ExpeditionTrips.com: Prince Albert II

Highlights: Luxury expedition ship with 5-star service, fantastic cuisine, and experienced naturalist guides. Most cabins have a veranda. A truly beautiful ship!
Summary: Experience the wonders of the Antarctic while taking full advantage of the luxurious all-inclusive lifestyle afforded by the world’s best and most uncompromising service including the most spacious suites and comfortable common areas of any expedition ship. A frosted wilderness of glistening white as far as the eye can see. Natural ice sculptures like enormous works of avant-garde art. This is the modern explorer’s final frontier. Hear the cries of penguins multiplied by the thousands, watch leopard seals and sea lions perfectly at ease in the company of visitors, feel the unspeakable magnificence of a whale breaching from beneath cold ocean waters. Astounding animal encounters – opportunities found nowhere else on earth. Charter flight schedules vary with departure; see end of page for details.

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Antarctica Cruises by ExpeditionTrips.com, Cruise Antarctica!

Antarctica Cruises by ExpeditionTrips.com, Cruise Antarctica!

TravelWild - Antarctic Peninsula 10-night cruise on the Aleksey Maryshev

TravelWild - Antarctic Peninsula 10-night cruise on the Aleksey Maryshev

Antarctica's Summer Resort - New York Times

Antarctica's Summer Resort - New York Times

If you go
Marine Expeditions, 30 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5R 2E2, (416) 964-9069, fax (416) 964-2366, plans about 20 trips to the Antarctic from November to March, including three that stop at South Georgia Island. These 24-day trips (also stopping in the Falklands) start Nov. 20 and 22 and Jan. 17, and cost $5,495 to $8,495, including air fare from New York, Miami, Toronto and, for $165 extra, Los Angeles.
Our trip was organized specifically for dedicated nature photographers, wildlife artists and birders by Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, which specializes in birding trips; Post Office Box 33008, Austin, Tex. 78764; (800) 328-8368, fax (512) 328-2919.
We sailed on the 370-foot Akademik Ioffe (the Marine Adventurer in brochures), a utilitarian but comfortable vessel built in Finland in 1989 for the Soviet Academy of Sciences for deep-sea acoustical research. She has a stabilizing system and her bridge is packed with up-to-date navigational equipment. She is strengthened against pack ice, and can turn on her own axis.
Cabins are Spartan but quite comfortable, with private baths. Common spaces include a pleasant dining room, a small library and a sauna. The most popular spot was the bridge, to which we had access at all hours. Food was excellent, fresh fish and Argentine wines being the most prized items.
The crew was efficient and pleasant, but said little about the ironies of its shift from science (and perhaps intelligence-gathering) to tourism. The housekeeping and landing were capably managed by Marine Expeditions.

Lindblad Expeditions: Antarctica

Our journey to the "White Continent" offers six days of exploration on the incomparably beautiful Antarctic Peninsula and the surrounding islands and waterways. The sights, sounds and emotions will stay in your mind forever — enormous tabular icebergs, hillsides covered with thousands of penguins and the excitement on deck as someone shouts, “Whales!” Experience the Lindblad legacy of exploration in Antarctica as you travel with our experienced Antarctica expedition staff, which includes an Undersea Specialist. Zodiacs and kayaks to further our ability to examine this remote wilderness.
Prices starting from $10,250.

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