Windstar Yacht Club’s Presidents Cruise in April 2025 will be an adventure in more ways than one. The destination will remain a secret until it’s time to sail.
The eight-day voyage aimed at repeat guest Windstar Yacht Club members and their friends and will depart from and return to Athens. The rest of the port calls on the itinerary will remain a mystery to guests onboard Windstar’s 312-passenger, all-suite Star Legend until 24 hours ahead of arrival at each port. Once the exact locations are revealed, Windstar guests will be able to choose from a variety of different shore excursions at the destination.
So where will the Star Legend be docking? Windstar can only reveal that travelers can expect lots of new, thrilling, and exciting experiences during this voyage. “It’s going to be a lot of places—the majority of them, if not all of them—we haven’t been before,” said Windstar’s President Christopher Prelog.
Aboard the Star Legend guests will also have the opportunity to meet Prelog, because this is Windstar’s annual and popular President’s Cruise, where guests get a chance to know the leadership of this personal, small cruise line that does things 180 degrees from ordinary.
“The team is keeping the itinerary secret even from me,” Prelog admits. “They know I get excited about things and can’t help sharing; I’m looking forward to the anticipation of finding out where we’re going along with the guests on board.”
He says the idea was inspired by Windstar’s recent Tahiti & the Tuamotu Islands sailing onboard the Star Breeze. Just two days into the 11-day itinerary, Tropical Cyclone Nat disrupted plans to travel on the ship’s set course, resulting in swift action by the onboard team to craft a completely new itinerary to avoid the bad weather.
The positive response from guests, including a keen sense of adventure, sparked leadership to lean into this idea, and develop the Mystery Cruise concept.
“It’s sort of awakening the sense of adventure again, which is what travel should always do,” said Prelog. “It’s something different, something really interesting. It’s a cruise for guests who like adventure, and who don’t want to plan everything out.”
