Seabourn Quest

Seabourn Quest is the third and last of the Odyssey class, delivered by T. Mariotti in Genoa in May 2011 and in service from that June. She is also, as of this year, the only one of the three still flying Seabourn’s flag. Seabourn Odyssey went to Mitsui Ocean Cruises in 2024 and became Mitsui Ocean Fuji; Seabourn Sojourn made her last Seabourn sailing into Vancouver in May 2026, crossed the Pacific, and is now Mitsui Ocean Sakura. Quest is what is left, and she is the oldest ship in the fleet by five years.

The 2026 refit

She came out of drydock in June 2026 from what Seabourn describes as the most comprehensive interior work she has had. It was not a rebuild, no steel was cut and she carries the same number of guests she always has, but it went through most of the rooms a guest uses. The Club was reconfigured around a redesigned bar and new lighting. The Observation Bar was recarpeted and refurnished. The Colonnade and The Restaurant got new furniture. Every suite category got new mattresses and new wool carpet, and the penthouse and premium suites got new veranda furniture. The atrium, the corridors, the stairways, the spa reception, the gym equipment, the salon and the shops were all done at the same time.

That matters more on this ship than it would on a newer one, because the honest description of Quest before the refit was a very good 2011 interior that was starting to look like a 2011 interior.

Where she is not all-veranda

She is all-suite, which is not the same claim. A block of Ocean View suites on deck four, about 295 square feet, has windows rather than verandas, and they are the cheapest thing aboard. Roughly nine suites in ten have a veranda, and the rest have a good deal of glass and no outdoor space. On the newer Encore and Ovation the question does not arise, because there every suite has one.

Dining is The Restaurant on deck four, The Colonnade and the open-air Patio on deck eight, a sushi room, and Solis. Solis is worth noting on her page in particular: Seabourn’s Mediterranean restaurant opened aboard Quest on January 20, 2024, before it reached Ovation, Encore or Sojourn. Her marina is one deck lower than on the bigger ships, on deck two, and folds out of the stern for swimming in calm anchorages.

Where she actually sails

Europe, mostly, and a very long winter. Copenhagen, Piraeus and Dover are her busiest homeports and the European season is the bulk of her schedule (Baltic weeks, Mediterranean weeks, British Isles) generally in one- to three-week blocks. She crosses the Atlantic in both directions each year, runs a short Caribbean program out of Miami, and then does the thing an Odyssey-class ship is really for: a world cruise. Her schedule reaches out past four months in a single booking, and Seabourn has her down for the 120-day Cape to Cape World Cruise in 2028, better than 26,000 nautical miles of it.

One thing has moved off her plate. From 2013 she was Seabourn’s Antarctic ship (that year’s drydock added cranes, Zodiac cradles and marina modifications for the job), and she ran polar seasons for a decade. She has no ice class, and Seabourn Venture and Seabourn Pursuit now do that work on purpose-built hulls. She sailed her first Alaska season in 2025. Neither is on her card now.

Who she suits

People who want a long voyage. She is the ship in this fleet where booking a month or four months at a stretch is normal rather than exotic, and a lot of her repeat guests do exactly that. Four hundred and fifty-odd people, most of whom have been aboard before, is a particular social atmosphere and it either suits you immediately or it does not.

She does not suit families, and there is nothing aboard for children. She does not suit anyone who wants a new ship: she is fifteen years old, the refit was cosmetic rather than structural, and the layout is the layout of a 2009 design. If the cheapest suite is what makes the price work for you, know before booking that it is the one without the veranda.