Theme Cruises

Special Interest Programs

Theme cruises are especially popular with singles or with a group of "like minded" individuals. The reason is simple: it’s more fun to do something you love with other people who share your passion than it is to do it by yourself. A number of cruise lines organize special journeys where days at sea are filled with exclusive lectures, demonstrations, and gatherings that highlight a specific interest. While most theme cruises focus on art, music, food, or sports, there are literally many variations on a specific theme cruise.

Theme Cruises
Theme	Carrier
Antiques, Jewelry & Shopping	Regent Seven Seas
Arts, Literature & Entertainment	Crystal, Cunard, Regent Seven Seas, Silversea, Peter Deilmann
Book Club	Cunard, Princess, Crystal
Business & Technology	Crystal
Garden & Nature Lover	Peter Deilmann, Silversea, Regent Seven Seas
Golf Programs	Perry Golf Cruises, Peter Deilmann, Silversea
Guest Lecture Series	Celebrity, Cunard, Oceania, Seabourn, Regent Seven Seas, Silversea
Hiking & Cycling	Peter Deilmann
Legends of Baseball	MSC Italian
Lifestyle	Crystal, Oceania, Regent Seven Seas, Peter Deilmann
Photography	Regent Seven Seas, Crystal
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art	Cunard
Health & Wellness	Crystal, Regent Seven Seas, Princess, Celebrity
Wine & Food	Celebrity, Crystal, Cunard, Holland, Oceania, Seabourn, Regent Seven Seas, Silversea , Peter Deilmann

	Antiques, Jewelry & Shopping With stops in exotic ports of call throughout the world, it is not astonishing that select sailings on Regent Seven Seas Cruises offer spotlight programs on antiques. Lectures, shopping hints, guided tours with leading experts and appraisers, and the traditional big finale, Regeng's Antiques Show, bring treasure hunters closer to their gems.
	Arts, Literature and Entertainment Crystal Cruises offers a variety of workshops and classes in their Creative Learning Institute including Acting, Painting, Art History, Printing, Advertising, Fashion Design, Music, Foreign Languages or Creative Writing. Experts from well-known companies specializing in these fields give professional instruction on most sailings. The Cunard Insight Academy At Sea hosts classes on Oceanography and Astrology in addition to their educational programs on Acting and Painting. Regent Seven Seas Cruises emphasizes Music and the Performing Arts. Passengers can learn a specific dance style while cruising to the origin destination of the dance. From ballet performances to lectures about the history of jazz; passengers can relax and enjoy the finest international entertainment.
	Book Club Typically, Book Clubs get together once or twice during a sailing, depending on the duration of the voyage. It gives book lovers the opportunity to exchange thoughts, enjoy literary discussions and meet other people, who are engaged in the same hobby. The book selection is usually drawn from the New York Times best-seller list and the events are hosted by the ship’s librarian. On select sailings, the actual author of the book is on the sailing to give lectures and face-to-face meetings with small groups.
	Business & Technology Crystal Cruises not only entertains passengers on their cruise vacation, but also provide training classes that cain improve their business lives. With training and orientation classes on various Computer Software Programs, Web Design, Entrepreneurship, Estate Planning and Financial Issues, people can easily combine the pleasure of a cruise vacation with the added benefit of enhancing their productivity and business skills.
	Garden & Nature Lover Accompanied by professional landscape architects passengers aboard Peter Deilmann's MS Deutschland and their river boats enjoy fascinating nature and garden experiences. With a special focus on extraordinary landscaping and breathtaking nature, the voyages stop in cities known for their unique nature and gardens. The itineraries of the garden cruises match the theme and take nature lovers to hidden garden paradises and lush fields of lavender during shore excursions. Regent Seven Seas Cruises feature "Environment and Marine Life Expeditions" while Silversea Cruises feature the "Nature Lover Tours", which take explorers to Antarctic Icebergs, Misty Green Norwegian Fjords, Wild Amazon Rainforests, Australia’s Vast Outback and the Impossibly Blue Chilean Glaciers.
	Golf Programs Cruise Planners is delighted to announce the new "Cruise & Golf" partnership program with PerryGolf, the expert when it comes to organizing Golf Tours. The beauty of cruising and golf combined makes our program a must for everyone who likes to play on the most intriguing greens in the world. Eighteen cruises in 2008/2009 offer marquee golf and touring ranging from The Great Lakes, The Canadian Maritimes, and Scotland to the Mediterranean and South Africa, each designed to provide a highly personal experience with exceptional service where friends old and new can enjoy their love of golf and passion for travel. Peter Deilmann offers exciting golf packages on select sailings in Europe. Combine a wonderful European vacation aboard either an oceanliner of a river vessel. A Peter Deilmann vessel will serve as your floating hotel as you move from place to place. As aspects of your golf experience will be pre-arranged for you. Packages include all green fees, travel to and from the course, caddies, pull carts, use of driving ranges (where available), snacks and more. You'll even enjoy the services of an experience escort to ensure all goes smoothly. And, best of all, if your companion is not a golfer, both Perry Golf and Peter Deilmann offer separte shore excursions while you enjoy your game.
	Guest Lecture Series For passengers who enjoy stimulating educational topics given by industry experts, many cruise lines invite special guest speakers onboard to lecture about almost any field of interest. Celebrity, Cunard, Oceania, Seabourn, Regent Seven Seas, and Silversea Cruises have featured lectures including "A News Correspondent's Life: Getting the Story on 5 Continents," "Mangoes and Madras: A Brief Cultural History of the Caribbean," "Money and Markets: The Economy and You," and "Demystifying Wine: Tasting Wines Like a Professional." in their enrichment series.
	Hiking & Cycling Peter Deilmann’s Hiking Themed Cruises go to such exciting destinations as Great Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, France and Bratislava. Both the ocean and river vessels serve as a floating hotel while the hikers move from place to place. Passengers can enjoy both, a demanding hike in Europe’s impressive mountain ranges as well as a comfortable voyage onboard an ocean ship or river boat. Likewise, the same comfort and luxury is given to passengers on Cycling Cruises. Imagine a leisurely ride on some of Europe’s most beautiful and scenic bike paths. Definitely an experience of a lifetime!
	Legends of Baseball MSC Cruises routinely host a series of "Baseball Greats" theme cruises aboard the MSC Lirica to the Western Caribbean from Fort Lauderdale.This cruise provides a unique insight into the world of Major League Baseball as seen through the eyes of some of the greats of the game. Special guests in the past have included Hall-of-Famer Bob Feller, Dave Campbell, Tommy Davis, Jeff Torborg and Stan Bahnsen. Activities usually include interactive guest/player activities, a player-hosted trivia game, question-and-answer sessions with the players, a passenger pitching contest and a lively story-telling session in which the players share some candid revelations about some of the "characters" of the game. Players will also host pitching, hitting, fielding, base running clinics and a free autograph session.
	Lifestyle Crystal Cruises sets the standard for enhancing the lifestyle of their passengers while at sea, Unique offerings such as Candle Making, Color Analysis, Feng Shui, Fundamentals of Interior Design, Yamaha's Passport To Music program (written exclusively for Crystal Cruises that allows you to fulfill your dream to play the piano), Personal Style, and Crochet/Knitting/Needlepoint are just some examples. Oceania, Regent Seven Seas and Peter Deilmann Cruises also specialize in enriching their passengers lifestyle through arts and crafts sessions and dance lessons.
	Photography If it’s about improving or developing skills in photography, the professional photographers leading the workshops aboard Regent Seven Seas and Crystal Cruises ensure your success. Classes in digital imaging are offered prior to leaving the ship for the adventure. Shore Excursions are tailored to ensure all levels of experience have a chance to "capture the moment" on film or digitally. Imagine taking home that one-in-a-lifetime shot of the ice-blue glaciers in Alaska or the golden spires of Bangkok. To make it an outstanding shot even better, digital retouching classes and the option to create personal photo albums are offered during the cruise as well.
	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), established in 1904, is the most famous classical acting school in the United Kingdom, and one of the most respected academies in the world. Guests sailing on Queen Mary 2 will have the opportunity to see a very different type of evening entertainment program. A cast of six graduate actors on the thresholds of their careers will present abridged versions of well known plays on every Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic Crossing voyage. This is a departure from the traditional evening entertainment program which will still feature many high calibre guest entertainers and musical productions.
	Wellness & Health On top of the relaxing factor of being on a cruise vacation, many cruise lines offer health and wellness programs to balance body and soul. From thermal springs and lotus spas to Aerobic and Circuit Training, virrtually all cruise lines offer some type of spa and fitness facility. Premium cruise lines such as Celebrity and Princess offer classes in Yoga and Pilates at a very reasonable cost. Luxury cruise lines including Crystal and Regent Seven Seas Cruises also offer classes in Tai-Chi, Yoga and Pilates as well as counseling on alternative medicine and healthy nutrition.
	Wine & Food Virtually every cruise line offers a special program focusing on wine and food. For instance, Silversea Cruises offer "Wine Series" voyages, where passengers can enjoy enlightening guest lectures, tastings of vintage blends and optional guided excursions to renowned wineries and cellars. Celebrity Cruises offers educational Wine Tasting events onboard, Peter Deilmann's river boats take you to both family estates and world renown vineyards in the Burgundy and Provence regions of France. On Regent Seven Seas and Crystal Cruises, wine is often combined with food during cooking demonstrations.

The cruise lines do a lot to ban the word boredom from aboard their ships and to educate, entertain and please their passengers while they are spending their most important days or weeks of the year, their vacation. On this page you only find an extract of all the enrichment programs offered, but there are many more specializing on history, tennis, classical music, ballroom dancing and horse riding for example.

To learn more about enrichment programs and theme cruises please contact us and we will fit all your interests in just one vacation!