New luxury ship to boast elaborate cooking school
A new cruise ship that's being billed as the most luxurious ever will have one of the most elaborate cooking schools at sea.
Luxury line Regent today announced the 750-passenger Seven Seas Explorer will feature a dedicated room for cooking classes where instructors will offer highly-individualized, hands-on training -- a first for the line.
The Culinary Arts Kitchen on the 750-passenger Seven Seas Explorer will boast 18 individual cooking stations arranged across three curving rows of white quartzite-topped counters. Each station will be equipped with top-of-the-line induction cooktops, stainless steel sinks and a wide range of additional cooking essentials (click through the carousel above for a peak at the space and other recently announced areas of the vessel).
Passengers will be able to take more than a dozen different classes per sailing on such topics as healthy cooking; fish and shellfish preparation; food and wine pairings for entertaining; and high-heat grilling. Classes will be inspired by the destinations visited by the ship.
Located near the top of the vessel on Deck 11, the culinary center will feature floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the ocean.
Regent today also announced that the Seven Seas Explorer will have an entertainment venue called the Meridian Lounge that also will be a first for the line. Located just outside the ship's main theater on Deck 5, it'll feature a curved bar with an antique silver finish and back-lit alabaster top; floor-to-ceiling windows; an intimate stage for live musical performances; and a rosewood parquet dance floor.
Scheduled to debut in the summer of 2016, the 56,000-ton Seven Seas Explorer will have the highest ratio of space to passengers in the history of cruising, and Regent is promising to set a new benchmark in luxury cruising with the vessel.
Like Regent's Seven Seas Voyager and Seven Seas Mariner, the Seven Seas Explorer will be an all-suite ship, and at $450 million, the most expensive luxury vessel ever built. Only a handful of luxury lines, including Hapag-Lloyd Cruises and Silversea Cruises, offer all-suite ships.
For a deck-by-deck look at the luxury of a Regent ship, don't miss our new Cruise Ship Tour of the line's recently revamped Seven Seas Mariner in the carousel below.
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