5 ways to jump on this year's biggest travel trends at up to 40% off

Set sail with this incredible sale from Royal Caribbean around Australia and over the seas.

Back to work blues setting in? It’s never too early to start planning your next adventure and join in on some of the biggest travel trend predictions for 2024 and 2025. And it’s an especially good time to do so with the epic Royal Caribbean sale itineraries as part of their wave season offer on all 2024 and 2025 sailings.

Known for providing the best holiday experiences – from unique shows and revues to RipCord® by iFLY® simulated skydiving to a FlowRider surfing simulator to dodgem cars to adults-only spas – guests can take advantage of up to 40 per cent off all Royal Caribbean’s local sailings to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, plus up to $600 in instant savings until 11.59pm AEST on 31 January 2024.

Those hoping to explore further afield can take advantage of buy-one-get-one 60 per cent off on all international sailings, including world cruises segments.

Find a wave pool and sky diving simulator onboard Quantum of the Seas.

But how to choose which one to book? Tick off your bucket list, of course, or align your cruise to one of the predicted hottest trends for the next couple of years.

1. Make your next cruise a family reunion

Travel has always been a way to reconnect and make memories with loved ones, but multigenerational trips will only continue to rise heading into the new year. With everything to play, relax and stay in one place, cruising is a particularly good way to satisfy the holiday needs of all ages – particularly when that cruise is an eight-night South Pacific Cruise aboard Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas.

Departing from Brisbane on 27 March 2024, stop into Noumea, New Caledonia and Port Vila, Vanuatu, from $1449 per person for a balcony stateroom. Read our full review of this itinerary here.

Lounge at the adults-only Solarium onboard Quantum of the Seas. (Image: Simon Brooke-Webb)

2. Embrace the slow travel trend

‘Itinerary’ and ‘slow travel’ may not seem like two words that can be used together, but tour providers have begun learning the benefits of slowing things down, and will continue to do so into 2024. Avoid the crowds and get a more intimate acquaintance with New Zealand with a 10-night New Zealand adventure departing from Sydney on Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas.

This itinerary is perfect for travellers wanting a longer and more leisurely trip, stopping at Picton, Napier and Wellington before exploring the bucket-list landscapes of Dusky Sound, Doubtful Sound and Milford Sound. The next sailing departs on 12 March 2024, from $1999 per person for a balcony stateroom.

Explore the otherwordly Milford Sound.

3. Visit a famous movie set

Thanks to the dreamy locations featured on shows like White Lotus and Emily in Paris, ‘set-jetting’ has become a growing travel trend. What is it? Choosing destinations based on movies and TV shows. A love for Sydney has been renewed thanks to the dreaming settings film in Sydney Sweeney’s most recent film, Anyone But You.

Embrace the trend and enjoy a weekend getaway with a difference on Royal Caribbean’s two-night Sampler Cruise around Sydney starting from $633 per person for a balcony stateroom. Sailing from 22 March 2025, dip your toe into cruising or make it a long weekend to remember and see the Sydney coastline from a different angle, all while enjoying the thrills, food and fun of Royal Caribbean’s Ovation of the Seas.

Explore Sydney on Ovation of the Seas.

4. Open your mind to all-ages cruising

The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) shows that a full 77 per cent of millennials are open to cruising, which means that people are considering taking a cruise from their late 20s and upwards.

There’s something for everyone, with entertainment like full-scale productions, bumper cars and SeaPlex, the largest indoor active space at sea. Then refuel with a wide variety dining options including Jamie’s Italian, Chops Grille and Wonderland.

Keep entertained for hours at SeaPlex, onboard Quantum and Ovation of the Seas.

5. Longer cruises are in

More and more, people are packing up their homes and taking to sea for longer periods, as a hassle-free (and often better value) alternative to global travel involving planes, trains, cars and hotels.

Royal Caribbean has answered the call of guests by offering extended world cruises like the 16-night Ultimate Australia & Southeast Asia cruise aboard Serenade of the Seas, departing from Brisbane on 11 March 2024. From $8287 per person for a balcony stateroom, start in the picturesque Airlie Beach and Cairns, before taking heading across the ocean to destinations such as Lombok, Benoa and Bali in Indonesia. Then, it’s off to the Philippines before disembarking in Hong Kong.

Start in the picturesque Airlie Beach.

Take advantage of Royal Caribbean’s wave season offer by heading to royalcaribbean.com before 11.59pm AEST on 31 January 2024.