Four Seasons Yachts Adds Residential-Style Yacht Suites at Sea

Four Seasons Yachts Adds Residential-Style Yacht Suites at Sea

A hotel room built for a short stay and a home built for everyday living have always been two different kinds of spaces, even in luxury travel. Four Seasons Yachts, a venture bringing together yachting company Marc-Henry Cruise Holdings, Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, and Four Seasons' hospitality leadership, is closing that gap at sea with a new category of residential-style yacht suites planned for its second ship. Ben Trodd, CEO of Marc-Henry Cruise Holdings, described the expansion as a way to deepen personalization and expand access through suites built at a genuinely residential scale.

What Makes a Suite "Residential" at Sea

The new Yacht Residential Suites range from two to four bedrooms and sit across the ship's upper decks, positioned specifically for extended stays, group travel, and multi-generational trips rather than a typical short cruise stay. Each suite includes open-concept living space, private terraces, and an integrated lifestyle kitchen and dining area, features built around a group actually living together on board rather than sleeping separately and meeting elsewhere on the ship. Select suites go further, adding private splash pools, outdoor showers, and wellness-focused amenities directly within the suite itself. A dedicated concierge is assigned to arrange everything from personalized dining to curated excursions on shore and at sea.

Built Around a One-to-One Staff Ratio

Four Seasons Yachts is pairing the new suite category with a one-to-one guest-to-staff ratio on its second ship, a service level built specifically to support the kind of personalized attention a residential-style stay is designed around. That approach extends into the onboard experience more broadly: a Chef-in-Residence program brings different accomplished chefs onto voyages throughout the year, each introducing their own techniques and menus rather than a single fixed dining concept, while L'Oceana Spa organizes its wellness offerings around what the company calls the Five Elements of Vitality, moving guests through rituals tied to fire, ice, water, light, and motion.

Beyond the ship itself, the company frames exploration and adventure as distinct parts of the experience: guests can visit hidden coves by catamaran or take part in a private wine tasting at a local estate, while separate adventure-focused itineraries follow historic trade routes to ancient landmarks with local experts and guides. Four Seasons Yachts has also recently added the Grand Caribbean as a new region within its sailing itineraries, expanding where guests can choose to travel beyond the routes offered at launch.

What the First Ship Already Set as a Benchmark

The residential suite category builds on design work already proven on the fleet's first ship, which carries 95 suites total, including a 9,975-square-foot Funnel Suite featuring floor-to-ceiling curved glass window modules that the company states form the largest contiguous piece of glass at sea. That same ship includes a bespoke onboard marina with openings running from port to starboard, built into the vessel's design rather than added as a separate deployable feature. The second ship, carrying 79 suites in total, trades a larger overall count for the residential-scale suites the company is introducing, a deliberate shift toward fewer, larger living spaces rather than maximizing total suite count.