About Luxury Ship Index
Luxury Ship Index is an independent reference for ultra-luxury and yacht-style cruise ships. The product is not a buying guide, a booking portal or a lifestyle magazine. It is a database, a methodology and a set of plain-English profiles that translate ship specifications into decision intelligence.
Short answer
Luxury Ship Index publishes verified specifications, calculated ratios and a transparent Luxury Ship Index Score for every ultra-luxury cruise ship it covers. We do not sell cruises, accept booking commissions or run sponsored rankings.
Key claims
- Luxury Ship Index analyses ships; it does not sell them.
- Every published number is sourced from official cruise line, shipyard, classification or reputable industry data.
- Calculated ratios (GT per guest, crew per 100 guests, suites per 100 guests) come from a deterministic engine, not editorial estimation.
- The Luxury Ship Index Score is editorial, but its seven weighted components are always shown alongside the total.
- The byline is the Research Desk Organization. We do not invent fake editors or fabricate maritime credentials.
What we publish
- Ship profiles. One page per ultra-luxury or yacht-style cruise ship. Verified specifications, calculated ratios, transparent score and source notes.
- Cruise-line entity pages. Brand-level context for the operators behind the ships: parent company, fleet, peer group.
- Comparisons. Side-by-side analyses of ships in the same peer group — yacht-style vs yacht-style, ultra-luxury ocean vs ultra-luxury ocean. Never a yacht against a resort ship.
- Rankings. Lists ordered by published metric and by score, with the underlying inputs always visible.
- Guides. Plain-English explainers on the technical terms that appear in profiles: gross tonnage, space ratio, crew density, suite exclusivity, polar class.
- Newbuild tracker. Announced and under-construction ships, with the same source policy as in-service entries.
Independence
Independence is the editorial product. Our visible commitments for the first 12 months: no affiliate links, no booking call-to-actions, no cruise-quote forms, no advisor lead-generation, no sponsored rankings and no paid placement. Future monetisation is allowed only when the model does not create a conflict with the ranking, score or coverage decisions on this site — see the source policy and editorial standards for the rules that protect that promise.
The Research Desk
Articles on Luxury Ship Index are bylined to the Luxury Ship Index Research Desk — an editorial Organization, not a single named editor. The byline reflects how the work is done: source-led research, then deterministic calculation, then plain-English interpretation. We do not construct fake individual authors.
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