{"id":4748,"date":"2011-08-07T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2011-08-07T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T21:51:00","slug":"struth-cruising-to-mars-out-of-this-world-shopping-at-harrods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/08\/struth-cruising-to-mars-out-of-this-world-shopping-at-harrods\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Cruising to Mars – out of this world shopping at Harrods"},"content":{"rendered":"

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IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis<\/a> says that not content with an-already 1.2 million items for sale in its 330 departments, London’s Harrod’s department store now has something totally new for its most-discerning inner-CBD customers \u2013 multi-million pound super-yachts.<\/p>\n

The store’s built a special showroom with models of the yachts, plasma screen video footage to show what one- or three-million pounds will get you, and put in a team of yachting salesmen from top English brokers, Watkins Superyachts to help shoppers with their decisions.<\/p>\n

Duck-in for a chat and you could walk away having put a deposit down on a GBP7M (AU$10.5M) ketch you could be sailing next weekend with family and a friends.<\/p>\n

Or if you’ve the money, and the patience, order a 90-metre, 6-deck Mars super-luxury motor-cruiser that will cost you around GBP100m (AU$153m) \u2013 and take three years to build from scratch.<\/p>\n

Then go and reward yourself with lunch and a drink in any of Harrod’s eight restaurants and caf\u00e9s, and ponder how much its going to cost you to pay the recommended 29-crew from captain through to chefs, waiters, room stewards and deckhands to look after yourself and a up to fourteen sleep-aboard mates on that motor-cruiser\u2026 that you won’t be sailing until around summer 2014.<\/p>\n

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IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says that not content with an-already 1.2 million items for sale in its 330 departments, London’s Harrod’s department store now has something totally new for its most-discerning inner-CBD customers \u2013 multi-million pound super-yachts. The store’s built a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}