A never-ending cruise ship was their home. Now they’re stuck in Cambodia
by Tassia Sipahutar and Randy Thanthong-Knight · Australian Financial ReviewTassia Sipahutar and Randy Thanthong-Knight
Oct 29, 2026 – 9.50am
For the past two years, Lanette Canen and Johan Bodin have used social media to chronicle their lives on the Villa Vie Odyssey, a cruise ship that was on an around-the-world trip until it ran out of fuel in Cambodia.
Now, their dream voyage appears over. The couple is among hundreds of residents shocked by an order to disembark the ship in Sihanoukville, where the vessel has been stranded because it can’t afford fuel, which Villa Vie Residences claims has as much as quadrupled in price since the Iran war began.
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