![]() Its ambitious maiden season will see it visit 49 countries across all seven continents. The Regent Suite on board Seven Seas Splendor.įurther down the road, SeaDream Yacht Club will take delivery of luxury megayacht SeaDream Innovation in September 2021. The 750-passenger all-suite, all-balcony ship will particularly delight food lovers with its promise of seven restaurants, on-board culinary classes and gourmet excursions. Turning to the different market segment of intimate luxury vessels, Seven Seas Splendor sails out for Regent Seven Seas Cruises from February 2020 with an opening season in North America, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The good news is you won’t need to abandon the cocktails, croissants and comfortable beds. Fuelled by liquefied natural gas and capable of navigating 2.5-metre-thick ice floes, it promises journeys to extreme places such as the Geographic North Pole, the Northeast Passage and Antarctica’s Ross Sea. But Le Commandant Charcot, arriving in mid-2021, will be a world-first electric-hybrid icebreaker. Over in the French-flagged corner, Ponant has been rolling out a series of nimble 184-passenger expedition ships for a few years now, and three more are coming shortly. The polar-certified Endeavor will include a restaurant by Nobu Matsuhisa, a wellness centre and cinema, plus a large array of adrenalin-inducing equipment – two helicopters, two seven-person submarines, jet skis and Zodiac inflatable craft. In a nod to Australians' strong propensity to cruise, the all-suite ship will visit Australia for its inaugural season. Polar snorkelling with Aurora Expeditions.Ī firm favourite, Crystal Cruises – which recently launched luxury yachts and river cruise ships – ventures into expedition cruising in August 2020 with the 200-passenger Crystal Endeavor. Hiking, snowshoeing, sea kayaking and skiing are among the activities on offer, and for ultimate boasting rights passengers can camp overnight in the Antarctic. The 120-passenger, ice-class ship will focus on the Arctic and Antarctic. In October, Australian company Aurora Expeditions’ vessel Greg Mortimer debuts. Even expedition cruising has never been more luxurious, with butler-serviced suites, generous staff-to-guest ratios, gourmet dining, lavish day spas and helicopters on board. With a new generation of ever more extravagant cruise ships rumbling down the slipways shortly, travellers will no longer have to be as hardy as British survival instructor Bear Grylls to explore the planet’s far reaches.
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