Cruise Line’s Phone Number Gets Disconnected...

Seven years in the past, a brand new cruise line launched that was promising to promote cabins/condos on a cruise ship which you could dwell in beginning at just $155,000.

Storylines was initially going to purchase three older cruise ships and convert them into ships which you could dwell on.

A yr later, the cruise line moved in a brand new path and introduced a model new ship that they have been going to construct that may be not like another at sea. A launch date was set for 2023 and costs went as much as starting from $352,000 to $8 million per cabin.

In 2021, Storylines stated that development would start on this new ship in 2022, after delays from the Covid-19 pandemic. It will be constructed on the Brodosplit shipyard in Croatia.

In early 2022, the shipyard filed for provisional chapter as a result of banking sanctions towards Russian establishments.

The block was lifted in 2023 and the shipyard moved away from chapter. Nonetheless, development on Storylines’ ship, MV Narrative, by no means started. The launch date continued to get pushed again and the final date the cruise line gave was December 2026.

The cruise line continued to advertise and promote cabins on the ship. A number of future house owners who purchased cabins on the ship canceled and asked for refunds as a result of delays in constructing the vessel. Lots of them posted on-line about delays in receiving their refunds.

Others have canceled and purchased a cabin on Crescent Seas, a brand new luxurious cruise line launching subsequent yr that will even have ships you possibly can dwell on.

Quick ahead to in the present day, December 2025. The cellphone quantity for Storylines has been disconnected. Cruise Fever tried to name the quantity listed on their web site and acquired the next message:

“You could have reached a quantity that has been disconnected or is now not in service. Please verify the quantity and check out your name once more.”

Posts on Storylines’ social media accounts have been fewer and fewer. On their current Thanksgiving Fb publish, one person commented, “The place did Storylines go? All numbers disconnected, making an attempt to get my cash deposit again.”

Whereas the cruise line’s web site continues to be up, it appears to be like like Storylines will be part of the likes of Blue World Voyages and others who’ve tried to launch a ship which you could dwell on, however have been by no means capable of set sail.