Leonardo DiCaprio’s private-island vacation sounds fabulous

Vanity Fair

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How are you spending your summer vacation? Trapped in some mosquito-filled cabin at Camp Itchylake or wherever? Stuck in the family station wagon as it rumbles, air-conditioner broken, down America’s byways? Watching American Ninja Warrior? However you are spending what precious free time you may have been blessed with this summer, we can probably guess it’s nothing compared to the lil’ vacation Leonardo DiCaprio is enjoying at the moment. Because what in our lives can ever compare to Leo’s?

Page Six has the scoop on DiCaprio’s chill time in the Bahamas, which he’s spending with some friends and a lover. DiCaprio and crew are staying at Over Yonder Cay, a private island that can be rented for, Page Six says, a simple $75,000 per night. That’s all! What does one get for that mere honorarium? A nine-hole golf course, swimming pools, I’m assuming some kind of staff, four villas, one sip from the mystical Coconut of Truth, 10 chests of cursed pirates’ gold, the ghost of Christopher Columbus appears as a specter on two non-consecutive nights and says something racist, they make sure it doesn’t rain by reverse-seeding the clouds, and of course there is limited WiFi. The place has a seven-night minimum stay, but believe me, that $525,000 is worth it. (And, look, between the four villas, the place sleeps 112, so that’s really just like $4,687.50 per person!)

While there, DiCaprio is in the company of one Nina Agdal, a 24-year-old Sports Illustrated swimsuit model from Denmark whom DiCaprio is rumored to be courting. DiCaprio is also joined by longtime vizier Lukas Haas and Haas’s main squeeze, prolific Instragrammer Josey Auguste. So that sounds fun! And DiCaprio might not even be paying. Page Six believes that DiCaprio is the guest of Horst Ferrero, a Floridian lawyer of some means. That’s based on an Instagram post on Ferrero’s account, a posed photo with DiCaprio that says, “thank you very much for joining us for Kelly’s birthday!” So maybe Leonardo DiCaprio was invited to some random birthday party and, because it was on a private Bahamian island where for a mere $75,000 a night an old sea turtle will whisper the meaning of existence into your ear, he figured he’d call up Lukie Haas and make a trip of it.

Apparently the island is also powered mostly by wind and solar energy, which is in line with DiCaprio’s environmentalism. So really there would have been no reason not to go. Unless, of course, DiCaprio or one of his friends doesn’t like jet-skis, daily prepared gourmet meals, or seeing the only living mermaid in captivity. In which case, they’re probably not worth traveling with anyway.

Doesn’t this sound like a good trip? Just think about all the luxurious fun DiCaprio and the gang are having while you sit on the gloomy ferry to Borington, Maine, or endure yet another nightmarish cookout in Aunt Pam’s backyard of horrors. Summer could really be something if you just knew Leonardo DiCaprio. Life could be, too.

(VANITY FAIR)