The 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris will see participating surfers stay at a special ‘floating’ village. This fortunate set of surfers will be stationed at a village in Teahupo’o. 

The participating athletes will be staying on the luxury Aranui 5 ship. This humongous water vessel has also been dubbed by the internet as the ‘first-ever floating Olympic village’.

The unique ‘movable’ home is going to be a long way away from Paris. Featuring a ton of modern facilities, this modern cruise ship will accommodate 48 surfers on the South Western coast of a French Polynesian island, as reported by The Sun.

The surfing events at the 2024 Paris Olympics are scheduled to take place in Tahiti, which is almost halfway across the world from the rest of the games and the Olympic village. With a reported distance of nearly 10,000 miles between Paris and Tahiti, France has set a new record for the most distance between an Olympic medal event and the host city. The distance is so massive that it would take nearly 21 hours by air to travel from one point to another.

While the distance might be massive, the idea of a floating village might prove to be quite beneficial for the participating surfers. 

Unlike regular Olympians, these surfers will be provided with their own rooms on the ship instead of the dorm-room-style hub at the real Olympic Village.

They will be getting proper beds rather than cardboard ones. The luxury ship will also house a sky bar, a dancing room, a library, a fitness room, and a spa.