Most Expensive Cruise: Sailing Costs $1.5 Million

What does $1.5 million buy these days? For some it's a life's worth of retirement savings, for others it's the price tag on a new luxury cruise.

The 124-day sailing of the Silversea Silver Whisper will set guests back a cool £1 million (just over $1.5 million.) -- That's £8,000 a day. According to Six Star Cruises, the UK company that put the trip together, this is the "world's most luxurious 124-day vacation."

The trip begins when passengers are picked up from their home by helicopter, and, en route to a London airport, will sample Beluga Caviar that costs £4000 ($6,320) per kilogram and tea so rare it's priced at more than £2000 ($3,160) per kilogram. Guests will jet to and from the U.S. in a private Boeing business jet while a Michelin-starred chef prepares a 10-course tasting menu, and will be transferred via Rolls Royce Phantom.

Once on board, home for the next four months will be the ship's more than 1,000-square-foot Royal Suite, with its two bedrooms, two marbled bathrooms, separate dining area and bar and two verandas.

The cruise begins on January 4, 2013 in Los Angeles with a pre-cruise gala at the Peninsula Hotel, with embarkation the following day. Ports of call will be made in 28 countries including French Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Mauritius, Cameroon and Barbados.

But wait, there's more. Guests will relax with a four-night stay at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel pre-cruise, and wind down with four-night stay at an $11,534 a night apartment in Miami's exclusive Sunset Island community.

Quick Poll

If you had that kind of money to burn, would you take this cruise?

Hell yes! It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Um, no. Ever heard of savings?

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Comments

[Steve68112]

02:35 AM on 02/27/2012

Yeah that is pretty expensive, but I heard of one even more expensive: The Italian cruise, it can cost you your life!

[pjmlmm]

02:00 AM on 02/27/2012

I'd get homesick after a week. I like home.

[Michael Ludin]

12:42 AM on 02/27/2012

I would do it except I hate caviar, oh well, I guess I have to slum on Carnival!

[hman570]

11:58 PM on 02/26/2012

the average person reading this could care less. It is only for the rich and not for the working class. It is Huffingtons way of trying to make regular people feel badly for the rich.

[skyeagle]

09:04 PM on 02/26/2012

The most expensive cruise ever are for the people that died on the Concordia, money is nothing when it comes to your life.

[MB1East]

06:19 PM on 02/26/2012

Looks like even the Job Creators need a vacation now and then.

[me3jewels]

09:38 PM on 02/26/2012

Great post!

[Christopher Stewie Jones]

05:35 PM on 02/26/2012

If I had $1.5 million to burn, I would totally do it. Maybe one day

[caparadiso]

05:07 PM on 02/26/2012

Perhaps the full of himself Captian will get drunk, do a little coke, pick himself up some slut 2 years older than his daughter, invite her to move into his cabin, take her up to the bridge and run the ship up on some rocks and kill 30 or so people, ruin a 850 million dollar curise ship and cause a Billion Dollars in damage, and an environmental nightmare and the stock in the company to lose 40% in one day. Has anyone been following this Costa Concordia story? There are still 16 people missing, meaning they just have not found the bodies yet. And then be the first one off the ship.

[Odyssey51]

01:05 AM on 02/27/2012

No wonder the dude never looks up when he's in public. Losing all those people, destroying a cruise liner, wreaking havoc with water pollution and yet he's the first one off the boat? He should be made to go back on the boat alone to search for the missing people. Creep.

[SimianNation]

10:51 AM on 02/26/2012

Fill it with Wall Street money makers, and then sail it too close to the coast!

[nolib1937]

12:51 AM on 02/27/2012

If you work hard all your life and make a lot of money ! why not do it . You just don't like people that worked and saved !

[SimianNation]

10:04 AM on 02/27/2012

No, that is not it at all. If I wanted to spend $1.5 million of my hard earned money, I could hire a travel assistant, do the same travel itinerary, stay in 5 star hotels, have complete freedom to stay in a city as long as I would like, eat at the best restaurants, buy plenty of souvenirs, etc etc etc, and spend only a 1/3rd of what the cruise would cost.

My comment reflected the idea of excess in a world where there are starving children, world poverty, and environmental destruction. The money would be more wisely invested by helping the world with its ills. If I were to choose to not go on a cruise like that, yet still do the travelling, I could have my cake and eat it as well.

Of course, I will not fault you for making a comment without knowing what your talking about. But, I will fault you for making a comment based on the idea that just because I might be a liberal, does not mean that I have something against hard work and frugality. Liberalism has nothing to do with being against hard work and savings, and the fact that the conservatives feel that only they have a right to claim such a mantle, shows the shallow emptiness of that ideology.

[Madam Macrame]

08:24 AM on 02/26/2012

Good luck with renting out apartments on that cruise to people with children, lol. Millionares and Billionaires are the stingiest people on earth when it comes to spending money without getting a tax deduction for it, lol. I don't see them spending 1.5 milion for luxury travel because most Millionaires and Billionaires already enjoy those luxury things on a daily basis. People also tend to travel in pairs, so okay, maybe there are some older millionares who have extra millions to spend who will go for it because they can leave all their money to their children, charity, or take the 4 month cruise. For them it would be worth traveling all year long on this luxury liner, lol.

[sk3navy]

05:08 PM on 02/27/2012

madam, you know this how?

[bpforprez]

12:55 AM on 02/26/2012

I love the Huff's little polling questions. Are you sure those are the only two responses a person could have after learning about this cruise? Are they even the two most likely responses? In this time of economic woe? Let us not begrudge the stupidly rich their "little" pleasures, but I have to say if the "I hope the damn thing hits an iceberg and their aren't enough lifeboats" radio button was available, I'd probably click it.

[caparadiso]

05:15 PM on 02/26/2012

Well said!

[jneal11254]

11:59 PM on 02/24/2012

In my view, a waste of money. For far less you can take National Geographic's amazing trip around the world on a chartered 757. Every seat first class, no security, no waiting at the airport. It goes everywhere you ever wanted to go. An amazing trip. As I recall it was about $67,000 which is an amazing steal. Might have been 87 grand, but either way, a great deal. If I had the money for that one, I would have done it in a heartbeat.

[smoker]

01:57 PM on 02/25/2012

Me too.

[sk3navy]

05:09 PM on 02/27/2012

jneal11254, no one asked you.

[dbrett480]

06:28 PM on 02/24/2012

You can buy a nice yacht for the same amount.

[smoker]

01:59 PM on 02/25/2012

For approx half a million, you can buy a nice fully equipped 39' catamaran which can be easily handled by one and sail around the world at your own pace. Normally takes 8 years to do the round trip and max cost would $150,000 for those 8 years. You still end up saving money.

[F Steven Holt]

04:49 PM on 02/26/2012

You just summed up, in one short paragraph, my lifes dream. Now all I need is the $650,000....

[crelic]

04:30 PM on 02/24/2012

Perfect for the tagline: "For people with more money than sense".

[wallinmark]

08:22 PM on 02/24/2012

I have always had more sence than money ,its easy if you are poor as church mice.lol. Always wanted to have lots of money. Not in my stars I guess.