In the event you had an opportunity to take a cruise with out figuring out precisely the place you had been heading, would you?
Chris Prelog, president of Windstar Cruises, is betting that not less than a few of us are up for the problem. In a wholly new twist for Windstar’s annual President’s Cruise, an eight day voyage departing on April 19, 2025 aboard Star Legend, will sail roundtrip from Athens. Which ports it can go to past that’s, not less than at this level, anybody’s guess.
This journey, Prelog tells us, is about “awakening the sense of journey once more, which is what journey ought to all the time do,” mentioned Prelog. “It’s a cruise for friends who like journey, and who don’t need to plan every part out.”
The thought was impressed by Windstar’s latest Tahiti & the Tuamotu Islands crusing onboard Star Breeze. Simply two days into this 11-day itinerary, Tropical Cyclone Nat disrupted plans to journey on the ship’s set course and it headed to the wildly distant Marquesas Islands as a substitute. This required the onboard workforce not simply to craft a totally new itinerary so as to keep away from the storm system but additionally to work with each passenger-facing division to throw out the present playbook – and create a brand new one (learn our story right here).
Staffers in shore excursions needed to plan new excursions – with minimal discover. Crew within the meals and beverage division needed to negotiate for provides in ports Star Breeze had by no means been to. The captain needed to toss out his navigational maps and create new ones. And the leisure workforce wanted to create new actions.
And friends with a eager sense of journey liked the expertise, which is how Windstar’s “Thriller Cruise” idea was born.
“I’m wanting ahead to the anticipation of discovering out the place we’re going together with our friends on board,” Prelog says.
