Titania

Titania suits two families, or a big group of friends, who want two equal principal suites rather than one master and a corridor of guest rooms. Lürssen delivered her in 2006 with an exterior by Espen Øino and rooms by the Zuretti studio, and the interior was refreshed in 2018. Two of her seven cabins are master suites: the forward one spans the full width of the main deck and has a raised massage area looking over the bow. Every bathroom is in marble, and a lift links the decks.

Days revolve around the water. On the pool deck, guests can order a drink without leaving the water, and next to the pool there is a U-shaped bar and an outdoor table for fourteen, and from the sundeck a slide about thirteen metres high drops guests straight into the sea. Aft, a 3.8-metre extension created a beach club with a sauna, a sofa and its own bar, which the crew turn into a nightclub after dark. Two crew members are qualified to teach jet ski riding, and because the yacht is an approved RYA centre, guests can go home with the licence.

Wellness gets more space than on most yachts of her generation. A climate-controlled gym sits in a glazed veranda on the sundeck with a fitness instructor, and one deck below, a treatment room is run by a beauty therapist who is also a hairdresser. Indoors, the main saloon is arranged around a grand piano and a marble-topped bar, the skylounge has a games table and a cinema screen that drops from the ceiling, and the 21 crew include chefs trained in Michelin-starred kitchens. Stabilisers that work at zero speed keep her steady at anchor.

She is too much yacht for a couple or a small, quiet party: the scale, the staff and the weekly cost are made for twelve guests using every deck. She is not quick either, topping out at 16 knots, so routes are planned in short legs. Residents of the United States cannot charter her in US waters, which matters in winter, when she cruises the Bahamas and the Caribbean. In summer she moves between the Adriatic, Greece and the western Mediterranean.