Regent to do $125 million makeover, drop indoor smoking

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Regent Seven Seas Cruises announced a $125 million, two-year, fleet-wide renovation starting with an overhaul of the line's smallest ship, the all-suite, 490-passenger Seven Seas Navigator this spring.

The project is designed to bring the all-inclusive, luxury cruise company's current three ships more in line with the soon-to-launch, 750-passenger Seven Seas Explorer, which Regent is unabashedly billing as the "world's most luxurious ship."

"When you are delivering a luxury ship like Explorer it's important to make sure the other three ships are not too far separated," Jason Montague, president and chief operating officer for Regent told reporters touring the Navigator in Miami.

Navigator will emerge from a 12-day dry dock in Marseilles, France on April 13 as "essentially a brand new ship," he said.

Several public spaces and suites will be stripped down to the walls, but the most controversial move may be the elimination of the ship's Connoisseurs Lounge for smokers.

There will be no smoking allowed indoors on the redone Navigator – the lounge will become a spacious library with faux fireplace.

Franco Semeraro, Regent's senior vice president for hotel operations, said removing the smoking lounge is "a test."

Depending on guest reaction the lounge may also be removed, and indoor smoking eliminated, on the 700-passenger Seven Seas Voyager and Seven Seas Mariner, when those ships are overhauled late this year and in spring 2017, respectively. There is still smoking allowed in designated areas outdoors.

The former library space on Navigator will be converted into a Coffee Connection with self-serve, 24-hour specialty coffee machine.

Elsewhere, updates include new crystal chandeliers and mellower color schemes including in the Compass Rose dining room – where the redo involves blue and silver, leather chairs adorned with swirls, a central chandelier and a large wine display.

In the Galileo Lounge, the new look references planets and constellations, the ceiling adorned with twinkling fiber-optic "stars."

All categories of suites are being redesigned with new furnishings including padded leather headboards, wall-mounted flat-screen TVs and Elite Slumber Beds. Semeraro said he was going for the look and feel of a luxury hotel, "fresh and comfortable."

The ship's new Reception Area will have marble inlay flooring and polished-stone walls. Illuminating the space will be a backlit alabaster ceiling. The La Veranda buffet gets a new chic design as well.

For a deck-by-deck look inside a Regent Seven Seas Cruises ship, click through the carousel below.

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