New cruise ship community will live at sea

Cruise ships offer tourists the chance to explore the world and enjoy a huge range of facilities onboard. A new ship from Storylines has created a new community that will have its primary residence at sea.Storylines was designed to give people the chance to explore the world while maintaining their career and family life.MV Narrative, the brand’s ship, has 547 residences onboard ranging from studios to four bedroom apartments.Express.co.uk spoke to Alister Punton, CEO of Storylines, to find out what sort of person is attracted to life at sea.He said: ‘Business owners, lawyers, you name it, anyone and everyone are coming onboard the ship.’READ MORE: Cruise passengers could soon have to pay to visit Scotland – ‘blow’ Storylines’ residents will follow the sun all year (Image: Storylines)’All of it comes back to the community. We want to build a community of like-minded people who want to share experiences.’Post-Covid, a lot more people are wanting to work from the ship and they see it as their primary residence.’We have a resident who works as a doctor doing telemedicine and he will continue to do that from the ship.’Some of the community’s members will be families and children will continue education through a ‘Worldschooling’ program which will include field trips.DON’T MISSCruise guests complain about ‘huge pain’ at end of holiday [CRUISE]British expats could live in Bali for just £111,000 [EXPATS]Young women stranded on Portugal streets at night as Airbnb cancelled [NEWS] Children will follow an education program onboard (Image: Storylines) The world’s largest cruise ports (Image: Express)’We’ll be spending around three to five days in each destination so you won’t get sea legs as a resident.’Most of the time you’re either on land or near land. So if you wanted to you could actually spend more time on land.’Residents will be free to come and go as they please and can fly to meet the ship at its next destination.MV Narrative will have a 10,000 book library, a cinema, golf simulator, bowling alley and 20 bars and restaurants.