11 MAR 2019: Imagine the challenge of ensuring that Seven Seas Explorer lives up to its trademark: The Most Luxurious Ship Ever Built. Regent Seven Seas Cruises gave three teams of interior designers virtually unlimited budgets and encouraged them to think opulence in materials and fabrics in building the ship. They used enough marble to keep a quarry in Carrara, Italy busy for a year. The zillion decorative features include more than a hundred crystal chandeliers.

Spacious lounges and grand peacock walks to restaurants recall the elegance of liners in the grand days of first class ocean crossings.  There are original artworks everywhere, including every suite.  All this for a ship that carries just 750 guests, in an era when most new cruise ships are built to carry thousands.

Read it in The Cruisington Times: