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We offer three different styles of cruise ships and combinations of ship and flight to the South Shetland Islands in the area of the Antarctic Peninsula. We work with these Antarctic cruise suppliers because they offer a personal touch: Antarctic Dream, Antarctica XXI. The ships are of good quality, comfortable and “cosy”. However, there is one ship operated by the Norwegian company Hurtigruten, which is a different style. It is a larger ship than the other two, with a higher passenger capacity, but offering a top level of service and comfort in line with what is expected from a top Scandinavian cruise ship operator.
Antarctic Dream Ship
This is the most personal and particular of the three Antarctic cruise options that we offer. Two itinerary options allow passengers to combine a flight and cruise as well as boarding in Ushuaia (Argentina) and ending in Punta Arenas (Chile) and vice-versa. The M/V Antarctic Dream was formerly called Piloto Pardo. It comprises 4 decks, 40 wood-panelled cabins (state rooms) each with an outer sea-view window, a maximum passenger capacity of 80, a bridge that is open to passengers, a main dining room (for 100 passengers), first-aid room with doctor on board, a projection lounge, heliport, bar, library and souvenir shop and 6 zodiac dinghies for ship-to-shore excursions.
Antarctic Dream Itineraries
Antarctic Dream Classic
Ushuaia > Antarctica > Ushuaia (10 nights / 11 days)
Day 1: Check-in at Ushuaia and board ship.
Day 2 & 3: Sailing through the Drake Passage.
Day 4: potter Bay & Aitcho Island (part of the South Shetland Islands).
Day 5: Antarctic Peninsula.
Day 6: Paradise Bay & Cuverville Island.
Day 7: Pleneau & Petermann Island.
Day 8: Decepcion Island, Whalers Bay & Pendulum Cove.
Day 9 & 10: Return back through the Drake Passage.
Day 11 arrive back to Ushuaia (Argentina)
Departures and Arrive Back Dates:
Nov check-in 01 / arrive back Nov 11
Nov check-in 11 / arrive back Nov 21
Nov check-in 21 / arrive back 01 Dec
Dec check-in 01 / arrive back Dec 11
Dec check-in 11 / arrive back Dec 21
Feb check-in 05 / arrive back Feb 15 (high season)
Feb check-in 15 / arrive back Feb 25 (high season)
Feb check-in 25 / arrive back Mar 06
Mar check-in 06 / arrive back Mar 16
Rates Per Person (NOT in High Season)
*not including any fuel surcharge that may have to be added
Cape Horn Cabin Single USD17,200 / Double USD11,450
Piloto Pardo Cabin Single USD15,570 / Double USD10,450
Shackleton Cabin Single USD12,410 / USD8,250
Amundsen Cabin Single USD10,300 / USD6,900
Rates Per Person HIGH SEASON
*not including any fuel surcharge that may have to be added
Cape Horn Cabin Single USD21,300 / Double USD14,200
Piloto Pardo Cabin Single USD19,300 / Double USD12,900
Shackleton Cabin Single USD15,350 / USD10,200
Amundsen Cabin Single USD12,800 / USD8,550
Antarctic Dream (Fly and Cruise)
Punta Arenas > Antarctica > Ushuaia (7 nights / 8 days)
Day 1: Check-in at Punta Arenas for flight to King George Island (part of the South Shetland Islands)
Board the ship.
Day 2: Base Esperanza & Brown Bluf
Day 3: Paulet Island & Astrolabe Island
Day 4: Curverville Island & Port Lockroy
Day 5: Deception Island & Robert Point
Day 6 & 7: Drake Passage
Day 8 arrive back to Ushuaia (Argentina)
Departures and Arrive Back Dates:
Dec check-in 29 / arrive back Jan 05 (high season)
Jan check-in 13 / arrive back Jan 20 (high season)
Jan check-in 28 / arrive back Feb 04 (high season)
Rates Per Person HIGH SEASON
*not including any fuel surcharge that may have to be added
Cape Horn Cabin Single USD23,600 / Double USD15,700
Piloto Pardo Cabin Single USD21,400 / Double USD14,300
Shackleton Cabin Single USD16,990 / USD11,300
Amundsen Cabin Single USD14,200 / USD9,500
Antarctic Dream (Fly and Cruise)
Ushuaia > Antarctica > Punta Arenas (7 nights / 8 days)
Day 1: Board the ship at Ushuaia.
Day 2 & 3: Drake Passage.
Day 4: Base Esperanza & Brown Bluff
Day 5: Paulet Island & Astrolabe Island
Day 6: Curverville Island & Port Lockroy
Day 7: Deception Island & Robert Point
Day 8: King George Island & flight to Punta Arenas (Chile)
Departures and Arrive Back Dates:
Dec check-in 22 / arrive back Dec 29 (high season)
Jan check-in 06 / arrive back Jan 13 (high season)
Jan check-in 21 / arrive back Jan 28 (high season)
Rates Per Person HIGH SEASON
*not including any fuel surcharge that may have to be added
Cape Horn Cabin Single USD23,600 / Double USD15,700
Piloto Pardo Cabin Single USD21,400 / Double USD14,300
Shackleton Cabin Single USD16,990 / USD11,300
Amundsen Cabin Single USD14,200 / USD9,500
Antarctica XXI
The Antarctic XXI offers a combined a flight and a cruise, enabling passengers to get to or from Antarctica quicker than they normally would. This service also allows an option to start in Ushuaia, Argentina and end in Punta Arenas, Chile and vice-versa.
Antarctica XXI Ship
The Ship is called Ocean Nova. It is a modern and comfortable vessel. Built in Denmark in 1992 to sail through the ice-ridden waters of Greenland, she has a re-enforced hull specifically to handle the challenges of navigating through ice-covered seas. The ship has a capacity for 68 passengers all accommodated in cabins with windows, with en-suite facilities. On board is a glass-enclosed observation lounge, a presentation room, a spacious dining room, bar and library, plus a sick room and an exercise room. The ship is accompanied by 2 fully-covered life boats with capacity for 90 people and zodiac boats for ship-to-shore excursions.
Antarctica XXI Plane
The aircraft used for the flight sectors is a BAE 146 - 200, made by British Aerospace in Britain. It is a high-wing aircraft that requires a very short run way for take off and landing and supports 4 engines. The flight is operated by Aerovias DAP, which has more than 20 years experience flying routes in Patagonia and Antarctica.
Antarctica XXI
Classic Antarctica Air Cruise (6 nights / 7 days)
Punta Arenas > Antarctica > Punta Arenas
Day 1: Start Punta Arenas (Chile), overnight Punta Arenas.
Day 2: Flight for 1.5hrs to King George Island (part of the South Shetland Islands).
Day 3, 4, 5 & 6: Start of Antarctic.
Day 7, return to King George Island and board flight back to Punta Arenas (Chile).
Departures and Arrive Back Dates:
Dec check-in 13 / arrive back 19 Dec
Dec check-in 18 / arrive back 24 Dec
Dec check-in 23 / arrive back 29 Dec
Dec check-in 28 / arrive back 03 Jan
Jan check-in 02 / arrive back 08 Jan
Jan check-in 07 / arrive back 13 Jan
Jan check-in 12 / arrive back 18 Jan
Rates Per Person
Triple Cabin USD9,250
Twin Cabin USD10,290
Single Cabin USD14,410
Antarctica XXI
Antarctica Express Air Cruise (4 nights / 5 days)
Ushuaia > Antarctica > Punta Arenas
Day 1: Board ship and set sail from Ushuaia.
Day 2, 3 & 4: Visit Puerto Williams, Cape Horn, Antarctic excursions, and King George Island.
Day 5: Flight to Punta Arenas (Chile).
Departures and Arrive Back Dates:
Dec check-in 10 / arrive back 14 Dec
Rates Per Person
Triple Cabin USD3,590
Twin Cabin USD4,110
Single Cabin USD5,650
Antarctica XXI
Antarctic Experience Air Cruise (7 nights / 8 days)
Punta Arenas > Antarctica > Ushuaia
Start Punta Arenas (Chile), overnight Punta Arenas.
Day 1: Flight to King George Island (part of the South Shetland Islands)
Day 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7: Antarctic excursions.
Day 8: Arrive by ship to Ushuaia (Argentina)
Departures and Arrive Back Dates:
Jan check-in 17 / arrive back 24 Jan
Rates Per Person
Triple Cabin USD8,230
Twin Cabin USD9,260
Single Cabin USD12,350
Hurtigruten Ship
The ship, MS Fram, is named after another ship that was used by a famous Norwegian explorer called Fridtjof Nansen. It is a modern ship of the style associated with the luxury cruise ships of Scandinavia, that is to say, everything is built and finished to a high standard. The ships interior is designed around the colours and open spaces of Greenland and the Arctic region, including original art works on the walls. There is also a glass-enclosed observation lounge and on-board leisure facilities including a gym, sauna and two-heated outdoor Jacuzzis.
The MS Fram is a purpose-built 8-deck, 12,700-ton vessel, built in 2007 in Italy, for cruising in Arctic waters and Norwegian fiords. There is capacity on board for 300 passengers.
Antarctica Landings with Hurtigruten
The state of the weather, wind and ice conditions will determine the exact nature of the itinerary and safety will always take priority. However the following landing sites are all locations that are targeted for shore expeditions:
Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands
Staggeringly photogenic and blessed with some of the most spectacular scenery imaginable.
Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands
A distinctive ring-shaped volcanic caldera with a flooded interior. A natural harbour within contains “Whalers Bay” – an abandoned whaling station and a derelict British base.
Yankee Harbour in the South Shetland Islands
Home to a large colony of around 4,000 Gentoo penguins.
Curverville Island
Located in the scenic Errera Channel, here is the largest-known colony of Gentoo penguins in the Antarctic Peninsula. Here are also trapped ice bergs that the ship will navigate around.
Neko Harbour
This is one of the few places where it is possible to land on the Antarctic mainland. Dramatic scenery, with mountains and high glaciated walls.
Paradise Bay
Another location where it is possible to land on the mainland of Antarctica. Lovely views.
Lemaire Channel
This is a seven-mile long and one-mile wide channel offering one of the most beautiful passages in Antarctica.
Petermann Island
Here it is usual for there to be ice bergs and whales as well as stunning views across the Antarctic Peninsula.
Port Lockroy
The British built a base here in 1941, which was abandoned in 1962, but refurbished in 1996 and now a museum. It offers a unique window into what life was like here in the 1950’s.
Wilhemina Bay
Dramatic Antarctic scenery and a feeding ground fro seals and whales.
Antarctic Sound
Here the huge ice shelves of the Antarctic continent calve off into mile-long tabular icebergs, which then float in currents into the Antarctic Sound.
Brown Bluff
Located on the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, on the coast of the Antarctic Sound, the landscape is dominated by a 2,450ft-high cliff. Home to Adelie and Gentto Penguins, kelp gulls and cape petrels, as well as seals.
Rates below are per person in a cabin for two people. Please add a fuel surcharge of USD8 per cruise night.
Hurtigruten Itineraries
Hurtigruten Shackleton’s Antarctica (19 nights / 20 days)
Day 1: Check-in on board ship at Buenos Aires.
Day 2, 3 & 4: Sailing towards the Falkland Islands.
Day 5 & 6: Around the Falkland Islands.
Day 7 & 8: Sailing towards the South Georgia Islands.
Day 9 & 10: South Georgia Islands.
Day 11 & 12: Sailing towards Antarctica.
Day 13, 14, 15 & 16: Excursions around Antarctica.
Day 17 & 18: Sailing the Drake Passage.
Day 19: Arrival to Ushuaia. Fly to Buenos Aires. Overnight.
Day 20: End.
Departures and Arrive Back Dates
Nov 03 check-in / arrive back Nov 21
Rates Per Person
Cabin MG USD13,629
Cabin M USD12,435
Cabin F USD9,870
Single Supplement USD4,678
Cabin FJ USD8,564
Single Supplement USD4,024
Cabin U USD9,209
Single Supplement USD4,347
Cabin N USD8,564
Single Supplement USD4,024
Cabin I USD7,322
Single Supplement USD3,403
Hurtigruten Chilean Fiords & Antarctica (16 nights / 17 days)
This is a combined the beautiful Patagonian Chilean fiords and Antarctica.
Day 1: Arrive to Buenos Aires. Overnight.
Day 2: Fly to Ushuaia. Overnight.
Day 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7: Sailing around the Tierra del Fuego & Chilean Fiords.
Day 8 & 9; Sailing the Drake Passage.
Day 10, 11, 12 & 13: Antarctic excursions.
Day 14 & 15: Sailing the Drake Passage.
Day 16: Arrive to Ushuaia. Fly to Buenos Aires.
Day 17: End
Departures and Arrive Back Dates
Nov 20 check-in / arrive back Dec 05
Dec 04 check-in / arrive back Dec 19
Rates Per Person
Cabin MG USD14,218
Cabin M USD13,024
Cabin F USD10,459
Single Supplement USD4,791
Cabin FJ USD9,153
Single Supplement USD4,137
Cabin U USD9,798
Single Supplement USD4,460
Cabin N USD9,153
Single Supplement USD4,137
Cabin I USD7,911
Single Supplement USD3,516
Hurtigruten Weddell Sea Adventure (14 nights / 15 days)
Day 1: Arrive to Buenos Aires. Overnight.
Day 2: Fly to Ushuaia. Overnight.
Day 3 & 4: Sailing the Drake Passage.
Day 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11: Antarctic excursions, including the Weddell Sea, which is reknown for its giant icebergs. There will also be attempts to land at these points: Snow Hill, James Ross Island, Vega Island and the Trinity Peninsula.
Day 12 & 13: Sailing the Drake Passage.
Day 14: Arrival to Ushuaia. Fly to Buenos Aires. Overnight.
Day 15: End
Departures and Arrive Back Dates
Jan 21 check-in / arrive back Feb 03
Rates Per Person
Cabin MG USD15,863
Cabin M USD14,427
Cabin F USD11,524
Single Supplement USD5,323
Cabin FJ USD10,008
Single Supplement USD4,565
Cabin U USD10,766
Single Supplement USD4,944
Cabin N USD10,008
Single Supplement USD4,565
Cabin I USD8,491
Single Supplement USD3,807
Hurigruten Polar Circle Quest (13 nights / 14 days)
Day 1: Arrive to Buenos Aires. Overnight.
Day 2: Fly to Ushuaia. Overnight.
Day 3 & 4: Sailing the Drake Passage.
Day 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11: Antarctic excursions.
Day 12 & 13: Sailing the Drake Passage.
Day 14: Arrive to Ushuaia. Fly to Buenos Aires. Overnight.
Day 15: End.
Departures and Arrive Back Dates
Feb 2 check-in / arrive back Feb 14
Rates Per Person
Cabin MG USD15,863
Cabin M USD14,427
Cabin F USD11,524
Single Supplement USD7,872
Cabin FJ USD10,008
Single Supplement USD6,734
Cabin U USD10,766
Single Supplement USD7,303
Cabin N USD10,008
Single Supplement USD6,734
Cabin I USD8,491
Single Supplement USD5,598
Hurtigruten Antarctic Discovery (11 nights / 12 days)
Day 1: Arrive to Buenos Aires. Overnight.
Day 2: Fly to Ushuaia. Overnight.
Day 3 & 4: Sailing the Drake Passage.
Day 5, 6, 7 & 8: Antarctic excursions.
Day 9 & 10: Sailing the Drake Passage.
Day 11: Arriving to Ushuaia. Fly to Buenos Aires. Overnight.
Day 12: End
Departures and Arrive Back Dates
Jan 03 check-in / arrive back Jan 13
Jan 12 check-in / arrive back Jan 22
Feb 14 check-in / arrive back Feb 24
Rates Per Person
Cabin MG USD12,314
Cabin M USD11,250
Cabin F USD9,137
Single Supplement USD6,081
Cabin FJ USD7,959
Single Supplement USD5,198
Cabin U USD8,491
Single Supplement USD5,598
Cabin N USD7,959
Single Supplement USD5,198
Cabin I USD6,878
Single Supplement USD4,388
Hurtigruten Shackleton’s Antarctica (19 nights / 20 days)
This itinerary will follow the route to the Falkland and South Georgia Islands before heading to Antarctica.
Day 1: Arrive to Buenos Aires. Overnight.
Day 2: Fly to Ushuaia. Overnight.
Day 3 & 4: Sailing the Drake Passage.
Day 5, 6, 7 & 8: Antarctic excursions.
Day 9 & 10: Sailing towards South Georgia.
Day 11 & 12: South Georgia Island.
Day 13 & 14: Sailing to Falkland Islands.
Day 15 & 16: Falkland Islands.
Day 17 & 19: Sailing to Buenos Aires.
Day 20: Arrival to Buenos Aires.
Departures and Arrive Back Dates
Feb 23 check-in / arrive back Mar 12
Rates Per Person
Cabin MG USD13,629
Cabin M USD12,345
Cabin F USD9,870
Single Supplement USD4,678
Cabin FJ USD8,564
Single Supplement USD4,024
Cabin U USD9,209
Single Supplement USD4,347
Cabin N USD8,564
Single Supplement USD4,024
Cabin I USD7,322
Single Supplement USD3,403
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