Unveiled: the world’s first sports cruise ship design

The décor and interior concepts of Blue World Voyages’ first cruise ship design reflect the themes of wellness, sports and fitness.

The cruise ship will have a deck dedicated to wellness, including the largest spa facility per passenger at sea. There will be another deck dedicated to sports and fitness, including a bike fitting station, the world’s largest ocean-going functional training and strength conditioning facility and a golf school.

Tomas Tillberg Design has completed the preliminary study and design of the concept. It has designed the public spaces, cabins and owner residences, with Poggi Design also designing some of the owner residences.

Tomas Tillberg Design partner and vice president Nedgé Louis-Jacques opens up about the design to Passenger Ship Interior & Refurbishment Review. “The ship is about active lifestyle, wellness and being healthy. This is centred around the design concept.”

Tomas Tillberg Design vice president Debbie Breslauer adds, “The owner was very collaborative and used to own a gym, and is therefore knowledgeable about what activities he wanted on the ship, and together made it all work beautifully.”

She adds, “We are excited to create a ship that has so many wellness aspects, with organic food [including a Farm to Table restaurant] mixed in with a wellness programme.”

She explains that new and current sports activities are brought together, with private break-out activity rooms and a large gym.

Ms Breslauer says, “It is unique – a guest can sign up with a trainer, where all their information and ideas about improvement are taken, and then they will be given a training programme and the spa features, with its infinity pool, are tied into the whole physical element.”

A central part of the ship will be the gym. Ms Louis-Jacques says, “The two-storey gym will have all the latest state-of-the-art equipment and be very spectacular.”

One storey will be focused on high-intensity interval training and include life cycle and spin classes, while another level will include all the machines. Ms Louis-Jacques says, “The gym is enclosed but all walls and partitions are glass. This gives an element of excitement, by being able to look up from the first storey or down from the second one and see what people are doing, or being able to look up and see a huge TV screen and elemental lights.”