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Miami Herald
Miami Herald
Travel
Anna Jean Kaiser

‘Floating 7-star resort’: Ultra-luxury cruise ship makes Miami home

MIAMI — The Seabourn Ovation, part of Carnival Corp.'s ultra luxury cruise brand, has a new home in Miami for the winter cruise season.

It’s the first time the high-end cruise ship, where suites average at $1,000 a night, has sailed out of Miami. The ship was completed in May 2018 with the intention of being based out of Australia during the winter months. But the pandemic changed that.

“With Australia and most of Asia still closed, we decided to base the ship in Miami for this winter — this is, after all, the cruise capital of the world,” said Josh Leibowitz, the president of Seabourn.

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