Antarctica & South America

Package Price Includes:

Package Price: $6,295*

**Per person cash discount price, based on double occupancy.
Does not include shore excursions, airfare and tips.
International Airfare to be announced around 9 months prior to sailing.
You can also purchase your own airfare. If you need a quote from another city contact our office.

Day 1:  January 4: Fly to Santiago.
Today we depart from home and travel to Santiago.

Day 2:  January 5: Arrive Santiago.
We arrive into Santiago today.  Upon arrival we will either start our city tour or transfer to our hotel where we will overnight.  This is all depending on how late the flight arrival time is.  (Transfers are included if you booked our group airfare or your flight arrives on or before and departs on or after our group flights.)

Day 3:  January 6: Valparaiso – Holland America Ship
Today we will travel along the coastline to Vina Del Mar, a seaside resort with palm tree-lined avenues and lovely villas, truly the “Pearl of the Pacific”.  We then visit Valparaiso with its historic port.  In the afternoon we will transfer to our Beautiful Holland America Cruise Ship.

Day 4:  January 7:  Fun Day at Sea
In addition to enjoying your ship, we will have our own get together social and hear from your Educator.

Day 5: January 8:  Puerto Montt, Chile
The ship will spend the day in Port.  For those doing our option package:  Our tour will take you into the countryside, to see the beautiful azure-colored waters of the Petrohue Waterfall and river.  We also include a visit to the old German Village of Frutillar.  The Village is filled with timbered homes, gabbled roofs and German bakeries.  We will return to Puerto Montt in time to do a city tour before returning to our ship.

Day 6:  January 9:  Puerto Chacabuco
For those doing our option package:  You will discover the stunning scenery, dense rain forests, bright blue lakes and snow-covered mountain peaks as well as a tour of Chacabuco.

Day 7:  January 10:  Chilean Fjords
The Chilean Fjords are more spectacular than Norway’s or Alaska’s.  They stretch for over 1,000 miles of virgin-forested islands, glistening glaciers and more fjords than in all of Scandinavia!

Day 8:  January 11:  Canal Sarmiento – Amalia Glacier
You will be among the very few that have ever sailed through the Terra del Fuego, with its snow-capped peaks and beautiful blue glaciers of Canal Sarmiento.  Cutting through Chile’s Torres Del Paine National Park, this Majestic waterway is surrounded by beauty beyond description, including the Amalia Glacier.

Day 9:  January 12:  Strait of Magellan – Punta Arenas
Punta Arenas is a remote town, pioneered by Yugoslav settlers and sheep ranchers.  It sits on rolling hills overlooking the strait of Magellan.  The strait of Magellan is where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans converge.  The strait, protected by both the mainland and islands of the Tierra Del Fuego archipelago, was considered safer than Cape Horn or Drake Passage.  For those doing our optional tour package:  We will tour Punta Arenas and spend some time shopping before returning to the ship.

Day 10:  January 13:  Glacier Alley – Ushuaia
This morning we will pass through Glacier Alley, it is more impressive than anything you have seen in Alaska.  We will then dock at Ushuaia, the most southern city in the world.  For those doing our optional tour:  Our tour today will include a tour of Tierra Del Fuego National Park.  You will visit the end of the world’s longest stretch of road.  The Pan American Highway stretches 11,987 miles from Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego.  We will also have time to tour Ushuaia and give you time to shop before returning to the ship.

Day 11:  January 14:  Cape Horn – Drake Passage
The Cape Horn marks the southernmost point of South America.  The cape’s steep and rocky cliffs rise up and extend into the Drake Passage, where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet.  Ancient Mariners dreaded rounding the Cape because of its reputation for bad weather.  We will only spend one hour cruising around the cape.

Day 12:  January 15:  Fun Day at Sea
In addition to enjoying your ship, we will have our own get together social and hear from your Educator.

Day 13:  January 16:  Antarctic sailing – Wilhelm Archipelago
Today we will sail by Anvers Island (Palmer Station) Cuverville Island and Peterman Island.  We will skirt jagged cliffs to Anvers Island, home of the U.S Antarctic Biological Research Center – Palmer Station.  In the past they were able to have some of the scientists to come aboard and talk to everyone.  We will also see the wide cobbled beaches of Cuverville Island, home to Antarctica’s extensive colony of Gentoo Penguins.  The Petermann Island is where French explorer/ scientist Dr. Jean Baptiste Charcot studied the Adelie Penguins during the winter of 1909.

Day 14:  January 17:  Antarctic Sailing – The Danco Coast
We continue to sail through the Antarctic area and to some of the most beautiful places in the world.

Day 15:  January 18:  Antarctic Sailing – The Antarctic Sound:
Today we sail to Hope Bay (Esperanza Station), Paulet & Elephant Islands.  At Hope Bay the scarlet chalets of Esperanza, an Antarctic Argentine military and scientific station, stand in stark contrast to the white Ice.  Paulet Island has several million Adelie Penguins nesting on ever available beach – and at Elphant Island, you can hear the riveting account of Shacketon’s ill-fated expedition and the crew’s heroic daily struggle to survive.

Day 16:  January 19:  Antarctic Sailing
Today we finish sailing through these beautiful lands.  We hope you enjoyed sailing throughout Antarctica.

Day 17:  January 20:  Fun Day at Sea
You have a wonderful fun day at sea to enjoy your fabulous cruise.

Day 18:  January 21:  Pt. Stanley Falkland Islands
Once you get past the end of town, it is the end of the road, from here you can only travel by 4 wheel drive.  We do not offer a shore excursion here, it is just fun to experience Scotland under the Southern Cross on your own.  Pt. Stanley is filled with moorland, pubs, red phone booths, sheep ranchers and “cuppa tea”.

Day 19:  January 22:  Fun Day at Sea
Enjoy your wonderful day at sea.

Day 20:  January 23:  Puerto Madryn, Argentina
For those doing our optional package: We will do a tour of Puerto Madryn area.

Day 21:  January 24:  Fun Day at Sea
Enjoy your wonderful day at sea.

Day 22:  January 25:  Punta Del Este, Uruguay
Today will be a free day.  You can get off the ship on your own and explore or you can purchase an excursion through the cruise line.

Day 23:  January 26:  Montevideo, Uruguay
For those doing our optional package:  We include a one half day tour of Montevideo’s water front, Legislative Palace, Parks, a trip to Montevideo Hill for a spectacular view and more before returning to the ship.

Day 24:  January 27:  Buenos Aires
For those doing our optional package:  We will spend the day enjoying Buenos Aires – “Paris of the South”.  Our tour will include the Boca District, the birth place of the Tango and the Plaza De Mayo where Evita Peron once addressed adoring masses.  Our tour will also include Recoleta & Palermo neighborhoods, the Ping house, the Cathedral, graveyard and more.  You will have time to shop and enjoy Buenos Aires, before returning to the ship and overnight.

Day 25:  January 28:  Buenos Aires
Today we unfortunately must say good bye to our beautiful cruise ship.  For those passengers who are doing the Iguazu Falls Extension we will transfer to the airport for the flight to Iguazu Falls.  For all other passengers we will finish any touring in the Buenos Aires area and then transfer to the airport for our evening flight back home.  (Transfers are included if you booked our group airfare or your flight arrives on or before and departs on or after our group flights.)

Day 26:  January 29:  US & Home
Group arrives early morning into the US and flies home.

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OPTIONAL PACKAGE #1: SHORE EXCURSIONS

Package Price includes:

• 7 days of touring and shore excursions in:
  • Puerto Montt, Chile
  • Puerto Chacabuco, Chile
  • Punta Arenas, Chile
  • Ushuaia, Argentina
  • Puerto Madryn, Argentina
  • Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Fun For Less Tour escorts on all tours and shore excursions

Our complete optional package #1 is only:  $979 

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OPTIONAL PACKAGE #2: IGUAZU FALLS EXTENSION

Note:  This package is only available for those that also sign up for Option #1 – shore excursions.

Extension Dates: January 29 – 31, 2025

Package Price includes:

• Airfare Buenos Aires to Iguazu and airfare Iguazu to Buenos Aires.  ***Note:  when we add airfare from Buenos Aires and Iguazu to our international carrier, you get a discount on the Iguazu airfare.  If you do your own airfare for this cruise and choose to add the option to Iguazu, you will have an additional cost.  Please ask and we will let you know the difference not saved when you buy the international air with Iguazu.
• 2 nights accommodations in a 5-star luxury Hotel around Iguazu Falls.
• All transfers to and from airports and hotels.
• Complete tour of Iguazu area and Iguazu Falls.  It includes visiting the falls at the bottom, middle and top.
• Jet boat ride up close to the bottom of the falls.

From what we understand Holland America has a 12-hour tour while you are in Buenos Aires.  It is done in one day.  It does not include any hotels, it just flies to the Falls, spends a few hours and flies back.  The Cost:  Over $1,600 for the one day tour.  Our tour includes 2 days of touring all of the falls and the area, two nights hotel in 5-star luxury and a jet boat ride to the falls.  To beat it all our price is under what the cruise line charges.

Our complete optional package #2 is only:  $1,277