Join Renowned Culinary Icons on Oceania
Cruises' 2025 Specialty Voyages Featuring Exclusive Events, Hosted
Shore Excursions, and Enriching Onboard Experiences
MIAMI, Sept. 25,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oceania Cruises®, the
world's leading culinary- and destination-focused cruise line, has
unveiled a selection of its 2025 Specialty Cruises, offering
enriching onboard programming led by renowned hosts, alongside
fascinating destinations, world-class cuisine and cultural
immersion opportunities.
Among the esteemed hosts for the 2025 Specialty Cruises are
authors, television personalities and chefs Claudine Pépin and
Sara Moulton; Food & Wine
2023 Best New Chef Aisha Ibrahim;
and Oceania Cruises' own Executive Culinary Directors and Master
Chefs of France, Alex Quaretti and
Eric Barale.
"Oceania Cruises has always set the standard for onboard
culinary excellence and immersive travel experiences, and our 2025
Specialty Cruises continue to raise the bar even higher," said
Frank A. Del Rio, President of
Oceania Cruises. "These voyages are a celebration of our commitment
to creating one-of-a-kind travel experiences, offering an
unparalleled fusion of culinary and cultural offerings for our
guests. Thanks to the impressive line-up of renowned chefs and
experts to enhance our onboard programming, including specially
crafted menu items in The Grand Dining Room and at the Chef's
Market Dinners in the Terrace Café by each of our culinary hosts,
our guests are in the best possible hands."
The 2025 Specialty Cruises collection highlights Oceania
Cruises' commitment to culinary excellence and elegant,
ultra-premium, small-ship experiences. They will explore some of
the most loved cruising regions of the world, including the
Mediterranean, Alaska, and the Far
East. Each will feature expert-led onboard programming
including enrichment lectures, live cooking demonstrations and
cooking classes, themed Chef's Market Dinners in the Terrace Café,
fireside chats, exclusive hosted shore excursions and more.
Oceania Cruises 2025 Specialty Cruises
Sirena Godmother Cruise with Claudine
Pépin: 14-day sailing from Barcelona to Dublin, May 20 - June
3, 2025 on Sirena®
This special
sailing will be hosted by cookbook author Claudine Pépin,
the official godmother of Sirena and president of the
Jacques Pépin Foundation. She has filmed three popular James Beard Award-winning PBS television series
with her father, renowned Master Chef and Oceania Cruises Culinary
Advisor Jacques Pépin, alongside her
own career in the wine industry working with Moët & Chandon,
Dom Pérignon, and Kendall-Jackson Wineries.
The sailing will include exclusive onboard events hosted by
Pépin, including a Q&A and cooking class, Chef's Market Dinner
and more. Additionally, Pépin will be joining select shore
excursions, denoted by "with Claudine Pépin" in the title.
Joining Pépin onboard will be her husband, Professor
Rollie Wesen, who will assist with
culinary demonstrations; and food and travel writer Kristen Hartke, whose pieces on food culture and
history appear in the Washington Post, NPR, Food & Wine among
others. Hartke is a culinary producer and recipe developer for
celebrity chefs and cookbook authors, and she also teaches food
journalism at American University.
On this sailing, guests will immerse themselves in the culinary
arts and enticing destinations, including overnight stays in two
cities renowned for incredible food and wine, Seville and Bordeaux.
Sara Moulton Cruise:
9-day sailing from Barcelona to
Athens, May
26 - June 4, 2025 on Marina™
Embark on a
culinary and cultural odyssey from Barcelona to Athens with chef, cookbook author and
television personality Sara Moulton,
who was recently named as one of the first two members to be
welcomed to the Oceania Cruises Culinary Advisory Board.
Onboard Marina, as she sails the Mediterranean and
Aegean Seas, guests can enjoy a live cooking demonstration from
Moulton, savor her signature dishes on the menu in The Grand Dining
Room and join her on select shore excursions and at exclusive
onboard events.
Food & Wine Best New Chefs
Cruise: 10-day sailing from Seattle to Seattle, August 18 -
28, 2025 on Riviera™
Share an incredible
journey with Food & Wine 2023 Best New Chef Aisha Ibrahim aboard Oceania Cruises' first-ever
Best New Chefs Cruise. Experience special menus, cooking
demonstrations, and fabulous pairings among the many epicurean
discoveries at sea and on land in Alaska aboard the only true foodie ship
sailing in the region. Travelers can be immersed in the culinary
scene of the 49th state on an abundance of food-focused shore
excursions while exploring the quaint towns built from the dreams
of miners, loggers, and furriers, set against a backdrop of almost
impossibly beautiful scenery.
Culinary Luminaries Cruise: 12-day sailing from
Barcelona to Istanbul, September 14
- 26, 2025 on Vista™
Hosted by Oceania
Cruises' two Executive Culinary Directors and resident Master Chefs
of France, Alex Quaretti and
Eric Barale, this voyage promises to
be the ultimate epicurean adventure for foodies. The voyage
features sought-after gastronomic destinations in the Mediterranean
and Adriatic where travelers will experience a cavalcade of
Mediterranean icons, from Nice's chic boulevards and Tuscany's timeless hills to Santorini's
cliffside villages and Ephesus' archaeological treasures. Cruise
highlights include live cooking demonstrations, destination-focused
Chef's Market Dinners in the Terrace Café curated by the onboard
culinary team, exclusive culinary panel discussions and Oceania
Cruises' legendary gala brunch.
Oceania Club Reunion Cruise, 15-day sailing from
Hong Kong to Bangkok, October
22 – November 6, 2025
on Riviera
Join distinguished Oceania Cruises'
hosts aboard Riviera for the line's first Reunion
Cruise to take place in Asia.
Sailing from Hong Kong to
Bangkok, this spectacular 15-day
sailing features four overnight port stays in Hong Kong, Ho Chi
Minh City, Singapore and
Bangkok; locally enriched
entertainment; and luminaries from the worlds of food, wine, travel
and culture to share their expertise, insights and
anecdotes. Among the Oceania Cruises' hosts onboard will be
Captain Demitris Flokos, one of the
line's first Masters; Leslie Jon,
Oceania Cruises' first ever cruise director who served onboard for
23 years, and Neli Arias, Head of
the Oceania Club™, who invite you to join them at numerous special
events from Oceania Cruises' gala brunch to exclusive dinners and
cocktail receptions, to special shore excursions to show off this
fascinating part of the world. The Oceania Club Reunion Cruise
aboard Riviera is open to loyal Oceania Club
members as well as curious travelers who are new to Oceania
Cruises.
For additional information on Oceania Cruises' small-ship
luxury, exquisitely crafted cuisine, and expertly curated travel
experiences, visit OceaniaCruises.com, call 855-OCEANIA, or speak
with a professional travel advisor.
About Oceania Cruises
Oceania Cruises® is the world's
leading culinary- and destination-focused cruise line. The line's
eight small, luxurious ships carry a maximum of 1,250 guests and
feature The Finest Cuisine at Sea® and destination-rich itineraries
that span the globe. Expertly curated travel experiences are
available aboard the designer-inspired, small ships, which call on
more than 600 marquee and boutique ports in more than 100 countries
on seven continents, on voyages that range from seven to more than
200 days. Oceania Cruises® has two additional ships on order
scheduled for delivery in 2027 and 2028 or
2029[1]. Oceania Cruises® is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: NCLH). To
learn more, visit www.nclhltd.com.
[1] Delivery for the second Oceania Cruises ship
is contractually scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2028, but may
be delayed to 2029.
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