[Atlas Sneezed]

This really plays up the class envy angle, to a factually dishonest degree. The reality is that the cost for this all inclusive vacation option is about $300-400 per person per day, if you are in a standard room with a balcony. I highly doubt that Trump or Gates has ever been a passenger onboard, unless they chartered the whole ship. And the Conde Nast rating of "the most luxurious in the world" sounds dubious. Yes, Seabourne rates at or near the top of small ship cruise lines in their reader's choice poll, but that's it.

[aculeus]

This really plays up the class envy angle, to a factually dishonest degree.

I think it's simply a bit of harmless newspaper puffery. S on S tends to be pretty decent.

[JayNorth]

The reality is that the cost for this all inclusive vacation option is about $300-400 per person per day.

That is a big part of the travel industry. You want your middle-class clientele feel that they have been granted access to the elite world of the very wealthy so that they will be happy to pay (as in your example) $300 - $400 per night instead of $200 - $300. There's nothing wrong with that, it's human nature to put the best face on your product and for the consumer to want the best they can afford. I just find it amusing when people talk as if they expect to find Gates and Trump in the 400 square foot cabin next door.

[Sam Cree]

"This really plays up the class envy angle, to a factually dishonest degree"

Yeah, it does. I'm sure it's seen as especially unfair that some people get to spend thousands on luxurious cruising, especially when that money is unfairly taken from the world's limited financial resources and could have been "distributed" to the poor. Not that it matters how many jobs are created by the demand for luxury, or that even the poor dream of luxury, I'm sure the people working in those jobs would be so much better off staying at home and just having the funds distributed to them by a bureaucracy. 'Course some people would get stuck actually *working* for the bureaucracy, but that's life, I guess.

[RoadTest]

I'm not too good at math, but when I divide 19000 by 16, I get 1,187. Right?
Wrong? That's 1187 pounds per day.