Yachts with Champagne Showers Irresistible to Super-Rich

Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Tony Paterson, The Indepedent

Recession be damned, the global superduper-yacht business is crazy-booming. According to Der Spiegel magazine, Germany has become the world's premiere provider of mega-luxury motor vessels for the ultra-ultra-rich.

[excerpt] Do you desire an ocean-going super yacht fitted with showers that spray champagne? Or perhaps a giant room-sized freezer so that guests can have snowball fights in the Bahamas? Germany is the place to go to have such crucial amenities built in your private floating city.

One of the latest luxury yacht fads is for "RainSky" shower units. They have shower heads the size of a car bonnet, consume 10 gallons of water a minute and cost €18,000.4

Matthias Voit whose company, Dornbach makes the units, said his latest order was from an unnamed Russian client who wanted a RainSky shower on his yacht capable of squirting either water or champagne on demand.

Specialist shipyards in the port cities of Hamburg and Bremen, cater to a variety of exclusive customers such as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Muammar Gaddafi's son, and the Russian owner of Chelsea FC, Roman Abramovich.

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