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It Costs A Porsche 911 To Moor A Yacht At The Monaco Grand Prix For A Week
It Costs A Porsche 911 To Moor A Yacht At The Monaco Grand Prix For A Week-August 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:10:46

A photo of yachts overlooking to Monaco Grand Prix.

If you want to bag yourself a rich person to fund your exuberant lifestyle, there are few . The principality is home to all the glitz and glam you should expect: casinos, sea-view apartments, and a harbor . Never is this more true than when , when the real big-money players show up.

But just how much does it set the average billionaire back to attend Formula 1’s most historic race? Well, , the renter of a luxury yacht spent a small fortune on their attendance of this year’s grand prix.

The Independent reports that an unnamed billionaire chartered a $2.4 million-a-week yacht . The vessel they hired was originally commissioned by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and was first launched in 2003.

A photo of the Octopus yacht at port.

But spending millions on a rental is only half the issue in Monaco, you then have to find a space to park it.

For our big spender, the cost of tying up their luxury yacht close to the grand prix circuit for a week came in at more than most of us would ever dream of spending on a car. The billionaire reportedly forked out $138,000 to tie up their boat for a week in Monaco. A hundred and thirty-eight grand.

For context, this billionaire spent more to tie up their yacht for a single week than it would cost to buy . If you went for the car instead, you’d get to keep the Porsche for life!

A photo of a green Porsche Carrera 4S

Rather shockingly, this isn’t even the most you could expect to pay for a yacht mooring in Monaco, as prices can rise even higher than the cost of a new Porsche, as The Independent reports:

“According to Luxurylaunches, the 126-meter vessel – built by German shipyard Lurssen – was the largest yacht at the event, where weekly mooring fees can reach prices of $150,000.”

When you add all that up, the cost of a ticket to the race itself for between $500 and $1,500 seems like a drop in the ocean.

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