With almost 8,500 hotels around the world, Hilton is getting into cruises

The hotel industry is coming down with a serious case of cabin fever, as Hilton Worldwide becomes the latest lodgings chain to announce a cruise offering, following the likes of Marriott and Four Seasons, per Bloomberg reporting. 

Customers — presumably many of them Poirot fans — will be able to pick from 29 suites across five decks when booking on the Waldorf Astoria Nile River Experience, a Hilton press release says. The company told Bloomberg that the new experience was less about keeping up with the competition as much as revisiting its Egyptian “floating hotel” concept from the 1960s, while their head of luxury brands also outlined that it’s not part of a move into the cruise business more broadly. 

Given how quickly Hilton’s land-based expansion has ticked up in recent years, that probably makes sense.

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