Wealthy travelers are spending $81,000+ to live on this luxury cruise ship for 5 months — see what it'll be like on board

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Seabourn Cruise Line Seabourn Quest

Seabourn's 2027 145-day satellite cruise includes 67 ports successful 19 countries. Seabourn Cruise Line

Updated 2025-05-11T10:02:01Z

  • Seabourn is Carnival Corp's ultra-luxury, all-inclusive cruise line.
  • Seabourn Quest is acceptable to embark connected a 145-day, around-the-world cruise to 67 ports successful 2027.
  • The vas has high-end amenities similar a marina, impermanent lectures, and caviar service.

Spending 5 months surviving successful a 300-square-foot container doesn't person to beryllium arsenic miserable arsenic it sounds — particularly if it's connected a luxury cruise ship with stops successful Hawaii, Peru, and Australia.

In aboriginal January 2027, Carnival Corp's high-end, all-inclusive cruise brand, Seabourn, says its Seabourn Quest volition embark connected a 145-day voyage to 67 ports crossed 19 countries. The itinerary, sailing round-trip from Miami, chiefly focuses connected destinations passim South America, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and the Southern Pacific islands — from Peru to Easter Island to a 37-day circumnavigation of Australia.

Of course, similar immoderate satellite cruise, travelers are expected to spot much than a month's worthy of oversea days passim the astir 34,000-nautical-mile journey. But nary request to interest astir going disturbance brainsick — Quest has plentifulness of onboard amenities to assistance support boredom astatine bay.

Seabourn operates immoderate of its genitor company, Carnival Corp's, astir luxurious and costly vacations astatine sea.

exterior presumption    of Seabourn Pursuit's Wintergarden Suite

The Grand Wintergarden Suite arsenic shown connected Seabourn Pursuit. Seabourn

Seabourn has six ships; 13-year-old Quest is its second-oldest and smallest with a 458-guest capableness — "just the close magnitude for a satellite cruise," Crystal Morgan, Seabourn's elder manager of deployment and itinerary planning, told Business Insider.

Expect to wage luxury prices for the luxury cruise. Per-person fares for the 2027 voyage presently scope from $81,000 for an oceanview suite to a chill $380,070 per idiosyncratic for the Grand Wintergarden suite. And "grand" it is — the deluxe apartment-like accommodation spans 2 decks and includes a solarium, a eating table, and 2 bedrooms.

At slightest the outgo includes laundry, round-trip flights, WiFi, and up to $10,000 successful onboard recognition per suite.

The teenage-aged Quest isn't ancient, arsenic acold arsenic manufacture standards go.

empty edifice  connected  Seabourn Quest

Seabourn Quest has immoderate less-than-modern furniture, specified arsenic the chairs successful 1 of the restaurants. Brittany Chang/Business Insider

The oldest vas of its sister cruise line, Carnival, is 26 years old. But Quest is inactive comparatively dated compared to the remainder of Seabourn's fleet, which averages 8 years old.

As such, expect immoderate tiny plan details reflecting its 2011 commencement year, specified arsenic little ceilings and immoderate less-than-modern furniture.

Seabourn Quest has 8 nutrient and beverage options, from sushi successful the Club lounge to day beverage and cocktails successful the Observation bar.

empty eating  country   connected  Seabourn Quest

The Colonnade is unfastened for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Brittany Chang/Business Insider

The Colonnade operates arsenic a meal and luncheon buffet until nightfall, erstwhile it becomes a table-service edifice with rotating planetary themes.

The indoor-outdoor edifice is much casual than Solis, the ship's upscale Mediterranean-inspired restaurant.

Solis launched successful aboriginal 2024 to regenerate a edifice co-developed by famed cook Thomas Keller.

composite of Solis and steak connected  Seabourn Quest

Solis features an upscale Mediterranean-inspired menu. Brittany Chang/Business Insider

The modern eating country marries the upscale playfulness of a Virgin Voyages eating country with the seriousness of a fine-dining menu, implicit with branzino and 32-ounce Tuscan-style porterhouse steak (both prepared tableside).

In summation to the poolside buffet and reflection lounge, the vessel offers accepted cruise amenities specified arsenic a spa, gym, theater, and casino.

An bare  excavation  platform  of the Seabourn Quest cruise ship, featuring a larger excavation  successful  the halfway  and 2  raised blistery  tubs connected  the sides.

Seabourn Quest has 2 pools and 5 blistery tubs. Brittany Chang/Business Insider

For the intelligence traveler, Seabourn invites guest speakers — specified arsenic Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and King Charles III's erstwhile butler, Grant Harrold — to springiness lectures astatine the theater.

For travelers who similar to lounge nether the sun, Quest besides has a accepted excavation platform and an onboard marina that opens straight onto the water.

The second has go a fashionable amenity connected competing ultra-luxury cruise ships, specified arsenic Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collections' Evrima.

Look for immoderate of Quest's hidden gems, similar the smaller excavation flanked by 2 blistery tubs.

composite of lounge seats and putting greenish  and shuffleboard

Seabourn Quest's prima terrace is adjacent the ship's putting greenish and shuffleboard. Brittany Chang/Business Insider

Walk toward the bow and past the impermanent cabins connected platform six to find the ship's 5th blistery tub.

Or, stroll 5 decks up to find the quiet, staggered rows of lounge chairs.

It's a large spot to work a publication oregon nap nether the sun.

Head to Seabourn Square if you've already finished each the books you prepared for the monthslong journey.

empty chairs successful  Seabourn Square connected  Seabourn Quest

Seabourn Square operates arsenic a java shop, library, lounge, and concierge desk. Brittany Chang/Business Insider

There, you tin prime from a enactment of books, puzzles, oregon caffeinated pick-me-ups from the java shop.

When you've completed the puzzles, the paper room's afloat stocked committee crippled furniture is simply a abbreviated locomotion away.

However, don't expect much kid-friendly activities than the committee games and upper-deck shuffleboard. After all, astir around-the-world cruisers are folks who person clip for a 145-day vacation: retirees.

Or, walk your day lounging astir your backstage balcony. There's a bully accidental you'll person one, aft all.

empty veranda suite connected  seabourn ship

Seabourn's Veranda suite. Michel Verdure/© 2009 Michel Verdure

Quest has 229 cabins, ranging from 295 to 1,182 quadrate feet. Most person balconies, which tin adhd hundreds of further quadrate feet to the space.

The floating edifice rooms diagnostic small touches of luxury, from the personalized in-suite barroom to the walk-in closet.

It's surely much luxurious than its genitor company's eponymous cruise line, wherever paying for the cheapest accommodation means vacationing successful a compact windowless cabin.

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