will explore islands and see icebergs, glacier caves and snow-capped mountains.
article_snippet: In all, the ship will sail 41,000 nautical miles while visiting 104 ports of call and spending 77 days at sea.
article_snippet: In 2012 residents and guests spotted polar bears on ice floes in the Arctic as The World became the largest passenger ship to sail the North West Passage.
article_snippet: The World will sail 41,000 nautical miles while visiting 104 ports of call and spending 77 days at sea
article_snippet: Passengers have sailed to a number of exotic locations, including the Sea of Okhotsk in the western Pacific Ocean .
article_snippet: Passengers have also played golf in the Antarctic snow after retracing Sir Ernest Shackleton’s historic steps.
article_snippet: Guests can stay on the largest passenger ship to sail the North West Passage for as long as Guests want and are responsible for planning the largest passenger ship to sail the North West Passage route.
highlights_snippet: At 644ft, the luxury ocean liner sails to some of the most exotic and remote locations on the planet .
  