Antarctica Cruises

Cruises from Antarctica & all Antarctica cruises for 2020-2021 

View Antarctica 2020-2021 cruises for 14 ships listing 86 cruises from Brisbane with today's best deals!
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An example is Port Vila's "The Ekasup Cultural Tour" with prices for 2 adults.

P&O Cruises: $170
Travelonline: $110
MelanesianPortVila: $89
Port Vila wharf: $35

We use & recommend Viator.com otherwise search online & call us if you need help. Or just rent a taxi/pushbikes/tour/charter from the wharf when you berth, often the best value but be among the first ashore!

Keep in mind that if you go it alone and something happens like the taxi/bus breaks down and you end up being late back to the ship it will not wait for you unless it is advised. On the other hand if it is a ship-booked tour there are no problems as they are in contact with the tour companies.

The last-frontier ice desert of Antarctica attracts 45,000 visitors a year to view its windswept, treeless, frozen wasteland. Wildlife on show includes penguins, seals, birds, dolphins and orcas. Since most of the wildlife in Antarctica is found on the ice-free narrow ridges of coastline around the islands and mainland, cruise passengers don't have to miss out on any of the interesting sea, land or air creatures of this exciting continent. All travel ashore is by inflatable Zodiacs. Only 100 passengers per ship are allowed onshore at any given time, so guests on larger vessels will view the icescape from their ship. Watch in awe as icebergs are calved from the continental ice shelf, then race away in your Zodiac to avoid the wash.

Orion with its ice-strengthened hull sails from Dunedin (New Zealand), calling at Cape Adare and Cape Hallett, both within the Antarctic Circle, and three sub-Antarctic islands, which are replete with myriads of sea birds and seals. For Australians this is the best way to explore the region.

Travel to Antarctica is from late November to early March. Of the large cruise ships visiting the Antarctic Peninsula (sub-Antarctic) are HAL’s Prinsendam as part of a circumnavigation of South America in early 2014, HAL’s Zaandam 21-night Santiago-to-Buenos Aires cruises 2013/2014, and Celebrity Infinity’s 14-night cruises out of Buenos Aires in February 2014. The luxury vessel Seabourn Quest also reaches Antarctica as it sails the very popular Santiago-to-Buenos Aires route. Silver Explorer offers eight voyages out of Ushuaia, South America, to the sub-Antarctic Peninsula in December 2013 and February 2014. Zodiacs afford landing on the Antarctic Peninsula.