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polarholidaysusa · 5 months

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Some ideas to know about a Cruise before choosing Antarctica Tours 2024

We all know Antarctica is one of the most remote and untouched places on Earth. And exploring this icy, polar continent with a cruise is an adventure like no other. However, there are many important factors to remember to ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience before considering an Antarctica cruise. This blog will provide some ideas to know about a Cruise before choosing Antarctica Tours and help you make an informed decision.

If you love to explore rocky landscapes and gigantic mountains or a wildlife enthusiast, or just looking for an adventurous trip once-in-a-lifetime experience, a cruise to Antarctica is an incredible journey to accomplish your desire.

You need to consider picking the best of more than 400 Antarctica cruises every season and these Cruises last from one to five weeks to as many as 30 days. So you need to plan your Antarctica Tours 2024 accordingly as the season lasts from November to March. Add at least one day to reach the cruise’s starting point while planning your trip. Some cruises start from different places, such as the shortest cruises include a flight from South America to Antarctica and back whereas the longer Antarctica cruises start late in the season between January and March. You can able to go far into the south only when the sea ice has reduced. You will likely cross the Antarctic Circle and go deep into the Ross Sea with the help of these longer cruises.

What type of Antarctic Cruises should I choose?

There are many types of Antarctic cruises available to choose from, will be enjoyable. Still, it may vary in quality and formality with both old and new ships. Whether you choose an older ship, it will likely be a former Antarctica research vessel but now they are transformed into a commercial cruise ship and cabins tend to be a bit smaller as compared to newer ones. Whereas the newer ships often have more luxuries and more amenities. Just think about your requirements and figure out the size of the cruise ship that will best suit your next Antarctica Tours 2024.

You can go for a small yacht if you want a truly intimate experience, allowing for a more personal onboard experience but is more expensive in budget.

Conclusion

There are many options for Antarctica cruises every season like short/long itineraries and small/ big cruise ships with basic and luxurious cabins. Just think about your holiday, budget, and time preferences and plan accordingly. You can choose the Antarctica itinerary that will be best for you. So why are you waiting for? Book your Antarctica cruise early and pack smartly to visit this wonderful place.

Resource: https://polarholidaysusa.wordpress.com/2023/12/20/some-ideas-to-know-about-a-cruise-before-choosing-antarctica-tours-2024/

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polarholidaysus · 11 months

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Are you looking for Best Antarctica Small Ship Cruises? You can count on us. A cruise can last for as few as five days and as many as 30 days. The ships do vary in quality and formality. However, the ship will be pleasant.

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cruises-trips-news · 5 months

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Atlas Ocean Voyages Announces Partnership with ORCA

Atlas Ocean Voyages announced a collaboration with ORCA to contribute to marine conservation efforts, according to a press release. Onboard the World Navigator, the cruise line introduces dedicated Ocean Conservationists to its 2023-24 Antarctica sailings, who will focus on raising awareness, collecting scientific data and contributing to safeguarding whales and dolphins. The initiative seeks to […] The post Atlas Ocean Voyages Announces Partnership with ORCA appeared first on BOAT CRUISES TRIPS NEWS. https://boat-cruises-trips.news-6.com/atlas-ocean-voyages-announces-partnership-with-orca/

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travelnshit · 1 year

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Antarctica Days 9, 10 & 11

Day 9 Well today was an absolute write off. The tablets I’m taking for seasickness absolutely floor me. I actually take them for overnight bus rides because firstly they let me read on the bus without risking pebble dashing the seat in front of me with my partially digested dinner, but they also ease me gently into a coma. The trouble is the drowsiness stays with you for several hours the next…

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deborabuerk-the-write-stuff · 4 months

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Day 6. Humpback Whales.

Sunday, December 24, 2023. Debora Ragland BuerkThe Write StuffLooking at life from a different POV. The Greatest Show. Last night as we were finishing our dinner, the captain made a ship-wide announcement that Humpback whales had been spotted off the front bow. For more than an hour I watched a pod of an estimated 50 whles giving the Radio City Rockettes stiff competition with their elegant…

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gezinus · 1 year

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You can now live on a cruise ship for $30k per year

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CNN —

Have you ever dreamed of giving it all up, leaving it all behind and hitting the road to escape all your responsibilities?

It sounds good, doesn’t it? But it also sounds expensive. Or at least, it did sound expensive until now – because now a cruise company is launching a three-year, 130,000-mile, escape-your-daily-life cruise for a relatively affordable $30,000 per person per year.

Life at Sea Cruises has opened bookings for its three-year voyage on the MV Gemini, which sets sail from Istanbul on November 1.

Yes, November 1, 2023 – so you have eight months to get your passport, vaccinations and remote working abilities in order.

The company is promising to tick off 375 ports around the world, visiting 135 countries and all seven continents. The ship will cover more than 130,000 miles over the three years, taking in iconic sights from Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue and India’s Taj Mahal, to Mexico’s Chichen Itza, the pyramids of Giza, Machu Picchu and the Great Wall of China. It even slots in trips to 103 “tropical islands.” Of those 375 ports, 208 will be overnight stops, giving you extra time in the destination.

The company is a spin-off of Miray Cruises, which currently has the MV Gemini cruising around Turkey and Greece. The company has a 30-year history in the cruise industry. The MV Gemini will be overhauled for the voyage.

It has 400 cabins, with room for up to 1,074 passengers.

And because of the nature of the voyage, as well as traditional cruise ship amenities, restaurants and entertainment, the Gemini will also be kitted out with remote working facilities. The company promises a full-scale business center complete with meeting rooms, 14 offices, a business library and a lounge, presumably for your mid-shift coffee breaks. Access is free.

There will also be a round-the-clock hospital with free medical visits. The company also floats the possibility of “additional tax benefits when working as an international resident aboard the ship.”

“Professionals need connectivity, the right amenities and the functionality to perform their jobs,” Mikael Petterson, Life at Sea Cruises’s managing director, said in a statement. “There is no other cruise that offers this sort of flexibility to their customers.”

Cabins run the gamut from 13 square feet “Virtual Inside” staterooms – which start at $29,999 per person per year, coming out at $179,994 for the three-year trip for two people – to Balcony Suites, which are double the size and go up to $109,999 per person. The cheapest outdoor cabin costs $36,999 per person.

Passengers must sign up for all three years, though the company is launching a matchmaking scheme, where passengers will be allowed to “share” a cabin with someone else, dipping in and out of the itinerary. For instance, two couples could buy one cabin for the entire trip, and then divide up the travel between them.

Single travelers get a discount of 15% on the double occupancy rate. A minimum down payment of $45,000 is required.

Beyond the business center, there’ll be plenty to keep you busy: a sundeck and swimming pool, wellness center, auditorium and “multiple dining options,” though the full details have yet to be revealed. Onboard instructors will be on hand to teach dance and music, and there will even be singles mixers for those traveling alone. Want to shape up first? There’ll be a gym and salon onboard too.

Highlights include Christmas in Brazil and New Year in Argentina. The ship will loop all the way around South America (hopping south to Antarctica), island-hop around the Caribbean and take in both coasts of Central America, then go up the west coast of North America, crossing over to Hawaii.

Stops in Asia include Japan (12 stops), South Korea (including Jeju island) and China. It also takes in most of the classic Southeast Asia destinations, from Bali, Da Nang in Vietnam and the Cambodian coast to Bangkok, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

It’ll loop Australia, New Zealand and island-hop through the South Pacific; journey round India and Sri Lanka; then visit the Maldives and Seychelles before crossing west to Africa, hitting the continent at Zanzibar and then looping down to Cape Town and up the west coast of Africa – with quick dips west to islands including St. Helena, the Canaries and Madeira.

It also sails round the Mediterranean and Northern Europe.

Just one word of warning: You’d need not just a cruise ship but a time machine to visit some of the stops listed on its “13 wonders of the world” list, which includes places like the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus and the statue of Zeus at Olympia – all of which were destroyed in antiquity.

However, the cruise also includes free high-speed Wi-Fi, which should make up for any disappointment. Cruisers will also be able to have family and friends on board to visit, for free. The long list of what’s included in the trip also includes alcohol at dinner plus soft drinks, juice, tea and coffee all day, laundry, port fees and housekeeping. All meals are also included.

Bron: Hacker News https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/3-year-cruise-mv-gemini/index.html

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lindsaystravelblogs1 · 1 year

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Days 52-54 - Goodbye Antarctica

Day 52, Monday, 6 February 2023

During the night, the ship took us to Cape Adair – our last point of call on Antarctica. I don’t imagine we will ever get back here, but we can always hope.

Last time we were here, a few passengers landed, before the wind and ice created an emergency and there was quite a dramatic evacuation back to the ship, with the expedition team literally up to their necks in freezing water and frightening surf getting everyone off safely.

This time, things looked much better so we were split into two groups, half to land while the other half zodiac-cruised – and then we all changed places. We were in the second group to land and as we cruised in the zodiac, we saw some really rough sea and moving ice and I couldn’t imagine how we could possibly land – but once we returned to the landing place, we were beautifully sheltered and made a very comfortable landing.

The Borchgrevink huts from the very first overwintering expedition were close by but rather than line up to go inside (only three people and a guide allowed in at any time), we walked quite a long way to a small Southern Giant Petrel colony. It had several young birds as well as at least four of the less-common white morph birds. We returned to the huts where the queue was now much shorter and we went into the dark interior and took a few photographs before returning to the ship.

We were soon waving goodbye to Antarctica and sailing almost due north to the Balleny islands. When we originally booked this trip, we were supposed to visit Macquarie Island but shortly before we left home, they decided to go to the bleak and dismal Ballenys instead. Disappointing and as it happened, a really bad decision.

Great news! I now have my visa to allow us to go to Chile as planned. All we have to hope now is that the political unrest in Peru settles so as not to jeopardise our insurance policy for that part of the trip. And talking about future travel, we had a discussion with Ponant’s on-board travel consultant and after conferring with a few other people (including our wonderful financial advisor) we have decided to book another voyage in September 2024 – to both the North Poles. It will be on this ship which is an icebreaker and will take us to both the Geographic and Magnetic North Poles. That will be quite different from this trip but it starts from Nome, Alaska, and ends in Longyearbyen in Svalbard. Aha – what to do after that? It includes flights from Seattle to Nome and Longyearbyen to Paris so we will probably tack on something extra at one end or the other.

We had an interesting lecture in the afternoon, given by our knowledgeable geologist. She traced the changes in the three main environmental factors impacting climate change over the past four billion years and finished with some suggestions on how we might help to slow down the current rapid changes.

Day 53, Tuesday, 7 February 2023

We were at sea all day and had a fairly weak lecture about seabirds from the same woman who lectured us about albatrosses a couple of weeks ago – also pretty weak then. Heather then went to another cooking class: this one about making Crème Broulee.

Late in the morning, we were approaching the Balleny Islands that were sadly substituted for Macquarie Island as I mentioned above. We saw a very vague outline of the southernmost island through the fog but the Captain said he was not willing to go closer than a couple of kilometres. (Last time, we passed in a much lesser vessel and an even greater storm, and I reckon we were only 3-400 metres away. After that, we saw nothing.) The Captain made numerous announcements about how clever he was navigating between two of the islands, but we never saw them. The fog was thick and it was snowing heavily. (How come snow falls heavily when they talk about things being as light as a snowflake. One for Aristotle or Euclid I think.) The whole exercise was a total farce. We should have gone to Macquarie but if not, we should have passed close enough to the Ballenys to see something. I really don’t think this wimp of a captain has earned the salary of a cabin boy this trip – yet most people applaud him. Weird!

The snow was heavy because we were moving into a magical storm. At one stage, the Captain announced that the winds were at 74 knots (137 kph) – a force 11 on the 12-point Beaufort Scale according to a short segment we got in the Recap. The guy who gave us this segment has given us some great short pieces before – like the ball and orange explanation of the seasons, and one about the time zones. He doesn’t seem to have a lot of polish, but he was a sea captain on numerous big ships for many years and has an immense amount of scientific knowledge. He is also a really nice guy.

The storm was great – still not huge waves – I estimate it at about four to five metres – but the wind was fantastic and we had several hours of driving snow that replenished (three or four times over) the snow that had almost melted from the last wonderful storm. We were in positive temperatures early in the morning (first time for almost 3 weeks at plus 0.3 degrees) but by mid-morning, we were back to minus 4.5. It was a very exciting storm and I really loved watching it.

We crossed the Antarctic Circle back into the temperate zone during the early afternoon, but what was raging all around us belied the fact. The wind abated somewhat around dinner time and although there was a bit of rocking and rolling, sleep came easily for most people, and I don’t think anyone was too seasick. Most are wearing patches, but I think/hope I now have my sea legs. (That is sea legs, not seal eggs!)

In the evening, we had a preview of the Ship’s Cruise movie – an hour-long compilation of videos created by the official photographer that he will sell to anyone stupid to pay 150 euros for a DVD at the end of the cruise. I thought his effort was really poor with whole days and several of the most important activities omitted entirely – to make space for politically correct comments and career protection snippets, many featuring his boss, the Captain. We were told that the rules he had to comply with prevented him showing any recognisable passengers’ faces but close to half of us (but not us) were easily recognised. All up – and maybe I am being overly-critical due to some of the disappointments over the past few days – I reckon the whole production was a bit amateurish – good use of technology, but poor use of his subject matter or creativity.

We then had another quiz and our team and another one tied for first. They decided to have a tiebreaker and the other team won – I can’t even recall what that question was. But we should have won outright due to a disputed answer during the quiz. The question was ‘What city has the highest Greek population after Athens and Thessalonica?’ As Melbournians, we answered ‘Melbourne’, of course – and nobody else got that. But the quizmaster said the answer was Chicago. Mr Google agreed with us, as did a few other references people found – and none of the others guessed Chicago anyway. In the end, the quizmaster voided that question so we tied with the other team and lost the tiebreaker. Bummer – we could have used the luggage tags that were the prize. But just wait until tomorrow when there is real money at stake!

Day 54, Wednesday, 8 February 2023

The storm had passed, but it was still pretty bouncy around the ship. Heather went to a session about possible future Ponant cruises, but I was out on deck looking for birds. There were very few, but I did see a couple of White-headed Shearwaters and a few Broad-billed Prions that I haven’t seen before.

Later in the day, we crossed the Southern Convergence where we expected to see more birds, but 24 hours later still almost nothing. Where are they all? Last time we came through here, there were thousands of them. There were also quite a lot of whales, particularly Humpbacks and we have not seen one since before we left Cape Adair.

There was a lecture in the afternoon by one of the passengers – also a former geology guide on expedition ships. I reckon it was a bit of a joyride for him, an opportunity to promote his company, dressed up in some apparently good science about capturing metals from the seafloor to create hydrogen power and batteries. I was not convinced, but as he said, he had the microphone so he could say what he liked. He did say that as our knowledge of the seabed increased, it may prove him wrong, but if he is right, he really is on a winner for the whole planet.

There was another lecture that started out sounding almost sacrilegious about hunting whales. It was given by our bird expert and traced the history of whaling from antiquity (more than 6500 BC) and built up the story to the 16th and 17th centuries when whale oil became a commercial product and money became the driver for whaling rather than subsistence. He then proceeded to systematically demolish every pro-whaling argument I can ever recall. He started out justifying the legitimacy of whaling in the millennia long past and finished up shredding any possible reason for modern commercial whaling.

Then it was time for the quiz and it was run by the ship’s travel consultant about Ponant cruises and destinations. We were in teams of two and I thought we did reasonably well – and when they announced the winners, we were tied with another couple. Would you believe the prize was a 250-euro voucher for use on a future Ponant cruise – and we have just booked the Two Poles cruise. Rather than have a tiebreaker, they gave both winning teams a voucher. Very generous and we were delighted – so celebrated with yet another of their free champagnes.

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