7-Night Sample Itinerary

French Rivera and Italian Coast

A week of unique, active, enrichening things to do. Aboard or ashore, activity packed days await.

Unique to Blue World is the fact that wellness is fully integrated into every aspect of your time with us – on board or ashore - it’s part of our DNA and a key reason we exist.

  • ABOARD
    Kayaking
    Snorkeling
    Stand Up Paddle Boards
    Sea Water Lap Pool
    E-Foil & Kite Surfing

    ASHORE
    Hiking
    Cycling
    Golf
    Tennis
    Running Tours

  • ABOARD

    Spinning
    HIIT Training
    Cardio & Movement Classes
    Multi-Sport Simulators
    Pickleball & Padel
    Custom Bike Fitting
    Yoga & Meditation
    Aqua Exercise
    TRX

  • ABOARD

    Golf Training
    Sport Specific Training
    Sports Nutrition
    Massage & Recovery Services
    Medical Wellness
    Injury Prevention
    Physical Therapy
    Marathon & Biathlon Training
    Open Water Swimming

  • ABOARD

    Breakfast Roundtables
    Guest Lecturers & Performances
    Sommelier Wine & Spirits Tasting & Paring Classes
    Arts Workshops
    Mind Body Spirit
    Guided Stargazing
    Dance Lessons

    ASHORE
    Local Immersion Experiences
    Cultural & Walking Tours
    Food & Drink Tours & Experiences
    Once-in-a-Lifetime Special Blue World Events

Our facilities are WELL certified and built on LEED principles: energy-efficient systems, waste reduction, eco-friendly materials throughout.

The Wellness Center was developed by a luxury wellness expert with deep experience launching programming and operations at top destination wellness resorts and cruise lines. Inside: sports recovery therapies and a full medical wellness and performance lab.

This philosophy runs ship wide, not just through a spa door. Surprising food and drink. Expansive activity programming. Deck side hot and cold plunge pools. Even your suite works for you, with air and water purification, circadian lighting, aromatherapy, and vitamin-infused rainfall showers.

Our treatments go beyond anything land-based spas offer: zero gravity immersion, restorative vibrational massage, cryotherapy, hydrotherapy, I.V. therapy, touchless wellness tech, binaural and vibrational treatments, a snow room, halo therapy, a Himalayan salt room. All with an ocean view.

DAY 1

Embarcation - Nice

Your stateroom is ready on arrival. Your itinerary — every session, reservation, and shore excursion — is already built and loaded into the app, matched to your profile. It updates as you go. 

The ship is docked at Port Lympia. The afternoon is unscheduled. Walk the harbor promenade into Vieux Nice, through the n, and up the switchbacks to Castle Hill for the long view back over the bay and the red-tiled rooftops. About 90 minutes round trip. 

Back aboard, find the juice bar on Deck 4 — the citrus and basil press is the one to get this far south — then the sun deck to watch the light change over the Baie des Anges. 

Late afternoon: an InBody 970 scan at the Wellness Center, twenty minutes, setting the baseline for your sessions this week. 

Tonight, dinner at Alti-Cibi: socca, a salade niçoise built the old way, anchovy and not a green bean in sight. Welcome reception with the Captain follows. 

Then the listening lounge on Deck 7, and the lights of Nice sliding away as the ship turns west toward Corsica. Your suite and it’s amenities are engineered to promote deep sleep and physical recovery. Tomorrow has an early start.

DAY 2

L’ÎLE-ROUSSE, CORSICA (CYCLING DAY)

7:00am — Breakfast aboard. Nothing heavy — there's climbing ahead. 

8:30am — Fitted bikes and a guide waiting at the marina. The route runs up into the Balagne — through Corbara, then Pigna, then the switchbacks to Sant'Antonino, a stone village so high and so old it's hard to believe anyone built it there on purpose. About three hours, mostly climbing. Electric bikes available. 

12:30pm — Back in town. 

1:00pm — Lunch ashore at Casa Corsa, on Place Paoli — a board of coppa, lonzu, and brocciu, nothing else on the menu and nothing else needed. 

3:00pm — Back aboard. Full Body MELT recovery session at the Wellness Center — fascia work for legs that just did three hours of climbing. 

5:30pm — Pool deck, an hour before dinner. 

7:30pm — Dinner aboard at Wake House. Quiet tonight — most of the room is still feeling the ride. 

9:30pm — Mahjong and backgammon night in the games lounge on Deck 5. Custom sets, weighted tiles, a games host running an open tutorial before free play. First-timers welcome.

DAY 3

L’ÎLE-ROUSSE

8:30am — Coffee bar on Deck 4. Then the library on Deck 6 if you want it — deep chairs, good light. 

9:00am — One-on-one Personal Training session at the Wellness Center, built around your InBody results from Day 1. Forty-five minutes. 

11:00am — The marina deck opens — kayaks, e -foils, paddleboards, snorkel gear, the swim platform down. The water off L'Île-Rousse is the clear, pale turquoise Corsica is supposed to look like. An hour, give or take. 

1:00pm — Lunch aboard in the Galley. 

2:00pm — Ashore on foot into town — the covered market, the boutiques on Rue Paoli, a walk out to the lighthouse on its little islet at the end of the breakwater. 

7:30pm — Dinner ashore at Le Grand Bleu, on Place du Canon — veal Corse, the day's catch, dessert in the shade of a ficus tree older than the restaurant.

10:00pm — Private cocktail party on the poolside decks and Mediterranean gardens at The Pietra Hotel Ile Rousse. The ship hosts this type of thing once per voyage. The view across the water at this hour closes the evening well.


DAY 4

OLBIA, SARDINIA (GOLF DAY)

7:30am — Breakfast aboard. 

9:00am — Transfer, about thirty minutes, to Pevero Golf Club, Porto Cervo. 

9:30am — Tee off. Eighteen holes, par 72, Robert Trent Jones Sr. — granite outcrops, wild myrtle, the sea in view from nearly every hole. The resident pro is available if you want company. Alternate, a fitness and spa day, kettleball express, Reiki, touchless hyrdotherapy,

1:30pm — Lunch on the clubhouse terrace. 

3:00pm — Transfer back to the ship. 

3:30pm — Hydrotherapy recovery at the spa. Forty-five minutes. 

5:30pm — Sun deck before dinner. 

7:30pm — Dinner aboard, Pan Asian, lobster shitake with spicy lemon, Miso black cod, chocolate harumaki. Delightful.

9:00pm — The Local on Deck 6. The Sailing World Cup on one screen, the French Open on the other, low light and good leather. Ichnusa on tap, and a cocktail list the bartender rebuilds every few days around whatever's in season — tonight it's mirto and blood orange.


DAY 5

OLBIA (OVERNIGHT)

9:00am — Coffee bar on Deck 4, or 30-minute Rise and Shine Flow (all levels welcome) on the bow deck, a guided meditation session, or sleep in — the morning's unscheduled. 

11:00am — Thalassotherapy session at the spa — a heated seawater circuit, pressure jets, a mineral algae wrap. About ninety minutes. 

1:00pm — Lunch aboard, light and protein-forward. 

2:30pm — Ashore on foot into Olbia — the Basilica di San Simplicio, eleventh-century and built in part from stones the Romans left behind, then Corso Umberto for the market and the shops. 

6:30pm — Early dinner ashore at L'Essenza Bistrot — the seafood tasting menu, carasau bread, whatever came off the boats that morning. Your table’s already reserved; word has gotten out. Back aboard by 9:30pm. 

9:30pm — A Sardinian folk trio sets up on the sun deck as the ship prepares to sail — launeddas, frame drum, guitar, building into a tarantella that doesn't really allow for spectators. Open bar, no formal program, dancing more or less mandatory by the second song.

DAY 6

PORTOFERRAIO, ELBA (HIKING DAY)

7:30am — Breakfast aboard. 

9:00am — Transfer, about twenty minutes, to Marciana, at the foot of Monte Capanne. 

9:30am — Guided hike to the summit — the highest point in the Tuscan Archipelago, two and a half hours up through chestnut woods and granite, Corsica visible to the west on a clear day. 

12:00pm — Summit. Fifteen minutes that are worth the climb on their own. 

1:00pm — Cable car down to Marciana Marina. 

1:30pm — Lunch ashore at Ristorante Capo Nord — pasta with sea herbs and bottarga, scorpionfish baked with tomato, potato, and olives, a table close enough to the water to catch the spray. 

3:00pm — Transfer back to the ship. 

5:00pm — Reformer Pilates in the studio. Fifty minutes, small group. 

7:30pm — Dinner aboard at FarmFork. Picked this morning veg. Olive oil. Good bread. Decadent chops.

9:30pm — Top deck dance party. A guest DJ (Lane 8, perhaps) spins, the lights of Portoferraio's old town and the Medici fortress lit up across the water, open bar running until whenever it stops being needed.

DAY 7

PORTOFERRAIO

9:00am — Easy walk up to the Medici fortresses, Forte Falcone and Forte Stella, standing over the harbor since the 1540s. Optional, about an hour. 

11:00am — Sun deck, library, or the sports deck if you didn't get enough of it on Day 3. 

2:30pm — Ashore. Afternoon group yoga. Terrace at Belmond Grand Hotel Timeo. Mount Etna in the distance. Presence, balance and clarity.  

4:30pm — Explore old town — Napoleon's modest Villa dei Mulini, shops that exist because the owner likes what's in them, not because anyone told them to stock it. 

7:30pm — Dinner ashore at Bitta 20, on the Medici dockyard — the seafood spaghetti, a glass of Aleatico, the cheesecake everyone on Elba seems to know about. Back aboard by 9:30pm. 

10:00pm — Stargazing on the top deck. The ship's astronomer dims the lights and walks the group through what's visible from this latitude in early summer. About an hour. If you still haven't found the speakeasy, tonight is your last chance. Look for the vintage olive-green telephone, turn the switch to Crew's Mess, and enjoy.

DAY 8

DISEMBARCATION – CIVITAVECCHIA / ROME

The ship is alongside by 7:00am. Breakfast aboard, then disembarkation — Rome is an hour away, Fiumicino not much further.