How coffee options at sea have improved
Australians have long complained about the quality of coffee on cruise ships. Many of us claim that the American -style drop coffee is barely coffee.
Coffee on ships is usually served from a coffee machine with pain and cold content. Self -service coffee, catering urns or hotel breakfast rooms come from the push button machines you find.
However, cruise lines, guests, especially Australians-to-go more coffee are knowledgeable, and more quality beans and open seas expect a wider coffee options as they accept.
You can now call special coffee on each ship at additional cost to budget ships such as carnival or Royal Caribbean, where even a espresso or Latte is considered a special coffee.
Most of the budget ships include Carnival’s Java Blue, Princess Cruises’ International Cafe and Royal Caribbean’s Cafe Prments. MSC Cruises added Venchi Coffee Bar or Jean Philippe Cafe to their new ships.
Although Australians have mixed views on whether Starbucks use a good coffee, they collaborate with both Royal Caribbean and Starbucks, the Norwegian cruise line.
One of the biggest developments in the last few years is to move towards better quality coffee beans on budget and premium ships.
The Italian company Costa Cruises has established a partnership with the coffee brand Caffe Vergnano for the flavor of BU-Italy in 2021 and serves in Caffe Vergnano 1882 coffee shops on their ships.
Silversea
In 2023, Princess Cruises became a partner with Lavazza, who said, “It expresses the essence of real Italian coffee,”. And in 2024, Cunard chose commitment to Union, a London -based coffee company, a London -based coffee company, who gave luxury lessons about British supermarkets and British Airways long -distance flights.
Since his first ship in 2020, Virgin Voyages has partnered with Chicago Brago Brago Brago Brand Intelligencetia, one of the “third wave of coffee manufacturers in the United States, emphasizing single -quality beans.
Virgin’s Coffeels Crafe’deki coffees, cream and syrups with traditional American styles less detailed, straight European coffee species are turning.
Celestyal Cruises, in the meantime, partnership with Illy. As of November 2025, the company adds Cafe Nation to its second ship Celestyal journey for the opening cruise season in the Gulf of Basra, where guests will have five single origin coffee varieties.
Oceania Cruises and Silversea also have Illy Coffee and have excellent coffee spaces respectively, Barista and Arts Cafe. You will not have much problems with your coffee on premium and luxury lines and ships such as ponant, screnic or regent -loving sea, and find coffee machines in your cabin.
Seabourn also uses Illy, except for French press coffee from Miami -based boutique roasting La Rica. Seabourn’s coffee connection offers single original coffees from Columbia, Guatemala, Peru, Indonesia and Vietnam and fry its own beans. Any coffee-fantastic Australia’s heart is enough to please the heart.
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Brian Johnston was condemned to become a travel writer: he was born in Nigeria and is a Irish in Switzerland, who was born in England and China and now calls Australia to his home.
