The Naora Ocean Explorer membership costs €59,000 per year for up to one hundred days aboard the Eighty2. The daily rate: €590 per person per day, all-inclusive — the cabin, the meals, the diving, the water sports, the Circle membership, the personal coaching, the digital sessions, the onshore gatherings, all operational costs. €590 per person per day is the number that the Ocean Explorer’s annual participation produces when divided by the days it provides.
Let us place this number in the context of the premium travel market that the Ocean Explorer’s profile is familiar with, because the context is the most useful comparison the number can produce.
The private jet safari in East Africa, the Wilderness Safaris or &Beyond private charter operation that flies a group of six to eight between the finest camps across Tanzania, Kenya, and Botswana across eight to ten days costs €2,500 to €5,000 per person per day including the flights, the camp accommodation, the game drives, and the meals.
The daily rate of the private jet safari is four to eight times the daily rate of the Naora Ocean Explorer membership. The private jet safari is ten days. The Ocean Explorer is one hundred.
The Premium Comparisons
The Aman resort in the Amangiri canyon in Utah or the Amanjiwo in Java: €1,500 to €4,000 per night per villa, not including meals, spa, or excursions. Daily rate per person: €750 to €2,000 inclusive of the basics. The ultra-luxury train journey, the Belmond Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, the Rovos Rail Cape Town to Dar es Salaam, the Rocky Mountaineer’s premium service: €500 to €3,000 per person per day depending on the cabin category and the route. The Royal Scotsman’s five-day Highland journey: €6,000 to €12,000 per person, or €1,200 to €2,400 per day.
The Silversea ultra-luxury small ship expedition cruise, the closest product in the cruise market to the Naora experience in terms of the small ship, the remote destinations, and the expedition character: €800 to €2,500 per person per day depending on the cabin category and the itinerary, plus the gratuities, plus the excursions, plus the drinks package if not included.
The daily all-in cost of the Silversea expedition voyage: €1,000 to €3,000 per person per day.
The Naora Ocean Explorer: €590 per person per day, all-inclusive, for one hundred days per year across the four oceans of the circumnavigation, in the offshore sailing life as the daily reality rather than the premium travel experience as the special occasion.
The Ocean Explorer’s daily rate is the most favourable in the premium experience market by a significant margin. It is also the only format in the comparison that provides one hundred days rather than ten, the only format that includes the year-round community and the coaching and the digital sessions alongside the daily offshore experience, and the only format that reaches the places the premium travel market does not service. The comparison is not close.
The Ocean Explorer wins it on the daily rate alone. The additional dimensions make it the comparison that the person in this market should be making before they book anything else.
