Our Antarctica family cruise during Christmas 2023 was a hallmark adventure for ... Choosing between large cruise ships and small expedition ships for an Antarctica family cruise involves weighing ...

Guests were crossing the Drake Passage at the time, a notoriously treacherous waterway between Antarctica and South America.

Traveling on one of more than 50 cruise ... annual visitors: Antarctic tourism had gone mainstream. What does it look like today? Most Antarctic tourists travel on small “expedition-style ...

Swan Hellenic has reported a 25% increase in guest numbers to Antarctica for the 2024/25 season. Revenue for the brand jumped ...

“I think it really gives you a sense of the vast, amazing wilderness that we have,” says Kath Giel, a trip leader for the Sierra Club’s expedition cruises to Antarctica, of her own ...

Travelling to Antarctica ... cruise up the Beagle Channel, before quietly slipping into dock in Ushuaia, where we will be free to disembark around 8am. You will bid a fond farewell to your ...

Unless you’re a research scientist, you’ll only ever be able to land in Antarctica off a small expedition cruise ship. Silversea in Antarctica. But although expedition companies are sending ...

Most expedition cruises to Antarctica cross the Drake Passage ... I sailed to Antarctica with Aurora Expeditions in 2023, and my own experience on the way down was somewhere in the middle ...