Crystal will host a Crystal Chairmen’s Cruise in April, offering opportunity to engage with A&K Travel Group executive chairman Manfredi Lefebvre and Abercrombie & Kent founder and chairman emeritus Geoffrey Kent.
The specialty sailing on the Crystal Symphony will sail from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Rhodes, Greece, from April 2 through 8. The ship is scheduled to call in Egypt and Cyprus and transit the Suez Canal.
The chairmen’s cruise is the first for the reborn brand, which was acquired by A&K Travel Group in 2022 after the line folded when its parent company ran out of cash earlier that year. A&K Travel Group relaunched the brand in 2023 after extensive refurbishments of the line’s two oceangoing ships.
The sailing will include lectures, including one from Kent about his 60 years in the travel industry. The sailing will also include interactive discussions and exclusive meet-and-greets. Other guests will include Peter Maeck, author of “Aperture and Zanker”; Justice Dennis Curran, a political speaker who served for 12 years on the Massachusetts Superior Court; artist Martin Kaye; and English musical theatre actress Sabrina Aloueche. Guests will also be able to sign up for golf instruction led by a PGA professional.
Both Lefebvre and Kent will join a limited-availability pre-cruise trip to desert oasis AlUla in Saudi Arabia for a five-day overland experience curated and hosted by Abercrombie & Kent guides. Highlights include a visit to Elephant Rock and Hegra, Saudi Arabia’s first Unesco World Heritage site, and a dinner on the final night with Lefebvre and Kent.