Royal Caribbean to offer 274-night cruise — the world’s longest

Want to interval distant from your worries for the amended portion of the year?

Then Royal Caribbean International has the cruise for you: a 274-night, 65-country h2o travel crossed the world, aptly titled “Ultimate World Cruise.”

Bookings for the seven-continent acquisition are present unfastened — the inaugural travel of which is acceptable to hap successful 2023 and it’s being billed arsenic the world’s longest.

For those looking to instrumentality connected the full, 150-destination bundle including “11 large wonders of the world,” tickets commencement astatine $60,999 per person.

If committing much than two-thirds of a twelvemonth to spot the satellite by vessel isn’t for you, there’s besides the enactment to publication azygous legs of the four-leg trip.

The globe floating escapade volition acceptable sail from Miami connected Dec. 10, 2023, and instrumentality determination connected Sept. 10, 2024.

“This is the satellite cruise of satellite cruises,” Royal Caribbean CEO Michael Bayley said in a property release. “Now much than ever, radical person resolved to question the satellite and marque up for mislaid time. Royal Caribbean is making that a world with the eventual vacation…to travelers asking themselves wherever they should spell next, we accidental everywhere.”

The new, utmost offering comes amidst an ongoing if ebbing nightmare for the cruise manufacture arsenic a effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, with passengers testing affirmative for the coronavirus aboard ships arsenic precocious arsenic this month. 

The itinerary for the voyage is surely ambitious.

Still, executives intelligibly judge radical are acceptable for the Serenade of the Seas’ ambitious expedition crossed each continent, with stops including Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids of Giza, the Colosseum, Iceland’s Blue Lagoon, Brazil’s Christ the Redeemer, Machu Picchu and more. 

Indeed, the afloat itinerary reveals a genuinely action-packed docket of visits, with 1 oregon 2 cruising days consistently followed by immoderate of society’s astir heralded tourer attractions 1 aft different aft another. For anyone with heavy pockets, a flexible docket and a emotion for nautical travel, “Ultimate World Cruise” is surely an businesslike mode to spot each the sights.

The Serenade of the Seas is acceptable to embark connected a new, 65-country cruise successful 2023.© Dan Lamont