The luxury Uber Crystal line is offering a new global cruise itinerary that may be the most epic of all time. It also comes with an epic value tag.
The newly relaunched logo on Tuesday began accepting bookings for a 135-night voyage from Los Angeles to Civitavecchia, Italy (the port of Rome), which will take the wealthy to 72 destinations in 27 countries on five continents.
Beginning January 11, 2026 and aboard the 740-passenger Crystal Serenity, sailing begins at a whopping $168,000 with a two-person cabin.
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The shipping suites will charge up to $550,000 for two passengers.
For this hefty price tag, well-heeled travelers can revel in a once-in-a-lifetime experience that includes visits to many of the world’s most famous destinations, from Bora Bora in French Polynesia to the pyramids of Egypt, all while living on their knees. . luxurious.
Crystal Serenity, which TPG has called the queen of luxury cruising, underwent a major redesign in 2023 that made it more consistent with passengers than any other luxury ship afloat. The redesign included a significant expansion of many of its hotels and a relief in the number of passengers who will sail on a given trip.
In addition, the Crystal’s crew-to-passenger ratio (the measure of luxury in any shipment) has been higher than around 1:1, an astonishing level.
The result makes Crystal Serenity one of the most sumptuous cruise ships out there.
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Crystal regularly offers a global cruise each year, and it’s long and full in destinations. But the newly announced global sailing for 2026 is longer than those introduced by the line in recent years, lasting 135 days.
By comparison, the exclusive global cruise introduced through Crystal this year lasts 125 nights, while a global cruise scheduled for 2025 will last 123 nights.
The new sailing for 2026 is also more than Crystal World Cruises has done in the past. Departure fees are $35,000 more consistent with a couple than departure fees for Crystal World Cruises 2025. This sailing starts at $133,000 consistent with a stateroom for two.
Crystal Serenity’s most sumptuous accommodation, the Penthouse Suite, costs $71,600 more for the 2026 World Cruise than it does for the 2025 World Cruise.
The 135-night global cruise by 2026 will begin with a westward crossing of the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii and French Polynesia, bound for New Zealand and Australia.
From there, the shipment will head to countries in Asia, adding Indonesia and India, before crossing the Red Sea and the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean.
In the Mediterranean, the ship will pass through several ports in Greece, Italy and France before ending the voyage in Civitavecchia on May 26, 2026.
Unlike some previous Crystal World cruises, the cruise does not offer a complete round-the-world cruise. This allows the ship to spend more time in the regions it visits, with a giant number of calls in the South Pacific, Australia, and Asia.
The new global cruise will be only the third on Crystal in the past eight years, as the line halted global cruising in the eighth half of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In addition to accommodation, meals and beverages on board, passengers who book the round-the-world tour electronically will be entitled to other benefits such as:
More data will be available on Crystal’s website starting Tuesday.
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