Regent Seven Seas Reveals Its 2028 – 2029 Voyage Collection

From Alaska and Asia to the Mediterranean, South Pacific and a spectacular 150-night World Cruise, Regent’s new collection makes a compelling case for planning well ahead

The pleasure of looking at a cruise season two years in advance is that almost everything remains possible. Rather than squeezing a holiday into the gaps left by availability, there is an opportunity to start with the experience you actually want and work backwards from there.

Regent Seven Seas Cruises has unveiled its Voyage Collection for April 2028 to May 2029, and its sheer geographical reach is impressive. The programme encompasses Africa and Arabia, Alaska, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Canada and New England, the Caribbean and Panama Canal, the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, South America and the South Pacific, alongside transoceanic crossings, Grand Voyages and a 150-night World Cruise.

Yet the attraction isn’t simply the number of destinations. Regent’s proposition has always been about combining serious exploration with a highly inclusive style of luxury, and this collection takes that philosophy from seven-night Alaskan voyages all the way to journeys lasting several months.

Luxury without constantly reaching for your wallet

The phrase “all-inclusive” has become increasingly elastic in cruising, so what is actually included matters.

On Regent, the list is unusually comprehensive. Unlimited shore excursions are included alongside speciality dining, beverages and fine wines, craft cocktails, speciality coffees, a customisable in-suite minibar, access to spa facilities, gratuities, valet laundry, 24-hour in-suite dining and unlimited Wi-Fi powered by Starlink.

Guests staying in Concierge Suites and above also receive a one-night pre-cruise hotel package, while Penthouse Suites and higher introduce personal butler service. Regent’s Ultimate All-Inclusive Fare goes further by adding return economy flights and transfers between airport and ship.

For travellers comparing luxury cruises, this changes the arithmetic. The cheapest headline fare is rarely the most useful comparison. What ultimately matters is the cost and quality of the complete journey, particularly once dining, drinks, excursions, gratuities, connectivity and other extras have been considered.

Regent’s destination programme is substantial too, encompassing more than 550 destinations and 3,400 curated shore experiences. That makes exploration ashore a central part of the proposition rather than an optional extra bolted onto the cruise.

Alaska gets the Splendor treatment

One of the highlights of the new season is Seven Seas Splendor’s first full Alaska programme.

The all-suite, all-balcony ship will operate seven-night voyages between Vancouver and Anchorage (Whittier) from late May through to September 2028, exploring the Inside Passage and calling at ports including Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Sitka and Icy Strait Point.

Hubbard Glacier provides one of the great scenic moments of the itinerary, while Regent is offering nearly 60 included shore experiences across its Alaskan programme.

This is a destination where a smaller luxury ship makes considerable sense. Alaska is about what lies beyond the vessel: glaciers, forests, mountains, wildlife and isolated communities. The ship becomes a luxurious base from which to explore it all.

Excursions range from wildlife experiences around Icy Strait Point, including the possibility of seeing brown bears feeding on salmon, to exploring Juneau’s extraordinary Mendenhall Glacier and the surrounding icefield.

And after a long day ashore, returning to an all-suite ship, a private balcony and dinner without having to think about what is or isn’t included has obvious appeal.

An intriguing route from Alaska to Japan

Asia forms another important part of the collection, with voyages ranging from eight to 19 nights and considerable emphasis on Japan.

One itinerary in particular stands out.

On 13 September 2028, Seven Seas Splendor departs Vancouver on a 19-night voyage to Tokyo. Rather than immediately heading west across the Pacific, the journey begins by sailing through Alaska.

Guests experience the Inside Passage, Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Hubbard Glacier and Anchorage before Splendor sets out across the Pacific. On reaching Japan, the itinerary continues through Kushiro, Aomori and Miyako before arriving in Tokyo.

It is a wonderfully unconventional combination. Alaska and Japan would normally represent two entirely separate holidays, perhaps years apart. Here they become chapters of the same journey.

For travellers who would rather concentrate exclusively on Japan, Splendor subsequently offers an 11-night round-trip voyage from Tokyo calling at Shimizu, Kyoto via Kobe, Kochi, Hiroshima, Busan in South Korea, Nagasaki, Fukuoka and Beppu.

Japan’s cherry blossom season also features elsewhere in Regent’s Asian programme, providing another compelling reason to think carefully about when, rather than simply where, to travel.

Seven Seas Prestige joins the story

The 2028–2029 collection also provides opportunities to sail aboard Seven Seas Prestige, the newest addition to Regent’s fleet.

Among her voyages are Caribbean itineraries and sailings incorporating the Panama Canal, where the ship itself becomes part of the experience.

A canal transit is one of those occasions when being on deck really matters. Passing through the locks while surrounded by tropical rainforest offers a close-up view of one of the world’s great engineering achievements, and Regent is understandably positioning Prestige’s Panama Canal voyages as particularly desirable sailings.

The Caribbean programme meanwhile extends well beyond conventional winter sun itineraries.

There are festive departures too, including a 12-night voyage from Miami to Barbados departing 27 December 2028. The itinerary visits Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Trinidad and Tobago, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Martinique, Dominica and St Lucia, creating a rather more appealing setting for New Year than grey skies back home.

Africa, Arabia and the Indian Ocean

For travellers wanting something less familiar, Regent’s Africa and Arabia programme deserves attention.

Voyages range from 14 to 23 nights and combine destinations that can be comparatively complicated to connect independently. South Africa naturally features strongly, but itineraries extend into the Indian Ocean and beyond.

A particularly adventurous 23-night voyage from Singapore to Cape Town aboard Seven Seas Explorer departs in March 2029. It travels through Malaysia and Thailand before continuing to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, spending several days crossing the Indian Ocean to the Seychelles and then visiting Madagascar before reaching South Africa.

Another 14-night round-trip Cape Town itinerary combines Durban, Madagascar, Mayotte and Maputo, while a 21-night Cape Town-to-Lisbon voyage follows the western coast of Africa through Namibia, Angola, São Tomé, Ivory Coast, Gambia and Cape Verde before continuing to Tenerife and Madeira.

These are precisely the sorts of itineraries where cruising becomes particularly effective as a means of exploration. Instead of repeatedly packing, flying and arranging transfers between countries, the hotel travels with you.

101 nights from Athens to Auckland

Then the scale changes altogether.

Regent’s Grand Hemispheres Journey aboard Seven Seas Explorer departs Athens on 21 October 2028 and reaches Auckland 101 nights later.

The voyage effectively stitches several regions of the world together into one continuous journey.

Europe gives way to the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia before Explorer continues through Indonesia and Australia and eventually into the islands of the South Pacific.

Later in the voyage come Fiji, American Samoa, the Cook Islands and French Polynesia, including extended stays in Tahiti and Bora Bora, before the journey eventually reaches New Zealand.

There are up to 289 shore excursions available during the 101-night itinerary.

This is no longer simply a long holiday. It is temporary life at sea.

And that raises an interesting question about the appeal of Grand Voyages. Their luxury is not merely the suite, the restaurants or the service. It is having enough time to stop rushing.

The ultimate journey: 150 nights around the world

Even the Grand Hemispheres Journey is eclipsed by Regent’s 2029 World Cruise.

Named Eras of Exploration, the voyage aboard Seven Seas Mariner departs Miami on 6 January 2029 and concludes in Rome after an extraordinary 150 nights.

There are up to 328 shore excursions along the way.

The itinerary moves through the Americas and across the Pacific before continuing through Australia, Indonesia and Asia. Later stages take guests through Sri Lanka and the Maldives to Mumbai, Dubai and the Arabian Peninsula.

Mariner then continues through the Red Sea with calls including Jeddah, Luxor and Aqaba before transiting the Suez Canal. Jerusalem, Athens and the Mediterranean follow before the voyage finally concludes in Rome.

Numerous overnight stays give guests more time in key destinations, an important consideration on an itinerary of this scale. Simply collecting ports would rather miss the point. The attraction is having enough time to experience some of them properly.

There is also something wonderfully uncomplicated about the fundamental idea of a World Cruise: unpack once and allow the world to come to you.

The suite can be a destination too

For all the emphasis on travelling ashore, Regent hasn’t forgotten that guests may be spending a considerable amount of time aboard.

Its ships are deliberately restrained in size, carrying no more than 822 guests, and accommodation is entirely suite-based. That creates a rather different atmosphere from the increasingly enormous resort ships entering other parts of the cruise market.

At the very top end, however, the word “suite” starts to feel inadequate.

The Regent Suite aboard Seven Seas Explorer measures an extraordinary 472.7 square metres, including more than 341 square metres of interior accommodation and a 131-square-metre balcony.

It has two bedrooms, two private balconies with a heated minipool spa, its own sauna, steam room and Jacuzzi, a custom Steinway grand piano and a 270-degree wraparound balcony.

Guests also have a personal butler, spa treatments and access to a private car and guide for exploring destinations ashore.

At that point, this is less a cruise suite and more a travelling private residence.

So which voyage should you choose?

That may be the most interesting thing about Regent’s new collection: there isn’t an obvious answer.

For somebody contemplating their first Regent voyage, seven nights in Alaska aboard Seven Seas Splendor could be an excellent introduction. Japan offers an entirely different combination of culture, cuisine and history, while the Mediterranean provides an extraordinary concentration of destinations within relatively short sailing distances.

The Caribbean offers winter warmth and easy-going island exploration, while Africa, Arabia and the Indian Ocean venture into territory that many travellers will have explored far less extensively.

And for those fortunate enough to possess the most valuable luxury of all, time, the Grand Voyages and 150-night World Cruise transform cruising into something else entirely.

Choosing between them is therefore less about finding the “best” itinerary and more about understanding what you want from the journey.

Do you want seven remarkable days somewhere you’ve always wanted to see? Three weeks crossing an ocean? Three months moving gradually between continents? Or perhaps five months in which the ship temporarily becomes home?

At Lomond Voyages, we help clients navigate those choices, comparing cruise lines, ships, itineraries, suites and inclusions to find the voyage that genuinely fits the way they want to travel.

Because with a collection this extensive, choosing the right cruise is only the beginning.

Lomond Voyages
Independent advice for extraordinary journeys.

Voyage details are based on Regent Seven Seas Cruises’ April 2028 to May 2029 Voyage Collection and are subject to availability and change. Terms and conditions apply.