The concept of an all-inclusive is a bit misleading. The evening entertainment similarly caters to adults, with 10 bars and lounges and an on-board casino. All ages are welcome, but the ship isn’t designed for younger cruisers, favoring features like a jogging track and shuffleboard to waterpark-style slides. I only saw two children on board - one time, on the top deck, halfway through the trip - and later learned they were the captain’s kids. It also helps that Regent attracts an older crowd.
It helps that the guest-to-crew ratio on the Seven Seas Explorer is nearly one-to-one.
The restaurants rarely felt more crowded than those of much smaller hotels, and I never had to fight for a sun lounger on the top deck or a quiet corner in either of the two pools. The gym was almost always empty during my pre-breakfast workouts, after which I always opted to take my first meal of the day on my suite’s balcony. While the Seven Seas Explorer maxes out at 746 guests - a fraction of the thousands of passengers that the world’s largest cruise ships can hold - I somehow felt as though I only ever saw the same 50 people, excluding the well-organized boarding process on the first day. Before setting out for Mykonos, the first stop on our voyage, I struggled to reconcile the idea that any large shared ship could feel exclusive enough to justify the four to five figures the average Regent cruiser pays.
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