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Spaces
Best Cabin
This award honours the exceptional design in cruise ship accommodations. Highlighting those that offer unparalleled comfort, innovative features, and an exceptional guest experience. From cabins to suites, all the way up to staterooms, this award is open to any sized sleeping quarters.
Best Dining Space
Highlighting extraordinary culinary venues onboard offering stunning ambiance and experiential design. This is open to all dining spaces onboard, including main dining rooms, themed venues, and speciality restaurants.
Best Public Space
Spaces enjoyed by all guests, the Best Public Space award recognises the inviting communal areas onboard, designed to enhance social interactions and guest experience. Spaces eligible for this award include atriums, bars & lounges, kids clubs, observation lounges, deck areas, and more.
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Best Refurbished Space
This award acknowledges a remarkable transformation, revitalising an existing area to enhance functionality, aesthetics, and guest experience. This is open to any area of the ship that has undergone significant refurbishment, including staterooms, suites, dining venues, entertainment areas, public lounges, and recreational facilities.
Best Crew Area
The Best Crew Area award celebrates the spaces behind closed doors for the staff that make the ships what they are. This award is open to any staff exclusive-spaces, including staff cabins, private gyms, restaurants, or even hairdressers…
Best Entertainment Experience
Celebrating outstanding and innovative entertainment, activities, and services onboard which create unforgettable memories for cruise guests. This could be anything from entertainment venues, speciality activity areas, sport facilities, or any unique space created onboard to raise the guest experience from memorable, to unforgettable.
Best Wellness Space – New
For those looking to unwind, recharge, and reset, the Best Wellness Space award celebrates spas, pools, saunas, gyms, or any spaces that promote healthy wellbeing.
Concept of the Year – New
The Concept of the Year Award recognises visionary ideas that push the boundaries of cruise interior design. This award celebrates creativity at its earliest stage, highlighting concepts that may be just ideas, in development, or already realised, and have the potential to shape the future of onboard spaces. It is open to both aspiring and established designers, encouraging original thinking from across the design community.
Best Brand Original Project – New
New for this year, the Best Brand Original Project Award celebrates spaces that boldly embody a brand’s unique identity. This award recognises original design that captivates, inspires, and sets a brand apart in a crowded market. Open to cruise lines, design studios, and suppliers, it honours standout creativity and brand expression on board.
Products
Interior Product of the Year
Celebrating cutting-edge design, innovation, and functionality, the Interior Product of the Year award will honour a product that improves the comfort, aesthetics, or functionality onboard ships.
Galley Product of the Year
Recognising products that elevate the dining experience for guests by ensuring exceptional food quality, service, and operational excellence in the galley. The winning product will deliver efficiency, functionality, safety, and user experience.
Sustainable Product of the Year
This award honours a product which demonstrates innovation in reducing its environmental impact and promoting sustainability. The innovative winning product will be developed on the sustainable practices of design, responsible sourcing, efficiency, circularity, and recyclability.
People
Shipyard of the Year – New
New for this year, the Shipyard of the Year award celebrates those that put the parts together, assembling the finest items in the construction of newbuild or refurbishment projects. The award honours craftmanship and engineering experience, and those shipyards whose work has set world-class standards of ship building.
Design Team of the Year
Open to design studios and in-house departments, the winning Design Team of the Year will show outstanding design excellence, innovation, and collaboration, in the composition of cruise ship interior projects, either newbuild or refurbishments.