Man who spent six years living on world’s most exclusive cruise ship compares it to ‘real-life White Lotus’
People dream of being able to travel the world but one man who did this on an exclusive cruise ship revealed just how wild these trips are.
Retired New York litigator Peter Antonucci, 64, lived on the exclusive cruise called The World and boy, it sounds like a fever dream.
Not only do condos aboard go for around $2 million dollars, Antonucci claimed that it was filled with reality TV level drama with fights and affairs galore.
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Speaking to The Daily Mail, Antonucci said he and his wife lived aboard the cruise ship for almost 6 years before they eventually called it quits and headed back to dry land.
Antonucci said that he began to get more of an inside scoop of the goings on when he was elected to sit on the Board of Directors for The World.
He said: “All the extreme conduct violations are bought to the board's attention so that's what it comes down to.
“I knew where all the skeletons could be found - I knew who slept with who, who assaulted who, who stole... And beyond that obviously I have two eyes and two ears. You see things and you intuit things."
In addition to this, he also likened the antics to that of a 'fraternity' and suggested it was very much like that of HBO’s dark comedy show, The White Lotus.
“The ship was powered more by rumors than diesel fuel,” Antonucci joked.
He did clarify that the guests weren't going so far as to commit murder, but the antics would've made for good television regardless.
“But you had entitled owners screaming at staff when they couldn't get their way and you had guests come on who were inappropriate, barely dressed and grinding against each other on the pool deck.” Antonucci said.
He added that despite the massive size of the vessel, it is a relatively small group of successful and, in some cases, 'entitled' people together for long periods of time.
“When you are at sea for six or seven days people just go from bar to bar, and what could possibly go wrong,” he said.
“Did you have people getting smashed? Of course. Did you have people diving into the pool fully dressed? Yes. Did they stay fully dressed? Not always."
But, according to Antonucci, that was just all part of the territory.
And it seems like the details of the goings on would make for a great story... which is what Antonucci also thought as he ended up using them as inspiration to write a series of books.
However, he clarified that his books were fictitious and unrelated to The World cruise ship and its residents.
A spokesperson for The World also told The Daily Mail: "We had earlier been in touch with Mr. Antonucci, who has assured us in writing that his works are unrelated to The World or its residents, and that his publications are fictional works of art about a fictional ship.
"We wish him well in his creative works of fiction, which we understand have no relation to The World or any of its residents."
UNILAD has contacted The World for further comment.
Topics: World News, Travel, US News
Gerrard Kaonga