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One other ‘new’ ship I forgot to mention is the Heritage Adventurer, operated by NZ’s Heritage Expeditions. She starts in the Kimberley 2023, and long time fans of expedition cruising will recognise her as the original Hanseatic, a legendary expedition ship. Over recent years she was with One...

Thanks for the welcome back, I have been lurking as always but truth be told have been flat out as folks start looking at polar cruising again! Le Ponant is generally only doing seven night trips north or south Kimberley, plus two extra nights in Broome pre or post and priced at close to 18k...

A thoroughly enjoyable review. 👍 Over the next 12-24 months we're going to see several new / returning entrants in the Kimberley, from Scenic's Eclipse, to Swan Hellenic and Seabourn, Lindbald are bringing back Nat Geo Orion, Ponant will also have Le Ponant here and of course Silversea will...

Are you headed out to the Abrolhos Islands for a few days with Eco Abrolhos Cruises? That's a great little trip. More generally, there's a heap of enquiry for cruises in the Kimberley next year (although it's getting close sold out with the deferrals from this year and normal demand) and 2022...

Please do.. actually, now's the time to start looking at Arctic for 2021 as there's some good early bird deals at the moment for parts of the Arctic. If Franz Josef Land (Russian High Arctic, north of Svalbard) is one of the areas you're looking at, already that area is selling very quickly for...

Thanks, feel free to give us a call, we're happy to work through the options with you - and don't forget there's a further 2.50% off regular fares for AFF members and you can pay by MC / VI / AMEX with no surcharge for a nice points haul!

Hi Basaka, Are you happy to share with another person of your same gender? Often the expedition lines will match you up (find a friend kind of thing). if so there's some options for about USD 8,250 per person for a 10 day trip in a twin porthole cabin aboard the new Hondius for example... If...

An update on this story... From the Cairns Post (paywall) "CATHAY Pacific’s withdrawal opens an opportunity for a bigger and better international airline to fly into Cairns — but it comes with a warning that disunity is death. The Cairns Post yesterday revealed the Cathay goose was cooked...

The cruising board has been a bit quiet of late, so I thought I would share news of the weekend arrival into Darwin of Australia's newest expedition ship, Coral Adventurer. The Australian-flagged 120-passenger expedition ship was built for Cairns-based Coral Expeditions by Fincantieri subsidiary...

For those looking at single traveller options, the new Greg Mortimer (Aurora Expeditions) is being built to accommodate 160 odd travellers - but as they are capping at 120 for Antarctica (given the '100 on the ice at any one time' rule) they're being quite generous to singles - just a 25% single...

For something a little different there are some fabulous schooner cruises in Scoresby Sund in East Greenland (the world's largest fjord region and a great place to view the Northern Lights). Ships are very small, carrying 9 to 24 people and are quite rustic, but a fabulous experience. They...

Quite a few actually offer it, but it tends to be more of the true expedition companies, rather than the more luxury cruise brands that have been moving in to the expedition sphere over the past few years. Just a couple of examples of operators in Antarctica who offer it are Oceanwide...

These days some of the operators will accept you as a half share of a twin cabin (or a quarter of a quad share etc) and they then try and find someone of the same gender to share with you. Takes the hard work out of you having to convince someone to go with you! Of course it means a bit of 'pot...

For those wanting to see more of Antarctica than just the peninsula, Oceanwide Expeditions operate a great 32 day itinerary from Ushuaia to Bluff (or vice versa) aboard the Ortelius. She's not a luxury vessel like some of the new polar ships being launched, but she is tough and has a great...

Indeed, we love the One Ocean ships as well, in addition to the Ioffe and Sergey Vavilov they've also now added the Resolute to their fleet, which used to operate very successfully as Happy Lloyd's Hanseatic, although ti is a bit larger at 146 passengers. What a pain in the rear end that date...

For those folks considering an Antarctic cruise in the next few years, we've started receiving advance notice of some expeditions to witness the total solar eclipse taking place down there on 04 December 2021. The first cab off the rank to announce schedules for this cruise are the Oceanwide...

The new Greg Mortimer (being built for Aurora Expeditions) is proving quite a popular choice for our clients, and they're doing some voyages from Ushuaia / Punta Arenas beyond the Antarctic Circle (but not including South Georgia). She will be capped at 120 passengers on her Antarctic season...

For a Purnululu NP specific program the price on this offer is actually really good, especially considering it's fly in and out from Kununurra. APT (the operator) have the package brochured at $2,795 per person twin share, so $1,799 is a good deal. APT's lodge is also - in my opinion - the...

Great - thanks for the feedback everyone - feeling a bit more comfortable about it now.

Fantastic - did they volunteer the new phone or did it take a bit (or a lot) of prodding from your end?