The best cruise lines in the world: 2022 Readers' Choice Awards
The survey for the 2023 Readers' Choice Awards is open, vote now for your favourite places, hotels, airports, cruise ships, travel fixers and more.
Cruising is booming right now, buoyed partly by the popularity of domestic seacations that hauled in first-time sailors. So much so that Regent Seven Seas Cruises’ 34,000-mile world trip for 2024 sold out in just over two hours, while the new adults-only Virgin Voyages, which aims to throw cruise stereotypes overboard, rose to second place in Large Ships. And we’ve introduced a new category this year, showcasing the expedition cruises – small, often sustainable vessels with a shoal of scientific experts onboard – that follow in the wake of adventurers such as Sir Ernest Shackleton, whose last voyage into the unknown ended exactly a century ago.
These are the best cruise lines in the world, according to the 2022 Readers' Choice Awards.