Ending its close to sell-out Antarctic season with a 20-night voyage from Ushuaia to Cape City, the cultural expedition cruise pioneer broadcasts what’s in retailer for explorers of the “White Continent” in 2025-2026.
COURTESY SWAN HELLENIC: March 25, 2024 – Right this moment, the ice-class Swan Hellenic cruise ship SH Vega sailed into Cape City from Ushuaia, bringing the cultural expedition cruise pioneer’s 2023-2024 Antarctic season to a detailed.
And a really profitable season it’s been. The figures communicate for themselves. Virtually 3,000 company selected Swan Hellenic to find the continent, and stateroom occupancy averaged simply shy of 90%. Friends from the USA and UK continued to account for almost all, with an growing quantity from China and Brazil. Bookings for the 2024-2025 Antarctic season are already equally sturdy on the again of highly effective on-line buzz.
It’s clear that Swan Hellenic’s cultural expedition cruises have now constructed a robust fame for being desirably totally different, with their elegant however casual boutique ships, expertly curated itineraries, connoisseur delicacies, specialist talks and hands-on expeditions.
Marking the second of SH Vega’s Cape City arrival, Swan Hellenic has launched full particulars of its 2025-2026 Antarctic Season, giving ample time to safe a reserving within the face of this more and more sturdy demand. Providing a large selection of trip lengths, the confirmed 9, 10, 11, 13, 17 and 20-night itineraries proceed with refined enhancements, providing 12 cultural expedition cruises aboard the five-star SH Vega and SH Diana, accommodating 152 and 192 company respectively. The primary cruise of the season departs Buenos Aires on 14 November 2025, and the concluding cruise sails from Ushuaia on 17 March 2026. Full particulars are already out there on the Swan Hellenic Web site, the place you may also obtain a whole coloration brochure.
Swan Hellenic CEO Andrea Zito feedback: “We’re delighted with the booming recognition and excellent fame we’ve earned for our Antarctica cultural expedition cruises – all true adventures of discovery whereas at all times being performed to the very best requirements of security and environmental duty. However, above all, we’re over the moon with the suggestions we’ve obtained from our company, telling us all about their life-changing experiences aboard and ashore. That’s precisely what we work so laborious to attain and our lately introduced 2025-2026 Antarctica cruises have been expertly designed to construct even additional on all the pieces we’ve discovered.”
The voyage to Cape City was a spectacular 20-night cruise from Ushuaia, Argentina. After crossing the infamous Drake Passage, her intrepid voyagers explored the Antarctic Peninsula in depth after which struck out northeast to Paulet Island, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, subsequently crusing on to Gough Island, a part of essentially the most distant inhabited archipelago on this planet, earlier than lastly reaching Cape City.
Enriching the voyage as a part of Swan Hellenic’s Discover House at Sea Collection in partnership with the SETI Institute, cruise company have been accompanied aboard and ashore by Dr. Jeffrey C. Smith, Knowledgeable in Planetary Science, AI and Knowledge Analytics. In the course of the voyage, Dr. Smith gave 4 fascinating talks: “How do Astronomers Discover Exoplanets?”, “Sure, lookup! Using AI to Discover Exploding Meteors and to Assist Shield the Earth from Harmful Asteroids”, “Why do Scientists Love Antarctica a lot?” and “Will we ever actually discover E.T.?”
ENDS
About Swan Hellenic
Swan Hellenic was relaunched in July 2020 to proudly advance the spirit of cultural expedition cruising the corporate pioneered within the Fifties. Constructing on its British roots, the brand new firm has a distinctly cosmopolitan tradition devoted to offering company with international alternatives to see what others don’t.
Swan Hellenic’s purpose-built boutique ships function elegant Scandi-design interiors, intensive out of doors areas and devoted expedition services. SH Minerva and SH Vega, two 5-star Polar Code PC 5 expedition cruise ships with ice-strengthened hulls, launched in December 2021 and July 2022. Each accommodate 152 company in 76 spacious suites and staterooms, the bulk with giant balconies. A barely bigger PC 6 ice-class vessel, SH Diana, accommodating 192 company in the identical distinctive consolation and magnificence in 96 staterooms and suites, was launched in April 2023.
Whereas sharing the distinctive design options of her sister ships, SH Diana additionally introduces sure key enhancements, together with a devoted presentation and lecture theatre overlooking the lounge, and on-board Tender boats to take company ashore along with and in better consolation than the customary expedition Zodiacs. Like her siblings, SH Diana includes a state-of-the-art gymnasium, spa, panoramic sauna, membership room and swimming pool with poolside grill.
All three ships function three eating venues – the Swan Restaurant, Membership Lounge and Pool Bar & Grill – and are in-built full compliance with SOLAS Secure Return to Port necessities. Devoted to company with a ardour for journey and cultural exploration, the corporate’s meticulously deliberate itineraries discover the wild landscapes, wildlife, peoples and cultures of the world’s much less travelled and most historic areas.
The crews every embrace a group of 12 seasoned expedition guides, knowledgeable audio system and lecturers, for a complete complement of 120 and 140 individuals respectively, providing excellent staff-to-guest ratios to ship the very best requirements of attentive private service.
Swan Hellenic’s cultural expedition cruises have at all times been distinguished by the corporate, steerage and knowledgeable lectures of well-known explorers, seasoned expedition guides and main authorities of their fields. Now, lots of the cruises are additionally enriched by partnerships with distinctive organizations to convey very totally different specialists on board in the identical approach, together with JRE-Jeunes Restaurateurs, Chopra and the SETI Institute.
Maris Culinary Discovery at Sea brings a distinct JRE connoisseur chef aboard every in a sequence of unique cruises which take company on a parallel voyage of gastronomic discovery. Chopra Discover & Restore well-being voyages pair inward journeys with outward exploration, leading to a deeply enriching, therapeutic expertise with impacts that final lengthy after the voyage has concluded. Whereas the SETI Discover House at Sea Collection brings a distinct world-renowned scientist from the SETI Institute aboard every cruise to offer company with knowledgeable insights into the historical past and newest discoveries in astronomy, astrophysics, astrobiology and planetary science, in addition to the search to seek out different types of life inside and past our photo voltaic system.
On many cruises, company can even take part in Swan Hellenic’s Citizen Science partnerships, contributing precious knowledge obtained throughout their expeditions and on board, reporting cloud knowledge with NASA, recording whale sightings with Happywhale, monitoring phytoplankton with the Secchi Disk Examine, and Antarctic seabird numbers with Stony Brook College.
Headquartered in Cyprus with places of work in London, Dusseldorf, Monaco, Fort Lauderdale (serving the North American market), Hong Kong (serving Larger China, India and South-East Asia), Sydney (serving Australia-New Zealand) and Copenhagen (serving Scandinavia and Iceland), along with a partnership serving Japan, Swan Hellenic helps the journey commerce with native specialist companions to offer prospects with knowledgeable private service worldwide.
See cruises right here
Swan Hellenic Cruises
SH Diana
SH Vega
Browse Cruise Ships and Cruise Traces
Ed. Notes: CruiseCompete and its member journey advisors present many curated cruise and land offers, provides and facilities on over 50 cruise strains with over 500 cruise ships crusing all world wide.
Sea Tales 2023 Household Cruise Journey Planner (flippingbook.com)
