There is no better value than an Incentive or Meeting at Sea.
Cruise programs offer your group complimentary meeting space, audio visual equipment, nightly entertainment, and room service - spas, casinos, golf, scuba diving, snorkeling, deep sea fishing, tours, duty free shopping, exotic island destinations, beautiful beaches, fine dining without a bill, all the food you can eat, internet cafés, art auctions, fitness centers, swimming pools, first run movies, ice skating, in-line skating, rock climbing - Caribbean, Alaska, Mexico, Europe, Mediterranean, the South Pacific, the Danube, Rhine, Nile, and Amazon, rivers and oceans of the world.
This is cruising -- the most rapidly expanding segment of the meeting and incentive travel industry. The explosion of new ships during the past fifteen years and continued fleet expansion has provided a tremendous capacity and an exceptional value when compared to a comparable land based meeting or incentive program.
Conference & Meeting Facilities
Cruise lines have come to recognize the necessity to accommodate the needs of meeting planners if they are to fill their tremendous new capacity. Newer ships have been designed with expanded, easily accessible, dedicated meeting space. Whether your group consists of 25 or 500 participants, there are ample options on board to facilitate your group's meeting requirements. From conference rooms to boardrooms, from large lounges and theaters for awards presentations to small lounges and rooms for breakouts and cocktail parties on deck, the new cruise vessels are designed for meetings at sea. An added advantage - your audience is captive. They will attend!
Chartering - Exclusivity & Charting Your Own Course
Have you considered a full ship charter? Give your company the exclusive use of your own vessel. Choose your own itinerary. Fly your company flag. Rename the decks. Customize the ports of call, the length of your program, the onboard entertainment and much more!
What's In It For The Meeting Planner? A More Successful Program With Far Less Work!
The management of an incentive or meeting at sea is extremely easy in the cruise environment. Due to their all-inclusive nature, cruises offer one stop shopping. There are no menus to plan, no airfare to arrange, no transfers to coordinate, no special activities to plan, no entertainment to locate; it's all included. Each ship has an on-board coordinator with whom we schedule meetings, audiovisual equipment and special events far in advance for your group. Dining room schedules and seating can be pre-selected. A cruise will be the easiest, most cost effective meeting or incentive program you will ever operate.
Both real and perceived, there is no greater value than a cruise! With an average of 10-15 new vessels entering the market each year, cruising has become the most popular new venue for both meeting and incentive groups. The expanded, dedicated, complimentary meeting and function space, the desire for something different, and the ease of planning combined with budget considerations, have made meetings at sea a meeting planner's dream.
Gourmet Dining
Cruises offer multiple destinations, rather than one, relaxation for sunbathers, and good weather most of the time due to their ability to move and avoid storms. Cruises offer, guest lecturers, and lessons in gambling, wine tasting, painting, and photography. Seminars at sea in various fields and themed sailings are also available. Cruises offer access to parts of the world inaccessible other than by water. With a staff/guest ratio of one staff for every two guests, the service is unparalleled.
And More
Cruises offer multiple destinations, rather than one, relaxation for sunbathers, and good weather most of the time due to their ability to move and avoid storms. Cruises offer, guest lecturers, and lessons in gambling, wine tasting, painting, and photography. Cruises offer seminars at sea in various fields and themed sailings. They offer access to parts of the world inaccessible other than by water. With a staff/guest ratio of one staff for every two guests, the service is unparalleled.
Golf & Casinos
Unlike golf in Scottsdale or a gambling at a casino in Las Vegas cruises offer something for everyone. The golfers play golf on multiple island courses in exotic destinations and the gamblers gamble on the ship and on the islands. In addition, those not interested in gambling or golf are free to enjoy tropical island beaches, tour the islands, shop, simply relax in an island hammock or pamper themselves in the spa.
Entertainment
As appealing as the onboard and island casinos is the fact that Las Vegas and Broadway style shows are also included at no charge offering a different performance every night. Showgirls, full productions, jugglers, comedians, famous musicians and more are available in locations ranging from the main show lounge to small intimate lounges and clubs.
Variety - Multiple Itineraries · Multiple Destinations
The world is two-thirds water and there are ships calling on every port. Yes, there will always be the Eastern, Western, and Southern Caribbean, the Bahamas, and Alaska. But there is also Bermuda, the Mediterranean, the Greek Isle, the Baltic's, the Rhine, the Danube, and the Scandinavian Fiords. Winter months offer the coast of South or Central America, the Pacific year round including Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti. Africa, the Amazon, the Nile; options are limitless.
