PONANT EXPLORATIONS and CARITA are pioneering a new approach to luxury travel and wellness with the announcement of an exclusive strategic partnership. These two French houses dedicated to excellence in luxury hospitality have created a seafaring holistic sanctuary at sea to encourage guests to slow down, reconnect and explore both the world around them and their inner self. Aboard PONANT EXPLORATIONS’ ships, discover the height of wellbeing with a range of tailored CARITA experiences.
In a world searching for meaning, travel has become a catalyst for reconnection, balance and personal enrichment. True luxury today means choosing to slow down to reconnect with oneself and what truly matters. Exploration transforms travel into an experience of profound reconnection and shared reinvention.
A New Horizon for Reconnection
This is the shared ethos behind a new exclusive collaboration between PONANT EXPLORATIONS and CARITA, two French houses committed to excellence in luxury experiences. Starting this year, discerning travelers will be able to disconnect and reclaim time to themselves with CARITA aboard PONANT EXPLORATIONS’ ships as they explore new horizons.
The urban haven in the heart of Paris that has been elevating beauty to the realm of art and culture since 1945, CARITA is now taking experiential luxury beyond the cabin with a range of exclusively developed services and protocols designed to help people reconnect with body and mind as they explore the world and themselves. With PONANT EXPLORATIONS x CARITA, exploration becomes a new way of experiencing beauty.
“This collaboration with Maison CARITA reflects a shared vision of a highly distinctive experience, founded on excellence, personalization, and a resolutely sensory approach. This sensory journey, designed to reconnect body and mind, redefines the boundaries of experiential beauty and high-end expedition explorations at sea. By combining meaningful exploration with holistic well-being, we elevate our passengers’ journey. These onboard paths to reconnection are profound, exclusive, and perfectly orchestrated.” – Benoît-Etienne Domenget, CEO of PONANT EXPLORATIONS.
“We are delighted to partner with PONANT EXPLORATIONS, a house that shares our French heritage of excellence, personalization, and refinement. The art of travel and the art of beauty share the very same quest: a profound reconnection with oneself. With PONANT EXPLORATIONS, we bring our urban sanctuary to a new horizon of ‘chosen deceleration.’ Whether through our iconic signature services or protocols developed exclusively for these voyages, we combine the expertise of our beauty artisans with our avant-garde technology to elevate the passengers’ journey. We are thrilled to join PONANT EXPLORATIONS in shaping this new era of transformative luxury.” – Chiara Allegri, Global Brand President, CARITA.
Well-Being on the Horizon, Experience PONANT EXPLORATIONS x CARITA
Inspired by the art of travel, personalization is at the heart of every PONANT EXPLORATIONS x CARITA experience. Each treatment begins with a wellness consultation to identify physical and emotional needs for the creation of a tailored ritual to restore personal harmony.
Tailored and Exclusive Rituals to Reconnect With the Self
As well as offering signature CARITA services including Lagoon Repair Therapy for the face, the 11 Faubourg Ritual for face and body and The Mythical Head Spa for the hair, CARITA has developed a menu of exclusive services specially developed to resonate with the experience aboard PONANT EXPLORATIONS ships. These include The 5 Senses Night Recovery protocol, an immersive, holistic ritual designed to awaken the five senses and unlock the skin’s nocturnal regenerative powers, and the Jet Lag Draining Protocol with Icoone, a targeted rescue protocol to counteract travel fatigue. For the quintessence of long-lasting metamorphosis, meanwhile, specially designed cures are curated programs like a progressive journey, compounding the benefits of high-performance treatments, ensuring visible, enduring transformation session after session.
CARITA’s wellness offering will be available aboard PONANT EXPLORATIONS’ luxury icebreaker, Le Commandant Charcot, starting this September, and across the entire fleet of 12 ships, including the sailing yacht Le Ponant, by February 2027.
The Sanctuary at Sea to Explore Body and Mind
For 38 years, PONANT EXPLORATIONS has been committed to meaningful exploration and more responsible tourism. The global leader in high-end expedition cruising, it offers unparalleled travel experiences dedicated to exploration, to learn better, share, protect and inspire. Offering rare experiences aboard human-scale ships on voyages to remote and spectacular locations from Antarctica to French Polynesia, the Kimberley in Australia and all the way to the Geographic North Pole, PONANT EXPLORATIONS is a new horizon for exploring both body and mind.
From an Urban Haven to the Exploration of Slowing Down
Maison CARITA, the ultimate urban sanctuary at 11 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris, is where the world’s elite travel to experience the height of luxury beauty and wellness experiences, a place where time stands still to reconnect and recharge. Its philosophy is rooted in a singular, powerful beauty. Far from merely offering skincare, the brand is dedicated to creating authentic metamorphosis, a legacy of excellence inherited from visionary sisters Maria and Rosy Carita, pioneers of professional hairstyling and modern beauty.
CARITA’s signature services are the ultimate expression of its artistry, whether through the masterful choreography of its artisan’s expert hands or the precision of avant-garde technology. The Maison offers bespoke metamorphoses that elevate its precious formulas. Each signature journey is an unsurpassed experience of luxury, deeply personalized to deliver profound regeneration.
