Let's take a look around how the wealthy go cruising, and take a peek at cruise
ship suites that cost up to $70 000 for one
week's cruising. That's a staggering amount of money, that's enough to buy a
fancy car, an apartment or even a house in many
countries. I'm Gary Bembridge and I'm going to take you around a whole
range of amazing cruise ship suites, so if one
day you win the lottery these are perhaps the way that you
are going to want to cruise. Meantime it's a bit of voyeurism. These are all
cruise suites that I have either toured or in fact
one of which I have actually cruised on. I'll let you know during the video which
one of those it is. We're going to start by taking
a look at the cheapest of these amazing cruise
suites and work our way up to the ones that cost
$70 000 a week. One of the nicest and more affordable of all of
these suites is onboard Norwegian Cruise Line
and within what they call the Haven concept. The most recent of those that i
managed to experience and tour was on Norwegian Encore. The Haven is a
ship within a ship, this is the premium area
on board Norwegian Cruise Line. In there you have a
dedicated lounge, you have a Concierge, you have a swimming pool area
and you also have a restaurant which all suite guests can
go in. There's a wide range of different types of suites within the Haven which
range from a standard suite, which is going to set you back about
$1,000 a day so about $7,000 for the week up
to a Haven Spa Suite. Spa suites have a jacuzzi bath in and
that's gonna cost you up to about $16,000 for
a seven night cruise. The Haven is really amazing and it's one of the
more affordable of all of the amazing types of suites.
If you want to spend a little bit more money and have fourteen thousand dollars
to spend for a week-long cruise, that's two thousand dollars a day,
i recommend you take a look at the amazing Princess Cruises
sky suite. They've introduced these suites on board their new ships like the
Sky Princess, Enchanted Princess and all the ships after that. It makes
the claim of having the largest balcony at sea and it is an enormous
balcony. These suites have a lounge area where
one person can sleep, little dining area, they have a master bedroom with an
ensuite bathroom, they then have a second bedroom
with bathroom as well. So this suite can actually sleep up to five people. So it's
particularly good i guess if you're traveling as a family.
The balcony enables you to look over the pool deck, you have 270 degree views,
it's great particularly with movies under the stars you can have your own
private balcony. Beautiful suite, nice modern decor. So that's
if you have fourteen thousand dollars to spend on a week's
cruise. If you want to spend even a little bit more and you have eighteen
thousand dollars to spend for a week's cruise, i recommend you take a look at Cunard and particularly the Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Victoria. These
are magnificent beautiful Queens Grill suites.
The one that i really like on board these ships is the Grand Suite, this is
the what they call their Q2. In Queens Grill you have
everything from a Q6 , which is the entry level which is going to cost you about
the same as that Sky Suite, but the Q2 is their
Grand Suite. This is going to cost you around about
eighteen thousand dollars a week, so two thousand five hundred dollars a day.
Queens Grill is a bit like travelling first class.
On the Cunard ships they have their own restaurant, their own lounge
and bar and concierge, but the Q2 Grand Suite which is also known
on the Queen Victoria as the Caronia suite,
has a big beautiful lounge, it has a massive big dining area,
it has a separate bedroom with a huge big bathroom and
dressing area. The decor is a bit more traditional, bit more art deco like,
which reflects the rest of the ship. This is a really nice cabin and the
Queens Grill is definitely a great way to cruise. So
that is if you've got eighteen thousand
dollars to spend per week. A spend of $35,000
a week, so that's five thousand dollars a day, will get you a
magnificent Royal Loft Suite on board many of the
Royal Caribbean ships. The one that i visited and absolutely fell in
love with was on board Anthem of the Seas.
These beautiful loft suites are two levels, so a duplex. One lower level you have
a lounge, dining area, you have a massive big
balcony, you have a games room a sort of a media room,
with a beautiful bathroom down here. Up the stairs you head into the master
bedroom, the bed faces out towards the big glass windows so you have
magnificent views out to the rear of the ship, and
you have a beautiful big bathroom, dressing room.
This is a really beautiful beautiful suite. The Royal Loft Suites are
definitely one of my favourite types of suites. They're big,
they're spacious, they have lots of room, modern decor and a great location
looking back as you sail away out from ports or at sea. That's going to
cost you $35,000, five
thousand dollars a day. Again you can sleep about five people in
here, so again if you're traveling family or with friends you could perhaps
reduce the cost per person. You'll also find the Royal Loft suites on many of
their other ships of similar class to the anthem of
the seas, so that includes the Oasis of the sea, Alllure of the seas,
Harmony of the seas, Symphony of the sea and Ovation of the seas. If you are
travelling as a family though there is the ultimate family suite, which is
actually called that the Ultimate Family Suite,
and you'll find this on board the very newest of the Royal Caribbean ships,
like the Symphony of the Seas. The ultimate family
suite is going to cost you at least forty five thousand dollars, in the peak
christmas season it could go up to as
much as eighty thousand dollars for a week. This is mind-blowingly fantastic
for families. You've got a downstairs area, which one of the first things
you'll notice is a slide down from upstairs. You've got a whole
games area with air soccer, you've got a Lego wall, out on
the balcony you can do some climbing
activities, you can play table tennis. Upstairs you have the master bedroom and
bathroom, you also have a separate bedroom
for the family. Like all of the big suites on Royal Caribbean you have their
Genie, which is basically a butler. One of the big
game changing styles of ship which also has one of the most expensive
suites on the seas, at this point in time, is the Celebrity Edge class, you have
Celebrity Edge and Celebrity Apex and more to come. Their Iconic Suite is going
to set you back at least $70 000. This is a pretty
magnificent and very modern suite. It is a huge big suite
overlooking the bridge, so you look out towards the
forward and the bow of the ship. You have this massive
dining and lounge area, you have a beautiful master bedroom with huge big
beautiful glitzy bathroom, you have a huge big
terrace which has its own hot tub, lots of areas to lay out
on. So just this is absolutely iconic and absolutely magnificent, if you like
kind of modern cruising and you want to be on one of the sort of modern
contemporary types of ships like the Edge or Apex from Celebrity,
this is going to cost you $70 000 a week at least that's a staggering $10
000 a day. All of the suites that i've spoken
about so far are on the classic cruise ships,
so you can go to the Caribbean, the Med, wherever on those kind of ships, what if
you want to go expedition cruising? Now expedition cruises are
certainly at the premium end, so if you're talking like your Seabourn, your
Silversea and Celebrity are pretty expensive
anyway, and tend to have suite accommodation,
but the best expedition suite, in my view at sea,
is on another Celebrity ship, a very modern Celebrity ship in the Galapagos
called Celebrity Flora. This really beautiful suite is
known as the Penthouse Suite. The Penthouse suite on here is pretty
magnificent. I mean this is a relatively small ship but this is a big
big suite, you've got a lounge here, you've got a bedroom here, you've got a
bathroom with scenic views. This is going to cost you
around about $50 000 or more a week, so not as expensive as the
previous one but certainly at the top end
if you are going expedition cruising. If you win the lottery or you have loads
of money, these are the sort of suites and the
ways that you can cruise. You can spend as much
as a very swanky posh brand new zooty car or buying an apartment or in
some countries a house as you can for cruising one week. I hope
you've enjoyed taking a look inside some of these magnificent suites.
I have the opportunity to see all of those
but, as I mentioned, i have actually cruised in one,
and that is in the Queen Victoria Grand Suite or the Caronia suite.
What i must admit though, is it wasn't for a whole week it was one of those
mini cruises for a couple of nights, but I did get to
actually experience and cruise in that kind of cabin and it really was
pretty magnificent. One of things i would certainly say if i
was cruising in a suite is i probably want to go for a cruise which had lots
and lots of sea days to get my money's worth! Hopefully you've
enjoyed the look at how the other half lives and how you
could be living if you win the lottery, fingers crossed!
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