Evrima

Evrima is the first vessel The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection ever put in the water, and the most interesting thing about her happened before a single guest walked aboard. She was ordered in 2017 for a debut in February 2020. She sailed in October 2022, out of a different shipyard from the one that started her.

The yard that failed

The order went to Hijos de J. Barreras in Vigo, a Spanish yard with a long record in ferries and container ships and no record at all in cruise ships. The keel was laid in January 2018. The schedule then came apart in stages: February 2020 became June 2020, June 2020 became April 2021, and the maiden voyage was rescheduled six times before it happened. The yard was in financial trouble throughout, and in 2020 an entity affiliated with the ship’s owner took control of Barreras outright in an attempt to get the hull finished. It did not work. The yard collapsed, and the incomplete ship was towed around the Spanish coast to Astander, at Santander, to be completed by somebody else.

She carried her first paying guests on October 15, 2022, Barcelona to Nice, and was christened at Lisbon the following month.

The bill for all of that is still being paid. In June 2026 the Financial Times reported that the company had accumulated close to $700 million in losses since it was founded and had borrowed more than $1.5 billion to build and run its three yachts. In the refinancing that followed, the bank syndicate holding $299 million of debt secured against Evrima waived its right to call it in, and the controlling shareholders put in a further $275 million of equity. None of this is visible from a deck chair, but it is the reason this yacht took five years to appear.

What is actually aboard

There are 149 suites for 298 guests, each with a private terrace. That makes her less than half the size of her two later fleetmates and roughly a twentieth of a large mainstream ship.

Five restaurants and no buffet anywhere: The Evrima Room for three meals a day, The Pool House alongside the main pool on deck five, Mistral on deck eight for Mediterranean cooking, and S.E.A., a tasting-menu room that carries a supplement. Two pools, two lounges, and the spa and gym high up on deck nine. There is no casino, no theater and no production show. The evening is a bar and the people in it.

At the waterline on deck three is the marina, a platform that opens out for swimming and watersports when the yacht is at anchor, which is often. Sailings here are built to include days on the hook rather than alongside, because the places she is sized for do not always have a berth to give her.

The one substantial change since delivery came in May 2026, when three outdoor spaces were restyled with the Italian porcelain house Ginori 1735: the Pool House in blues, Mistral in oranges and corals around the Il Viaggio di Nettuno service, the marina in amber. It is upholstery and tableware rather than steel, and it is worth knowing that it is the extent of the refresh.

Where she actually sails

Two seasons, and almost nothing in between. In Europe she turns around at Barcelona, Piraeus and Monte Carlo; the rest of the year she is based at Papeete and works French Polynesia. Voyages on this site run from four to twelve nights, with a median of seven.

She is the one that gets sent furthest out. The winter 2027–28 program adds first calls at Rangiroa and Fakarava in the Tuamotus and at Rarotonga and Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, a thirteen-night run from Los Angeles to Panama City, and two seven-night San Juan to Panama City voyages through the canal. Those itineraries go to her because she is the yacht small enough to work them.

Who she suits

People who want an all-suite hotel with about three hundred guests in it and have decided that is worth paying for. The fare covers the suite, gratuities, most food and drink, Starlink Wi-Fi and the entertainment such as it is. It does not cover shore excursions, which are priced steeply, one published review was quoted $338 for a fifteen-minute airport transfer, nor premium wines, the spa, or the S.E.A. tasting menu. Depending on suite and season the whole thing works out somewhere between roughly $700 and $2,000 per person per night, which puts her at the top of the price range on this site.

She does not suit families with children who need a program to join, anyone who wants a show or a casino in the evening, or anyone who dislikes tendering, since being at anchor is part of the design rather than an exception. And if what appeals is the newest and roomiest version of this idea, she is not it: Ilma and Luminara are twice her size, better provided with deck space, and a generation newer.