Cruise Line ProgramsTransatlantic crossings, a ballroom with a live orchestra, and seven uninterrupted days with your people and nowhere else to be.
Cunard has been carrying people across the Atlantic since 1840, and no other line at sea carries that kind of history or wears it so well.
The ships are grand in a way that is genuinely rare now — double-height dining rooms, a proper ballroom with a resident orchestra, a planetarium, libraries with thousands of books, and a promenade deck you can actually walk a mile on. Guests dress for dinner because they want to. For a milestone program, an anniversary or an executive reward, the sense of occasion is the product, and it is unmatched.
A transatlantic crossing also gives you something no other itinerary can: seven uninterrupted days with your people and nowhere else to be. See the at-sea overview for the rest of the brands we represent.
A ballroom with a live orchestra and dancing every night, grand dining rooms rising through two decks, and lounges that look like the great hotels. A gala dinner or an awards evening in a room like this needs almost no production from you — the ship is already the set.
A transatlantic crossing is the most useful itinerary in the business for a program with real content. No ports, no excursions, no people disappearing into a town for the afternoon. Your group is together, rested, and available — and they arrive in New York or Southampton having genuinely switched off.
Cunard runs one of the strongest speaker and enrichment programmes at sea — authors, historians, scientists, actors and musicians — alongside a planetarium, fencing, and courses on everything from navigation to art history. It gives a week real substance without any effort from you.
The Grill accommodation tiers come with their own restaurants, lounges and private terraces. It is an elegant, established way to look after your executive team or top qualifiers within a larger program, and it feels like a genuine distinction rather than an upgrade.
Served properly in the main lounge, every day, with a string quartet. It is a small thing and it is exactly the sort of detail your attendees photograph and remember.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — MS Queen Anne at Cabo San Lucas Mexico 31 January 2025: Richard N Horne, CC BY 4.0; Ms queen anne southampton: Geni, CC BY-SA 4.0; MS Queen Anne Britannia Restaurant, a Cunard dinning experience: Richard N Horne, CC BY 4.0; Queen Victoria Cruise Ship: Ian S, CC BY-SA 2.0; Queen Elizabeth, Lidingö ( 1090848): Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cunard’s flagship runs regular transatlantic crossings between Southampton and New York from spring through late autumn. The wider fleet sails the Mediterranean, Northern Europe and the Norwegian fjords through the warmer months, the Caribbean in winter, and full world voyages each January.
The crossings are the distinctive product and they book well ahead, so if that is the idea, start the conversation early. Tell us where your people are and we will tell you what is available.
Buy the Sea has been placing corporate groups and full ship charters with Cunard for many years. We know the fleet, we know the people, and we know what to ask for and when to ask for it so that your program gets the sailing, the spaces and the dates it needs. That is the part we handle.
Bring us a headcount, a budget and a range of dates. We will come back with real options across the Cunard fleet — and across every other line, because we represent all of them and we are paid by the cruise line, never by you. There is no fee, no markup and no obligation. Here is why that matters.
Connectivity at sea has improved enormously in recent years and hybrid sessions are increasingly routine. We will confirm exactly what is available on your ship and sailing before anything is promised internally.
For a group block, twelve to eighteen months, and transatlantic crossings move earlier than that. For a full charter, plan on eighteen to twenty-four months.
There is none. Buy the Sea is compensated by the cruise line, never by you. More in the FAQ.