Uber-luxury line Crystal is out with a brand new world cruise itinerary that is perhaps its most epic ever. It comes with an epic price ticket, too.
The recently relaunched model on Tuesday started taking reservations for a 135-night voyage from Los Angeles to Civitavecchia, Italy (the port for Rome), that can carry the rich set to a surprising 72 locations in 27 nations throughout 5 continents.
Kicking off Jan. 11, 2026, and happening on Crystal’s 740-passenger Crystal Serenity, the crusing begins at a sky-high $168,000 per cabin for 2 folks.
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Prime suites on the ship will price as much as $550,000 for 2 passengers.
For that lofty worth, well-heeled vacationers can expertise a once-in-a-lifetime journey that features visits to most of the world’s most well-known locations, from Bora Bora in French Polynesia to the pyramids of Egypt — all whereas dwelling within the lap of luxurious.
Crystal Serenity, which TPG has known as the queen of luxury cruising, underwent an enormous overhaul in 2023 that gave it more room per passenger than some other luxurious ship afloat. The overhaul included a big enlargement of a lot of its lodging and a discount within the variety of passengers that can sail on any given voyage.
Moreover, Crystal’s crew-to-passenger ratio — a prime measure of luxurious on any ship — was elevated to roughly 1:1, an astounding degree.
The web outcome makes Crystal Serenity one of the luxurious cruise vessels afloat.
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An extended world cruise
Crystal sometimes affords one world cruise a 12 months, and it is all the time prolonged and destination-packed. However the newly introduced 2026 world crusing is longer than these the road has provided in recent times, coming in at 135 days lengthy.
As compared, the only world cruise Crystal offers this year is 125 nights lengthy, whereas a world cruise deliberate for 2025 will probably be 123 nights lengthy.
The brand new crusing for 2026 can also be pricier than Crystal world cruises prior to now. Beginning charges are $35,000 extra per couple than the beginning charges for Crystal’s 2025 world cruise. That crusing begins at $133,000 per cabin for 2.
Crystal Serenity’s most luxurious lodging, the Penthouse Suite, prices $71,600 extra on the 2026 world cruise than it prices on the 2025 world cruise.
An epic itinerary to 5 continents
The 135-night world cruise for 2026 will start with a westward crossing of the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii and French Polynesia on the way in which to New Zealand and Australia.
From there, the vessel will head to varied nations throughout Asia, together with Indonesia and India, earlier than crusing by the Purple Sea and the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean.
Within the Mediterranean, the ship will go to a number of ports in Greece, Italy and France earlier than the journey ends in Civitavecchia Might 26, 2026.
In contrast to some earlier Crystal world cruises, the journey would not provide a full circumnavigation of the world. That enables the ship to spend extra time within the areas it does go to, with a very giant variety of stops within the South Pacific, Australia and Asia.
The brand new world cruise will probably be simply the third at Crystal prior to now eight years, as the road stopped crusing world cruises through the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Along with on-ship lodging, meals and drinks, passengers who ebook the world voyage will probably be entitled to such further perks as:
- A $1,500 per individual shipboard credit score
- An allowance of as much as $5,000 per individual for business-class flights to and from the ship or a $4,000 credit score towards the cruise price for these reserving their very own flights
- Non-public transfers to and from the ship
- Limitless eating on the ship’s upscale Osteria d’Ovidio and Umi Uma eating places (reservations required)
- Invites to themed onboard occasions
- Baggage valet service
Extra info is accessible as of Tuesday on Crystal’s website.
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