There are boutique and jewellery shops on the boat, as well as swimming and spa pools.
A spot on the Celebrity Solstice doesn't come cheap. A 12-night sojourn around New Zealand and Australia, staying in one of the vessel's suites, is $4,337.
The 169,000-tonne Ovation of the Seas arrives in December and is the biggest ship ever to visit New Zealand.
It is too big to berth in Auckland and passengers will be taken to shore by smaller boats.
A record 33 ships will be cruising New Zealand waters until the end of next April - a significant increase on the 28 ships which visited during the same period last year.
Between them, the ships will make more than 600 calls to ports around the country.
The visits will include close to a dozen maiden port calls for cruise lines at destinations including Stewart Island, Wellington and Kaikoura, as well as more than 60 inaugural port calls for individual ships.
Last season cruise ship visits injected $484 million into the economy.
