00:01The cruise ship Villavie Odyssey left the Sihanoukville autonomous port in Cambodia
00:06shortly after midnight on Wednesday, after more than a week docked there.
00:11Passengers unloaded their last belongings from the vessel on Tuesday,
00:15and many said they did not expect to be able to go back on the ship.
00:19I just made my last trip to the ship to pack up the last amount of things
00:27that I feel like I need to have with me.
00:30There's still many things on the ship that I wish I could take with me.
00:34I'm leaving some because there's like a 1% to 3% chance that maybe something will happen,
00:40and we'll get to get back on it, but probably I'll never see any of that stuff again,
00:45and that makes me sad, but they're worse things, I guess.
00:50I don't think we're allowed to go back with the ship.
00:52I would love to continue travelling, but as I understand it, no passengers are allowed.
00:58And then I heard tonight they were going to go, or maybe next Friday, or maybe next Wednesday.
01:04We don't get any clear indication from the owners of Villavie as to what's happening.
01:10They have been so quiet.
01:12The only information we get is from the wonderful government and representatives here in Cambodia.
01:17The Villavie Odyssey had been cruising the world for at least 755 days as one of only a handful of
01:25ships
01:25that offered passengers the opportunity to rent or buy long-term or even permanent residences on board.
01:32People who paid as much as US$440,000 to live permanently aboard the touring cruise ship
01:39were forced to disembark in Cambodia last week after the vessel's operator said fuel price increases
01:46from the Iran war had made operations prohibitively expensive.
01:50The ship's owner, Villavie Residences, said it was working to find them temporary accommodation.
01:56The status of the passengers and the ship's final destination are both unconfirmed.
02:02Some passengers and local media earlier said it is bound for Singapore.
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