Thirty ultra-luxury ships.
One of them is yours.
About five minutes. Nothing is stored unless you ask for your reading. Privacy
What CruiseLens is
CruiseLens is a free reading from Expeditioner Travel. It asks 28 questions about how you like to travel — none of them about cruising — and names which of 30 ultra-luxury and expedition ship groups across 21 cruise lines fits you, with the reasoning and the compromise shown. It is a starting point for a conversation with a travel advisor, not a booking site.
How a reading works
The questions come in three parts: how you travel, your ship and evenings & money. Each answer says something about 33 characteristics of a ship, from how formal the evenings are to how much time you spend ashore. Every ship is scored on the same 33 characteristics by advisors who have sailed most of them, held to a written methodology. The result names the one ship that fits best, plots you against it across all 33 characteristics, and says plainly where it falls short of what you asked for. Positions two to five are shown as bands, not names, because the order between close ships is rarely meaningful.
The characteristics
Formality, Sociability, Fellow guests, Buzz, Privacy, Solo travel, Design, Scale, Outdoor living, Yacht feel, Suite space, Culinary ambition, Dining freedom, Choice of restaurants, Local food, Service style, In-suite service, Time ashore, Remoteness, Included touring, Activity, Enrichment, Wellness, Fitness, Pool and sun, Evening shows, Late nights, Casino, All-inclusive, Being sold to, Children, Unlike a cruise and Value for fare.
The lines covered
Atlas Ocean Voyages, Aurora Expeditions, Azamara, Celebrity Cruises, Crystal, Explora Journeys, Four Seasons Yachts, HX, National Geographic, Oceania, Orient Express, Ponant, Regent Seven Seas, Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, Scenic, SeaDream Yacht Club, Seabourn, Silversea, Swan Hellenic, Viking and Windstar.
What it is not
A reading is a matching, not a ranking, and scores are an advisor’s judgement rather than a measurement. Specifications — 38 facts per ship — are checked against each operator’s published information, and a gap is shown as a gap, never filled in. Where CruiseLens judges a ship on less evidence than the others, it says so. Expeditioner Travel is paid commission by the cruise line if you book through it; the commission is inside the fare whether or not you use an advisor. Nothing you answer is stored unless you ask for your reading. How it works, in full · Privacy
Send me the full reading
All five ships, the evidence behind each, and two or three sailings to match. One email.
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