For some travellers, the ideal cruise includes a social atmosphere with like-minded adults who value openness, connection, and shared experiences. Whether you’re part of the lifestyle community or simply curious about more liberated cruise environments, here are some of the most well-known options sailing in 2025.
What are Lifestyle Cruises?
“Lifestyle cruising” typically refers to a type of travel experience catered to open-minded adults, including couples and singles who are interested in meeting others in a social, liberating, and respectful environment. These cruises create a space where consenting adults can explore connections with other like-minded individuals.
While lifestyle-friendly resorts are common on land, several cruise lines now offer voyages dedicated entirely to this community. Others may offer themed sailings or group events within regular cruises.
Dedicated lifestyle cruises offer a welcoming and judgement-free setting for guests to connect, socialize, and enjoy a relaxed, adult-focused atmosphere while cruising to stunning destinations.
These cruises typically feature a wide range of entertainment option, including dance parties, themed nights, spa treatments, and private events, all tailored to adults who enjoy vibrant social settings. Many guests appreciate the opportunity to meet others with shared values in a respectful and inclusive environment.
Top Lifestyle Cruises for Adults
While exact numbers vary, a growing number of travellers identify with the lifestyle community or are curious about more open-minded social experiences.
If you’re hoping to cruise with like-minded adults, booking a dedicated lifestyle cruise significantly increases the chance of meeting others who share your values and interests.
These specialty cruises provide a relaxed, judgment-free atmosphere where couples and singles can unwind and enjoy an inclusive, adult-focused vacation environment.
How to Connect with Like-Minded Adults on a Cruise
The most reliable way to meet others in the lifestyle community while cruising is to book a dedicated lifestyle or adults-only themed cruise. On standard sailings, these connections are much less common and generally happen discreetly, similar to everyday life on land.
Top Lifestyle Cruise Lines and Ships
The most popular lifestyle cruises create a fun, welcoming, and respectful environment where guests can freely be themselves and enjoy the company of others who share similar values and interests.
Desire Resorts & Cruises
Desire offers adults-only (21+) and couples-only, clothing-optional cruise experiences.
They also operate three popular resorts:
- Desire Riviera Maya Pearl Resort
- Desire Riviera Maya Resort
- Temptation Cancun Resort
Their cruise itineraries change regularly. At the time of writing, recent and upcoming voyages included:
- Athens (September 2025)
- West Indies (February 2026)
- Mediterranean (August 2026)
- Thailand (November 2026)
- West Indies (February 2027)
The average guest is typically between the ages of 35 to 50 years old.
You can find more information on the latest Desire cruises here.
Bliss Cruise
Bliss Cruise offers couples-only, adults-only (21+) cruises, where clothing is optional, and full nudity is permitted onboard.
They charter popular ships from Celebrity Cruises and Royal Caribbean, typically accommodating 2,000 to 2,800 passengers over 5 to 7 nights.
Singles Policy:
Single travelers may only join if staying in a stateroom with a couple.
Bliss Cruises Itineries
As an example of what they offer, this was their upcoming offers at the time of writing:
- Celebrity Reflection (Nov 08 – 15, 2025) – 7-night Eastern Caribbean cruise
- Royal Caribbean Radiance of the Seas (Feb 23 – 27, 2026) – 4-night Sexy Sampler winter cruise
- Celebrity Silhouette (April 26 – May 02, 2026) – 6-night Western Caribbean cruise
- Royal Caribbean Wonder of the Seas (Nov 09 – 16, 2026) – 7-night cruise to Aruba & Curaçao
- Celebrity Summit (Feb 24 – 28, 2027) – 4-night Sexy Sampler cruise from Tampa to Cozumel
- Celebrity Silhouette (Date TBC – 2027)
The typical passenger is in the range of 40 to 60 years of age.
For more information on Bliss Cruises see here.
Temptation Cruises
Temptation Cruises offer a playful, high-energy, adults-only cruise atmosphere. Topless sunbathing is allowed, though full nudity is not.
Singles policy:
Unlike some lifestyle cruises, Temptation welcomes both male and female solo travelers.
Temptation Cruise Itinerary
Temptation cruises currently offer one cruise a year, with the next being:
- Caribbean Cruise 5 nights (Feb 24th to March 1st, 2025)
Activities and Events include:
- Naughty-by-Nature pool parties
- Sensual workshops
- Internationally known DJs
- Rated Red Room
- Theme nights.
The average age range is 35 to 60, with a strong presence of younger adults and an overall more energetic party vibe than other options.
Bliss vs Temptation Cruises:
This video provides an insightful comparison between Bliss and Temptation cruise to by vloggers who have been on both and share their experiences and opinions.
In short, they say Bliss is a more relaxed vibe with a slightly older demographic whereas Temptation has more of an upbeat party feel and more passengers in the younger age groups.
Best Lifestyle Cruise Travel Agents
There are 2 main specialized travel agents catering to the lifestyle and adults only cruises:
- TheSwingerCruise.com: Offers a wide range of options.
- Topless Travel: Organizes and facilitates events for members of dating site SwingLifeStyle)
How Do Lifestyle Cruises Work?
Lifestyle cruises will have lots going on to help passengers actively socialize and get to know each other a bit more.
These will include all kinds of activities and events throughout the day and night.
Activities
- Contests
- Seminars
- Theme Parties
- Workshops
Couples will mingle and get to know each other, and enjoy each other’s company.
Invites might be made to go to playrooms or staterooms.
It’s perfectly fine to decline and say no, and likewise invite others and be totally fine if they decline you. It’s all totally natural within the lifestyle.
What to Wear on a Lifestyle Cruise?
What you will wear depends on the time of day, location, or activities you are undertaking on the ship.
For example, you will be expected to dress for meal times but other areas of the ship may offer toplessness or at times full nudity.
How to Tell if Others on a Cruise are Into the Lifestyle?
There are various codes and signals that lifestyle couples use to let others know that they are open to swinging.
One of the most well-known is the upside-down pineapple code which when used intentionally is a secret code that a person or couple is into the lifestyle.
You can read more in our post – Upside-Down Pineapple on Cruise Ship Door Meaning, which includes details of other signals including:
- Anklet Bracelets
- Black Ring On Right Hand
- Black Ring on Thumb
- Pink Flamingoes
- Wedding Ring on Right Hand
- Unicorn
All the above have slightly different meanings and interpretations and none of them mean 100% one way or the other whether someone is into the lifestyle or not, they may just be possible hints.
The next logical way to find out is to engage in conversation, and if they are wearing any of the above symbols by all means comment on them if see if they strike a chord, or whether the person is oblivious, embarrassed, or totally a like-minded passenger.
How to Meet Fellow Adults on a Lifestyle Cruise?
If you have specifically booked a Lifestyle cruise, everyone you meet will be interested in the lifestyle and a potential playmate.
Just start chatting with people and enjoying yourself.
This could be in all areas of the ship, from bars and meal times to pools and hot tubs.
Take part in activities that appeal to you as well as visit the nightclub areas or head straight for the playrooms.
Theme nights are very popular, sometimes offered in the day around pools but also in the evenings.
Themes might include:
- Lingerie nights
- Glow or neon nights
- Fetish night
- Leather and Lace
- Venice Unveiled
As well as seasonal themes such as Halloween.
What is a Lifestyle Cruise Really Like?
Lifestyle cruises offer a sense of freedom to people who live the lifestyle surrounded by like-minded folk.
They offer lots of fun and activities and multiple daily opportunities to meet and chat with other couples.
Each couple’s experiences will be their own depending on what activities and events they attend the options are plentiful.
What to Bring on a Lifestyle Cruise?
The majority of things you bring on a an adults only lifestyle cruise will be the same as you take on a regular cruise.
- Swimwear
- Casual clothes
- Smarter clothes for dining
- Party/bar clothes
- Themed event clothes
- Sexy lingerie
- Toiletries / Sun Lotion
- Condoms / Lube / Massage oils
You may also want to take some adult toys to add to the fun. Oh and bring some batteries just in case.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the difference Between a Clothing Optional Cruise and a Lifestyle cruise?
With clothing optional cruises, there is more emphasis on no clothing and much less on physical liaisons between couples.
Some lifestyle cruises are topless only and with full non clothed persons only allowed in playrooms or back at the passenger’s cabins.
Clothing optional cruises allowed a lot more full no clothes areas of the ship, usually just excluding dining areas.
Where Can You Have Physical Relations on a Lifestyle Cruise?
Adult connection time is usually only permitted in the playroom on a lifestyle cruise or in the privacy of your own cabins.
How to Find Other Lifestyle Cruisers on a Vanilla Cruise?
A vanilla cruise is a regular cruise with the majority of the passengers not living the “lifestyle”. To find other lifestyle cruisers on a vanilla cruise you would have to use some of the common lifestyle’ decorations on your cruise door or symbols on your body and clothing, or even in perhaps the drinks, you order (the upside-down pineapple cocktail).
How to Find Lifestyle Cruisers on a Carnival Cruise?
Finding passengers into the lifestyle on on a Carnival cruise would be the same as for most other large cruise ships. Dropping hints using the codes and symbols of the lifestyle in your clothing and accessories.
Bringing up hints or being blatant in conversation (for some people this is easier when they are a little tipsier), for others, it’s a natural conversation piece when they think it might be appropriate to do so.
Do Crew Members Get Involved?
Crew members are not involved in any swinging activity. They are purely there to provide the best hospitality service possible to all passengers, just like any other cruise ship.
Are Lifestyle Cruises for Couples only?
Some lifestyle and adults only cruise ships are only for couples only because lifestyle experience is primarily an experience between partners.
Subject to individual companies’ terms and conditions, some singles may get onboard.
Further Reading
- Best Optional Clothing Cruises – Best cruises for naturists
- How to Get Laid on a Cruise – Includes hooking up tips
- Best Cruises for Singles to Hook Up
- Upside-down Pineapple On Cruise Ship Door – What it means for swingers
Any Comments?
Have you been on a lifestyle cruise? How was your experience and would you go again?
Do you have any useful insights to add?
If so we’d love to hear.
