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Oceania Cruises Unveils 2025 Specialty Cruises

Image: The exterior of Oceania Cruises' Marina ship. (Photo Credit: Oceania Cruises)
Image: The exterior of Oceania Cruises' Marina ship. (Photo Credit: Oceania Cruises)
Sarah Kuta
by Sarah Kuta
Last updated: 8:10 AM ET, Thu September 26, 2024

Oceania Cruises will offer a wide variety of specialty cruises next year, led by chefs, authors and television personalities.

The line has unveiled some of its 2025 specialty cruises, which will travel to destinations in the Mediterranean, Alaska and Far East while also offering expert-led onboard programming. Travelers will be able to enjoy special meals, live cooking demonstrations, cooking classes and lectures.

“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,” says Frank A. Del Rio, president of Oceania Cruises. “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 are:

  • Sirena Godmother Cruise with Claudine Pépin, a 14-day sailing from Barcelona to Dublin departing May 20 hosted by Pépin, a cookbook author, the godmother of Sirena and the president of the Jacques Pépin Foundation
  • Sara Moulton Cruise, a 9-day sailing from Barcelona to Athens departing May 26 hosted by Moulton, a cookbook author, chef and television personality
  • Food & Wine Best New Chefs Cruise, a 10-day sailing round trip from Seattle departing August 18, hosted by Food & Wine 2023 Best New Chef Aisha Ibrahim
  • Culinary Luminaries Cruise, a 12-day sailing from Barcelona to Istanbul departing September 14 hosted by the cruise line’s executive culinary directors, Alex Quaretti and Eric Barale
  • Oceania Club Reunion Cruise, a 15-day sailing from Hong Kong to Bangkok departing October 22 hosted by Captain Demitris Flokos; Leslie Jon, Oceania Cruises' first cruise director; and Neli Arias, head of the Oceania Club


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Sarah Kuta

Sarah Kuta

Sarah Kuta is a writer and editor based in Longmont, Colorado. Her work has appeared in Travel+Leisure, Conde Nast Traveler, AFAR, Food&Wine, Smithsonian magazine, National Geographic, Lonely Planet, Robb Report, the Toronto Star, the Denver Post and many other publications. Sarah has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected]  You can follow her on social media https://www.instagram.com/kutasarah/ and https://twitter.com/SarahKuta

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