| Gross tonnage | 67,817 GT |
|---|---|
| Length | 242 m |
| Passenger capacity (double) | 1200 |
| Builder | Fincantieri |
| Yard | Sestri Ponente |
| Launched | 2025 |
| Maiden voyage | 2025-07-16 |
| Class | Allura-class cruise ship |
| Operator | Oceania Cruises |
| Status | Active |
Overview
Oceania Allura is the second ship of the Allura class built for Oceania Cruises by Fincantieri, and the eighth ship in the Oceania fleet. Delivered at the builder's Sestri Ponente yard in Genoa on 10 July 2025, she is a near-sister to Oceania Vista, which had entered service in 2023 as the line's first newbuild in more than a decade. At 67,817 GT and with accommodation for 1,200 guests at double occupancy, Allura sits squarely in the premium small-ship segment that Oceania has occupied since its founding: large enough for a full range of dining and public rooms, small enough to sustain the line's high staff-to-guest ratio.
The Allura class was ordered in January 2019 as a pair of 1,200-passenger, approximately 67,000-ton ships, with deliveries planned for 2023 and 2025. Allura kept that schedule, arriving as the second and final ship of the class before Oceania's attention turned to the larger Sonata class announced for delivery from 2027.
Key specifications
The dataset records Allura at 67,817 GT — the measured figure she shares with her sister Vista — with a length of 242 m and double-occupancy capacity of 1,200 guests. Oceania's own delivery material describes her as 804 feet (about 246 m) long and "more than 68,000 gross tons", a rounded presentation of the same ship; the dataset's 242 m matches the Marshall Islands registry notice, which gives 791 feet (242 m). Her IMO number was not confirmed in any source used for the dataset and is therefore left blank here rather than guessed.
Oceania states a staffing level of about 800 officers and crew, giving two staff members for every three guests; because the dataset's crew field is not populated for this hull, that figure is attributed to the line's own material and is not shown in the specification box above. No service speed is recorded in the dataset.
Design and construction
Allura was built by Fincantieri at Sestri Ponente, Genoa, the yard that has produced most of Oceania's newbuilds, including the earlier Marina and Riviera and her sister Vista. She is registered in the Marshall Islands, as are the other Oceania vessels, and classed by Lloyd's Register, which was involved through the build and registration process.
The Allura design is an evolution of the Marina-class concept rather than a clean sheet: a residential, hotel-like interior arranged around multiple specialty dining venues, with the largest standard staterooms in the line's history — Oceania quotes more than 290 square feet for standard accommodation — and public rooms reworked from Vista's template. Detail changes over Vista noted at delivery included a library relocated to a glass-walled position near the top of the ship and a new digital-enrichment centre. The build ran through the first half of the 2020s at Sestri Ponente, and the ship was handed over on 10 July 2025 to Jason Montague, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings' chief luxury officer, at a ceremony at the yard.
Naming, launch and maiden voyage
The name Allura was announced well in advance of delivery; the line explained it as evoking the allure of beginning a new journey and the call of the unknown. Unusually, the ship's public career began before her naming ceremony. Allura sailed from Genoa on 14 July 2025 for a short pre-inaugural shakedown sailing to Trieste, and her maiden voyage departed Trieste for Athens on 18 July 2025 — the date the dataset records. Her formal christening was held later, at Miami on 13 November 2025, where she was named not by a single godmother but by a group of alumni of Food & Wine magazine's Best New Chefs programme, a deliberate tie-in with Oceania's culinary branding.
The dataset records her launch year as 2025, the year of her completion and delivery; a separate float-out date was not pinned to a primary source during dataset assembly.
Career by operator
Allura has been an Oceania Cruises ship from delivery, with no other operator, name or charter in her record.
| Period | Name | Operator |
|---|---|---|
| 2025–present | Oceania Allura | Oceania Cruises |
Onboard character
Allura's character is the Oceania formula at its most developed: a culinary-led ship. The line's delivery material emphasises that roughly half of the ship's crew work in culinary operations and that the ship carries one chef for every eight guests, ratios no mainstream large ship attempts. Dining is the organising principle of the public rooms, supplemented by the residential styling — warm, furnished interiors intended to read as a country-house hotel rather than a resort ship — that has defined the brand since Marina.
Her all-veranda, suite-heavy accommodation and the high proportion of staff to guests place her in the same competitive set as the premium newbuilds of Viking, Regent and Azamara rather than with the large contemporary fleet. As a 2025 delivery she also embodies the segment's post-pandemic standard: bigger standard cabins, more outdoor and glass-fronted public space, and enrichment facilities — here including a dedicated digital centre — treated as core rather than optional.
Major refits and incidents
None recorded. Allura entered service in July 2025 and has no refits or major incidents in the sourced record at the time of writing.
Sister ships and class
The Allura class consists of two ships: Oceania Vista (2023) and Oceania Allura (2025), both built by Fincantieri at Sestri Ponente to the same measured tonnage of 67,817 GT and the same 1,200-guest double-occupancy capacity. Vista was Oceania's third purpose-built ship and Allura its fourth, following Marina (2011) and Riviera (2012). The class is succeeded in the line's building programme by the larger Sonata class, announced as an evolution of the Allura design at about 86,000 GT, with the first ship due in 2027 — a programme that makes Allura, for now, the last of Oceania's 67,000-ton generation.
Fate and where she is now
Oceania Allura is an active ship in the Oceania Cruises fleet, recorded in the dataset with the status "Operating". In line with this directory's evergreen policy, no itinerary or deployment information is given. Her place in the record is as the second and final Allura-class ship and, at delivery, the newest expression of Oceania's small-ship, culinary-led model.
Sources: https://www.register-iri.com/blog/oceania-takes-delivery-of-second-allura-class-vessel/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceania_Cruises