Top 10 Most Expensive Yachts in the World 2010

Traveling with yacht is the rich hobbies. Yacht is equipped with full of luxury facilities. The wealth in the world is trying to make their yacht as beautiful as possible, hence it makes the yacht become most expensive yacht in the world in term of price. There’s a lot of facilities in the most expensive yacht in this list. You can find various of luxury thing there that vary from luxurious interior, helicopter with its helipad, swimming pool even there’s submarine and artificial beach on the expensive yacht. Let’s take a look at the most expensive yachts in detail one by one
10. Tatoosh: $100 million
Tatoosh is 301-foot Yacht owned by Paul Allen, the Co-founder. You can also see below that He also own Octopus. What’s the facility inside? You can mention own theatre, swimming pool, Helipad that available for 2 helicopters and you can also see lobster tank that will be available to serve food for entire passenger. It’s quite complete to call this a luxury mega yacht right?

 Tatoosh

9. Annaliesse: $103 million
More than 50 persons can be loaded easily on Annaliesse that has 280-foot length in 15 staterooms. This mega yacht can spoil the passenger with full service of Spa, Salon, Children play even library and 100-inch screen Movie Theater . The main stateroom has its own panoramic windows with king-size bed.

 Annaliesse

8. Alysia: $116 million
Alysia is 290-foot luxury charter yacht owned by Andreas Liveras, a Greek Businessman. This yacht has a master stateroom that equipped with private deck, jacuzzi and King size bed. This yacht has five decks and was constructed by Neorion Ship-yard in 2006. You can also make underwater escape with a pair of “scuba scooters” on this yacht.

 Alysia

7. Ecstasea: $129 million
This yacht was one of the “toys” of Roman Abramovich, Chelsea owner, before sold in June 2009 to an unknown American. Ecstasea is 250 foot mega yacht that built with Asian style interior design along with bamboo furniture by Terence Disdale and De Voogt Naval Architects. The yacht itself was built in 2004 by the famous shipyard of Royal Van Lent. You can find disco, sauna and Turkish bath here. You may arrive on the yacht by a helicopter as this yacht has retractable helipad.

 Ecstasea

6. Pelorus: $130 million
Pelorus is another yacht of Roman Abramovic. It’s 337 feet and 3 inches in length. It was built for Saudi Businessman by the Lürssen yard in Bremen, Germany with the design by Tim Heywood and was launched in 2003. After owned by Roman, the yacht was refitted by adding helipad, zero speed stabilizers and other additional feature. The yacht is full of toys like jet skis and wave runners with up to 46 crews that will serve the guests.

 Pelorus

5. Octopus: $200 million
Octopus is another mega yacht owned by Paul Allen. It’s 416 foot yacht with 40 crew that ready to serve. The ships are also a “garage” of 7 smallers boats, two helicopters and 10 person submarine. Octopus was built by the German shipbuilders Lürssen in Bremen and HDW in Kiel and designed by Jonathan Quinn Barnett from Seattle.

 Octopus

4. Rising Sun: $200 Million
This yacht was designed by the late Jon Bannenberg. Rising Sun was built by Germany’s Lürssen. It’s co-owned by Larry Elisson of Oracle and David Geffen. It’s 453 feet with lot of facilities. You can mention luxury facilities such as Onyx countertops,Jacuzzi bathrooms, A gymnasium/spa and sauna,An extensive wine cellar, A private cinema with a giant plasma screen. Totally it has 82 rooms.

 Rising Sun

3. Lady Moura: $210 million
Lady Moura was built in 1990 by Blohm + Voss, Germany with the order from the current owner Prince Nasser al-Rashid. The yacht is very large that it have some trouble to enter some harbor like Monte Carlo. The yacht itself has 60 crews. The yacht has a pool with retractable roof. The special feature is that this ship has mock of beachfront complete with sand and palm.

 Lady Moura

2. Dubai: $350 Million
Dubai is formerly known as “Panhandle” and “Platinum”. The yacht is currently owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of the Emirate of Dubai and the Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates. This yacht is 524 ft and 10 inches (162 m) long. The interior of the yacht designed by Philippe Starck. This yacht can host 115 guests with 88 crews. It has large pool, squash court, helipad and small aircraft hanger.

 Dubai

1. Eclipse: $1.2 Billion
Eclipse was launched on June 12th, 2009. It’s a mega yacht owned by Romah Abramovich. It’s 528 feet (164 meters) and become the world’s largest private yacht. Eclipse has 2 helicopter pads, 11 guest cabins and 2 swimming pools. It also has several hot tubs and disco hall. You can find 3 launch boats and mini submarine that can submerging to 50 meters. The yacht is operated by 70 crew members. This yacht was constructed by Blohm + Voss in Hamburg, Germany. It’s fitted with intruder detection systems and a German-built missile defense system. It’s also reported to be equipped with an anti-paparazzi shield in the form of lasers that sweep the surroundings, and when they detect a CCD. It’s such a luxury yacht with high technology inside.

 Eclipse

Do you want to own the most expensive yacht in the world? I guess you should prepare enough money not just for buying it but also for its maintenance and insurance.

Top 10 Most Expensive Houses in the World 2010

House maybe one of the most expensive things people buy during their lifetime. Building expensive, big and beautiful house is everyone’s dream. The richest persons in the world do the same thing. They buy the most expensive house in the world or build it. House is not just for a place to live. But more than that It’s an investment. Most expensive house can be resold for more price when the owner need some money. So let’s take a look at these most expensive houses in the world that simply can make you get lost inside because of their size.

10. Dracula’s Castle, Romania: $ 135 million

Dracula’s Castle seems like a bad name but It’s actually a Romanian castle. The castle became a museum during 1980s. The owner of the castle, Archduke Dominic put up the castle for sale. He request for 80 million dollars. No one want to take the deal for that amount. Again, he want to sale 2 years ago for undisclosed price. But There’s no news that it have sold till now. This amazing house, though named as a castle has 57 rooms, 17 bedrooms and unique and beautiful antique furniture.

 Dracula's Castle

9. Uptown Court, Windlesham, Surrey, UK: $139 million

This amazing house built on 58 acre land in the Windlesham neighborhood. This huge structure offers 103 rooms with all facility you can imagine as a rich person. There’s a private cinemas in the north part of the house as well as bowling alley for recreation of the owner. You can find horse barn, squash and tennis courts in case you want to get some refreshing with sport. You can find a marble drive away as well that wait you every morning with a parking lot that large enough to park up to 8 limousines.

Uptown Court, Windlesham, Surrey

8. “The Manor,” Los Angeles, US: $150 million

This house was built in 1991 with French Chateau style. This house has 5248 square meters of room area with more than 4.6 hectares total house area. It’s also the biggest house with the private ownership in the Los Angeles County. The main house is located at the end of long road and well protected with security system. You can find bowling alley, humidity controlled silver warehouse, tennis courts, 2 swimming pools, and luxurious woman beauty care such as beauty salon in the attic and a spa. You can find several garden as well like 18th century style gardens,roof gardens and orange gardens. This house has a parking lot that large enough to park up to 100 cars. You can also find private cinemas on this luxury house.

The Manor, Los Angeles

7. “The Pinnacle,” Montana, US: $155 million

This ski Lodge is the largest property in the exclusive private ski and golf community “Yellowstone Club”. You can get a conclusions that this become the owner’s home. Yes, It’s true. It’s the home of Tim and Edra Blixseth. It’s not that big compared to other house in this list with only 10 bedrooms. What’s the facility can be found here? You can find the heated flooring system that stretched throughout the house, fireplace in all bathrooms, a huge wine cellar, indoor and outdoor pool as well as gym and massage room.

The Pinnacle Montana

6. Franchuk Villa, Kensington, UK: $161 million

This expensive house is located in Belgravia, Central London. It’s six floors property with 20 foot ceilings, lavish equipment and more than 21,000 square ft of rooms to live. This house currently owned by developer from Lebanon, Musa Salem, and It’s now on sale and become the most expensive house on the market now. The house was bought by Mr Salem from the Grosvenor Estate. The home has a Victorian style with many luxury amenities such as swimming pool in the basement, gym, private home theater, large garage space and news room.

Franchuk Villa Kensington

5. Hearst Mansion, Beverly Hills, US: $165 million

This Luxurious home that located on Beverly Hills is formerly the prestigious home of the U.S. newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. The house has 6 separate residence, three swimming pools, eight fireplace, tennis courts, night club and 29 bedrooms. Those facility is spread in 6 hectares area in the famous platinum triangle neighborhood in Beverly Hills. This renowned house was purchased by Leonard Ross, a lawyer and investor in 1976 that wanted a change of lifestyle. If you own this house you become the close neighbor of Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and David and Victoria Beckham.

Hearst Mansion, Beverly Hills

4. Fairfield Pond, The Hamptons, US : $170 million

This large home is the home of Ira Rennert. It has 63 acres area and become the largest residential compound in the US. The house has 29 bedrooms, 39 bathrooms, 5 tennis courts, bowling alley, large dining room (91 feet long), and you can find $150,000 hot tub as well. This is a beachfront home is completely use for private house. People was hard to believe for the first time that this house is not used for hotel, spa or retreat place.

Fairfield Pond The Hamptons

3. The Penthouse, London, UK: $200 million

This apartment that located in Hyde Park will become the most expensive flat in the world at the price of £6,000 per sq/ft. This apartment is guarded with top level security system. You can find many feature of security here such as panic room, bulletproof window, iris scanner, and you can find a tunnel to the nearby area of Mandarin hotel. You can see the communal spas, squash courts and you can find amazing wine tasting rooms here. Of Course this apartment will be served 24 hours by the staffs.

The Penthouse London

2. Villa Leopolda, Cote D’Azur, France: $506 million

This luxury renowned villa was built on 29,000 square ft area in Riviera, French. It’s renowned for built in the open menicured garden and swimming pools. The villa has 11 bedrooms and 14 bathrooms. This villa is having the best beachfront in the south of France. This villa was built for King Leopold from Belgic and was later bought by Edmund Safra. Now the building is the house of the wife of the late Edmund Safra, Lily Safra though it was rumored to be sold to Bill Gates, Gianni Agnelli and undisclosed Russian Tycoon.

Villa Leopolda Cote D'Azur France

1. Antilla, Mumbai, India: $1 billion

This modern gorgeous structure is called Antilla. It’s a 27 floors building with 40,000 sq ft tower owned by the CEO of Mumbai based Petrochemical Giant Reliance Industries, Mukesh Ambani. The building is 570 ft tall and will have 400,000 square feet of interior space. For the parking alone, the building dedicate 6 stories because Ambani has around 168 cars collection. You can see nine elevators with lot of lounge and personal gym in each floor. The house is serving by 600 servant. You can imagine how luxurious this house. Looks like this amazing house will hold the record of world’s most expensive house for a long time as it’s far more expensive from the second most expensive house in the world.

Antilla, Mumbai, India

wish that all readers can buy one of those most expensive house in the world during your lifetime !

Your favorite cars in 2010

Ford Focus RS500

 

Want the run-out edition of our favorite hatch? Tough. All 500 have been sold. And what a treat you missed. Power rises to a squeaky 350bhp and 340lb ft courtesy of a tweaked ECU and exhaust, coupled with a vinyl matt-black wrap ripped straight off the Batmobile.

And the best part? 350bhp through the front wheels never feels too much. Quite relaxing, too.

Ferrari 599 GTO

The third GTO in Ferrari's 63 years would be enough to red flag most petrolhead geek-o-meters. When you couple that to a 661bhp V12, 0-124mph in under ten seconds and 100kg weight saving over the standard 599, you get meltdown.

We drove it in Tuscany and were bowled over by the fact that it is, today, one of the fastest point-to-point cars in the world.

Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera

40kg lighter and 10bhp over a standard Gallardo and you're thinking, ‘meh', right? Wrong. This lightweight Lambo is the hardest iteration of the best-selling supercar and hits 62mph in 3.5 seconds, offers better downforce and stiffer suspension. Plus, you can spec it in a most righteous green colour. Which is cool.

Although, Audi wants to give this a bloody red nose...

 

Audi R8 GT

...with this - the R8 GT. It's a massive 100kg lighter than the standard V10, which is roughly equivalent to a small donkey. It gets 42bhp more and a revised Quattro system for added sidewaysness. 0-62mph now takes 3.6 seconds, top speed is 199mph and you get a natty fixed-wing which improves your personal awesomeness by exactly 67 per cent.

Porsche 911 GT2 RS

A 3.6-litre flat-six with 613bhp, 516lb ft of torque and a 0-62mph time of 3.5 seconds tells one, fact-filled, envy-laden pub story. Step inside, get up to fourth gear and accelerate, and you get another, spine-crushingly fizzy story - as Top Gear's Bill Thomas remarked, "fourth gear in a GT2 RS is a gear that would annihilate just about every car on the road". It also made our online editor sick at Porsche's Silverstone proving ground, which was rather amusing.

Bugatti Veyron SS

Effectively, the SS is like a standard Veyron plus a Golf GTI. Why the world's most hyped hypercar felt the need to swallow a venerable hot hatch resides with the SSC Ultimate Aero - a car which stole the Veyron's coveted and utterly pointless claim of being the world's fastest car. This 1,200bhp SS took it back with force, thanks to a 267mph top speed and a little help from ‘Mister' Captain Slow...

Koenigsegg Agera

A 5.0-litre twin-turbo V8 mated to a big pussycat of a chassis equals a genuine contender for the Veyron's top speed crown. If the hypercar division was the heavyweights, this shouty, punchy, athletic warrior would be David Haye, ready to dole out its 910bhp haymaker to the Veyron SS...

SSC Ultimate Aero

Another heavyweight aiming for the Veyron SS's head is this, the SSC Ultimate Aero. SSC reckons it'll hit 275mph, which would mean it pees the highest against the wall of pointless top speed records.

A 6.8-litre twin-turbo engine which revs to 9,000rpm and pumps out 1,350bhp, a body designed by go-to-guy Jason Castriota and a 0-62mph time of 2.8 seconds equals nuclear firepower. Just pray it doesn't go pop...

BMW M3 GTS

There's no escaping the £120,000 price tag for what is, essentially, a modified BMW 3 Series. But they're all sold, so it's not that much for 126 people, and also, it's actually rather astonishing.

We tested it on some alpine tarmac and, breathtakingly, put it in a sentence containing the words ‘Ferrari F430 Scuderia' and ‘Porsche 911 GT3'. It really is that good.

Pagani Zonda R

The Zonda R is bonkers. Race-prepared but with no racing to do, it is like a pumped-up cage-fighter roaming the streets. A 6.0-litre AMG V12 pumping out 740bhp helped it to blitz the ‘Ring in 6m 47s, and its sheer savageness helped it worm its way into Jeremy's heart as ‘the most perfect speed machine ever made'.

Special commendation: Lamborghini Sesto Elemento

A carbon-fibre masterpiece previewing the next generation of Lamborghini supercars. Careful you don't poke your eye out on its bodywork.

Special commendation: Jaguar C-X75

Jaguar, are you listening closely? Good. MAKE THIS NOW. Micro gas turbines (read JET ENGINES) coupled to four electric motors, one at each wheel, equals zero emissions and zero-to-sixty in 3.4 seconds. Plus TFT screens, righteous design language and, sorry, did we mention the friggin' jet engines?

Special commendation: Lotus

They said it couldn't be done. They said it would never work. Then Lotus revealed six new cars all made from assorted cheeses. Not really. But with six planned models all going upmarket, they might as well have proclaimed "new Lotus Camembert", such was the shock. Let's hope it works...

Dacia Duster

 

Good news! It's the new Dacia Duster! That is all.