Luxury cruise line Regent Seven Seas Cruises last night hosted a media dinner and briefing at Art Gallery of New South Wales. Karryon Luxury reports.
Regent Seven Seas Cruises’ Vice President Sales & General Manager, Asia Pacific, Lisa Pile, and Jodie Hart, PR & Partnerships Manager, Asia Pacific hosted the event at Naala Badu, the Art Gallery of NSW’s award-winning North Building.
Lisa Pile discussed the three-year-long partnership with Art Gallery of New South Wales, introducing Yvette Pratt, Executive Director, Art Gallery Society of NSW.
A selection of business updates shared on the evening are highlighted below.
New Global Hotel Alliance 2025 Concierge Collection
“We’ve got a brand new collection which is going to come out very shortly. I’m just giving you all the heads up but it’s in partnerships with the Global Hotel Alliance, and it’s called the GHA 2025 Concierge Collection… as a former hotelier I’m very excited about this collection,” said Pile.
The Collection will include six different destinations and will feature multi-day land programs for deeper destination immersion.
“It’s only for the international markets – the Australian market and the Asian market are going to love it in particular. It’s basically a three night pre cruise experience when you’re staying at the hotel…. it is absolutely exclusive for our guests and it’s limited on numbers so I really can’t wait to introduce this to you,” said Pile.
More details on this new collection will be announced soon.
New 2026/27 season launch
The focus was also on the new 2026/27 new season launch, announced earlier this week, with 173 new sailings, a 140-night 2027 World Cruise, four new grand voyages, and 16 maiden ports of call.
“I say this every year…but I find every new season launch so exciting. As Regent’s fleet grows and we have the flexibility for further immersion into new destinations, it becomes even more exciting. So with six ships, there’s now 173 new sailings (last year was 161). We’ve got 16 brand new ports of call and I always think how can they even find new ports of call? It’s incredible,” said Pile.
Prestige Class
Pile discussed the new ultra-luxury Prestige Class of ships, with the first one due in 2026 and the second in 2029.
“They will accommodate about 100 more people and that’s because we’ve introduced new suite categories; and there’s also going to be more food and beverage offerings,” said Pile.
“We will not lose that unrivalled space at sea – it will not lose its intimacy but in the luxury cruise world, it sells top down… so the big suites sell out first. We’ve taken 10 years of experience, and we’ve created these beautiful prestige Class ships. One of these ships will go on sale early next year,” she said.
Ship upgrades
Seven Seas Voyager, built in 2001 and Seven Seas Mariner, built in 2003 (above) are both currently undergoing extensive refurbishments.
“Further information is still to be announced in the coming months but it is so extensive that we will be relaunching those two ships. ‘Extensive refurbishment’, I think, is an understatement,” said Pile.
Partnership with Art Gallery of NSW
“It’s a perfect partnership for us,” said Pile. “It’s the same demographic of people, but also the heritage of Regent Seven Seas Cruises. We go back just over 30 years now. We have six ships in our fleet (we started off with three) but we’ve always been honed in and focused on art and really immersing yourself in a destination,” said Pile.
“Our ships are floating art galleries. More recently, when we launched Seven Seas Grandeur in November last year, she was launched with 1,600 new pieces of art onboard, all beautifully curated. The art can be oils, watercolours, lithograms, tapestries, glassworks, sculptures – there is an array of different artworks on board,” she said.
The cruise line in the past six months has launched its new RSSC app that has a self guided art tour.
For more information, visit rssc.com
