Royal Caribbean Chooses Santorini for First Europe...

Key Facets:

• The primary Royal Seaside Membership will open in Europe in summer time 2026, on the Greek island of Santorini.
• The Royal Seaside Membership Santorini might be mixed with Final Santorini Day sightseeing excursions.
• Visitors aboard Royal Caribbean and Celeb Cruises ships will have the ability to get pleasure from the brand new vacation spot.

Royal Caribbean Group has unveiled thrilling plans for Royal Seaside Membership Santorini, its first shoreside vacation spot in Europe. Set to open in summer time 2026, the membership will welcome company crusing on Royal Caribbean and Celeb Cruises voyages.

The seashore membership expertise might be mixed with sightseeing choices to the Greek island’s landmarks and cultural websites, creating the “Final Santorini Day,” a nod to Royal Caribbean’s extraordinarily in style Good Day at CocoCay expertise that debuted in 2019 within the Bahamas.

Santorini is the newest in Royal Caribbean’s sequence of deliberate land-based locations meant to reinforce the cruise expertise. A number of Royal Seaside Golf equipment are already within the works, with the primary, Royal Beach Club Paradise Island in The Bahamas, slated to open in December 2025.

Along with Santorini, the corporate in 2026 will open the Southernmost Resort on Earth — The Cormorant at 55 South in Chile, and Royal Seaside Membership Cozumel in Mexico. Good Day Mexico, in Costa Maya, will open in 2027 adopted by Royal Seaside Membership Lelepa (Vanuatu), in 2028.

Royal Caribbean additionally operates a non-public vacation spot in Labadee, Haiti, though it stays closed resulting from civil unrest on the island.

“Increasing our Royal Seaside Membership Assortment to incorporate Santorini – one of many world’s hottest and exquisite areas – is a daring step ahead in rising our trip portfolio from two to eight by 2028, giving company extra methods to have unforgettable experiences with us,” stated Jason Liberty, president and CEO of Royal Caribbean Group. 

“We’re thrilled to attach company with Santorini’s gems – from its iconic villages to the Aegean Sea’s well-known seashore membership tradition – making a balanced, genuine island expertise,” Liberty added.

Royal Caribbean’s announcement doesn’t point out what the associated fee might be to go to Royal Seaside Membership Santorini, if any, or to guide the Final Day Santorini island sightseeing tour.

It does state, nevertheless, that the Final Day Santorini expertise can have three beginning factors on the island, which the corporate believes will ease vacationer congestion within the vacation spot as company will fan out from numerous areas.

Santorini has turn into overrun by cruise passengers within the post-pandemic years, with as many as 17,000 arriving in a single day.

Roughly 1.3 million cruise company sometimes arrive annually on upward of 800 cruise ships that decision on the island, which is famed for its turquoise waters, white-washed buildings, and iconic cultural websites.

Actually, Santorini and close by Mykonos in 2025 started charging cruise company an arrivals fee to assist handle the movement of vacationers and handle infrastructure and environmental impacts that prime numbers of tourists trigger.

In excessive season, the associated fee is €20 (roughly $22), with decrease charges charged within the shoulder and low seasons.

A number of Ships Will Name at Santorini As Seaside Membership Opens

Whereas Royal Caribbean Group has not but disclosed the precise location or a gap date for Royal Seaside Membership Santorini, these particulars are anticipated quickly, and company can select from quite a lot of sailings that can name on the vacation spot.

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A number of Royal Caribbean and Celeb Cruises’ ships will go to Santorini in summer time 2026, together with Explorer of the Seas, crusing roundtrip from Ravenna on a number of dates, and Odyssey of the Seas, which might be based mostly in Rome and providing Jap Mediterranean voyages.

A 7-night “Greece & Adriatic Cruise” departing on August 22, 2026 aboard Explorer of the Seas calls at Athens, Santorini, and Cut up, Croatia, for example.

With Celeb Cruises, company can guide a “Greece, Malta & Turkey Cruise” aboard its latest ship, Celeb Xcel, on dates in July and August 2026. The voyages, from Barcelona to Athens, name at Valletta, Malta, Santorini, and Kusadasi, Turkey.

Celeb Ascent will even be based mostly within the Mediterranean, crusing cruises round-trip from Rome that characteristic calls to Santorini.