Ultra-Luxury Cruise Lines
Ultra-luxury cruising is a different product from the ships most people picture. No waterslides, no photographers ambushing you at dinner, no line stretching from the buffet. The category is small on purpose, a handful of lines running smaller all-suite ships where the fare tends to cover far more than the cabin. This is where we sort them. We weigh space per guest, which the tonnage-to-passenger math makes plain, the range and quality of the restaurants, how genuinely all-inclusive the fare is once excursions, drinks, gratuities, and often the flights are counted, and whether the itineraries earn their days at sea. Size is not luxury here. Room to breathe is.
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Regent Seven Seas runs six small, all-suite ships and folds almost everything into the fare, including the thing rivals rarely dare to, unlimited shore excursions in every port. The newest ships carry around 745 guests across roughly 56,000 tons, which buys some of the most space per guest at sea.