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Regent Seven Seas Cruises receives high marks from experts and travelers alike for its all-inclusive approach and commitment to luxury service. All six of Regent's ships –  Seven Seas Navigator ,  Seven Seas Mariner ,  Seven Seas Explorer , Seven Seas Voyager ,  Seven Seas Splendor and Seven Seas Grandeur (scheduled to debut in November 2023) offer all-suite accommodations. And with an almost one-to-one crew-to-passenger ratio, the line prides itself on its attentive staff and personalized experience.

How long you're on board a Regent ship can vary greatly, with voyages ranging from seven to 168 nights. Regent's popular itineraries include stops in hundreds of ports throughout  Africa ,  Alaska , Asia , the  Caribbean ,  Europe  and more.

Guests can explore new places with unlimited complimentary shore excursions that vary by itinerary. They'll also find Regent Choice small group tours that come with a fee and offer a wide variety of excursions from paella-making classes in Valencia, Spain to going on a penguin safari in the Falkland Islands. There's also plenty to do without leaving the ship, including nightly onboard entertainment, the Serene Spa & Wellness center, a library and card room and a putting green. A state-of-the-art Culinary Arts Center is on the line's three newest ships: Seven Seas Grandeur , Seven Seas Splendor and Seven Seas Explorer .

Select sailings feature enrichment series led by experts in a variety of fields, from science and the arts to health and wellness practices. Culinary options abound with gourmet venues ranging from an upscale steakhouse, Prime 7, to Sette Mari at La Veranda, an informal Italian eatery. Pacific Rim (on select ships) highlights the cuisines and flavors throughout Asia and Chartreuse features delectable French fare in an elegant setting (not available on Seven Seas Navigator ).

U.S. News Insider Tip: Regent Seven Seas is an ultra-luxury cruise line that features stunning interior design, top-notch service and some of the most expensive ships ever built. Still, guests will find a relaxed and casually elegant atmosphere on board Regent’s six vessels. – Gwen Pratesi, Contributor

Pros & Cons

All-inclusive fare covers specialty dining, alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks and shore excursions

Free Wi-Fi access

Round-trip airfare and ground transfers are included in fare

Cruises are expensive at any time of year

Limited facilities and onboard entertainment for children

Spa services and some other onboard offerings cost extra

• Expert Rating » 4.9
• Traveler Rating » 4.1
• Health Rating » 4.3

Regent Seven Seas Cruises has been ranked based on an expert evaluation of the line's level of luxury, as well as an assessment of user reviews and health ratings.

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• A 15% deposit is required for all cruises. For cruises of 14 nights or fewer, final payment is due 120 days prior to departure. On longer cruises, the remaining balance is due 150 days before you sail. If you book fewer than 90 days before the ship is scheduled to depart, you'll have to pay in full within 24 hours of booking.
• Cruise cancellation fees vary depending on the length of the cruise and how far out you cancel. For more information, see the Regent Seven Seas Cruises Terms and Conditions page .
• Children younger than six months are not permitted on Regent cruises, and infants must be at least 1 year old to sail on a voyage with three or more consecutive days at sea. Guests younger than 18 years old must share a suite with a guest who is 18 or older. Pregnant women who reach 24 weeks at any time before or during the cruise will be denied boarding.

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• You will receive cruise documents, including e-tickets, approximately 45 days prior to your ship's departure date.
• Ships begin boarding at noon on the scheduled day of departure. If you are traveling from a U.S. port, you must board at least two hours prior to sailing time; if you are leaving from a port outside the U.S., you must board at least 90 minutes prior to departure.
• Guests are required to bring the appropriate travel documents; passport, visa and vaccination requirements vary by itinerary. The cruise line requires all guests have passports that are valid for six months after the cruise ends, regardless of ports of call. For more information about entry requirements for various countries, visit the  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)  and World Health Organization websites.
• Passengers can book shore excursions up to 300 days before the start of their cruise (or up to 365 days in advance for guests eligible for the Concierge Amenities) by visiting Regent's My Account page . Dinner reservations can also be made through the My Account portal beginning 75 days before the ship's departure date (or 90 days before embarkation for travelers in Concierge Suites or higher). If you desire additional reservations, you may speak with the restaurant's maître d' once on board. Any dietary restrictions must be sent to Regent Seven Seas via email at least 120 days prior to departure for sailings embarking in the U.S. and 150 days before all other trips.
• Regent Seven Seas does not enforce weight, size or quantity restrictions for baggage. However, the cruise line suggests travelers check with their airline and pack accordingly.

Disclaimers about ship ratings: A ship’s Health Rating is based on vessel inspection scores published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). If a ship did not receive a CDC score within 22 months prior to the calculation of its Overall Rating, its Health Rating appears as N/A; in such a case, the ship’s Overall Rating is calculated using the average Health Rating of all CDC-rated ships within the cruise line. All ship Traveler Ratings are based on ratings provided under license by Cruiseline.com.

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Seven Seas Grandeur

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• Barcelona (Spain)

Seven Seas Grandeur current position

Seven Seas Grandeur current location is at West Mediterranean (coordinates 39.93679 N / 2.45475 E) cruising at speed of 18.9 kn (35 km/h | 22 mph) en route to SETE, FRANCE. The AIS position was reported 2 minutes ago.

Current itinerary of Seven Seas Grandeur

Seven Seas Grandeur current cruise is 7 days, one-way from Barcelona to Civitavecchia-Rome . Prices start from USD 21798 (double occupancy rates). The itinerary starts on 24 Apr, 2024 and ends on 01 May, 2024 .

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The 2023-built Seven Seas Grandeur cruise ship is the newest of RSSC-Regent's EXPLORER-class series, with sisterships Seven Seas Explorer (2016) and Seven Seas Splendor (2021). The vessel is currently planned for delivery and inauguration in 2023 November.

The vessel (IMO number 9877444) will be France- flagged (MMSI 538010706) and registered in Majuro / Marshall Islands . During its construction, Seven Seas Grandeur was temporarily Italy-flagged (MMSI 247475800).

History - construction and ownership

Regent Cruises (officially Regent Seven Seas Cruises / RSSC ) is an all-inclusive, top-luxury cruise brand fka "Radisson Seven Seas". Until 2014, the company (as part of "Prestige Cruise Holdings") was owned by Apollo Management LP - one of the world's largest private investment equity funds. Since September 2014, RSSC and the sister company Oceania Cruises are owned by NCL Norwegian (shipowner), acquired at the total cost of USD 3 billion. Regent cruise ships are medium-sized, with max passenger capacity 800. The fleet consists of 6-star rated all-suite and all-balcony vessels with a space-to-guest ratio ~70 and staff-to-guest ratio 1-to-1,6 (some of the industry's best). As building cost per berth , RSSC liners are among the world's most expensive ships.

For the vessel's interior design, RSSC contracted the Florida-based firm "Studio DADO". The DADO-designed venues include Observation Lounge, Constellation Theater, Card Room, Connoisseur Club, Pacific Rim Restaurant, ship's Spa as well as all the 55 suites (categories Penthouse, Grand, Superior).

Decks and Cabins

Like all RSSC-Regent ships, Seven Seas Grandeur staterooms (total 375) are all suites grouped in 15 categories. All cabins also have private step-out balconies. Cabins designer was Tillberg Design of Sweden.

The cost of the Regent Suite on the Grandeur ship signifies the ultimate RSSC luxury vacation package experience. The unique accommodation is sized 4445 ft2 (413 m2) including the outdoor wraparound terrace (1230 ft2 / 114 m2). Grandeur's Regent Suite is not only the largest at sea but also the most expensive - priced USD 11000 (~EUR 9340 / GBP 8050) per night. However, the price includes unlimited services (provided by dedicated staff) and amenities like Spa Room (unlimited massages and treatments), Sauna, Steam Room, 2x bedrooms, 2x full bathrooms (with jetted tubs), living room (with a garden, grand piano, half bathroom), dining room, dressing room, bow-facing balcony (with a Tresse Minipool and a glass-enclosed parlor).

The boat has 13 decks , of which 10 are passenger-accessible and 7 with cabins.

Shipboard dining options - Food and Drinks

On Regent's Grandeur ship are offered cooking classes in the fleet's first specially dedicated Culinary Arts Kitchen. The teaching kitchen's dishes are crafted with locally sourced ingredients.

Food-themed excursions ashore are available for booking via RSSC's Gourmet Explorer Tours. On these tours, passengers can enjoy gourmet food prepared by renowned local chefs, as well as wine tasting at premium estates and local food market visits.

On Regent's newest ship, the the brand's culinary experiences were enhanced by introducing upgraded menus, redesigned specialty restaurants and 130+ new dishes. Among those are Compass Rose (dinner-only restaurant/13x new dishes), Prime 7 (steakhouse/has a new lunch menu), Pacific Rim (pan-Asian restaurant/has 2x new entrees and 4x new desserts), Sette Mari ay La Veranda (Italian restaurant/8x new appetizers).

Along with the new menus, on Grandeur, Regent also introduced numerous plant-based dishes.

Follows the complete list of Seven Seas Grandeur restaurants and food bars.

• Compass Rose (main dining room restaurant, open-seating breakfast, lunch and dinner; features European Continental dishes and alternative choices - vegetarian, specialties from the Spa menu, select dishes from Regent's Chartreuse menu with gourmet French cuisine)
• Chartreuse is Regent's new French specialty restaurant also serving premium cocktails based on the Green Chartreuse liqueur. The restaurant offers some of the most exquisite gourmet experiences at sea.
• Prime 7 (reservations-only dinner restaurant with American Steakhouse menu)
• Sette Mari at La Veranda (casual dining venue; operates as ship's self-service buffet restaurant; in the evenings, the buffet transforms into "Sette Mari" Italian dinner restaurant, complimentary. The Destination Corner serves the local dishes of the destination.)
• Culinary Arts Kitchen (cooking school with 18 cooking stations in 3 rows; each is equipped with quartz countertop and stainless steel sink; the cooking school has floor-ceiling windows, and boasts 12 different classes themed as fish and shellfish, food and wine, mini-desserts, healthy cooking, etc. As part of the program, Regent Seven Seas also offers "Gourmet Explorer Tours" ashore).
• Pacific Rim (Pan-Asian restaurant, dinner-only, with an art installation of a large dragon)
• Coffee Connection is an alfresco seating area.

The Compass Rose restaurant on Seven Seas Grandeur is redesigned by Studio DADO (2016-founded, Trapani Sicily -based interior design firm). Among the restaurant's features are the cascading waterfall sculptures (made of laser-cut metal and hand-blown glass), illuminated arching trees (wood-edged and made of interwoven crystal), floor-ceiling illumination during the night (hundreds of lights surround the floor-ceiling windows). The restaurant is also lighted by thousands of crystal-faceted leaves (encrusted on pillars and branches throughout). Also new is the mural (an artwork custom-designed by Confluent Studios Inc/Burnaby BC Canada) crafted with gold leaves and mirror-finished (Verre Eglomise process of gilding onto the glass' rear face).

Compass Rose's expanded menu includes dishes like Black Angus filet mignon, Maine Lobster Tail, King Scallops, New Zealand Lamb Chops, several daily changing specials, a wide selection of vegan and vegetarian items.

In June 2022, RSSC announced that on Seven Seas Grandeur will be introduced a new Italian menu, later to be rolled out fleetwide. The new menu (developed for the Italian restaurant chain Sette Mari) includes items like Bruschetta al pomodoro (tomato), Cavatelli ai frutti di mare (filled pasta), Zucchini alla poverella, Insalata di Panzanella (bread salad) alla Masseria Salamina (17th-century castle in Fasano), Cozze gratinate al forno (stuffed mussels), Branzino in agrodolce (spigola in sweet-and-sour sauce), Pasticcini alla mandorle (Sicilian baked sweets), Chef Nino's Cioppino (fish stew), focaccia con pomodorini (Italian flat bread made with olive oil and flavoured with herbs).

Seven Seas Grandeur's "Prime 7" restaurant (redesigned by Studio DADO) is themed as a classic NYC steakhouse from the late 19th-early 20th century. The design highlights include a wall (by the entry) decorated with handmade vintage suitcases and black-and-white photos, an interior wall (separating from the service stations) with glass-enclosed vitrines, a wall that has gentleman belts (put end on end) creating beautiful texture. The interior tables are with fake windows outfitted with mirrors to reflect the ocean view from the opposite windows. The furniture includes 4-seat tables and handmade armchairs (their leather is outfitted with nail heads), Persian carpets, residential lighting, various memorabilia.

Shipboard entertainment options - Fun and Sport

While the design of Seven Seas Grandeur is decidedly more contemporary luxe than the fleet mates, RSSC strikes a balance between its much-loved traditional features and a more modern ambiance.

Follows the complete list of Seven Seas Grandeur bars, lounges, clubs and other entertainment venues for kids, teens and adults.

• Constellation Theater (2-deck high main show lounge for grand music and show productions; also features "Cirque Rock'n Roll" aerial acrobatics spectacle)
• Atrium (2-deck high open-floor area)
• Club.com (Internet computers room); Library
• Connoisseur Club (smoking lounge with comfortable leather armchairs; offers hand-rolled Cuban cigars)
• Card Rooms (hosts bridge tournaments and lectures)
• Explorer Lounge and Bar (disco nightclub; operates as a piano bar during the day with resident pianist performances)
• Meridian Lounge (serves as an entertainment lounge with leather furniture, blue carpeting, dark-wood paneling, antique flooring; has its own bar; serves premium cocktails)
• Horizon Lounge (with a large dance floor; hosts daily trivia shows and offers Afternoon Tea)
• Observation Lounge (grand piano bar with live music performances in the evenings)
• The Boutique (duty-free shopping arcade: luxury jewelry, precious stones, brand perfumes, watches, designer clothes, accessories, gifts, souvenirs, Regent-logo wear)
• Casino (with 2 sections: for the slot machines, and for the gaming tables)
• Fitness Center (deck 6) has floor-ceiling windows and modern equipment (cardio and weight machines, free weights), separate studio for classes (cycling, yoga, Pilates).

Seven Seas Grandeur's wellness complex (Serene Spa & Wellness) is managed by Canyon Ranch SpaClub (also providing certified personnel) and uses luxury beauty products by Red Flower (NYC-based beauty wellness brand using organic/biodegradable and biocompatible skincare and cosmetics). Most of the Red Flower's treatments are itinerary-based (with locally sourced ingredients).

The wellness complex consists of 8x Treatment Rooms, Saunas (including infrared sauna), Steam Rooms (aromatic steam room), Cold Room (temperature 54 F / 12 C), Thermal Suite, Shower Room (varying degrees of water pressure, therapeutic audio effects/waterfalls, thunderstorms), Relaxation Room, infinity pool (resistance swimming pool/aft). Part of the complex are also the Beauty Salon, the Gym and the Aerobics Studio (for classes). The Spa's features include a cocoon-inspired design, a central-location Swarovski crystal sculpture, chrysalis (made of silk wrappings), marble flooring, light-grained wood, exquisite treatments.

On the Grandeur ship, Regent expanded its Spa offerings with new treatments and equipment, including a Quartz Crystal Healing Bed and a Zero Gravity Massage Table (with 8x positions for different muscle groups). New treatments include the 750-minute massages Hot Mineral Body Boost (for alleviating muscular pains) and the Poultice-Powered Muscle Release (for aching muscles). Also new is the Tahitian Hydration Ritual (75-min) but is exclusive (only for guests staying in the Regent Suite) and offered in the Suite's own private Spa.

On Sun Deck are located Power Walking/Jogging Track, Sports Court, Paddle Tennis Court, Bocce Court, Mini-Golf putting green, Golf Nets, and Shuffleboard. Lido Deck 's pool area houses a large swimming pool, 2 Jacuzzies (spa pools/whirlpool hot tubs), a sunbathing area with loungers, tennis tables, a seating area with tables and deckchairs. Sundeck is served by the Pool Bar.

Regent's Grandeur is the world's 3rd cruise ship (after Explorer and Splendor) with a Pickleball Court. The installation was done by Adventure Golf Services (a company specializing in custom-designed mini-golf courses).

• This is a combo court serving 2 sports - Pickleball and Paddle Tennis.
• Pickleball is a racquet sport that combines elements of badminton, court tennis and table tennis. The game is played by 2, 3 or 4 players using solid paddles (made of wood or composites) to hit a perforated polymer ball over a net.
• The company also installed other products - paddle tennis court, shuffleboard, 18-hole putting green course, GolfCourt Hitting Bay (golf driving range), Bocce court. All these products use patented interlocking panels fabricated in Traverse City (Michigan USA).
• Adventure Golf Services is the leading manufacturer and installer for the cruise ship industry, with signature products like miniature golf courses, putting greens, shuffleboard, bocce ball, croquet courts, golf driving cages.

Shipboard art collection

In October 2022, RSSC contracted Faberge Ltd (2007-founded) to design "Faberge Egg Objet" for the Grandeur ship's art collection. The unique art piece (designed by Liisa Tallgren and inspired by Faberge's Winter Egg/1913) will remain permanently onboard but is not for sale.

The ship's art collection groups ~1600 pieces from popular artists and renowned galleries worldwide. The collection's highlights are 3x Pablo Picasso paintings (Toros y Toreros/1961, Antes de Picar al Toro/1963, Picador Picando al Toro, Con Matador al Quite/1961), Faberge's custom-made egg "Journey in Jewels", and Zheng Lu's stainless steel sculpture "Water in Dripping - Waterfall" (2021).

Another unique art piece is the custom-made "Bonsai Cherry Tree" sculpture (bronze and hand-cast glass) by Savoy Studios ( Portland OR USA -based art glass studio). The installation is at the entrance of the Pacific Rim restaurant.

Upon entering the Compass Rose restaurant, diners are seated beneath a canopy made of thousands of interwoven crystal-faceted leaves on wood-edged trees, creating the ambiance of an enchanted forest.

Regent Grandeur boasts a wide array of artworks encompassing sculptures, original paintings, photographs. Next are listed some of the most expensive pieces and their floor location.

Pablo Picasso's (Lithograph and Linocut) "Toros y Toreros," "Antes de picar al toro," and "Picador picando al toro, con matador al quite" are displayed in Prime 7 (steakhouse on Deck 10 ).

Faberge's "Journey in Jewels" is in the Atrium on Deck 5 .

Savoy Studios's "Bonsai Cherry Tree" (Pacific Rim) is on Deck 5.

Walter Goldfarb's "The Enchanted Tree" (40-ft/12-m-tall tapestry) hangs beside the elevator wall in the Atrium on Deck 6 .

Zheng Lu's "Water in Dripping - Waterfall" is displayed at the Serene Spa & Wellness (Deck 5).

Itineraries

Seven Seas Grandeur itinerary program (as homeports and destinations/regions) and the ship's Inaugural Cruise date were announced on September 22, 2021, when the voyages were also opened for booking.

The boat's inaugural season starts on November 25, 2023, and is comprised of total 17x voyages (ranging from 7 to 16 nights) visiting ports in the Caribbean and Europe/Mediterranean, as well as 2x Transatlantic crossings and 2x Panama Canal transits . Early booking prices (per person with double occupancy) ranged between USD 4000-88000 (EUR 3390-74500 / GBP 2900-63600).

Schedule 2023-2024

The Maiden Voyage (NOV 25, 2023) is a 14-night Transatlantic crossing from Europe to the USA (Barcelona to Miami) themed "A MAGNIFICENT CROSSING" and initially priced from EUR 5960.

Next is listed the ship's remaining schedule currently planned for the inaugural season.

• 2023 (DEC 14) 7-night Caribbean roundtrip from Miami / themed "MEXICAN MARVELS IN THE CARIBBEAN"
• (DEC 21) 16-night Panama Canal from Miami to Los Angeles / themed "COMFORT ACROSS THE CANAL"
• 2024 (JAN 8) 16-night Panama Canal from Los Angeles to Miami / themed "A GRANDIOSE TRANSIT"
• 10-night Caribbean roundtrips from Miami / themes "WONDERS IN THE CARIBBEAN" (JAN 26), "ISLAND JOY & CRUISE COMFORTS" (FEB 17), "MAGIC IN THE CARIBBEAN" (MAR 5), "STRAITS TO PARADISE" (MAR 15)
• (FEB 5) 12-night Caribbean roundtrip from Miami / themed "POMP & ROMANCE IN PARADISE"
• (FEB 27) 7-night Caribbean roundtrip from Miami / themed "A PRIVATE ESCAPE"
• (MAR 25) 16-night relocation from Miami to NYC New York / themed "ISLAND SPRING & SOUTHERN CHARM"
• (APR 10) 14-night Transatlantic from NYC to Barcelona , via Bermuda and Azores / themed "OCEAN AIR & SPANISH FLARE"
• 2024 (Mediterranean-Adriatic-Aegean/Greek Islands)
• (APR 24) 7-night from Barcelona to Civitavecchia-Rome / themed "GLORY OF THE RIVIERA"
• (APR 24) 14-night roundtrip from Barcelona / themed "ROMANCE IN ITALY, LOVE IN SPAIN"
• (MAY 1) 7-night from Civitavecchia-Rome to Barcelona / themed "ICONIC ITALY & A TASTE OF SPAIN"
• (MAY 8) 12-night from Barcelona to Venice / themed "MAJESTY ALONG THE AMALFI COAST"
• (MAY 20) 10-night from Venice to Piraeus-Athens / themed "CROSSROADS & IONIAN GRANDEUR"
• (MAY 30) 12-night from Piraeus-Athens to Istanbul / themed "ANCIENT LANDS & HOLY SITES"
• (JUN 11) 10-night from Istanbul to Piraeus-Athens / themed "GRANDEUR IN THE GREEK ISLES"
• (JUN 21) 10-night from Piraeus-Athens to Civitavecchia-Rome / themed "THE DELIGHTS OF TURKEY"

In Europe-Mediterranean, the cruise ship visits ports in Turkey (IZMIR, EPHESUS-KUSADASI, BODRUM, ALANYA, ANTALYA, ISTANBUL/overnight, BOZCAADA Island), Greece (KAVALA, IGOUMENITSA), Greek islands (CORFU, SANTORINI, MYKONOS, LESBOS, PATMOS, RHODES, CYPRUS/LIMASSOL, CRETE/HERAKLION), Italy (AMALFI, ANCONA, LIVORNO, SORRENTO, NAPLES), Sicily Island (CATANIA, PALERMO, TAORMINA), France (MARSEILLE, SETE, SANARY-SUR-MER, SAINT-TROPEZ), Spain (VALENCIA, PALMA DE MALLORCA), Monaco (MONTE CARLO), Malta (VALLETTA), Israel (ASHDOD, HAIFA), Croatia (DUBROVNIK, SPLIT), Montenegro (KOTOR).

In the Caribbean are visited the islands Aruba (ORANJESTAD), Bonaire (KRALENDIJK), Grenada (ST GEORGE'S), St Lucia (CASTRIES), Antigua (ST JOHN'S), Saint Barthelemy (GUSTAVIA), Puerto Rico (SAN JUAN), Mexico (COZUMEL, COSTA MAYA), Belize (HARVEST CAYE), Guatemala (SANTO TOMAS DE CASTILLA), Honduras (ISLA ROATAN), as well as the USA (CHARLESTON SC, KEY WEST FL).

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The shipowner NCLH (Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd) placed the order with the shipbuilder Fincantieri SpA on January 15, 2019. The shipbuilding order was signed by Frank Del Rio (NCLH's President and CEO) and Giuseppe Bono (Fincantieri's CEO).

For the newbuild project, NCLH obtained export credit financing (for 80% of the unit's contract price of EUR 475 million / USD 532 million). With the order for Seven Seas Grandeur in 2019, NCLH had 11 vessels ( on order or under construction ) with deliveries through 2027. Of those, 7x were for NCL-Norwegian Cruise Line , 2x for Oceania and 2x for RSSC-Regent .

Regent announced the name of its newest boat (Seven Seas Grandeur) on June 22, 2021. The name was revealed by Jason Montague (RSSC's President and CEO) in a video.

The vessel's construction (Fincantieri Ancona yard number/hull 6282) officially started with the steel-cutting ceremony on November 2, 2021, held at Fincantieri's Ancona shipyard. The special event was attended by Jason Montague (RSSC's President and CEO) and Giovanni Stecconi (shipyard's Director). The vessel's physical construction started with the keel-laying ceremony, held on July 12, 2022. During the event, 3x custom-minted coins were placed onto the keel/first hull block, each representing one of the sisterships Grandeur (2023), Splendor (2021), Explorer (2016). The coins for Explorer and Splendor were delivered to Fincantieri's yards Sestri Ponente Genova (in 2016) and Ancona (in 2020), while Grandeur's coin is new and features RSSC's 30th-anniversary logo.

The Regent ship's namesake is the RCI 's liner Grandeur of the Seas (1996).

The ship was launched/floated out from drydock on January 26, 2023. The ceremony was led by Orsinja Myshku (Senior Controller of Ancona yard's Economic Administration and Control Office) who served as madrina/godmother. The special event was attended by Andrea DeMarco (Regent's President), Gabriella Fonzo (Regent's Senior Director of Sales CEMEA) and Giovanni Ciriaco Stecconi (Ancona shipyard's Director).

Fincantieri officially delivered Seven Seas Grandeur to RSSC on November 13, 2023.

Christening ceremony (2023)

On July 17, 2023, RSSC announced that Grandeur's godmother will be Sarah Josephine Faberge (1958-born).

She is the only daughter of Theo Faberge (1922-2007) who was a grandson of Peter Carl Faberge/Karl Gustavovich Faberge (1846-1920) who was one of the sons of Gustav Faberge (1814-94, the founder of the House of Faberge/1842-established) and made the first Easter-themed jeweled Faberge eggs in Sankt Petersburg (Russia) .

Sarah Faberge is a founding member of the Faberge Heritage Council and Director of Special Projects for Faberge. Since 2007, all trademarks, licenses and associated rights relating to the brand Faberge are owned by Pallinghurst Resources Ltd (now Gemfields Group Ltd/2007-founded supplier of colored gemstones).

The ship's christening ceremony was held on December 10, 2023, in Miami (Florida USA) . The naming event featured entertainment from Kristin Dawn Chenoweth (1968-born American actress and singer) and was attended by Harry Sommer (NCLH's President and CEO) and Andrea DeMarco (RSSC's President).

As part of the Regent-Faberge partnership, during the ship naming festivities, Sarah Faberge wore unique earrings and a ring designed specifically for the event. These pieces of jewelry (made of 18-karat white gold, white diamonds and pearls) were auctioned and the money was given to charity (Gemfields Foundation) in 2024.

After the ceremony, Seven Seas Grandeur started the exclusive "Caribbean Christening Cruise" (3-day roundtrip itinerary) before the official Caribbean deployment.

For July 1, 2024, was scheduled to start Seven Seas Grandeur's "Faberge Spotlight Voyage" featuring small group workshops and master-class programs, exclusive shore tours, Faberge egg demos, lectures and screenings. The "Faberge Cruise" is a 10-day Mediterranean itinerary (from Civitavecchia-Rome to Monte Carlo Monaco) visiting Salerno, Taormina Sicily, Valletta Malta; Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Spain), Barcelona, Marseille, and Antibes.

In September 2023, Regent announced Grandeur ship's Senior Officers - Luciano Montesanto (Master/Captain), Antonio Lagana (Chief Engineer), Giuseppe Gargiulo (Staff Captain), Franck Galzy (General Manager), David Nevin (Cruise Director).

Inaugural cruise itineraries (2023-2024)

Next tables show the ship's inaugural voyages by destination, with prices in USD per person (lowest cabin grade cabin with double occupancy).

( MAIDEN VOYAGE 2023 ) 7-day from Trieste to Barcelona ($18000 pp)

(Inaugural Transatlantic crossing) 14-day from Barcelona to Miami ($8500 pp)

(inaugural Caribbean cruise 2023) 7-day "Mexican Marvels In The Caribbean" itinerary ($4000 pp)

(inaugural Panama Canal cruise 2023) 16-day from Miami to Los Angeles ($9000 pp)

(inaugural Mediterranean cruise 2024) 14-day "Romance In Italy, Love In Spain" itinerary ($14000 pp)

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Regent Seven Seas Grandeur is the third of three sister ships for the luxury cruise line. It debuted in late 2023 with several sailing dates in the Caribbean out of PortMiami, seen here during a cruise from Jan. 24-26, 2024. (Richard Tribou/Orlando Sentinel)

A Fabergé egg titled "Journey in Jewels" sits in the atrium on board Regent Seven Seas Grandeur. (Richard Tribou/Orlando Sentinel)

This bronze-and-glass bonsai cherry blossom tree sculpture welcomes diners into the Pacific Rim restaurant on board Regent Seven Seas Grandeur, the third of three sister ships for the luxury cruise line Regent Seven Seas Cruises that debuted in late 2023. (Richard Tribou/Orlando Sentinel)

The Compass Rose restaurant on board Regent Seven Seas Grandeur was designed by Miami-based Studio DADO. (Richard Tribou/Orlando Sentinel)

Chef John Stephano leads a class in the Culinary Arts Kitchen on board Regent Seven Seas Grandeur on Jan. 25, 2024. The ship is the third of three sister ships for the luxury cruise line that debuted in late 2023. (Richard Tribou/Orlando Sentinel)

The luxury pedigree that Regent Seven Seas welcomed with Seven Seas Explorer in 2016 continued with sister ship Seven Seas Splendor in 2020, but the third and final sister Seven Seas Grandeur offers up the best of class.

The ship’s features include the first Fabergé egg with a permanent home at sea. The blue-pearl-and-diamond sculpture titled “Journey in Jewels” is a small but commanding centerpiece rotating within its display case in the atrium for travelers to enjoy as soon as they step on board.

The egg is revealed as seven branches break away like waves that represent the Seven Seas. The ship’s godmother is Sarah Fabergé, the great-granddaughter of Peter Carl Fabergé.

It’s part of a 1,600-piece art collection that includes classic black-and-white photos from global destinations adorning the hallways between cabins to the steakhouse’s original Picassos. Travelers could spend a good afternoon wandering hallways and public spaces, akin to visiting a museum. A new app for the line also offers a digital art tour, like a personal guide.

“With each new ship, our team works tirelessly to identify and source the most impressive array of art pieces, building a collection that would be enviable by most modern-day museums, to ensure our guests’ time onboard is as enriching and thought-provoking as their time on land,” said Regent Seven Seas Cruises President Andrea DeMarco.

All three ships in the Explorer class are about 55,500 gross tons, with Grandeur sporting a 744-guest capacity among its all-suite offerings. The line has three older ships and just had two larger vessels ordered by parent company Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, but they are not due until 2026 and 2029.

Until then, the three sister ships continue the line’s most refined take on their global, all-inclusive itineraries, with both Splendor and Grandeur set to return to Miami for the 2024-25 winter Caribbean season.

The line has given all three Explorer-class ships a succession of superlative monikers. Seven Seas Grandeur was dubbed with “A Heritage of Perfection,” following Seven Seas Explorer’s “the most luxurious cruise ship ever” and Seven Seas Splendor’s “the ship that perfects luxury.”

With 548 crew, Grandeur boasts a 1:1.36 crew-to-passenger ratio similar to its two sisters, so needs among travelers are attended to promptly.

The ship’s interior spaces are crafted by Miami-based Studio DADO, which has put its mark on sister lines Oceania Cruises and Norwegian Cruise Line.

That includes new takes on main dining venue Compass Rose, which DADO founding partner Yohandel Ruiz called “a feast for the eyes.”

It’s filled with fantastical tree-like arches right out of Alice in Wonderland with a cascading waterfall sculpture. At night, thousands of individually placed crystal-faceted leaves encrusted on pillars and branches illuminate the space.

The ship has five signature restaurants on board, including steakhouse Prime 7, Italian option Sette Mari at La Veranda, French offering Chartreuse and the latest version of Asian restaurant Pacific Rim, this time bringing a delicate bronze-and-glass bonsai cherry blossom tree sculpture as the centerpiece at the entrance. It’s a welcome and fitting addition to the dragon and prayer wheel sculptures on its two sister ships.

The ship has 15 suite categories, all with their own balconies. The pinnacle of sailing options is the 4,443-square-foot Regent Suite at $11,000 a night. It features a $200,000 Hästens Vividus custom handmade mattress, an in-suite spa retreat with a personal sauna and steam room and 270-degree views from the ship’s bow from a 1,292-square-foot wraparound veranda. Those passengers get their own butler and personal car and driver in every port.

Some seven-night Miami-based sailings go for as low as $3,700 per person based on double occupancy.

For everyone on board is the spa with an infinity pool that looks out over the stern, fitness center, jogging track, casino, several lounges, card room, library and main pool. Top-deck fun includes pickleball, shuffleboard, mini golf and ping-pong.

A big draw to Regent is the mostly inclusive offerings, including free and unlimited shore excursions, round-trip flights, unlimited internet, prepaid gratuities, ground transfers and other amenities.

One of the best offerings on board, though, isn’t free. Back again is the Culinary Arts Kitchen, a staple borrowed from sister line Oceania Cruises, but a massively popular offering that lets 18 students create memorable dishes under the guidance of a chef team.

During a preview cruise for media in January out of PortMiami, the class was led by the amiable Chef John Stephano talking students through a pair of sample dishes – pasta al limone, which is lemon pasta, and French crêpes with an allspice berry ice cream, offered during what are normally two-hour-long classes twice per day on sailings.

“I promise you’re going to make delicious and delightful food,” he said but joked that “anybody that struggles with their culinary skills today, we’ll be sending you down to the galley to help us out.”

Stephano deftly demonstrates and drops bits of history and detail during the demonstration with students gathered around, who then go one of the 18 individual stations equipped with induction cooktops, stainless steel sinks and a collection of tools, tongs, pots and pans, while he and assistant chefs make the rounds to ensure everyone is figuring out the steps.

The course options vary per cruise pulling from nearly 50 curated thematic class titles such as “1493: The Foodies’ New World,” “Familia Cubana” and “Flip-Flop Floribbean.” Classes are an extra $89, which is about the only extra-cost feature on a Regent sailing. They are often themed to the location where the ships sail.

The culinary team also has a hand in creating some of the unique excursions, which then pair up with some of the classes.

Grandeur just finished out its first run about the Caribbean during mostly sold-out itineraries from PortMiami and is now amid a set of Mediterranean voyages for summer 2024. It will then make its way to New York for fall color itineraries of Canada and New England in September and October and then return to Miami to begin the winter Caribbean sailing season into 2025.

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In Search of America Aboard the Icon of the Seas

Twenty decks, seven swimming pools, and one novelist wearing a meatball T-shirt

In January, the writer Gary Shteyngart spent a week of his life on the inaugural voyage of the Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship ever. Like many a great novelist before him , he went in search of the “real” America. He left his Russian novels at home, bought some novelty T-shirts, and psychically prepared to be the life of the party. About halfway through, Shteyngart called his editor and begged to be allowed to disembark and fly home. His desperate plea was rejected, resulting in a semi-sarcastic daily log of his misery .

In this episode of Radio Atlantic , Shteyngart discusses his “seven agonizing nights” on the cruise ship, where he roamed from mall to bar to infinity pool trying to make friends. He shares his theories about why cruise lovers nurture an almost spiritual devotion to an experience that, to him, inspires material for a “low-rent White Lotus. ” And he shares what happened when cruise lovers actually read what he wrote about their beloved ship.

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The following is a transcript of the episode:

Gary Shteyngart: Hi.

Hanna Rosin: Hi. It’s Hanna.

Shteyngart: Hi, Hanna. How are you?

Rosin: Good.

Rosin: I’m Hanna Rosin. This is Radio Atlantic .

Shteyngart: It’s cloudy here.

Rosin: It is? In a good way? In a way that makes your hair look full and rich?

Shteyngart: Oh, yeah. ( Laughs. ) It does add fullness to my hair, which is always a good thing at this point. I think spring has finally sprung. And I teach in the spring semester, and I’m like, God, I just want this to be over. I just want to go out and play .

Rosin: You teach fiction?

Shteyngart: Yeah. I can’t teach rocket science.

Rosin: ( Laughs. )

Shteyngart: Cruising technology.

Rosin: This is writer Gary Shteyngart.

Rosin: There’s just a Russian stereotype.

Shteyngart: ( Laughs. )

Rosin: I’m like, You could teach astronomy or physics . I don’t know.

Shteyngart: Chess.

Rosin: Chess. Exactly.

Rosin: Gary Shteyngart grew up in the Soviet Union and immigrated to the U.S. when he was 7. He’s written several award-winning novels, and he was a “literary consultant” on Succession , the HBO show.

Mostly, he is known for his satire, which can range from gentle to deadly. So who better to write an article about the inaugural voyage of the largest cruise ship ever built?

Shteyngart: This whole thing came about because I was on Twitter, and I saw a tweet that just showed the—may I use salty language here?

Rosin: Yes.

Shteyngart: The ass of the ship is how I describe it. I don’t know any of these terms, but, you know, with all the water parks and crap on it. And so I reposted the tweet, and I said, If somebody wants to send me on this cruise, please specify the level of sarcasm desired .

Rosin: Really? ( Laughs. )

Shteyngart: And then—God bless The Atlantic —within seconds, I had an assignment.

Rosin: That ass belongs to the Icon of the Seas, a ship that can hold more than 7,000 passengers and 2,000 crew. It has 20 decks with seven swimming pools and six waterslides. The ship itself is about five times bigger than the Titanic. And I’m pretty sure the Titanic did not have a swim-up bar, much less the world’s largest swim-up bar.

In a recent piece for The Atlantic , Gary describes it this way: “The ship makes no sense, vertically or horizontally. It makes no sense on sea, or on land, or in outer space. It looks like a hodgepodge of domes and minarets, tubes and canopies, like Istanbul had it been designed by idiots … This is the biggest cruise ship ever built, and I have been tasked with witnessing its inaugural voyage.”

To prepare for that voyage, Gary wore a meatball T-shirt he found in a store in Little Italy. More specifically, the shirt read: “Daddy’s Little Meatball.”

Shteyngart: You know, I grew up in Queens and, being a spicy meat-a-ball , I thought it was funny. A lot of cruisers were angry. They thought I was being sexual or sexualizing. It’s very interesting because I thought that T-shirt was the bond between a child and his daddy or her daddy.

Rosin: ( Laughs. ) You thought it’d just be a conversation starter.

Shteyngart: I thought it’d be a conversation starter. If they had a “Mommy’s Little Meatball” T-shirt, that would’ve been preferable. I feel much more a mommy’s little meatball. But they only have daddy.

I actually thought, My expectations are low, but I bet I’m going to run into awesome people. And I love to drink and chat, and this is—I guess that’s what you do on a cruise ship. And I knew I was going to have a suite, so I was like, Maybe I’ll throw a suite party .

Shteyngart: Invite some people over . On land, I really am quite sociable. I remember I was just leaving a Columbia—I teach at Columbia—leaving a Columbia party, and somebody was saying, Well, there goes 75 percent of the party .

Rosin: Oh, that’s a compliment.

Shteyngart: It’s a compliment. I’m kind of a party animal. So I was super—I thought, you know, Look, 5,000 people. I’m going to find a soulmate or two .

Rosin: Great writers before Gary have deluded themselves in this way before. Most notably: David Foster Wallace, who ended up spending much of his cruise adventure alone in his cabin. They venture out, looking to swim with some “real Americans.” And instead, they are quickly confronted by the close-up details, like the nightly entertainment—

Shteyngart: There was a kind of packaged weirdness in the shows. Goddamn—the ice-skating tribute to the periodic table. What the hell was that?

Rosin: The food—

Shteyngart: It did not have the consistency of steak. It was like some kind of pleathery, weird—like this poor cow had been slapped around before it died.

Rosin: And the physical touch of an actual “real American.”

Shteyngart: He’d throw his arms around them drunkenly, and they’d be like, Ehh .

First of all, I just want to say, Royal Caribbean—the people that run it are geniuses. The CEO’s name is—I’m not making this up—Jason Liberty.

Shteyngart: His name is Liberty! I mean, I don’t know. What the hell? Like, exactly, if I was to write a novel character with, you know, Jason Liberty , people would be like, Oh, he’s being pretentious . But no. That’s his actual name.

I think they know the tastes of their clientele so well and are able to mirror it back to them, but also to give them this feeling that they’re awesome for doing something like this. One of my favorite slogans—you get all this literature— This isn’t a vacation day spent. It’s bragging rights earned .

Rosin: Mmm. It’s velvet ropey, like you’re in a club.

Shteyngart: It’s a velvet ropey situation. You are an adventurer. You’ve earned this. You have bragging rights. But when you enter the ship, you’re in a mall. And the mall is large and multileveled, and you can buy a Rolex at three times what it would cost on land and all this other crap.

And then there’s all these neighborhoods, and you can do whatever the hell you want. You can get trashed or have sex, which, whatever—I mean with your spouse, although there were some swingers on board. But you could do whatever you want in a way that you can’t on land, in a way, I think, because so many of these people are just working their asses off.

Rosin: Right.

Shteyngart: That was a topic of conversation that came up. People were like, Yeah, I work 90 hours a week, and this is my chance to just, you know, be blotto .

Rosin: You’re hinting at this. Part of being on a ship is being inducted into the language and the levels of the ship, and can you walk us through that? You mentioned, for example: You walk in, you’re in a mall. But I bet, eventually, you start to see more. What are the neighborhoods? You said the word neighborhoods . What does that even mean? And what are the distinctions?

Shteyngart: I think this ship and other Royal Caribbean ships of this size—although this is the biggest—try to create this idea of a city, like you’re in a city that happens to be at sea.

One of the funniest neighborhoods is called Central Park, which is literally another mall but with a couple of shrubs growing out here and there. I thought that was really funny—also, using a New York City landmark in one of the least New Yorkiest milieus in the world.

Rosin: I guess it just has to be terms—a word—people recognize. And people vaguely recognize it. They don’t need to know about Olmsted or live in Brooklyn.

Shteyngart: ( Laughs. ) No, no.

Rosin: They just vaguely recognize Central Park.

Shteyngart: It’d be funny if I asked—boy, would I get a lot of flak if I came up to a cruiser and be like, I don’t think this really matches Olmsted’s vision of Central Park. I don’t know. Meatball not happy . Maybe I should have used a Russian accent. Like, Hello. I am Meatball .

Rosin: Meatball not happy .

Shteyngart: Meatball not happy with Olmsted . So there’s that. There’s Surfside, which is a very funny kind of Disneyland for kids with—

Rosin: And are you walking—like, I still don’t get it. So you go in, and how big is a neighborhood? And then how do you get to the next neighborhood?

Shteyngart: Right, so everything’s on decks, so you take these elevators. I think I spent half the cruise on elevators just going from one place to another.

Rosin: Yeah.

Shteyngart: But I thought I would be in the Suites neighborhood. Because this whole thing—and Royal Caribbean is also brilliant at this. These people—really, a Nobel Prize in Economics. It’s a constant scramble. You constantly want a higher status, especially if you’ve been cruising forever. You want to reach Pinnacle status, which you have to do after 700 days (or nights, rather) on the ship, which is two years, right? Almost.

Rosin: Wow. And so what does that get you?

Shteyngart: So the Pinnacles have their own—I mean, there’s some priority things they get. Like, I was not allowed to go into one dining room at one point, and the guy—I didn’t know what Pinnacle was, so I thought the guy was saying, It’s just pendejo dining . He had a thick accent. I was like, I’m wearing a meatball T-shirt. I am the essence of pendejo . And he was like, No, no, pendejos only . But he was trying to say Pinnacles, I guess. So that kind of stuff.

They have their own little lounge, which I wasn’t allowed into. And some of the other cruisers who are not Pinnacles but have somehow gotten into the lounge, they’re very angry about being denied. And they’re like, There’s nothing in there. There’s just a coffee machine in there .

But the other thing is the suite status, which I had because by the time The Atlantic commissioned this piece, almost all the cabins were sold out. Everybody wanted to be on this ship, and all that was left was a $19,000—Jesus Christ—$19,000 suite that didn’t even look out on the sea.

Rosin: Wow.

Shteyngart: It looked out on the mall or whatever. But it looked like the Marriott, in a way, which—I like Marriotts—I’m just saying.

Rosin: So it’s just a plain—it’s like a hotel room.

Shteyngart: It’s like a hotel room.

Rosin: With a window.

Shteyngart: And I had two bathrooms.

Rosin: For yourself?

Shteyngart: Just for myself, I know. Well, I think the idea of these suites is that more than one person goes on them, right?

But there’s this—the Royal Bling. The Royal Bling is the jewelry store, such as it is, on board. And they introduced this thing called the something chalice. It’s a $100,000 chalice, and it entitles you to drink for free on Royal Caribbean once you’ve bought it.

So this thing is hilarious. Just the concept of it is insane. Everyone’s trying to figure out: Should I buy this? What’s up with this? Should I get it for my 28-year-old kid? Will it earn out? How much does he drink? How much can I drink ?

So I talked to the wonderful Serbian sales lady. Everyone’s country of origin, if you’re on the crew, is listed on their tag.

Rosin: Really?

Shteyngart: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Rosin: That’s weird.

Shteyngart: So you’re like, Oh, it’s Amir from Pakistan , or whatever.

Rosin: That’s so weird.

Shteyngart: Yeah. And she was, I don’t know, something Olga from Serbia, and she was amazing. They’re all amazing. Every crew member is excellent.

And she was like, Well —she was trying to sell me the $100,000 chalice. I said, It’s really gold ? And she’s like, No, it’s gold-plated. We couldn’t afford . She said, If it was really gold, it would be, like, a million dollars . I’m like, Okay . And then it has diamonds, and she’s like, Well, they’re actually cubic zirconia, again, because it would cost, like, $10 million if they were diamonds . I’m like, All right, this thing is sounding worse and worse .

And then she said, But, you know, if you already have everything, this is one more thing you can have . And I thought that was almost like a Zen haiku, but about the American condition. If you already have everything, this is one more thing you can have.

Rosin: So the ship has neighborhoods and levels and status in a very explicit way. And cruisers care about that. They care about it in a very deep, almost spiritual way that Gary didn’t quite appreciate until after he’d written the story.

Shteyngart: One of the funniest things—somebody was telling me to look this up on, I guess, Reddit.

Rosin: Mm-hmm.

Shteyngart: There’s a huge cruising community. I think half a million people are on that thing and, boy, were they pissed!

Rosin : That’s after the break.

Rosin: During his time on the Icon of the Seas, Gary Shteyngart met a few memorable characters. There was the younger couple he called, “Mr. and Mrs. Ayn Rand,” who he drank with a few times. And the couple’s couple friends, he described as quote: “bent psychos out of a Cormac McCarthy novel.” And then, there was “Duck Necklace.”

Shteyngart: He’s fascinating. He was drunk all the time, and he was being arrested—there is a security force—for photobombing.

Rosin: I wonder if the laws are different on the ship. Like photobombing is a felony.

Shteyngart: I’d love to do Law & Order: Icon of the Seas . That would be amazing.

Rosin: ( Laughs. ) Right.

Shteyngart: But then he went on this long, drunken, very elegiac thing about, Well, I’m 62, and if I fall off the ship, I’m fine with that. I just don’t want a shark to eat me. And I believe in God, and the Mayans have a prophecy . He just went on and on. And then I looked him up and, when not drunk and getting arrested on a ship, he’s the pillar of his community in North Chicago. There’s so much more to this guy. So he was my favorite, I think.

Rosin: So maybe the ship creates a space where, if you’re grinding and working every day and being a pillar of the community, the ship is your space to contemplate and be philosophical or be an idiot or whatever it is you can’t be elsewhere.

Shteyngart: Yeah. And I think you’re right. And I think a couple of people, especially older people—I mean, 62 isn’t that old—but a couple of the older people were trying to summarize their lives through their cruising experiences, including, for one woman, realizing that she wanted to divorce her husband. All these things happened on cruises.

It’s like the cruise is the time when they’re—the way people say when you’re off land, it’s the rules of the sea. You’re in international waters; you can do whatever you want. I think for some people, the cruise affords them some weird way to look back on their lives and to make large decisions or to celebrate either happy moments or sometimes almost-elegiac moments. There were all these people who looked like they were about to die.

Rosin: Literally?

Shteyngart: Literally about to die, clearly coming off of chemo or on an oxygen tank. Or they had T-shirts celebrating a good cancer remission. So definitely there’s—and I hope this article, despite its very satirical tone, lends some of that poignancy. Because people are people, and this is the kind of stuff that they want to do, either to make an important moment in their lives or to think on the things that have happened to them.

But I think that’s one of the reasons people were so butt hurt on that Reddit—to use a term of art—because I wasn’t just going after a hobby or something. I was going after something that is so key to their identity.

Rosin: That’s interesting that people perceived it so badly. You both appreciated the earnestness of it and made fun of it at the same time. It was satirical but also present.

Shteyngart: I don’t know. I think people really wanted a quote-unquote “journalist” to give an honest review of the ship. But look, I got this assignment by saying, What level of sarcasm do you want ? But I didn’t deliver 11 on the sarcasm scale. I think it was, like, six or seven.

I realized the humor part of this—and this is what I talk about in my humor class—the human comedy is that no one understands quite who they are. So I may go around thinking I’m a giraffe, and I keep talking about, Oh, I’m so tall, and I eat leaves off of tall trees . But in reality, I’m an aardvark. I’m a small furry creature, burrowing in the bush.

And that, to me, felt like a lot of what people were saying on the ship. People would say, I feel like I’m on an adventure . And I’m like, Yes, but we’re in a mall, as you say this, that’s slowly steaming to all these islands . But many of the passengers wouldn’t even get off on these islands. They love the ship so much they wouldn’t leave.

And I’ll say this, also: One of the most important things that happened to me—I was in Charlotte Amalie, which I guess is the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands or Saint Thomas, and I’d wandered off the beaten path. And this elderly Rastafarian gentleman looked at me, and with the most—I’ve never been talked to like this—but with a sneer beyond anything, he said, Redneck .

And I guess I did have a red neck at this point, and I was wearing this vibrant cap with the Icon of the Seas Royal Caribbean logo. But I realized, also, that people hate these cruisers. They hate what they do to their islands, their environment, everything. There’s just so much more happening here than just a bunch of drunken Americans on a ship.

And this also goes to the fact that, obviously, there’s all these people, mostly from the global South, working below decks. They work nonstop. And it’s interesting because a lot of the passengers, they would say, Wow, these people work so hard , with a kind of like, Oh, I wish everybody back home would work so hard , or something like that. But at the same time, I was listening to a comedy act, and the comedian was making fun of quote-unquote “shithole countries.”

So there’s definitely a kind of—even though cruisers keep talking about how much they love the people on the ship, it doesn’t translate.

Rosin: It doesn’t translate. It doesn’t translate into politics.

Okay, I’m turning it back on you—your story. You came into the boat with the story that Gary is a party guy, and Gary’s gonna have parties in Gary’s suite. So what did you realize along the way?

Shteyngart: Yeah, it was like being an immigrant all over again. And, for me, assimilation into America was a very, very long process. So the meatball, or the lack of success of the meatball, really reminded me of that, too—like I’m always a step behind.

And this did feel like, Oh, I was always a step behind . People would have casual conversations in the elevators, just shooting the shit, and I would try to banter with them. But I would always get it a little bit wrong, and I would realize it, too. Like, there was a lot of wind one day, and I was like, Oof, the frost is really on the pumpkin .

Shteyngart: But I realized that that’s probably said in the fall, right? Before Thanksgiving. Is that right? The pumpkin is, you know—

Rosin: So Immigrant Gary comes roaring back in those moments.

Shteyngart: Oh, my god.

Rosin: You want to be, like, Sophisticated Writer Gary.

Shteyngart: Absolutely. So I was always sweating bullets. Like, I want to get into the conversation. And this was a big thing because there was a big contest, several contests—the semifinals or something? Quarterfinals? I don’t know—between the big teams. And I had no idea what the hell was going on, but everybody was talking about it. And everybody was wearing paraphernalia—that’s the other thing.

Rosin: Paraphernalia. ( Laughs. ) You’re referring to team T-shirts.

Shteyngart: But also everything! I don’t know. Name it: hats, T-shirts, all kinds of crap. And I had nothing. I had meatball, you know.

Shteyngart: Look, the preparation for this article should have—I should have bought T-shirts with sports.

Rosin: ( Laughs. ) T-shirts with sports.

Shteyngart: And then I should have talked to people about all the rules of football. Maybe there’s a documentary that I can watch, something like that. And then maybe that would have been it.

Rosin: Okay, so I’m reading this essay about this cruise ship, which has a little bit of politics, a little bit of cult, a little bit of status obsession. What am I understanding about America?

Shteyngart: Well, I think we are, in some ways, a country that has been losing religion for a while. I know this is a strange approach to it, but people are looking for something to fill the void. Especially, among the hardworking middle class I think is where you feel it quite a bit. And I think because Americans are never satisfied, everyone’s always looking for, What’s my ancestry? Where do I come from ? Somehow just the term American is not enough to fulfill people’s expectations of what life is.

Rosin: Of what they belong to. Like, what they’re rooted in. Yeah.

Shteyngart: And for me, this is an easier question because I actually just want to be an American. I’m an immigrant who just wants to be an American, right?

So, on this ship, what I was seeing was people desperately trying to belong to some kind of idea. And I feel like the cruising life, because these people are so obsessed with the cruises that they wear these—half the people or more were wearing T-shirts somehow commemorating this voyage on the first day of the cruise. So I think I really offended a religion. I insulted not just a strange hobby that people engage in, but a way of life.

And I think that’s the future. Trying to understand America today is to try to understand people desperately grasping for something in the absence of more traditional ideas of what it means to an American, right? And this is one strange manifestation of that. But it was, for me, an ultimately unfulfilling one.

You know, God bless David Foster Wallace for being brilliant enough to start the genre, although there were a couple pieces before him, but the modern incarnation of this. Let’s stop this. I did not solve the question of what America is. None of that got solved.

Rosin: So what are we R.I.P.ing? We’re not just R.I.P.ing the cruise ship piece? I just want to end the episode this way. R.I.P. what?

Shteyngart: No, no, no, no. I don’t have that kind of cultural might.

Rosin: This episode of Radio Atlantic was produced by Jinae West. It was edited by Claudine Ebeid, fact-checked by Isabel Cristo, and engineered by Rob Smierciak. Claudine Ebeid is the executive producer of Atlantic audio, and Andrea Valdez is our managing editor. I’m Hanna Rosin. Thank you for listening.

Rosin: But was there a monkey on the ship?

Shteyngart: No, there wasn’t. The monkey was on Saint Kitts.

Rosin: Oh, okay. I remembered that wrong.

Shteyngart: No, no, no. The Royal Caribbean did not spring for a monkey. They had a golden retriever, and he wore, like, a cap or something? But see, so everybody was going gaga, and I’m like, You’ve never seen a golden freaking retriever? What kind of lives do you live on land ?

Rosin: Right, right. But it’s an Icon golden retriever, so it’s different.

Shteyngart: It’s an Icon golden retriever, and he’s, like, I guess, an emotional support dog for these people.

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Predominant symptom : diarrhea and vomiting

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Regent Seven Seas Cruises ® takes pride in creating dining experiences that are simply superb. From succulent lobster to the perfect burger and shake, you’ll find an array of refined flavors and refreshments from which to choose.

• Daytime Enrichment

You’ll find time spent on board the ship to be just as enriching as time ashore. Relax by the pool, compete in a friendly game of trivia or bocce ball, indulge in treats at afternoon tea and gain insight from an expert lecturer.

Evening Entertainment

Evenings on board are filled with music and fun. Enjoy a rousing cabaret show, test your luck at the Casino, step onto the stage for karaoke or simply find a quiet place on deck to revel in the symphony of stars.

• Spa & Fitness

Luxury travel is a holistic experience, one that reenergizes and restores the mind, body and spirit, leaving you with a greater sense of satisfaction and wellbeing. Serene Spa & Wellness ™ invites you into a globally inspired, tranquil haven of health, beauty and wellness.

• Boutiques and More

Browse a well-curated selection of duty-free designer clothes, jewelry, perfume and more at the onboard boutiques. Then fuel up with an espresso from an onboard café or unwind at a wine tasting in one of the lounges.

• Entertainment

ALLOW US TO TAKE CARE OF EVERY DETAIL

Our exceptional service begins long before you step aboard. Your Personal Consultant will help you or your Travel Advisor plan your next luxury cruise vacation.

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