Caribbean Islands
by Lonely Planet
. South of the Carenage, on its way to the resorts at Grand Anse, the road sweeps around the Lagoon, where a forest of masts and megayacht hulls mark the upmarket Port Louis marina. Sights Fort George FORT (Church St; admission EC$5; 6am-5pm) Grenada’s oldest fort was established by
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& Grill RESTAURANT $$ (Port Louis Marina; mains EC$20-60; lunch & dinner; ) Located in the upmarket Port Louis marina, with tables overlooking boats and the occasional megayacht. It’s busy with happy yachties eating fresh salads, burgers and seafood brochettes. The atmosphere is fun, and the food is great. Foodland SUPERMARKET (Lagoon
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soon be changing dramatically now that construction has begun on Christophe Harbour, a 2500-acre development that will include fancy residences, five-star hotels, a megayacht marina, a members-only beach club and a Tom Fazio–designed golf course. Come now. The idyllic beaches that brought many to the Caribbean in
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complex. Gucci and Louis Vuitton headline the tony roster, along with a hookah bar and several waterfront bistros where you can sip cosmos and watch mega-yachts drift in to the dock. A farmers’ market (www.growvi.org; 10am-2pm, 1st & 3rd Sun) with produce and crafts sets up on the grounds
All the Money in the World
by Peter W. Bernstein · 17 Dec 2008 · 538pp · 147,612 words
. The wealth and power must be put into evidence.” Then, as now, houses were one common extravagance. Evidence of vast wealth might also be a mega-yacht, a private jet, a string of beautiful wives, parties, art, or anything else that strikes the fancy. * * * Everyday essentials for the modern billionaire How much
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’s multiyear America’s Cup preparations, his Rising Sun yacht was too big for a jetty that had been specially built to dock the expected megayachts. Instead, Ellison had to berth his 453-foot boat on the far side of the harbor next to the container cranes. In an effort to
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, Larry”: Carrie Kirby, “Inside Look at a Billionaire’s Budget,” San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 31, 2006. 23. The following year Ellison purchased: www.powerandmotoryacht.com/megayachts/2006%2Damerica%2Dlargest%2Dyachts. 24. Vanity Fair described the interior: Symonds, “Absolutely Excessive!” 25. Allen’s boat is noted: Kiri Blakeley, “Bigger Than Yours: Billionaire
Sardinia Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet · 890pp · 133,829 words
the Aga Khan’s favourite, Spiaggia del Principe – a perfect crescent of frost-white sand smoothed by gin-clear water. Play paparazzi, eyeing up the megayachts in millionaires' playground resorts, or eschew the high life to seek out secluded coves, embedded in fragrant macchia, where the views are simply priceless. DHMIG
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a PADI open-water course and €20 per day for equipment hire. Sailing Sailing in Sardinia doesn’t have to mean designer outfits and a mega-yacht on the Costa Smeralda, although that is certainly a part of it. For idyllic summer sailing, pick up a boat in Carloforte and set sail
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(at a push) a night in the Presidential Suite at Hotel Cala di Volpe, and billionaire jet-setters cruise into Costa Smeralda’s marinas in mega-yachts like floating mansions, and models, royals, Russian oligarchs and balding media moguls come to frolic in its waters. Bill Gates and the Sultan of Brunei
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is elected president of Sardinia. He sets the cat among the pigeons by banning building within 2km of the coast and taxing holiday homes and mega-yachts. 2008 After 36 years, the US Navy withdraws from the Arcipelago di La Maddalena. It had long divided opinion: friends pointed to the money it
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by Lonely Planet, Alexis Averbuck, Michael S Clark, Des Hannigan, Victoria Kyriakopoulos and Korina Miller · 31 Mar 2012
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by Frederik Obermaier · 17 Jun 2016 · 372pp · 109,536 words
sale of a luxury yacht – the nominee directors signed the associated contract. Joachim zu Baldernach had decided to buy himself an even bigger yacht, a mega-yacht tailor-made to his own specifications. By all appearances, this yacht is also held by a shell company in another tax haven. All perfectly organized
Greece Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
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by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 words
sell products to high-net-worth individuals. An Airbus Corporate Jet (ACJ) can start at $100 million, and a Boeing business jet is similarly priced. Mega yachts can cost as much as $500 million. “It’s a smaller group of people driving more influence through their purchasing power,” he said. “A $100
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warming. Gates has said he buys carbon offsets from a company equal to his footprint. Unlike private planes, which are often used for business travel, mega yachts—essentially floating mansions—appear to be little more than advertisements for billionaire profligacy. At more than 417 feet in length, Koru, the luxury schooner custom
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by Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley · 22 Jul 2009 · 471pp · 127,852 words
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by Zeke Faux · 11 Sep 2023 · 385pp · 106,848 words
the crypto boom. Racing across the globe from the Bahamas to Italy to Cambodia, Zeke Faux takes readers behind the velvet rope and onto the mega yachts and multimillion-dollar tropical compounds of the billionaire crypto schemers, hustlers, and evangelists who may all be headed to prison—but are having a riotously
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it traveled from the Caribbean to Art Basel in Miami, the Monaco Grand Prix, and the Cannes Film Festival. He described it as “the first mega yacht club for the crypto community” and a floating home for crypto superheroes. “We’re the Avengers,” he said. “It’s the Avengers ship.” I realized
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