Costa Cruises renews round-the-world cruise with 51 stops and new destinations such as Tokyo
A 142-day journey through 33 countries and five continents, with over 200 shore excursions retracing the routes of historical explorers.
Costa Cruises is renewing its round-the-world cruise in 2026, one of the most popular with travel enthusiasts. The voyage departed on 21 November 2025 from Trieste, with the Costa Deliziosa and the possibility of embarking on subsequent stops in Bari, Naples and Savona, this edition will end on 11 April 2026, once again in Trieste.
Costa first introduced this cruise in the 1970s. Today, there are over 2,000 guests booked on board Deliziosa, mostly from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Austria.
This edition, the company assures, is the richest ever: more than 4 and a half months of navigation to reach 51 different destinations in 33 countries, crossing 5 continents and 3 oceans, in the footsteps of the great explorers of the past. In 142 days, Deliziosa will circumnavigate the globe, always sailing westwards.
From Italy, the ship will cross the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the Caribbean, visiting France, Spain Morocco and the Canary Islands, before arriving at the tropical charm of Barbados. After a passage through the Panama Canal, the ship will enter the heart of Latin America, touching Peru and Chile, before reaching the Easter Island. The itinerary will continue in the Pacific Ocean, between the Pitcairn Islands and the French Polynesia, before touching the remote islands of Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia, before reaching Australia.
From here, the route will continue northwards, touching Papua New Guinea and Japan: Tokyo - the unprecedented destination of this cruise - Kobe and Nagasaki. And then South Korea. Sailing westwards again, it will reach Taiwan, Hong Kong and the coasts of Vietnam, then Singapore and Malaysia. And again, the Indian Ocean, with Sri Lanka, Maldive and Mauritius as well as southern Africa. Then, from South Africa to the red deserts of Namibia, to Cape Verde, and then back to Europe, with Italy as the final destination.
