For A Cool $17K You Can Cruise Around The World
If you are retired or plan to have about four months of the year free, there’s an exhilarating trip available to you. Another small requirement is that you have to be willing to spend a cool $17,000. Travel and Leisure has detailed a new cruise that goes around the world. It is a 116-day trip.
If that is too steep for you, have no fear, there is also a 108-day option.
“Cunard Line, a historic British cruise line dating back to 1840, has just announced more than 300 new voyages for the 2025–2026 season — including two world cruises with overnights in cities like Singapore and Sydney,” Travel and Leisure said.
If you are unfamiliar with it, Cunard is a luxury line offering world voyages. “From 2024, we sail as a fleet of four Queens: Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth, and the brand new Queen Anne,” Cunard explains.
Cruise Around The World
The 116-night trip is aboard the Queen Anne. It’s a new 3,000-passenger ship that is scheduled to launch this May. Then, at the start of 2026, the Queen Anne will embark on their world cruise to start the year 2026.
This leaves from Hamburg, Germany, on January 6, 2026. It will hit ports in major cities around the world. You can expect stops in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia, South Africa, and the Canary Islands. It returns to Hamburg on May 2, 2026.
The starting cost here is about $16,000 per person.
If eight days less is more your speed, the 108-day around-the-world cruise option will be aboard the Queen Mary 2 ship. This leaves from Southampton on January 11, 2026.
The route appears to be different as well. Major cities you will travel to include a stop in New York and San Francisco. You will hit the Suez Canal, New Zealand, and French Polynesia here. It returns to South Hampton on April 30, 2026.
Surprisingly, this trip starts at $17,000 per person.
Regardless of which option you would choose Cunard Cruises says you will experience, “Well-appointed accommodations, fine dining, fabulous entertainment and outstanding service, it’s all included.”
