The Best New Cruise Ships and Itineraries for 2024

30.11.2023 - 19:07 / cntraveler.com / Royal Caribbean / queen Victoria / queen Elizabeth / queen Anne / Silver Ray / Best New

A diverse crop of new ships will set sail in 2024, including intimate yacht-style vessels to never-before-seen mega ships from luxury players like Silversea and Cunard. There will be plenty of bells and whistles expected of these brands, including restaurants from top chefs, but also a few features new to the industry (think glass domes on the hull). Some are sister ships to those already on the waters, but with enough points of difference to feel like something entirely new—including the soon-to-be-sailing largest ship in the world, from Royal Caribbean, of course.

Ships aside, cruises will be taking us deeper into places only lightly touched by international travel next year, too. Australia’s Kimberley region, one of Conde Nast Traveler's Best Places to Go in 2024, is the focus for new expedition sailings from Seabourn, while Lindblad ships will hit up the little-traveled equatorial islands of the Mid-Atlantic on a crossing from Brazil to the Azores.

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Cruise line: Cunard

Cunard’s new ship Queen Anne, launching in May, will be the line’s 249^th ship since 1840. Queen Anne will be helmed by Captain Inger Klein Thorhauge, Cunard’s first woman captain, who has spent time in command of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth. The ship will have double the number of Britannia Club staterooms than the other ships in the fleet, and new renditions of the Cunard favorites—sumptuous restaurants with Art Deco styling, reimagined wellness facilities, and refreshed, classically modern palettes in stateroom design. She will sail mostly in Europe, including around the British Isles as well as through the fjords of Norway.

When it embarks in late 2024, the Disney Treasure will include a Mexican restaurant inspired by “Coco.”

Cruise line: Disney Cruise Line

Set to embark its first passengers in late 2024, Disney Treasure incorporates many features from the earlier sister Disney Wish, with some brand-new additions for its first new ship in a decade. A new Mexican restaurant, Plaza de Coco, inspired by the movie “Coco” will be exclusive to the ship, and two bars themed for Disney Parks attractions: the Jungle Cruise-themed Skipper Society, and Periscope Pub—a nod to “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.” A new production show “Disney: The Tale of Moana” will also debut with the ship.

Cruise line: Silversea

Set to launch in the Mediterranean in Summer 2024, Silver Ray is the second Nova Class ship for Silversea, and is being billed as one of the most eco-friendly luxury ships to enter the market with fuel cell and shore power technology that will allow it to be