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Billionaire NFL owner Shahid Khan’s superyacht is available for charter

Want to vacation like a billionaire? You can — for $3 million a week.

Kismet, Khan’s new yacht, will make its debut at the Monaco Yacht Show later this month.


Spa on superyacht

Kismet’s Balinese-inspired spa features a chromotherapy tub and massage table.

Courtesy of Cecil Wright



A “Balinese-inspired” spa has a hammam, sauna, and cryotherapy room, as well as a massage table and chromotherapy tub, which offers a kind of color-related treatment. For more active wellness, there is a gym, basketball court and pickleball court.

There are three pools — two are jacuzzis — spread over six decks, four outdoor showers, four bars, four fireplaces, two fire pits and a helipad. For your viewing pleasure, there is an outdoor cinema and for your listening pleasure, a DJ booth and a grand piano.


superyacht swimming pool Kismet

One of the yacht’s many swimming pools is watching a TV — playing a Jaguars game, of course.

Courtesy of Cecil Wright



And because billionaires like to play, there’s a suite of water toys on board, including Jet Skis, SeaBobs, e-foils and WaveRunners.

Khan is a superyacht owner. His previous superyacht, also called Kismet, was purchased by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt last year. Although the final sale price was not disclosed, it was listed for around $160 million. Named Whisper, the yacht was built by the same German shipyard as the new Kismet, Lürssen, and measured 95 meters.

“The yacht exceeded all expectations of the client for whom we built their third yacht in total,” said Peter Lürssen, managing partner at Lürssen, in a statement about the newest Kismet.

Kismet is the largest yacht on display at the Monaco Yacht Show, which will feature 120 superyachts. The second-largest Renaissance, at 112 meters, charters for the same weekly price of $3 million.

While the nine-figure sale prices of these yachts make the seven-figure charter rates seem like a bargain, chartering a superyacht is not for the faint of heart. In addition to the charter fee, there are costs associated with supplies that can be up to 40% of the fee; gratuities, up to 20% of the tariff; and taxes also up to 20%. That means a week aboard Kismet can actually cost up to $5.4 million.

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