Here's a little about some of the most popular cruise lines (there are others). Get an idea of what is right for you, then contact us so that we can find the perfect cruise for you.
The first class of cruise lines is where you will find the vast majority of the capacity in the cruise industry. Generally these are massive ships with a lot of toys, entertainment venues, and specialty restaurants onboard. While they are generally considered the most affordable lines, they are also the best choice for families and for younger more adventurous travelers.
Carnival
We're all about fun vacations at sea and ashore! A Carnival cruise features day and nighttime entertainment like stage shows, musical performances, dance parties, casinos and more. (Like waterslides!) We invite our guests to come as they are - fun for all, all for fun, we say - and we make everyone feel right at home with comfy staterooms, attentive service, casual and elegant dining, plus a variety of bars and gathering places indoors and out. Guests enjoy this unique experience against the backdrop of some of the world's most beautiful seaports.
MSC
Privately owned and family operated, MSC Cruises draws upon the company's rich Mediterranean heritage to offer travelers a truly international experience. The third largest cruise line in the world, the MSC fleet encompasses 12 magnificent vessels.
MSC Yacht Club, our ship-within-a-ship sanctuary, offers luxury suites complete with Butler service, 24-hour Concierge lobby, private lounge, pool and bar, restaurant and complimentary wines and spirits.
Signature Distinctions:
Norwegian
Only Norwegian Offers Freestyle Cruising®
It's your vacation and you should have the freedom to enjoy it on your terms. Dress up or down. Sleep in or catch a sunrise from your own private balcony. Take in some never-before-seen entertainment at sea. Even eat somewhere different every day of the week.
Freestyle Cruising offers a wide range of complimentary dining
options included in your cruise price, and all available on your schedule. The freedom continues with entertainment for everybody. From Broadway shows, to adults-only clubs where you can dance 'til dawn, to supervised activities for kids and teens. When it's time to recover from the excitement, you can retreat to accommodations designed for the way you cruise.
Royal Caribbean
Royal Caribbean International® is a global cruise brand with 25 ships visiting over 269 ports, 75 countries across 6 continents. Itineraries range from 3 nights to 24 nights with worldwide destinations. Royal Caribbean is known for being innovators bringing game changing "Firsts at Sea" such as SMART technology, North Star and iFly. Royal Caribbean continues to do just that featuring VOOM(SM) fastest internet at Sea.
The Royal Advantage
Royal Caribbean has a 40-year history of giving guests the most innovative ships, exciting, popular destinations, and world-renowned Gold Anchor Service. Through 2014, no ship goes untouched as the cruise line adds their best new features across the fleet, including concept restaurants, bars, smart technology, nurseries and entertainment. This commitment to provide the very best onboard experience to every guest is just one reason why Royal Caribbean has been voted “Best Cruise Line Overall” for ten consecutive years in the Travel Weekly Readers’ Choice Awards.
Royal Caribbean International Highlights:
The next class of cruise lines are a bit more luxurious and without the onboard toys. These still tend to be large ships with plenty of entertainment and dining choices, but with a few less passengers, the pace is more relaxed. These lines have the best itineraries for those with an explorer's mindset. While considered a step above in quality, sometimes great deals can be found in this category.
Princess
Multi-length cruises with worldwide ports of call.
Come Back New® With Princess
Sail with Princess Cruises on an unforgettable vacation where you'll truly experience the color, culture and flavors of the regions you're visiting. You'll return rejuvenated and renewed - with new memories, new perspectives, possibly even new friends. You'll come back new.
Holland America
Holland America Line's fleet of elegant, mid-size ships offers more than 500 sailings a year visiting all seven continents. Cruises include both popular and less-traveled ports in the Caribbean, Alaska, Europe, Mexico, South America, the Panama Canal, Australia, New Zealand and Asia - as well as unique voyages to the Amazon, Antarctica and our extended Grand Voyages.
Along with enticing destinations, we offer one-of-a-kind programs such as the Culinary Arts Center cooking demonstrations, Digital Workshop powered by Windows® and The Collections of Holland America Line - specially chosen shore excursions to further enhance our guests' appreciation and understanding of the places they visit.
Celebrity
What sets Celebrity apart from other vacation choices today is the cruise line's passionate dedication to providing guests with a cruise experience that embodies modern luxury. This has become the definition of Celebrity Cruises, and has set the worldwide standard for today's expression of what first made cruising famous -- high quality, superior design, spacious accommodations, grand style, attentive service and exceptional cuisine.
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Two lines that don't really fit into the other categories are Cunard and Disney. Cunard's ships were specifically built as trans-Atlantic liners, and while they still continue to fill that role, they also conduct more traditional itineraries as well. Disney is a special cruise line originally created to pair with vacations to Disney World in Florida. Now Disney enthusiasts can experience the magic aboard a Disney cruise in many parts of the world. The level of luxury on these 2 lines also puts them between the categories above and below.
Cunard
Luxury Worldwide Cruises. Cunard® offers an abundance of indulgences and pastimes available to your clients - from gala balls and themed dances, to unrivaled enrichment programs, to top class spa facilities - all delivered in characteristic Cunard® style to the sophisticated traveller.
Cunard’s dining rooms offer classic cuisines, prepared and presented in the grand style of the world’s finest restaurants. In the traditional manner, our main dining rooms are paired with accommodation categories - your clients share an assigned table throughout the voyage, in a restaurant determined by their stateroom or suite.
Disney
Disney’s purpose-built ships offer a vacation for everyone, with separate areas and activities created for cruisers of every age. On our ships adults find excitement and indulgence, children have the time of their lives, families unite, and honeymooners sail into fairy-tale beginnings.
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The next category of cruise lines boasts smaller ships, fewer passengers, more inclusions, and the ability to visit certain ports that the large ship can't.
Azamara
Every Azamara voyage combines sophisticated sailing with authentic cultural experiences that will deepen your appreciation of our amazing world. Our focus on Destination Immersion® means we spend more time in ports to allow our guests to fully experience the culture, cuisine, scenery and people of your destinations.At each destination, we’ll take you far beyond the ordinary with local excursions that stir your imagination. Throughout your travels, you'll enjoy Azamara’s exceptional, friendly service, along with many complimentary extras including gratuities, the majority of your beverages, azamazing evening event. In spring of 2016, our award-winning ships underwent major enhancements to provide a revitalized onboard guest experience.
The Azamara guest is someone looking for the authentic, immersive, cultural experience. They are well-travelled and are seeking more time in the destinations, which Azamara affords due to our longer stays, with more overnights, allowing for night tourism. They are looking for value and appreciate the inclusions on our voyages. They appreciate our destination focused itineraries and experiencing smaller, unique ports of calls that larger vessels are unable to visit.
Oceania
Your World. Your Way.®
A spectacular menagerie of diverse and exotic destinations, your clients' world is just waiting to be discovered, and there is no better way to explore it than on the elegant ships of Oceania Cruises. Our unique itineraries are specifically designed to showcase the most fascinating destinations across the globe. As Regatta, Insignia, Nautica, Sirena, Marina and Riviera are all intimate and luxurious, each ship can call on the world’s most desirable ports, from historic cities to modern meccas to charming seaside villages nestled along sparkling coastlines. On a voyage with Oceania Cruises, each day offers the exciting opportunity to experience the history, culture, art and cuisine of a wondrous new destination.
Whatever corner of the globe beckons your clients to explore, Oceania Cruises takes them there in comfort and style. Relax on board our luxurious ships and savor exquisite cuisine that not only is renowned as the finest at sea, but also rivals the best restaurants ashore. Inspired by Master Chef Jacques Pépin, these culinary delights have always been a hallmark that distinguishes the Oceania Cruises experience from any other.
Considering the uncompromising quality, perhaps the most remarkable aspect of an Oceania Cruises voyage is its incredible value. Lavish complimentary amenities abound, and there are never supplemental charges in any of the onboard restaurants. Value packages ensure that sipping a glass of vintage wine, surfing the Internet or enjoying a shore excursion is both convenient and affordable. Every moment spent on an Oceania Cruises voyage confirms our commitment to presenting your clients the very best their world has to offer – their way.
Viking
World's Leading River Cruise Line featuring extraordinary well-designed cruises that bring you closer to the cultures, art, and history of the world. Also, the award-winning small ocean ship experts with rich destination-focused itineraries.
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The last class of cruise lines is the ultra luxury class. These lines go out of their way to provide every facet of luxury possible. The price may be high, but they tend to include a lot more. Things like specialty dining, wifi, drinks, shore excursions, and tips are usually included, sometimes even airfare and a pre-cruise hotel stay are offered. If you're in need of complete luxury, look no further than these cruise lines.
Crystal
Luxury ALL INCLUSIVE six star service, Luxury ocean cruises (922-1070 pax), Luxury European river cruises (Rhine, Danube, Main Rivers), Luxury Yacht, Luxury AirCruises. Offers the best part of small ship cruising, with the best part of large ship cruising. Guest enjoy a small ship atmosphere with personal service and fine dining, along with choices in entertainment, enrichment, and fitness activities. Includes on board gratuities, fine wine and premium spirits.
Regent Seven Seas
This is cruising as it was meant to be — a sumptuous and very personal experience where your every wish, your every whim and your every want are met with gratifying luxuries, satisfying comfort and complete fulfillment of your wanderlust. Anticipate an unforgettable journey to the world's greatest destinations where everything is included, without exception and without compromise. You really can have it all aboard Regent Seven Seas Cruises®.
Regent Seven Seas Cruises is pleased to offer your clients not only the finest luxury cruise experience, but also the best value in luxury cruising today. Review a head-to-head price and value comparison against premium and luxury cruise lines in the destinations below, and see for yourself how in each case Regent Seven Seas Cruises' all-inclusive luxury product is a better value.
Seabourn
Seabourn’s intimate, award-winning ships offer key elements that set the line apart: spacious, thoughtfully appointed suites, most with verandas; superb dining in a choice of venues; open bars; fine wines poured at lunch and dinner; personalized service and a relaxed, sociable atmosphere that makes guests feel right at home onboard. The ships travel the globe throughout the year, sailing to many of the world’s most desirable destinations, including marquee cities, UNESCO World Heritage Sites and lesser-known ports and hideaways.
Silversea
Silversea’s intimate, ultra-luxury ships are designed for those who delight in the thrill of discovery while indulging mind and body in the most lavish surroundings imaginable. All accommodations are spacious, ocean-view suites and most include butler service and private verandas. Silversea voyages and cruise expeditions sail to 900 destinations on all seven continents, more than any other cruise line. Our intimate, ultra-luxury ships can sail up narrow waterways into the heart of a city, or tie up right at the pier while others must anchor off shore. And for those who yearn to explore the new and unknown, Silversea Expeditions can transport you to the furthermost boundaries of the planet. Renowned for culinary excellence and innovative spirit, Silversea’s luxury cruises offer a choice of open-seating dining options throughout the fleet, as well as several specialty venues aboard all non-expedition ships. Enjoy the ease, convenience and value of an all-inclusive cruise fare that includes almost all of your discretionary onboard expenses.
Silversea is a luxury cruise line featuring both a classic and expedition fleet. Silversea voyages and cruise expeditions sail to 900 destinations on all seven continents, more than any other cruise line — large or small. Our itineraries include many ports with late-night and overnight departures providing you with more time to experience the local colours and cultures.
The first class of cruise lines is where you will find the vast majority of the capacity in the cruise industry. Generally these are massive ships with a lot of toys, entertainment venues, and specialty restaurants onboard. While they are generally considered the most affordable lines, they are also the best choice for families and for younger more adventurous travelers.
Carnival
We're all about fun vacations at sea and ashore! A Carnival cruise features day and nighttime entertainment like stage shows, musical performances, dance parties, casinos and more. (Like waterslides!) We invite our guests to come as they are - fun for all, all for fun, we say - and we make everyone feel right at home with comfy staterooms, attentive service, casual and elegant dining, plus a variety of bars and gathering places indoors and out. Guests enjoy this unique experience against the backdrop of some of the world's most beautiful seaports.
MSC
Privately owned and family operated, MSC Cruises draws upon the company's rich Mediterranean heritage to offer travelers a truly international experience. The third largest cruise line in the world, the MSC fleet encompasses 12 magnificent vessels.
MSC Yacht Club, our ship-within-a-ship sanctuary, offers luxury suites complete with Butler service, 24-hour Concierge lobby, private lounge, pool and bar, restaurant and complimentary wines and spirits.
Signature Distinctions:
- World's Fastest Growing Cruise Line.
- Genuine Mediterranean Heritage and Hospitality.
- One-Of-A-Kind Itineraries & Huge Array Of Departure Ports.
- MSC Yacht Club & MSC Aurea Spa.
- A Quiet, Cosmopolitan Atmosphere.
- Fresh International Cuisine.
- Outstanding Entertainment.
- Spotless Ships, Impeccable Décor.
- Kids 11 & Under Sail Fee Year-Round.
- Innovative Guest Experiences.
Norwegian
Only Norwegian Offers Freestyle Cruising®
It's your vacation and you should have the freedom to enjoy it on your terms. Dress up or down. Sleep in or catch a sunrise from your own private balcony. Take in some never-before-seen entertainment at sea. Even eat somewhere different every day of the week.
Freestyle Cruising offers a wide range of complimentary dining
options included in your cruise price, and all available on your schedule. The freedom continues with entertainment for everybody. From Broadway shows, to adults-only clubs where you can dance 'til dawn, to supervised activities for kids and teens. When it's time to recover from the excitement, you can retreat to accommodations designed for the way you cruise.
Royal Caribbean
Royal Caribbean International® is a global cruise brand with 25 ships visiting over 269 ports, 75 countries across 6 continents. Itineraries range from 3 nights to 24 nights with worldwide destinations. Royal Caribbean is known for being innovators bringing game changing "Firsts at Sea" such as SMART technology, North Star and iFly. Royal Caribbean continues to do just that featuring VOOM(SM) fastest internet at Sea.
The Royal Advantage
Royal Caribbean has a 40-year history of giving guests the most innovative ships, exciting, popular destinations, and world-renowned Gold Anchor Service. Through 2014, no ship goes untouched as the cruise line adds their best new features across the fleet, including concept restaurants, bars, smart technology, nurseries and entertainment. This commitment to provide the very best onboard experience to every guest is just one reason why Royal Caribbean has been voted “Best Cruise Line Overall” for ten consecutive years in the Travel Weekly Readers’ Choice Awards.
Royal Caribbean International Highlights:
- Revolutionary, imaginative ships
- Exclusive first-at-sea activities
- Personalized gold anchor service®
- Over 270 worldwide destinations
- Unparalleled dining options
- Dazzling entertainment & nightlife
- An award-winning youth program
- Accommodations including lofts, suites
The next class of cruise lines are a bit more luxurious and without the onboard toys. These still tend to be large ships with plenty of entertainment and dining choices, but with a few less passengers, the pace is more relaxed. These lines have the best itineraries for those with an explorer's mindset. While considered a step above in quality, sometimes great deals can be found in this category.
Princess
Multi-length cruises with worldwide ports of call.
Come Back New® With Princess
Sail with Princess Cruises on an unforgettable vacation where you'll truly experience the color, culture and flavors of the regions you're visiting. You'll return rejuvenated and renewed - with new memories, new perspectives, possibly even new friends. You'll come back new.
Holland America
Holland America Line's fleet of elegant, mid-size ships offers more than 500 sailings a year visiting all seven continents. Cruises include both popular and less-traveled ports in the Caribbean, Alaska, Europe, Mexico, South America, the Panama Canal, Australia, New Zealand and Asia - as well as unique voyages to the Amazon, Antarctica and our extended Grand Voyages.
Along with enticing destinations, we offer one-of-a-kind programs such as the Culinary Arts Center cooking demonstrations, Digital Workshop powered by Windows® and The Collections of Holland America Line - specially chosen shore excursions to further enhance our guests' appreciation and understanding of the places they visit.
Celebrity
What sets Celebrity apart from other vacation choices today is the cruise line's passionate dedication to providing guests with a cruise experience that embodies modern luxury. This has become the definition of Celebrity Cruises, and has set the worldwide standard for today's expression of what first made cruising famous -- high quality, superior design, spacious accommodations, grand style, attentive service and exceptional cuisine.
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Two lines that don't really fit into the other categories are Cunard and Disney. Cunard's ships were specifically built as trans-Atlantic liners, and while they still continue to fill that role, they also conduct more traditional itineraries as well. Disney is a special cruise line originally created to pair with vacations to Disney World in Florida. Now Disney enthusiasts can experience the magic aboard a Disney cruise in many parts of the world. The level of luxury on these 2 lines also puts them between the categories above and below.
Cunard
Luxury Worldwide Cruises. Cunard® offers an abundance of indulgences and pastimes available to your clients - from gala balls and themed dances, to unrivaled enrichment programs, to top class spa facilities - all delivered in characteristic Cunard® style to the sophisticated traveller.
Cunard’s dining rooms offer classic cuisines, prepared and presented in the grand style of the world’s finest restaurants. In the traditional manner, our main dining rooms are paired with accommodation categories - your clients share an assigned table throughout the voyage, in a restaurant determined by their stateroom or suite.
Disney
Disney’s purpose-built ships offer a vacation for everyone, with separate areas and activities created for cruisers of every age. On our ships adults find excitement and indulgence, children have the time of their lives, families unite, and honeymooners sail into fairy-tale beginnings.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The next category of cruise lines boasts smaller ships, fewer passengers, more inclusions, and the ability to visit certain ports that the large ship can't.
Azamara
Every Azamara voyage combines sophisticated sailing with authentic cultural experiences that will deepen your appreciation of our amazing world. Our focus on Destination Immersion® means we spend more time in ports to allow our guests to fully experience the culture, cuisine, scenery and people of your destinations.At each destination, we’ll take you far beyond the ordinary with local excursions that stir your imagination. Throughout your travels, you'll enjoy Azamara’s exceptional, friendly service, along with many complimentary extras including gratuities, the majority of your beverages, azamazing evening event. In spring of 2016, our award-winning ships underwent major enhancements to provide a revitalized onboard guest experience.
The Azamara guest is someone looking for the authentic, immersive, cultural experience. They are well-travelled and are seeking more time in the destinations, which Azamara affords due to our longer stays, with more overnights, allowing for night tourism. They are looking for value and appreciate the inclusions on our voyages. They appreciate our destination focused itineraries and experiencing smaller, unique ports of calls that larger vessels are unable to visit.
Oceania
Your World. Your Way.®
A spectacular menagerie of diverse and exotic destinations, your clients' world is just waiting to be discovered, and there is no better way to explore it than on the elegant ships of Oceania Cruises. Our unique itineraries are specifically designed to showcase the most fascinating destinations across the globe. As Regatta, Insignia, Nautica, Sirena, Marina and Riviera are all intimate and luxurious, each ship can call on the world’s most desirable ports, from historic cities to modern meccas to charming seaside villages nestled along sparkling coastlines. On a voyage with Oceania Cruises, each day offers the exciting opportunity to experience the history, culture, art and cuisine of a wondrous new destination.
Whatever corner of the globe beckons your clients to explore, Oceania Cruises takes them there in comfort and style. Relax on board our luxurious ships and savor exquisite cuisine that not only is renowned as the finest at sea, but also rivals the best restaurants ashore. Inspired by Master Chef Jacques Pépin, these culinary delights have always been a hallmark that distinguishes the Oceania Cruises experience from any other.
Considering the uncompromising quality, perhaps the most remarkable aspect of an Oceania Cruises voyage is its incredible value. Lavish complimentary amenities abound, and there are never supplemental charges in any of the onboard restaurants. Value packages ensure that sipping a glass of vintage wine, surfing the Internet or enjoying a shore excursion is both convenient and affordable. Every moment spent on an Oceania Cruises voyage confirms our commitment to presenting your clients the very best their world has to offer – their way.
Viking
World's Leading River Cruise Line featuring extraordinary well-designed cruises that bring you closer to the cultures, art, and history of the world. Also, the award-winning small ocean ship experts with rich destination-focused itineraries.
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The last class of cruise lines is the ultra luxury class. These lines go out of their way to provide every facet of luxury possible. The price may be high, but they tend to include a lot more. Things like specialty dining, wifi, drinks, shore excursions, and tips are usually included, sometimes even airfare and a pre-cruise hotel stay are offered. If you're in need of complete luxury, look no further than these cruise lines.
Crystal
Luxury ALL INCLUSIVE six star service, Luxury ocean cruises (922-1070 pax), Luxury European river cruises (Rhine, Danube, Main Rivers), Luxury Yacht, Luxury AirCruises. Offers the best part of small ship cruising, with the best part of large ship cruising. Guest enjoy a small ship atmosphere with personal service and fine dining, along with choices in entertainment, enrichment, and fitness activities. Includes on board gratuities, fine wine and premium spirits.
Regent Seven Seas
This is cruising as it was meant to be — a sumptuous and very personal experience where your every wish, your every whim and your every want are met with gratifying luxuries, satisfying comfort and complete fulfillment of your wanderlust. Anticipate an unforgettable journey to the world's greatest destinations where everything is included, without exception and without compromise. You really can have it all aboard Regent Seven Seas Cruises®.
Regent Seven Seas Cruises is pleased to offer your clients not only the finest luxury cruise experience, but also the best value in luxury cruising today. Review a head-to-head price and value comparison against premium and luxury cruise lines in the destinations below, and see for yourself how in each case Regent Seven Seas Cruises' all-inclusive luxury product is a better value.
Seabourn
Seabourn’s intimate, award-winning ships offer key elements that set the line apart: spacious, thoughtfully appointed suites, most with verandas; superb dining in a choice of venues; open bars; fine wines poured at lunch and dinner; personalized service and a relaxed, sociable atmosphere that makes guests feel right at home onboard. The ships travel the globe throughout the year, sailing to many of the world’s most desirable destinations, including marquee cities, UNESCO World Heritage Sites and lesser-known ports and hideaways.
Silversea
Silversea’s intimate, ultra-luxury ships are designed for those who delight in the thrill of discovery while indulging mind and body in the most lavish surroundings imaginable. All accommodations are spacious, ocean-view suites and most include butler service and private verandas. Silversea voyages and cruise expeditions sail to 900 destinations on all seven continents, more than any other cruise line. Our intimate, ultra-luxury ships can sail up narrow waterways into the heart of a city, or tie up right at the pier while others must anchor off shore. And for those who yearn to explore the new and unknown, Silversea Expeditions can transport you to the furthermost boundaries of the planet. Renowned for culinary excellence and innovative spirit, Silversea’s luxury cruises offer a choice of open-seating dining options throughout the fleet, as well as several specialty venues aboard all non-expedition ships. Enjoy the ease, convenience and value of an all-inclusive cruise fare that includes almost all of your discretionary onboard expenses.
Silversea is a luxury cruise line featuring both a classic and expedition fleet. Silversea voyages and cruise expeditions sail to 900 destinations on all seven continents, more than any other cruise line — large or small. Our itineraries include many ports with late-night and overnight departures providing you with more time to experience the local colours and cultures.