Royal Caribbean’s Serenade of the Seas cruise ship departed Miami in December with greater than 800 friends and plans to spend the following 9 months touring to over 150 locations throughout 65 nations.
The itinerary, generally known as the Final World Cruise, grew to become an in a single day social media sensation and was shortly dubbed “TikTok’s favourite new actuality present” by The New York Occasions.
The thought for this prolonged crusing was conceived in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in an try to “do one thing massive,” Michael Bayley, the cruise line’s president and CEO, instructed reporters throughout a panel interview this month. And that it did: At 274 nights lengthy, Royal Caribbean’s Final World Cruise is greater than double the size of most different around-the-world itineraries.
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However planning a complete world crusing concerned extra than simply choosing a ship and some dozen ports. Because it seems, Royal Caribbean “had no clue what a ache within the ass a world cruise is,” Bayley stated.
The cruise line needed to faucet a number of medical doctors and nurses to journey on the ship. Among the meals rotates in accordance with the season and vacation spot. And to assist preserve friends in form, health professionals had been additionally employed to guide exercise lessons.
“It is phenomenal how a lot stuff has to get achieved,” Bayley stated, noting logistics like visas and discovering an on-board dentist.
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The cruise line’s mum or dad firm isn’t any stranger to world itineraries: Its luxurious subsidiary, Silversea, operates annual world cruises. However in comparison with Royal Caribbean’s behemoth crusing, the smaller model’s 132-night cruise is a number of months shorter and aboard a considerably smaller, albeit extra luxurious, vessel.
Sadly for the Final World Cruise’s friends, Bayley stated the cruise line failed to incorporate one probably essential service: a wedding counselor — as a result of there is not any higher option to check a relationship than to spend 9 months collectively in a small cruise cabin.
