Can you fall in love with a cruise ship? A lot of the guests on Insignia clearly have. We’ve just boarded, but striking up conversations with fellow passengers, it turns out many have already been aboard for months and some plan to be on for three more. And they’ve settled in like this before.

Recently emerged from an renovation that pretty much turned it into a brand new ship, Insignia has become Oceania Cruises’ designed world cruise ship, which might not repeat a port for eight months at a time. At least 100 of the guests on this cruise have also done world circuits on Insignia in years past.

What is it about this ship that inspires such loyalty? We’re about to find out.

Read it all in the Cruisington Times

On Oceania’s World Cruiser You Can Settle in for Half a Year