Latin Takeover,

About the event

The Latin Takeover is the first Latin dance festival at sea. Five nights aboard the Norwegian Luna, sailing NYC to Bermuda over Labor Day Weekend 2027, with five theme nights: White Party, Latin Heat, Island Colors, Black Elegance, and the Closing Ceremony.

But the event is the finale, not the whole story. This is a year-round community. Members are in a private group chat sharing ideas and voting on our merch designs. Guests get an 8-week online dance course before we sail. Our founding DJs and instructors are signed with written agreements over a year in advance. Since launching May 1st, we've built a 3,600+ person waitlist, and cabins sold within minutes of opening night.

Wave one is built for 100+ guests, and our north star goal is to get 200 cabins (400 people booked) on this event. The Northeast has one of the largest Latin communities in America and no festival built for it. We're the ones building it.

Why should you sponsor?

Because you're not buying a logo on a banner. You're joining a community that talks back.

Latino purchasing power has passed $3.4 trillion, over 20% of the U.S. population. Nielsen found sponsorships drive a 10% lift in purchase intent, and 1 in 5 consumers have chosen a brand purely because it sponsors something they love. Fans of tight communities like ours engage more than crowds at giant festivals.

What you actually get: your product in every guest's Premium Welcome Box, live event branding on the ship and at our pop-ups, a content series built around your brand by our 30+ editor creative team and licensed for your channels, a warm retargeting audience from our paid traffic, and category exclusivity. One brand per category, ever, for year one.

And everything is measured. The same referral and tracking systems we run for our DJs and instructors work for sponsors: your results are tracked automatically in our backend, and you get access to see them. You'll know exactly what your sponsorship did.

We're only taking a select few founding sponsors. When this is 200 cabins, you were here first.

Nathaniel Peter

We're Nate and Merceades, husband and wife co-founders of Latin Takeover.

Here's why brands trust us. We're not event promoters who found a boat. We're a travel and media operation that built a movement.

Merceades founded Go N' Wander Travel Agency and has spent years doing the hardest job in travel: moving groups of 50-plus people to the same destination at the same time. Destination weddings, cruises, all-inclusive resorts, 500+ trips booked, with the Google reviews to prove it. The logistics that scare most event brands are her Tuesday.

Nate brings 12 years of marketing behind a creative agency with 30+ editors producing content every day, plus a talent network of creators who already speak to this audience.

And we run on systems, not promises. Real-time booking with Stripe and payment plans, live today and taking deposits. Automatic referral tracking, so every partner sees exactly what their name produced, in their own backend dashboard. A community engine with 3,600+ people since our May 1st launch, where every single person who messages us gets a real answer. Automated email sequences for payments, onboarding, and follow-up. Our founding DJs and instructors are signed with written agreements more than a year before we sail, and every partner gets the same paper.

We built all of it in public at latintakeover.com, on purpose. Look at everything before you spend a dollar. That's the point.

Sponsors don't get promises from us. They get a working machine, a written agreement, and a dashboard that shows what their investment did.

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