Most expensive luxury cruise trips on Tripadvisor worldwide 2023
As of August 2023, a travel deal involving a 125-night cruise trip around the world was the most expensive luxury cruise listed on Tripadvisor. A ticket for a journey on the Silversea Cruises' ship Silver Wind cost nearly 132 thousand U.S. dollars per person. Meanwhile, a 154-night cruise trip operated by Seven Seas Mariner, a Regent Seven Seas Cruises vessel, reached 95 thousand U.S. dollars per person.
What are the leading luxury cruise brands worldwide?
When looking at the passenger capacity of luxury cruise brands worldwide in 2022, Celebrity Cruises, owned by Royal Caribbean Cruises, reported a higher figure than cruise line Viking and Carnival Corporation & plc’s brand Cunard. That year, Celebrity Cruises also recorded the highest number of ships operated by luxury cruise brands worldwide, ahead of Groupe Artémis’ Ponant and Silverseas Cruises, also owned by Royal Caribbean.
Has the cruise market recovered from the impact of COVID-19?
In 2022, the number of ocean cruise passengers worldwide experienced a fourfold increase compared to the previous year but did not surpass the peak in cruise goers from 2019, the year before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. That said, global cruise passengers were forecast to exceed pre-pandemic levels in 2023, reaching over 30 million.
