Compare luxury cruise lines
Where the lines people most often weigh against each other really differ — and where they don’t — on the same 28 characteristics CruiseLens scores every ship on.
- Regent Seven Seas vs Silversea
Regent vs Silversea on CruiseLens data: where Regent’s Explorer class and Silversea’s Nova class differ on 28 characteristics, and where they don’t. - Silversea vs Seabourn
Silversea vs Seabourn on CruiseLens data: the Nova and Encore classes on 28 characteristics, and why their expedition ships are near twins. - Regent Seven Seas vs Seabourn
Regent vs Seabourn on CruiseLens data: where Regent’s Explorer class and Seabourn’s Encore class differ on 28 characteristics, and where they don’t. - Explora Journeys vs Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection
Explora vs Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection on CruiseLens data: two of the newest luxury brands at sea, alike on most characteristics, and where they part. - Azamara vs Silversea
Azamara vs Silversea on CruiseLens data: the R class and the Muse comparison group on 28 characteristics, and what each fare includes.
Why ship groups, not brands
CruiseLens scores 30 ship groups from 21 lines, not 21 brands, because a line’s ships are not all alike. Five lines have more than one group in our data: Silversea five; Seabourn three; Ponant, Regent Seven Seas and Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection two each. Their ships are grouped by class, because size, age and design change what a week on board is like.
The differences inside a line can be large. In our scores, Silversea’s expedition ships and its newest ocean ships, the Nova class, are further apart than four in five pairs of ship groups from different lines. A single Silversea score would blur that difference.
So each comparison here sets two named classes side by side, usually each line’s newest, and takes its facts from the operators’ published pages for those ships. Within a line, an older class can be the closer match: in our data, the Silversea ships nearest to Regent’s Explorer class are the Muse comparison group (Silver Muse, Moon and Dawn, with the refurbished Silver Spirit scored alongside them), not Nova, as Regent vs Silversea explains.
The fleet as a whole
What actually separates luxury cruise ships: every ship group CruiseLens scores, measured against all the others at once.
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