Swan Hellenic concluded its 2023-2024 Antarctic season with a 20-night voyage from Ushuaia to Cape Town. It was a highly successful season, with nearly 3,000 passengers choosing the Swan Hellenic to explore the continent, and an average cabin occupancy rate approaching 90%. The majority of passengers came from the United States and the United Kingdom, with increasing numbers from China and Brazil.
Bookings for the 2024-2025 Antarctic season are already just as strong thanks to the great anticipation generated on the Internet.
Swan Hellenic's cultural expedition cruises offer elegant yet informal boutique ships, expertly crafted itineraries, gourmet cuisine, expert talks, and hands-on expeditions.
To mark the arrival of the SH Vega in Cape Town, Swan Hellenic has unveiled all the details of its 2025-2026 Antarctic Season, with a wide selection of 9, 10, 11, 13, 17 and 20 night itineraries and 12 cultural expedition cruises aboard the five-star SH Vega and SH Diana, with capacity for 152 and 192 guests respectively.
The first cruise of the season will depart from Buenos Aires on November 14, 2025, and the last one from Ushuaia on March 17, 2026.
Andrea Zito, CEO of Swan Hellenic, comments: “We are delighted with the soaring popularity and excellent reputation we have earned with our cultural expedition cruises to Antarctica – all of them true adventures of discovery, always conducted to the highest standards of safety and environmental responsibility. But above all, we are delighted with the feedback from our guests, who tell us about their experiences both onboard and ashore. That is exactly what we strive for, and our newly announced Antarctic cruises for 2025-2026 have been expertly designed to further build upon everything we have learned.”
The voyage to Cape Town was a spectacular 20-night cruise from Ushuaia, Argentina. After crossing the famed Drake Passage, its intrepid crew thoroughly explored the Antarctic Peninsula and then sailed northeast to Paulet Island, South Georgia, and the South Sandwich Islands, before continuing on to Gough Island, part of the world's most remote inhabited archipelago, and finally arriving in Cape Town. To enrich the journey as part of Swan Hellenic's Explore Space at Sea series in collaboration with the SETI Institute, the cruise guests were accompanied onboard and ashore by Dr. Jeffrey C. Smith, an expert in planetary science, AI, and data analysis.
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