Top 10 Luxury Cruise Lines
There are several mainstream lines that offer a premium experience, including the likes of Holland America Line and Princess Cruises but there are now a growing range of lines that go one step further and bring you a truly luxurious experience.
These lines rivals 5-star luxury hotels for service and thanks to using smaller ships, you can often feel like you are sailing onboard your own grand yacht.
One of the other stand outs of these lines is their immersive style of cruising where you not only get to experience the history and culture of the ports you visit, but many will bring locals and experts onboard for lectures and perfromances.
In this list, we take you through the top 10 luxury cruise lines and the reason why they stand out over the top of rivals.
Our Top 10 Luxury Cruise Lines
Regent Seven Seas Cruises
Regent Seven Seas are well known for offering a luxurious all-inclusive offering where everything from fine dining to shore excursions are included in the cruise fare.
Itineraries for the line are varied and take in not just the traditional cruising areas such as the Med and the Caribbean but they also to around the globe to region such as Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Viking Ocean Cruises
Viking River Cruises have a long-held reputation for offering luxurious immersive holiday on some of the worlds greatest rivers and they have now taken that offering to the high seas.
All of Viking’s ships are small and modern ships designed to vie a personnel and intimate experience with a Scandinavian décor.
Enrichment and immersion remains high on the list of the Viking experience as guests can enjoy a range of lectures, classes and demonstrations of the local culture of ports that they visit.
Ponant
A cruise with Ponant cruises allows you to have the feel of exploring the world onboard a luxury yacht, because, well, you are exploring onboard a luxury yacht.
With only around 250 other guests onboard, you get personnel serviced onboard, with a focus on fine dining and luxury accommodation.
The relatively environmentally friendly ships are capable of taking you to some of the most remote destination on the planet or to hard to reach areas such as down the Amazon.
Silversea Cruises
Silversea cruises offer a small ship, all-inclusive experience where you pay for everything up front and then simply enjoy the experience once onboard.
There small ships have one of the highest staff to guest ratios, which allows for a high personalised cruise holiday.
Oceania Cruises
Oceania offer larger ships when compared to many on this list but with large staterooms, you still get an intimate experience onboard.
Known for their fine dining and for destination focussed itineraries, many trips with Oceania include overnight stay in ports.
Azamara
Azamara are a line that have a heavy focus on not only immersing guests in the local culture when on shore but also when onboard.
The lines famous ‘AzAmazing Evening’ are always a highlight of a cruise with the line as they take you for an exclusive evening experience onshore in ports that they are staying late or overnighting in.
These often immerse guests in local culture and allow them to experience local cuisine.
SeaDream Yacht Club
If you want to enjoy a luxury cruise experience, where the focus is on enjoying yourself, SeaDream could be the line for you.
They offer an almost 1:1 crew to guest ratio which means everything you want is taken care of for you but one of the standouts is their retractable water sports platfrom marina, where guests can choose from a wide range of water sports and enjoy them directly from the back of the ship.
Windstar Cruises
Windstar cruises offer a range of smaller ships to cruise the world onboard and whilst you get the same incredible service on each, where the line really stand out is there beautiful sailing yachts.
The ships give guests the feeling of been an early explorer, sailing the world with only guile and wind power, and whilst these high-tech ships can sail under there own power as well, there is nothing quite like the experience of arriving in port with the masts at full sail.
Cunard
Cunard are one of the most famous cruise brands in the world, who still offer their iconic transatlantic liners trips, but they also offer a range of cruise ships that offer traditional cruise holidays.
There ships are much larger than the others on this list, but they still offer a luxurious experience from the moment you step onboard.
There is also something that can be said for the experience of sailing onboard a line with such history and provenance.
Hapag-Lloyd Cruises
Hapag-Lloyd offers high end accommodations onboard their small exploration cruise ships that take guests to remote and once in a lifetime destinations.
There journeys are all about taking guests closer to the action when on holiday, which is made easier by there RIB launch deck at the back of the ships for landings in the rainforest, on the ice in Antarctica and for getting you to other remote places.
