Madagascar, Qatar and More: New Cruise Destinations in Regent’s 2025-26 Luxury Cruise Collection

 Luxury cruise travelers won’t want to wait to book their choice of the new Regent Seven Seas Cruises collection of voyages sailing in 2025-2026, with 29 maiden ports of call over 164 new itineraries. 

Voyages will span the globe – from established favorites such as Alaska, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and Northern Europe to far-flung destinations with Australia and New Zealand, Asia, South America, and the South Pacific. In addition, the collection features 9 new sailings in Africa and Arabia, more than any previous Voyage Collection, and includes the ability for guests to embark in Doha, Qatar (pictured) and Port Louis, Mauritius for the very first time. 

The 2025-2026 Voyage Collection features the 154-night 2026 World Cruise, as well as five captivating Grand Voyages. Adding to the destination immersion are 124 overnight stays across the Collection in highly sought-after ports of call such as Istanbul, Turkey; Bangkok, Thailand; and Luxor (Safaga), Egypt. 

Further highlights of the Collection include five new ports in Madagascar, two 14-night roundtrip sailings in Alaska for Seven Seas Explorer, a North America season for Seven Seas Splendor, and two transits through the Panama Canal on Regent’s newest ship, Seven Seas Grandeur, which will also enjoy her maiden season in Northern Europe. 

If you’re new to Regent, here’s what you need to know about this luxury, all-inclusive cruise line with one of the highest crew-to-guest ratios in cruising: 

Voyage fares include round-trip business-class flights, gourmet cuisine in a range of specialty restaurants and alfresco dining venues, fine wine and spirits, entertainment, unlimited internet access, free valet laundry service, pre-paid gratuities, ground transfers and one-night, pre-cruise hotel package for guests staying in Concierge-level suites and higher. 

Guests enjoy free, unlimited shore excursions at every port of call, and for a fee, you can also choose from a menu of Regent Choice excursions from Epicurean Explorer Tours to Wellness Tours to Eco-Connect and Behind the Design Tours. 

Regent’s newest ship will begin her 2025 season sailing the Mediterranean in April, 2025, venturing to new ports including Chios, Greece and Brindisi, Italy – before sailing north in June for her first Northern Europe season include new ports of call Narsaq, Greenland; Siglufjordur, Iceland, and Ulvik, Norway. 

She will follow the sun and return to the Mediterranean in the autumn to sail a selection of 10-night itineraries, before embarking on a transatlantic voyage from Barcelona, Spain to Miami, Florida in November, for a winter exploring the Caribbean. Voyages include island gems such as Grenada, Antigua, St Lucia, Martinique, and a new port of call in Frederiksted, St Croix. 

plus an eclectic selection of itineraries which include crossing the Panama Canal, before a return across the Atlantic to Barcelona to close out her 2025-2026 Voyage Collection. 

In March, 2025, Splendor kicks off a sun-kissed spring and summer in the Mediterranean with a selection of 10- and 12-night voyages, including overnights in Seville, Athens, and Jerusalem, Israel - as well as stops in beloved ports such as Santorini, Greece; Positano, Italy; and Casablanca, Morocco. 

She will then sail trans-atlantic in August to Montréal, Québec for a jaunt in Canada and New England for the autumn. As winter approaches, Splendor ventures to the Caribbean with two exciting itineraries in November. The first sails from New York, where she will cruise the Atlantic stopping in Bermuda and other tropical islands including Barbados, Grenada, and Aruba, before looping back toward Miami, Florida. The second itinerary is a 16-night voyage that explores the southern edges of the Caribbean including the countries of Belize, Costa Rica, and Colombia, with a transit through the Panama Canal. 

The ship then celebrates the Holidays sailing South America exploring more of the Caribbean, French Guiana, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile, after which she will travel back across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean from Miami, Florida. 

In May, 2025, Seven Seas Explorer will cruise to Alaska to begin fan-favorite, seven-night, open-jaw itineraries between Vancouver and Seward, as well as 14-night, round-trip Vancouver sailings. 

She crosses the Pacific to Tokyo in October for Japanese voyages, before heading Down Under to Australia, New Zealand, then through South-East Asia, before beginning the 61-night Grand Asia Exploration in January, 2026. 

Seven Seas Explorer sails 4 more, increasingly popular Tokyo roundtrips in March and April 2026, heading back across to Vancouver in May. 

The Voyager’s season begins in June, 2025 in Europe with two Mediterranean itineraries before sailing north for a summer sojourn across Northern Europe including Norway’s Lofoten Islands, Kemi in Finland, and Malmö, Sweden. In September, she will return to the Mediterranean for the autumn. 

In December, Voyager sets sail for Dubai, United Arab Emirates, discovering the Middle East via the Suez Canal, followed by itineraries in the Seychelles, Comoros, and Mozambique before sailing two open-jaw itineraries between Cape Town, South Africa and Port Louis, Mauritius, then heading north again to Dubai. 

The 4 sailings between February and April, 2026, can be combined for an epic 64-night Indian Ocean Odyssey beginning in Mauritius and ending in Rome, cruising Africa’s southeast coast and sailing north to explore the ancient gems of Arabia, before transiting the Suez Canal once more for a Mediterranean vacation. 

Seven Seas Mariner’s new 2025-2026 Voyage Collection starts in June with a 16-night voyage that includes the ABC Islands and Bermuda from Miami to New York. 

Between July and September, she sails through Northern Europe to Greenland, Iceland, the British Isles, Sweden, Lithuania, and Belgium and more, before an eastern Med series of itineraries that also visit Egypt and Tunisia. 

Following a trans-atlantic crossing in December, Mariner cruises the Caribbean before embarking in January on Regent’s 154-night, 2026 World Cruise round trip from Miami including 2 Grand Voyages: Grand Arctic Adventure and Grand Cultural Quest from NYC to the Arctic, Scandinavia, and west to east through the Mediterranean. 

Beginning in April, 2025, Navigator itineraries will touch every corner of the continent – beginning in the Med and Northern Europe. 

In October, she will then set off from Barcelona to Cape Town, with ports of call in Cape Verde, Ghana, Togo, and São Tomé and Principé. From Cape Town she will sail on to Doha, Qatar via Madagascar. She’ll sail further east in December to the Indian sub-continent, South-East Asia, and Australia and New Zealand. 

Beginning in February, 2026, she will make 2 round-trip Papeete, French Polynesia tours of the South Pacific including overnight stays on one of the world’s most romantic islands – Bora Bora. The round-trip sailings are sandwiched between open-jaw itineraries to and from Papeete and Auckland, New Zealand which also visit the island nations of Fiji and Samoa, each crossing the International Date Line for those who haven’t crossed that off their cruise/ travel bucket list yet. 

The ship closes out her 2025-2026 season making her way via Australia and New Zealand, Asia and the Middle East back to the Mediterranean for spring. All 84 ports Navigator will sail to between October, 2025, and January, 2026, can be combined into the Grand Continental Sojourn 84-night Grand Voyage from Barcelona to Sydney, Australia.