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Four Seasons Yachts: cost, what's included, and what to know

Four Seasons put its hotel name to sea in March 2026 with Four Seasons I, a 190-guest, all-suite yacht that debuted out of Malaga. The questions I get about it are the simple ones that are oddly hard to get a straight answer to: what does it cost, what's included, and what is it actually like aboard. Here are the answers, in plain terms, from an advisor who books the line.

Figures and ship details from Four Seasons Yachts' published materials and press as of June 2026, in directional terms; fares move and the line prices each voyage individually, so verify your exact voyage with me or the line before booking. I'm an independent travel advisor of Fora Travel and I book Four Seasons Yachts along with the other luxury lines; I have no incentive to push you toward or away from it.

What does a Four Seasons Yachts voyage cost?

Four Seasons Yachts sits at or near the very top of luxury cruising, in the same ultra-premium tier as the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection and above the rest of the field. As a working number, a seven-night voyage runs well into five figures for two in an entry suite, before flights and excursions, and climbs steeply from there with suite size, season, and itinerary. The largest accommodations, including the four-deck Funnel Suite, are among the most expensive at sea. These are directional figures, not a quote.

One thing to know about how the line prices: Four Seasons sells by the suite, not per person, and prices each voyage individually, so a high-season Mediterranean sailing in a top suite is a very different number from a shoulder-season week lower down. For the exact figure on a specific date, send me the voyage and the suite you're weighing and I'll pull the current fare. What that fare buys is the more useful question, because an all-inclusive yacht fare isn't comparable to a mass-market cruise price. That's the next section.

Is Four Seasons Yachts all-inclusive? What's in the fare and what's extra

Mostly yes, with a few honest exceptions. On board, the fare covers the suite, dining across the venues, beverages, gratuities, and Wi-Fi. The yacht carries a marina platform that opens from the stern, and the non-motorized water sports off it are included, a signature it shares with the Ritz-Carlton yachts.

What is not included, and what to budget separately:

  • Flights. Air is extra and on you, the same as nearly every luxury line except the very top all-in fares elsewhere.
  • Shore excursions. Excursions are charged separately. If having every excursion bundled into the fare matters to you, Regent is the major luxury line that does that as standard, and it's worth knowing before you compare headline prices.
  • Spa treatments and some premium experiences. Treatments and certain premium add-ons are charged as used.

The takeaway: the fare covers the daily cost of being aboard, eating and drinking well, plus the water sports off the marina. You budget separately for getting there and for what you do off the ship. That puts it in the same broad inclusion tier as the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, Seabourn, and Silversea, more inclusive than the mass-market lines, and a step below Regent's excursions-and-air-bundled fare.

The ship: what Four Seasons I is actually like

This is where the line makes its case. Four Seasons I carries about 190 guests, which makes it one of the most intimate ships at sea, with close to a crew member for every guest. Four Seasons puts the difference at roughly 50 percent more space per guest than its competitors, and that space is the point: high ceilings, floor-to-ceiling glass, and suites that feel residential rather than cabin-like.

It's all-suite, sold by the suite, and the range runs from generous entry suites to a four-deck Funnel Suite of around 9,601 square feet with its own pool and a private spa area. Many suites have private plunge pools, a genuinely rare touch even at this tier. The yacht debuted in March 2026 with a maiden voyage from Malaga, under Captain Kate McCue, and is sailing its first season now. If the appeal of a yacht is that it feels nothing like a cruise ship, this is among the purest versions of that idea on the water.

Where Four Seasons I sails, and the one practical catch

The first season leans Mediterranean, the natural home for a debut, with the wider calendar reaching toward the Caribbean and Latin America in the cooler months. The itineraries are yacht-style: smaller ports the big ships can't enter, overnight stays in marquee cities, and more time in the water off the marina than a typical cruise.

The practical catch is availability. This is a single ship for now, so the schedule is thinner than a multi-ship line's, and the exact date and itinerary you want may simply not exist in a given season. For a fixed-date traveler that's the real constraint, more than price. Tell me your window and the region you have in mind and I'll send you what actually fits, with current fares, the same day. The line carries the full live calendar; what I add is telling you which sailing and which suite are worth taking.

Is it worth it? Who Four Seasons Yachts is right for

Worth it is personal, so here's the framing rather than a flat yes. Four Seasons Yachts is right for you if a few things are true: you want the single most exclusive ship at sea, the deepest service ratio, and ideally a plunge-pool suite; the Four Seasons name is part of what you're buying; and your dates are flexible enough to work around one ship's calendar. If those line up and price isn't the deciding factor, it's a genuinely exceptional choice, and I book it without hesitation.

Where I'd tell you to look elsewhere, because part of my job is saying so:

  • If you want the same hotel-yacht idea with a choice of ships and more dates, the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection runs three yachts across more regions. I've laid out the Ritz-Carlton vs Four Seasons Yachts comparison in full, including where each one wins, and what the Ritz-Carlton actually costs.
  • If you love the style but not the top-of-tier fare, Explora Journeys is the lower-fare, design-led alternative in the same hotel-style-luxury space. It carries more guests, so it's less intimate, and it has no marina, but the per-night fare is meaningfully lower, the top Suite is larger, and there are more ships and dates sailing now. The Explora Journeys vs Four Seasons Yachts comparison lays it out line by line, including where the yacht clearly wins.
  • If you want every shore excursion and business-class air bundled into one fare, Regent does that and Four Seasons does not. On a port-intensive itinerary that can change the real all-in math.

I book all of these, and the point of telling you where each one wins is that I'd rather put you on the right ship than the one with the best name on the hull. If your reference points are hotels rather than ships, the guide for Aman and Four Seasons loyalists is the other one worth reading. Send me your dates and the suite you're considering, on whichever line, and I'll have current pricing in your inbox the same day.

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