Launch date:<\/b> July 20<\/span><\/p>\n Capacity:<\/b> 738<\/span><\/p>\n Sister ships:<\/b> None<\/span><\/p>\n Maiden voyage:<\/b> Monte Carlo<\/a> to Venice<\/a> (14 nights)<\/span><\/p>\n Home port:<\/b> None <\/span><\/p>\n Ships then in Regent Seven Seas fleet:<\/b> 4<\/span><\/p>\n Interesting:<\/b> The Explorer, physically, is about 15 per cent bigger than the fleet\u2019s largest ship, the Seven Seas Mariner<\/a>, which years ago became the first all-balcony, all-suite cruise ship in the world. However, Explorer will carry only 38 more passengers (738) and will display luxury at every turn: exotic stones and polished woods in its design, six gourmet restaurants, a Culinary Arts Kitchen<\/em> that mirrors world-renowned French cooking schools, and wine-and-food Gourmet Explorer Tours<\/em> in the south of France that can run as high as $799 per person. For most rank-and-file cruisers, it\u2019s too affluent unless they win Powerball<\/em> tomorrow night.<\/span><\/p>\n In the news…<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian 1-2-3 in passenger capacity for 2016 Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>: C<\/span><\/strong><\/em>ruise\u00a0advertising slogans<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Seventh\u00a0in a series of new ships for 2016 A year and a half ago, Regent Seven Seas became the luxury wing of Norwegian Cruise Holdings, which owns two other cruise lines, Norwegian and Oceania. The Explorer will become Regent\u2019s poster child for luxury, according to parent CEO Frank Del Rio, who said the Explorer will… Continue reading New ship No. 7 \u2014 Seven Seas Explorer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[648,912,72,819,86,35,1854,102,151,126,1932,907,26,27,2179,957,1119,1627,1628],"class_list":["post-26706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-crown-princess","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-frank-del-rio","tag-mexico","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-norwegian","tag-norwegian-cruise-holdings","tag-oceania-cruises","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-powerball","tag-princess-cruises","tag-regent-seven-seas","tag-regent-seven-seas-explorer","tag-regent-seven-seas-mariner","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022\u00a0MSC Opera to cruise from Havana, Cuba year-round beginning\u00a0next year
\n\u2022\u00a0Two consecutive\u00a0years of processing a million passengers for New Orleans<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DailyDeal-2-e1334202169354.jpg\" "\\"DailyDeal-2\\"")
\nCrown Princess<\/a>
\n7\u00a0nights
\nFebruary 27, 2016
\n<\/span>San Francisco<\/a><\/span> (return): Puerto Vallarta<\/span><\/a>, Mazatlan<\/span><\/a>, Cabo San Lucas<\/span><\/a>
\n<\/span>Inside: $509
\n<\/span>Cost per day: $72<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/span>www.princess.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"