Inside the luxury Olympic village only a handful of athletes will be calling home this week

The 48 Olympic surfers will be staying on a luxury cruise ship, dubbed the “first-ever floating Olympic village”.

A handful of lucky athletes will avoid the dreaded “anti-sex” beds during the Paris Olympic Games and instead be spending their time on-board a luxury cruise ship.

Surfers will compete in Tahiti from Saturday in the hopes of winning gold.

They will stay together on-board the cruise ship the Aranui 5 for the event, which is being staged in Teahupo’o, a village on the southwestern coast of the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, some 15,730 kilometres from Paris.

The ship has been dubbed the “first-ever floating Olympic village” and features a Sky bar, dancing room, a library, fitness room and a spa.

Surfers are staying on-board a luxury cruise ship. Picture: Aranui

Unlike sports stars in Paris, who will be sleeping in a dorm-room-style hub, the 48 Olympic surfers will have their own rooms on the ship. And the best part, the athletes will have a proper bed.

The Paris athletes’ village features fully recyclable cardboard beds that have caused a stir with some athletes who have complained they are too firm.

Aussie water polo star Tilly Kearns said the bed was “rock solid”.

She pointed out there was a “softer side” to the mattress, but “that was the soft side”.

A teammate said “my back is about to fall off”, while the caption to a photo posted on TikTok read: “Already had a massage to undo the damage.”

The surfers will avoid the dreaded ‘anti-sex’ beds. Picture: TikTok

Their accommodation is quite different from the traditional Olympic village. Picture: TikTok

The surfing event will take place over four days from Saturday but will be determined by wave conditions.

The waves off the southern Tahitian shore of Teahupo’o are some of the largest in the world.

The Paris 2024 opening ceremony will begin at 4.24am (AEST) on Saturday, but the competition will kick off a few days earlier.

The action begins at 11pm on Wednesday, July 24 with a couple of men’s football games, while the men’s rugby sevens starts half an hour later.

Several competitions begin before the opening ceremony, including archery and handball.

Once the opening ceremony is done, the official “Day 1” will begin on Saturday afternoon.

Medals will be awarded in cycling, diving, fencing, judo, rugby sevens, shooting, skateboarding and swimming that same day.

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