Four Seasons has taken its celebrated hospitality to sea. Four Seasons I — 95 residential suites, near one-to-one service, built by Fincantieri — launched in 2026 with a Mediterranean season
Aman’s first yacht — 183 metres, 50 suites, Sinot design, built at T. Mariotti — is the quietest project in the hotel-branded yacht race. Inside Project Sama, the Cruise Saudi
Four years and three ships into the hotel-branded yacht era, Marriott’s Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection has effectively written the operating manual. Inside Luminara, Asia-Pacific expansion, and the model Four Seasons and
Methanol fuel cells, a Marc Newson glass-domed owner’s study, fifteen days of silent zero-emissions operation at anchor. Inside Lürssen’s 114-metre Nausicaä — formerly Project Cosmos — the most technically ambitious
120 metres, an Espen Øino clipper bow, diesel-electric propulsion through Kongsberg Elegance pods. Project Tanzanite is the largest motor yacht ever built in the Netherlands — and Amels’ most ambitious
Lürssen’s new 117-metre Boardwalk departs Bremen for the Mediterranean — and her classical lines suggest a quiet pivot back toward proportion in a market that has spent a decade chasing
Why are Four Seasons, Aman, Ritz-Carlton, and Orient Express succeeding where Silversea and Seabourn have spent decades? Not because they have entered cruising — but because they have invented a
Global superyacht sales surged 70 percent in 2025 to $8.5 billion. The order books at Lürssen, Feadship, and Amels have not been this full since the post-2008 era. Inside the
There has never been a better summer to charter a yacht in the Mediterranean. A guide to the headline vessels, the regions worth knowing — from the French Riviera to
In four years, Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons, Orient Express, and Aman have all gone to sea — the most coordinated reshaping of the luxury cruise market in a generation. The hotel-branded
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