Home » CRUISE NEWS » Silversea Cruises Unveil AI Fitness And Portable Golf Simulator to Enhance Wellness on Board
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November 26, 2025
As soon as you get onto the ship of a Silversea Cruises trip, from the Italian Mediterranean coasts to the Caribbean sky-blue waters, you will find ultra-modern wellness and sports facilities that are made to engage, fit and entertain you. The company will offer two first-of-their-kind technological experiences in the cruise industry to all ships of its fleet: a machine for strength training with AI support and a golf simulator that can be used on a super yacht level.
Trail‑blazing wellness technology
At the heart of this upgrade is the amp system, an AI‑driven strength‑training device now installed aboard the ship Silver Spirit and scheduled for rollout across all of Silversea’s classic ships through 2026. The amp system adapts in real time to a guest’s performance, using motion and strength metrics to tailor resistance and feedback via app integration.
From an operations standpoint, this technology offers a number of advantages:
Consistent guest experience: Whether a guest embarks in the Mediterranean or the Pacific, the fitness offering remains uniform and high‑end.Staff efficiency: Instead of relying solely on human personal trainers, the system supports self‑guided workouts with intelligent feedback, freeing staff to focus on higher‑value guest interactions.Data insights: By integrating usage analytics, the ship’s wellness team can monitor patterns, fine‑tune class schedules or equipment placement, and enhance guest satisfaction.
For the traveller, the benefit is clear: you don’t have to skip your strength routine because you’re at sea. The amp system enables you to keep your fitness goals on track, whether you’re between ports in the Adriatic or heading toward Alaska, while still enjoying the luxury ship lifestyle.
Golf simulator sets sail aboard Silver Dawn
In a move that marries sport and destination experience, Silversea will introduce in December 2025 the super‑yacht‑grade portable golf system SeaDrivePro (by Off the Deck) aboard the ship Silver Dawn. This simulator tracks swing data in real time and offers instruction from visiting golf professionals. It will also feature onboard during the company’s 2026 World Cruise.
From an operational perspective:
Flexible use of space: Being portable, the simulator can be placed on deck or in a lounge area, making clever use of under‑utilised venues and enhancing the value of each square metre on board.Differentiation: This unique amenity positions Silversea a cut above many of its competitors, helping to attract high‑net‑worth passengers with a taste for both travel and leisure sports.Cross‑selling and excursions: Guests may be motivated to extend their stay, add private lessons, or combine the onboard simulator with destination golf excursions, adding incremental revenue opportunities.
For guests, the appeal is immediate: even if your itinerary takes you from one exotic port to another, you can stay in touch with your swing. Imagine enjoying a sunset putting session as the ship glides toward the South Pacific, or comparing your swing analytics with a visiting golf pro in between shore excursions. It brings the sport into your luxury voyage, rather than having to wait to disembark for a round.
Enriching the journey: beyond technology
These innovations don’t stand alone. Silversea is simultaneously broadening its onboard sport, wellness, entertainment and cultural programming fleetwide:
Pickleball courts and putting greens (first appearing on Silver Muse)Creative workshops such as painting, artisanal bread‑making, sushi and pizza classes, wine tasting and mixologyEvening and overnight‑style immersive entertainment: moonlight films, silent discosLecture series that dive into longevity, regional history, exploration and cultureNew wellness‑oriented culinary items such as fresh‑pressed juices and wellness shots in venues like the Arts Café and La Terrazza.
These enhancements reflect a broader trend in luxury travel: the desire for immersive, health‑focused, destination‑aware experiences, not just passive leisure. For operations, this means Silversea is re‑balancing its onboard product away from purely passive amenities and towards active, technology‑enabled engagement. For passengers, it means your journey becomes a more holistic travel experience: you’re exploring new destinations, maintaining wellness routines, playing sport, creating memories, and learning, all in one seamless voyage.
Travel journalist’s perspective: What this means at destination level
As a travel journalist observing the shift in premium cruise offerings, this move by Silversea is significant on multiple fronts. When a guest boards in the Mediterranean, say from Venice or Athens, and spends days at sea before reaching a port such as Santorini, Palermo or Dubrovnik, they now have a high‑tech fitness space and virtual golf experience that keep them actively engaged even during sea days. At destination, this means they arrive ashore refreshed, rather than fatigued by inactivity, and possibly with more energy to engage in shore excursions, guided walks or cultural immersions.
In more remote itineraries, such as polar crossings, Antarctica, or the Galápagos, where the journey itself can be long and intense, such wellness and recreation options become even more valuable. They support the guest’s routine, make the days at sea feel purposeful, and help the ship operator market longer voyages with fewer sea‑day complaints.
Final reflection: journey meets wellness
In the end, the guests of Silversea will praise the new concept of the journey. They are not merely moving from one place to another but rather experiencing an active, intellectual, luxury travel lifestyle while doing it. For example, if you are analyzing your performance on the swing in the SeaDrivePro simulator, you are still being a part of the most stunning places in the world. The crew and the operational team see the use of these technologies as a tool to support the brand’s claim intimate luxury with substance and to keep the passengers engaged, fulfilled and ready for whatever the next port of call brings.
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