Imagine the challenge of decorating Regent’s new Seven Seas Explorer. The assignment was to make it the most superb ship ever. They used enough marble to keep a quarry in Carrara, Italy busy for a year. The zillion decorative tiles are handmade and even the artworks in each suite are one of a kind.

Then imagine the challenge of cleaning hundreds of Czech and Danish crystal chandeliers and more than a million individual crystals all through the ship. Ceilings in restaurants and lounges also drip with hand-blown Murano glass in shapes of icicles and water drops that are so seemingly delicate that one false move of the cleaning cloth could mean oh, oh. My, my.
Regent Seven Seas’ first new ship in 13 years is dazzling.
But what’s it like to sail on board?