India's premium cruise line out of Mumbai, Chennai and Goa, a floating five-star where the casino, deck galas, Starlight Theatre and shore days deliver a self-contained reward finance approves in rupees, no visa and no logistics to chase.
Group size
50–500 pax
Best season
Aug–Oct & Feb–Apr
Flight time
Sail ex-Mumbai/Chennai
Lead time
3–4 weeks
Budget
Enquire to plan
Why Cordelia Cruises for corporate travel
01
The ship is the reward, casino, pool-deck parties, Starlight Theatre shows and speciality restaurants mean the programme never has to leave the deck. One embarkation and everything the cohort touches for three nights is on board.
02
Everything is included and everything is a few steps away, so a cohort that has never flown abroad, or never travelled for work at all, gets a premium experience with zero navigation, no forex and no visa. The reward carries the least-travelled winner as easily as the most.
03
Deck galas, gaming, live entertainment, spa, kids' zones and shore excursions run back to back, so a broad cohort with mixed tastes each finds their evening, the reward that keeps 500 people engaged without a bus in sight.
A full-ship or cabin-block incentive, casino nights, a white-party deck gala, Starlight Theatre shows and a Goa or Lakshadweep shore day, the all-inclusive reward that runs itself from embarkation to disembarkation.
Onboard conference lounges and the Starlight Theatre run dealer meets, product launches and sales conferences from 50 to 500 delegates with full AV, a captive audience with nowhere else to be.
Pool-deck white parties, a Symphony restaurant awards dinner and Bollywood theatre nights seat formal closing evenings from 50 to 500 against an open-ocean horizon no venue on land can offer.
Deck olympics, casino tournaments, cook-offs and treasure hunts across the atrium and sun decks, high-energy formats from 50 to 300 that turn the whole ship into the arena.
100–500 pax
80–500 pax
50–200 pax
80–400 pax
Sample programmes
Day 1
Embark Mumbai
Branded terminal check-in and boarding, cabin allocation and a sail-away welcome reception on the pool deck as the ship leaves the harbour. Evening at leisure across the restaurants and Starlight Theatre.
Day 2
Sea day & business
Morning dealer meet or product launch in the Starlight Theatre, afternoon across the pool, spa and deck-olympics brackets, and an onboard casino night to close.
Day 3
Goa shore day
A curated shore excursion in Goa, beach club, heritage or watersports, back on board for a white-party deck gala and an awards dinner under the stars.
Day 4
Disembark
A slow breakfast as the ship returns to port, staggered disembarkation and terminal transfers matched to the cohort's onward flights home.
Request a proposal
Share headcount, dates and what the trip needs to achieve, we return venues, a sample flow and an indicative budget within 48 hours.
Sailing and season, peak festive departures price higher; shoulder and repositioning sailings ease per-berth rates
Cabin tier and mix, interior, sea-view, balcony and suite split across the cohort
Full-ship charter vs cabin block, and exclusive-use of decks and venues
Gala and event production, deck buyouts, casino night, theatre shows and branding
Embarkation port and volume of out-of-city airport-to-terminal transfers
Group
Field-force qualifiers
Format
Mumbai–Goa cabin block with a full-ship gala night
A field-force reward for a first-time-traveller cohort, an embarkation from Mumbai, a Starlight Theatre plenary, a Goa shore day and a white-party deck gala to close. Tibro handled cabin allocation across tiers, airport-to-terminal transfers from six cities and Jain and vegetarian menus at every seating; a cohort that had mostly never travelled for work came back as the flagship contest.
An insurance company
“Half our winners had never travelled for work. Everything was on the ship, so nobody felt lost, and the deck gala on the last night is still the story they tell.”
FAQ
For domestic sailings, a standard government photo ID at the terminal is all that's needed, no visa and no forex. International calls (Sri Lanka, for example) require passports, which we flag and manage at proposal stage.
Two to three nights is the standard, a sea day, a shore call and a gala finale. Longer itineraries add Lakshadweep or Sri Lanka calls when the calendar and cohort allow.
Yes. Cordelia's restaurants run Indian, Jain and vegetarian menus as standard, and we confirm the cohort's dietary split with the ship at proposal stage so every seating is covered, a big reason first-time-traveller groups are comfortable on board.
The southwest monsoon can affect sea conditions and some sailings mid-year, so August–October and February–April offer the calmest, most reliable windows out of Mumbai, Chennai and Goa. We plan the programme to the published sailing calendar.
There's no cruise-side flight, but we arrange the cohort's flights into the embarkation city and airport-to-terminal transfers so a mixed-city group boards together, the ship replaces the destination, not the travel logistics.
Yes, corporate billing with GST invoices, a line-item build-up in every proposal, and milestone payment terms agreed before you announce internally.
Request a proposal
Headcount, rough dates and what the trip needs to achieve. That's all we need to come back with venues, a sample flow and an indicative budget.
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