Explora Journeys Explora I - The 'next big thing' in luxury cruising?

"Circus" Of The Seas this is not. Explora Journey is a proper, modern Luxury Liner. Not plastic and gaudy like those other cruise ship monstrosities.

Wow. Rich & Helen this is an excellent & detailed tour of this beautifully designed ship. Wow.

We will be travelling soon! Thanks for sharing! wonderful!

Es un crucero apto para solteros?

Did is miss something? No staterooms?

Ships look so familiar to the original Celebrity ships Zenith, Mercury etc!

This was top quality, thank you for the video.

Beautiful videos

You know that when the revolution comes, class enemies are the first to be liquidated, right?

Overrated

Best ship video ever! ❤

Question- are the pools salt water or regular?

This looks fantastic. Could you tell me what the dress code is? We prefer the resort casual of Seabourn to the dress up of Silver Seas. Your answer may be the thing that makes us want to cruise Explora I.

Please do a cabin review for us, thanks. Nice looking ship.

Hello, thanks for the ship tour Helen and RichI have a question about the noise and music. On the Celebrity Edge class, the music is very loud everywhere. You can hear the party music and daytime entertainment 3 decks below the pool deck, even in your cabin. You can also hear the conversations and music from the restaurant terrace from 5 decks below. How is it on the Exploa 1 in the cabin and balcony? Can you hear music and noise from the pool or buffet restaurant (e.g. chairs being moved, footsteps, etc.)? Below your cabin on deck 5 is the terrace of a restaurant. What about the noise here (clinking cutlery, conversations, music,...)? Thanks in advance

Wow, that just leapt ahead of Emerald Azzura for me, which I didn't expect. Thought I'd like a smaller ship, but this looks insanely good...over to the website to see if it's in budget...I could well be disappointed 😂😂

Cabins?!?

That's an interesting looking ship, but I hope they brought in a lot of outside expertise to develop the product because MSC can barely do regular cruising with any kind of consistency, let alone luxury cruising.

Can you actually buy a Rolex at sea? Or do you to be on the waitlist???

Great narration and voice. But it’s not “amount of marble finishes” but number…

I was on the ship from Copenhagen to Hamburg, the ship is beautiful, the huge hot tubs are outstanding and the food was amazing! The quality of the wood veneer in the suites is a bit cheap and I guess there will be a lot of scratches and breaks in a few months. I loved the cruise on the Explora 1............and as always a great video from you guys ♥

Hi really great video
We are on this beautiful boat on Jan 19 for 12 nights - we are getting really excited

Hi Rich and Helen. It looks like a tough life, but, someone has to do it. It is , as always, very professional, informative and constantly interesting. We had better start saving. Graham and Susie Mc.

Enjoying this video at breakfast before the family descend at lunchtime to begin Christmas celebrations ! As you know, despite never having done an ocean cruise, absolutely love your channel and the quality of content and information you bring to us. I think the editing of this one must rank as one of your best !

We were on the ship this past September. Amazing ship, amazing room great food and some of the best sushi we’ve had. The issues we had were with some of the service and some of our expectations. Food between dining hours was scarce and difficult to come by. Another experienced couple said this was the only cruise they had ever been on where they were hungry at times. The service was always friendly, but not outstanding - it never felt like Silver Sea or Seabourn where they would bend over backwards for any request. One glaring (but small) thing is no bits or canapés in your room daily. Malt Whiskey bar and the Chefs Kitchen are spectacular. Spent each night in Malt Whiskey. One thing we couldn’t get over, in a funny way, was how horrible the mashed potatoes were - never put potatoes in the blender because you get wall paper paste. Chef David I. The Chefs Kitchen was a massive highlight. Not sure it pushes aside Silver Sea or Seabourn, but its in the would go on again category.

Thanks!

I am looking forward to discover this beauty i 1st of march from Bridgetown to Miami. I can’t wait 😊😊😊

Oh cool! A new luxury cruise ship line, this is going to be …. What was that? Did you say MSC?? NOOOOOOO

Just back from 9-night Caribbean cruise on Explora1. Absolutely superb from start to finish....but only at 30% occupancy (lucky us).

Oh wow 😮

Trying them next year—could you tell it was owned by MSC? Announcements in several languages?

Looks gorgeous.
We must step up a level or two in the future.
Make cruising 'special' again 😍

I can't even afford the Yacht Club on regular MSC cruises, so this is waaaay beyond my possibilities. But damn, that ship is gorgeous. I wish a very happy time to every each of you that would go aboard. Thanks for the visit !

Popping this on the bucket list….and I’m off to Google it. That’s a wonderful ship and that was a great tour. Thanks.

Hi Rich and Helen. Happy Christmas from Montreal. I enjoyed this video presentation. I noticed you upped the quality and production value. I like the floating edits on screen and not necessarily have voice over to go with it. I think it was either a Regent Video or a Seabourn Video or maybe a Silver Seas Video, that I had said was the best video you had produced up till that point, in production value. It was the very classy and chic video, if you remember. The ship is lovely. But I think Regent Seven Seas and Silver Seas and Oceania still holds the Ace Cards in their ships for beauty and elegance, yes? I would place Explora above Azamara for sure, and Saga. Regent, Silver Seas and Oceania are also still high on the elegance and Style list, as well. I don't think you can compare Explora, Regent Seven Seas, Oceania, or Silver Seas in the same basket. I would imagine that Explora is a lot less a hit in the pocket book, rather than Regent, Oceania and Silver Seas.

You created an excellent video about a gorgeous ship. I’m looking forward to your future vlogs. I hope her service and food matches the design. Thank you for a thoughtful presentation.

Very well done.

You’ve piqued my interest. Adding them to our list.

Wow! What a luxurious ship. Thanks for shining a light on this marvelous 🛳️ 😊

I was about to look that ship up and book and then you said kid friendly. NOPE not at those prices! Nope

I wonder if the Rolex store will have exhibition-only signs.

It's a beautiful ship for sure, I will be very interested in future videos. My brother in law is now a TA, he's been selling a lot of MSC cruises (the marmite of cruise lines is how he describes them) and was invited on a back to back cruise on Explora, he had some interesting comments, both good and bad, interestingly about the same dining venues, mostly regarding the very good food, but the inability to deal with demand if the ship is full, not something you want to hear on a 5 figure cruise.

Your subscribers are really ticking up! Congrats! Love your content - Merry Christmas from Kentucky.

A Breitling shop and I'll be there! ;-)

I hope you have a marvelous and enjoyable Christmas! And maybe it is just me however I am thinking the Rolex boutique will get the attention of one or two other cruise lines and may a different watchmaker.

I have a booking for 2025👍 Thanks for your video.