Includes Flight Seeing
Ushuaia - Ushuaia
Dec 27 2025 - Jan 7 2026
11 Nights
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£10,660
To help you plan your expedition cruise, we have created this guide featuring places to visit, recommended expedition cruise ships, and our top expedition cruises selected by our in-house team of polar experts with decades of experience exploring the polar regions.Â
Expedition cruises are unique as they involve exploring the place you are visiting. Ships are equipped with Zodiac landing craft and teams of expert guides and naturalists. Onboard activities include kayaking and trekking, and some ships offer flightseeing and heli hiking with onboard helicopters and exploring beneath the sea with submarines.Â
Our collection of state-of-the-art expedition ships, from icebreakers to small ships and ultra-luxury vessels, ensures you can explore the polar regions in comfort.
Our choice of small and luxury expedition ships and unique itineraries will help you plan your next expedition cruise.Â
This guide will give you an overview of the destinations we explore, our top expedition ships, and a detailed FAQ. If you need any assistance planning your expedition cruise, please don’t hesitate to contact our expert travel experience team, who have a vast knowledge of expedition cruising.
Expedition cruises are adventurous cruises where the experience is geared around exploring a hard-to-get destination such as Antarctica, which is inaccessible by other means. They differ from traditional cruises as they seldom stop at ports. Often, an expedition cruise will not visit any ports at all. Instead, travelers explore with the ships onboard Zodiacs to make shore landings in remote places and cruise in sites of natural interest, such as glacier fronts. Expedition cruises are led by a highly experienced and trained team of polar guides who share their experience and knowledge of destinations with the travelers onboard.
Expedition cruise ships are far smaller than traditional ones and take between 73 and 500 guests to the polar regions. (We always recommend a smaller group size to maximize your experience.) Expedition cruise ships are often purpose-built ships designed with a high ice class for exploring the polar regions. They are equipped with a fleet of Zodiac craft, which the guide team uses to take guests exploring on a daily basis.
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Choose from our curated selection of state-of-the-art expedition cruise ships, from luxury ships to small ships and icebreakers hand-picked by our in-house team of polar experts.
Choose from a selection of different types of expedition cruises from authentic polar expedition on an icebreaker, to small ship expedition cruises perfect for adventure seekers and luxury expedition cruises for the ultimate in comfort.
Standard activities on all expedition cruises are shore visits, Zodiac cruising, and onboard lectures with the onboard guide team, which usually includes naturalists, historians, scientists, and specialists in their field, such as glaciology or marine biology.
Each expedition cruise ship offers various additional activities, typically kayaking, stand-up paddle boarding and camping under the stars. Some ships also do specialist activities such as ice diving, snorkeling and mountaineering. Ultramarine and Scenic Eclipse 1 & 2 offer exciting flight-seeking options via the ships’ onboard helicopters. The Scenic ships are also equipped with a submarine so guests can gain a unique perspective of the polar regions below the waterline.
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