Your Cruise Event Specialists at OceanEvent

OceanEvent:
What Sets Us Apart

Our mission
Know-how
Portfolio
Passion
Experience

There are four pillars that we live by at OceanEvent. In dealing with our customers, in the team, with our service providers, the crew members on board - in short, with everyone:

For us, fair and respectful treatment means WIN-WIN
Our ambitious and demanding actions lead to top performance
We create trust through empathy, authenticity and loyalty
As passionate visionaries, we exceed our customers' expectations

Mission Statement of OceanEvent GmbH

In 2003, OceanEvent was the first cruise operator for maritime events. Since then, we have implemented well over 300 – for private travelers celebrating special occasions and for corporate clients who entrust us with their most important events. We receive top ratings for this, 9.9 out of 10 satisfaction points and feedback that warms our hearts.

As cruise event specialists, we are unique with our maritime know-how. Uniquely experienced and certainly unique in how we make your special occasion an unforgettable experience for you and your guests.

Worldwide, OceanEvent charters about 320 cruise ships from all well-known shipping companies and some 'unknown champions'.

Whether you are planning an event with 30 or 6000 participants, whether you love the sea or the decelerated gliding on a river. Whatever you are planning and wherever you are going: we have the right cruise ship for you.

When new cruise liners come onto the market, we go on ship inspections. This is how we get to know the strengths of the crew and the ship and are aware of the event possibilities on board. Our portfolio of cruise ships and exclusive land locations is the basis for the uniqueness of your conference, incentive, or celebration at sea.

Every OceanEvent charter is unique! This is our promise and the result of the passion with which our team plans each individual event:

Our nautical experts and cruise designers, when they incorporate your destination wishes into a routing that has never been taken by a cruise ship before.
Our event professionals, when they create an event from your ideas that will never be seen again.
Our charter managers, when you are on board, everything is done to ensure that meticulously planned processes maintain the ease of a carefree cruise.

Caribbean, Mediterranean, South Seas, Northern Europe, Galapagos, Arctic, Amazon... We know the most beautiful sea areas in the world, the most beautiful ports, beaches and anchor spots.

OceanEvent CEO Christian Mühleck has served as captain on mega yachts; our team has served as crew on well-known cruise ships. Together, we have covered hundreds of thousands of nautical miles in over 20 years and know what it takes to plan events on board ships.

Therefore: Just ask us if you want something special!

Unforgettable Events Are Our Passion

We are creative event planners who know how to transform our customers' wishes into maritime highlights. Our knowledge of ships, destinations, hotspots and cultural sites, of lighting and sound technology, entertainment and event psychology is the basis of our inspiration.

Together with our customers, we create 'once-in-a-lifetime' experiences that exceed your and your guests' expectations.

AT OCEANEVENT - WE LIVE BY OUR VALUES

As charter brokers, we work for our customers worldwide. Every day we encounter different cultures, different approaches, different standards. This challenges and shapes us. Over the years, an OceanEvent philosophy of empathy and sympathy has been established.

"In my opinion, appreciation, honesty and fairness are the guarantors for long-lasting partnerships – and for the fun of working together."

Christian Muehleck
Founder & CEO, OceanEvent GmbH

In close cooperation on maritime projects, values contribute to joint success. Not only in difficult situations. But especially then. OceanEvent is fortunate to work with customers and service providers who treat each other with respect. Only in this way can work be fun - and it should be!

Our customers. Our partners. The whole team.

1999

The OceanEvent Story

With the exotic idea of chartering entire cruise ships for corporate events, OceanEvent founder Christian Muehleck decided to launch a business that did not yet exist. It all began in the Mediterranean.

Christian spent several seasons as a captain on mega yachts. Then 'his' yacht was chartered to a Swiss company for one summer. Every week, sales partners and employees came on board, and as captain, he was supposed to give them 'a great time'.

He worked out special routings and framework programs to get to know the country and its people, as they say.

2002

From the idea of chartering cruise ships

Christian knew the Mediterranean like the back of his hand, and now he made valuable contacts with local service providers.
He gave the guests on board the feeling of cruising on their own yacht. He anchored at the most attractive locations, had the crew stage cocktail parties and sundowners, took the guests to dream beaches or got them into exclusive trendy clubs in the jet-set ports. Nobody had ever experienced anything like this before!

When he returned to Lake Starnberg, the business idea and the name were ready: OceanEvent. The slogan was also quickly found. 'Let the Sea inspire you' still sums up what drives the entrepreneur: “To hold events on cruise ships on the seven seas, setting no limits to the imagination.”

2003

The world of cruise ships

OceanEvent is officially founded in 2003, and now it's time to fly around the world and get to know cruise ships!

Christian establishes contacts with shipping companies, talks to the officers on board and the crew, and at the same time explores the most beautiful cruise areas in the world.

With each ship inspection, OceanEvent's portfolio becomes more and more refined. Then as now, probably no one knows the cruise ships available on the market better than Christian Mühleck in terms of their event suitability.

2004

First orders and a team

With this comprehensive knowledge, his company charters the first cruise ships. The concept works. Traveling exclusively on their own ship inspires the participants - at corporate events as well as at private celebrations at sea.

The constantly growing team also generates enthusiasm. Christian (visionary and navigator) establishes the routings he has developed with the shipping companies. This means that a charter booked with OceanEvent is always unique.

He hires charter cruise designers and event specialists and fills the positions with employees who have cruise experience. The team complements each other and works together on every project to take customers to the most beautiful ports and bays, to very special places and to offer truly extraordinary supporting programs there.

2006

Special charter projects

When a large insurance company chartered the Star Flyer, the OceanEvent team discovered the fascination of tall ships for maritime events.

The streamlined clipper ships are a dream of chrome and brass. Their nostalgic flair and the special atmosphere of setting sail, which guests experience up close, make them a popular location for events with around 200 people.

Suddenly, more and more companies were chartering cruise ships – primarily for incentives. The OceanEvent team also organizes weddings on board these sailing beauties. And in 2009, Volkswagen's global conference took place on board the impressive five-master Royal Clipper.

2010

New dimensions

The ships that OceanEvent brokers for exclusive charter are slowly getting bigger. Today, the portfolio of the cruise event specialists ranges from yachts for 30 passengers to ocean liners with many thousands of cabins.

According to Christian Muehleck, such a large number of participants is so much easier to coordinate on ships than on land. “Information such as program changes can be communicated at any time via the infotainment systems in the cabins and public areas - and with the loudspeaker systems on board, you can easily reach everyone.”

2014

The press discovers OceanEvent

In 2014, the press became aware of this company, which was bringing cruise events to the world from Lake Starnberg.

Handelsblatt, WELT, Polo on Snow, High Life, Boote Exklusiv, the Swiss Sunday newspaper and Swiss television... They have all reported on OceanEvent since then.

At that time, Christian Muehleck was a long-standing columnist for the most important industry magazine, “events Magazin” – and had long been a big name in the MICE market.

2015

We love to entertain you

“We even fly in Elton John,” was the title of an interview with Christian Muehleck in WELT.

OceanEvent has not yet done that, but the team makes it possible and knows how to underline top-class events with top-class entertainment, with the best party bands and solo acts.

2018

Projects in and from overseas

Meanwhile OceanEvent is in demand worldwide. Companies from Brazil ask us for maritime events, an Indian wedding, sheikh families from the Emirates. And more and more European customers are being drawn to exotic climes.

Caribbean, Galapagos Islands, Seychelles, Mekong. Expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic - there is no destination (as long as it is traveled by cruise ships) where the team does not implement your event at sea.

The long-standing, appreciative partnerships with shipping companies and service providers worldwide make it possible.

2022

Football World Cup

Two years earlier, the cruise specialists received a special long-term request. In 2022, the time has come: over a period of six weeks, several ships chartered by OceanEvent in full will dock at the pier in Doha. They will serve as a hotel for invited guests of a customer during the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

The team coordinates with the officers and crew on site and ensures that the guests receive VIP treatment. This is a challenging project because the guests change every three days on each ship – they come from all over the world. The same applies to the super acts and stars who are flown in for this mega event.

2022

A Breath of Fresh Air

In any case, 2022 is (once again) a special year. The pandemic is over and there is a sense of new beginnings in the air. This also applies to OceanEvent. The team is taking off, because the charters booked in the past two years have not been canceled - the projects have merely been postponed, and all customers have remained loyal!

The time of silence was put to good use to strengthen the team, consolidate partnerships and optimize processes.
Yes, we had to temporarily reverse charters, but we were able to find partnership-based solutions with all service providers that are now taking effect as we get back on our feet. With good vibes, fresh ideas and renewed vigor, we are moving forward...

2024

Oceanevent charter their own ship

For the first time in the company's history, OceanEvent is chartering its own cruise ship to invite customers, prospects and representatives of the press to an exclusive event. The guest list for the 'OceanEvent Experience' extends as far as Hawaii and India – and everyone is thrilled with what is on offer between Rome, Amalfi, Capri and Sicily.

This year's order books contain 23 charters – more than ever before – with cruise ships offering well over 2000 cabins and the most sustainable propulsion technologies currently available in shipping: bio-LNG.

In 2003 it was a dream. Today it has long since been fulfilled – and is still ongoing: OceanEvent carries out events on cruise ships on the seven seas, with no limits on imagination. Be part of it!

Sustainability at OceanEvent

Our Contribution

As Europe's leading specialist for cruise events, we are aware of the climate responsibility of our actions.
By selecting the ships we offer, we influence the sustainability efforts of the cruise lines. We also influence the sustainability efforts of the cruise lines by developing the routings with our own navigators. We determine the speed at which our guests travel. “Because it makes a difference whether a ship plows through the sea at 19 knots – or at 9 knots and only one engine is running,” explains Christian Mühleck.

For the participants of OceanEvent's maritime events, leisurely cruising is an asset, for the environment it is a must. And so it is possible to make an event on a cruise ship as environmentally friendly as possible.
Environmentally-friendly Cruise Ships

The entire cruise industry is working hard to promote sustainability. By 2050, the industry must be CO2-neutral. That is why cruise lines have been investing billions in innovative propulsion systems, environmentally friendly fuels, emission avoidance, shore-side electricity, heat recovery and waste recycling for over 10 years.

Most cruise ships, including the very largest, now release significantly fewer sulfur emissions than they did five years ago. Particulate emissions have been reduced by 95 percent, nitrogen oxides by 85 percent and greenhouse gases by around 20 percent.

OceanEvent's portfolio includes the latest generation of cruise ships – with alternative propulsion systems and a high degree of CO2-saving technologies. Ask OceanEvent about it! We have them in every size.
Emissions Compensation

Since 2018, Fokus-Zukunft GmbH has been calculating the greenhouse gas emissions caused by OceanEvent in a two-year cycle. As described, the majority of these occur on board a cruise ship. Fuel, waste water, energy consumption and much more are included in the balance. But routing, cruise speed, travel to and from the ship, meals and other on-board activities are also significant factors.

At the OceanEvent GmbH headquarters in Starnberg, general energy consumption, travel behavior, commuting, etc. are also included.

In all areas, we do what we can to act in a way that is as environmentally friendly as possible. Fokus Zukunft offsets the remaining emissions for us through emissions certificates. To achieve climate targets, CO2 reduction measures are needed all over the world. Supporting these requires a great deal of financial resources – and these are generated through climate protection certificates such as those we purchase.

Join the OceanEvent team!

Do you have a background in the event and/or cruise business and are familiar with the demands of high-profile events, incentives and conferences? If so, we are sure that you will be a perfect addition to our team of cruise specialists and event planners!
We look forward to receiving your initial application!

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