Orient Queen was a former cruise ship built in 1989 for the company Mar Lines by the Unión Naval de Levante [es] shipyard in Valencia, Spain.

Originally named Vistamar, the ship was operated under charter by German-based cruise companies, first Jahn Reisen then Plantours & Partner.

[1] The ship was operated in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, but also undertook voyages to the Arctic and the Antarctic, to Greenland and up the Amazon River.

In 2003 it sailed through the Amazon River to Iquitos, Peru, around 4,400 kilometres (2,700 mi) from the coast of Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first large cruise ship to do so.

[6] Orient Queen arrived in Beirut on 27 June 2020 following a 22-day voyage from King Abdullah Port in Saudi Arabia.