[4] In April 2003 the Insignia was chartered to the French travel agency TRM for three months, during which Oceania Cruises operated no vessels.

[5] In November 2005, a third R-class ship entered service for Oceania Cruises when the company chartered the R Five from Cruiseinvest and renamed her Nautica.

[6] At the naming ceremony of the Nautica, Frank del Rio announced the plan of adding a fourth ship, Marina, to the Oceania Cruises fleet in July 2007,[7] but this never came to pass.

In February 2007, the majority of Oceania Cruises' stock was sold to the New York-based private equity firm Apollo Global Management.

The following month, Oceania made a memorandum agreement with the Fincantieri shipyard in Italy to construct two new 1,250-passenger ships.

[13] In August 2018, Oceania Cruises announced its intention to renovate each of its four ships as a part of the $100 million "OceaniaNEXT" program.

Brian Johnston, writing for Stuff.co.nz about a cruise on Marina in 2018, asked, "So, does [the ship] offer the finest cuisine at sea?"

"[20] In 2023, in a review of a cruise aboard Vista, Sue Bryant opined in The Times: "It's certainly an audacious claim, but I'm embarrassingly picky about food and this week I've given into temptation at every turn.