Seabourn Encore

Japan in Spring and Autumn, Alaska in Early Summer

Seabourn Encore’s year turns on Japan. She sails round-trips from Tokyo in spring and autumn, with Alaska from Vancouver in May and June and the North Pacific crossed between the two. The shortest Japan voyages run 14 nights, out and back from Tokyo, between February and April and again in October and November. Calls change between departures, but Osaka, Kanazawa, Hiroshima and Busan in South Korea are typical. Her 28-night round-trips from Tokyo sail in February and March and from September into October, and they give the coast room to unfold; ports vary, with Hakodate, Kobe and Niigata among them. Both lengths are in our 2027 Japan cruises from Tokyo.

Alaska means 14-night round-trips from Vancouver in May and June. Itineraries vary, but Ketchikan, Sitka and Icy Strait Point are typical stops, and passages such as Seymour Narrows and Queen Charlotte Sound feature on the way north. You can see them alongside other cruises from Vancouver to Alaska.

Between the two seasons she crosses the Pacific one way. Leaving Vancouver in August and September, the voyage to Tokyo runs 34 or 35 nights. Heading back from Tokyo in March and April, it runs 35 or 49 nights and ends in Vancouver. Stops differ by voyage, though Sitka, Kodiak, Dutch Harbor and Hakodate give a sense of the route. Wherever she sails from, we book the flights, the hotel either side and the transfers with the cruise as one holiday, including the flight home from Tokyo or Vancouver when a crossing ends there. A month or more aboard turns the crossing into the holiday itself. These voyages appear among our 2027 repositioning cruises.

She is one of Seabourn’s Encore Class, which includes Seabourn Ovation.

Dining on Seabourn Encore: Open Seating and Sushi

Dining on Seabourn Encore is open seating. In The Restaurant you choose when to arrive and whom to join, and the service balances polish with genuine warmth. Sushi is her other signature: a dedicated restaurant where chefs prepare nigiri, rolls and specialities to order. That sushi can also be ordered in The Club to go with an evening drink. For easier meals, The Colonnade runs an open kitchen and buffets at breakfast and lunch, then switches to table service and regionally inspired bistro dishes at night. Out by the pool, The Patio serves grilled dishes and wood-fired pizza by day and a full dinner menu in the open air. All four are included in the fare.

Evenings in The Club and the Grand Salon

Seabourn Encore’s evenings centre on The Club, her liveliest room, with live music and dancing before and after dinner and a DJ playing late. On the adjacent Sun Terrace, the Sky Bar keeps the cocktails and dancing going beside two whirlpools. The Grand Salon is her stage, with lectures, cooking demonstrations and films by day. At night it hosts production shows, cabaret, comedy and classical recitals, and The Seabourn Six entertainment troupe performs the evening shows. Next door, the Casino has slots, blackjack and poker; entry is free, but wagers are your own. For quieter sea days there is the Card Room. The fitness centre and the Motion Studio, with classes from yoga and meditation to crystal sound baths and TRX, are free to use, while spa treatments are charged separately.

Seabourn Encore Cabins and Deck Plans

Seabourn Encore is all-suite; her cabins and deck plans lay out every suite deck by deck.

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