When you had an opportunity to take a cruise with out realizing precisely the place you had been heading, would you?
Chris Prelog, president of Windstar Cruises, is betting that no less than a few of us are up for the problem. In a completely 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 should go to past that’s, no 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 at all times do,” mentioned Prelog. “It’s a cruise for visitors 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 staff not simply to craft a totally new itinerary as a way 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 staff wanted to create new actions.
And visitors 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 visitors on board,” Prelog says.
