Regent Seven Seas Cruises Gives Passengers More Options

For those of us who seek the finer things in life, the idea of a luxury cruise ship break can be enough to make us very nearly inarticulate with unseemly desire. There are now a few companies who know this, and are more than prepared to furnish us with exactly what we want, exactly how we want it, and exactly when we want it. One of these companies is Regent Seven Seas Cruises, who have quietly become very well renowned for providing the ultimate in luxury cruise deals, but in a relaxed atmosphere that can be very hard to achieve in a market that tends towards the more upper-crust side of the market.

This relaxed atmosphere is not arrived at by accident. One excellent idea that Regent has had that is yet to permeate to a few other, less upmarket lines, is that dinner will be a far more convivial affair if there is not an arbitrary seating plan placed upon the diners. Much as a seating plan may benefit the cruise line from a point of view of efficiency, it can make the atmosphere feel rather forced and less than totally welcoming for diners. So the open-seating dining policy that is in practice on the Seven Seas Voyager, Seven Seas Navigator, Seven Seas Mariner and the Paul Gauguin is a welcome break from the norm, with the passenger free to circulate as they see fit. Rather than making forced conversation with your neighbour - who no doubt is a wonderful person, but may very well have nothing in common with you save for adjacent rooms - you can sit where you feel most comfortable, possibly sharing the time with a fellow passenger you have met on the cruise with whom you have a lot in common and get along famously. Equally, you can sit on your own without your meal being interrupted - the point is that it is your choice and this really does make a difference to one's enjoyment of the break.

On Regent's signature ship, the Seven Seas Voyager, all seven hundred guests (on other ships they may be passengers and on still others they are customers, but on a Regent cruise you are a guest) are accommodated in suites with balconies outside. In combination with the 24-hour room service offered by the Voyager, this makes for an opportunity that simply should not be missed. The chance to order room service and take your meal through to the balcony in order to enjoy the simply unique experience of eating Cordon Bleu cuisine in the open air, on the open sea is one that you would be churlish to miss. Along with optional butler service, this can make for an otherworldly experience that you will want to repeat at the earliest opportunity.

Many of the amazing benefits available on the Voyager are also available on Regent's other ships. Regardless of whether they all are, each ship boasts a level of luxury that one would not expect from a cruise line with deals as low as $3,500 in some cases. And if you have $3,500 to spend on a holiday, there can be few better ways of spending it.