Silversea Arctic Polar expedition cruises are the perfect post-Covid getaway experiences.
The destinations are sparsely populated, the ships are small, and the memories will last a lifetime.
Silversea is one of our Favorite Ocean Cruise Brands, and an Arctic expedition cruise is one of the top five destinations on our bucket list.
One of the first things to understand about an expedition cruise is that it is as active as you want it to be.
Silversea’s small luxury expedition ships are designed for guests who want to discover the world while traveling in comfort and elegance.
If you prefer to stay aboard one of their 5-star expedition ships and ogle eye-popping scenery, you can do that.
Or, if you prefer a little more adventure, then climb aboard one of their skiffs and go ashore to explore. It’s all up to you.
Expedition Teams
Between 11 and 28 qualified specialists will be on hand during every voyage. They will give lectures, run workshops, lead Zodiac trips, and guide nature walks to enrich and educate guests about the destinations.
Each cruise has experts in their fields, such as naturalists, geologists, zoologists, and ornithologists. Silversea Expeditions have one of the highest expedition team-to-guest ratios in the expedition cruising industry.
Silversea Ships Going to the Arctic and Greenland
Silversea Silver Wind
Silversea has two ships sailing in the Arctic regions:
Silver Cloud – with a maximum of 254 guests, 20-brand new Zodiacs, four superlative restaurants in Antarctica, and a pole to pole expedition itinerary, Silver Cloud really does break the ice between expedition and luxury.
Silver Wind – with an ice-class hull refurbishment in the summer of 2021, Silver Wind is a perfect illustration of how complete a small-sized ship can be. With just 274-guests, beautiful suites, and spacious public areas, Silver Wind is one of the coziest and most intimate ships afloat today.
Silversea Arctic & Greenland Expedition Cruises
Silversea currently offers 21 different itineraries in the Arctic region.
The cruises range from 6-day cruises in Norway, a 13-day cruise from Norway to Iceland, and if you really want to be wild and crazy, how about a 24-day Northern Passage cruise from Greenland to Nome, Alaska?
We expect that these Arctic cruises will be very popular sailings post-Covid. To explore the 21 different itineraries, please CLICK HERE.
Complimentary VIP Perks!
How to Book Silversea Cruises
A Silverseas Cruises price is the same booking directly with the cruise line or booking with Roaming Boomers Travel Services.
However, Silversea Cruises is a member of our Virtuoso Voyages program. Therefore, we have complimentary VIP perks to share on many of their voyages.
For more information or to book a luxurious itinerary with Silversea Cruises, please call Roaming Boomers Travel Services at (480) 550-1235 or use our convenient online information request (click here), and we’ll reach out to you.
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We are very excited to learn that Oceania Cruises is launching a new ship in 2023.
We’re excited because it has been nearly a decade since Oceania Cruises put a new ship in the water.
Our clients love Oceania Cruises. Their focus on a fabulous culinary experience and their exciting itineraries keep guests coming back.
And a new ship coming in 2023 and a sister ship coming in 2025 will put a cherry on top of their longstanding reputation for excellence.
OCEANIA CRUISES WELCOMES “VISTA” TO ITS ACCLAIMED FLEET
Here’s the scoop from Oceania:
Miami, FL – March 16, 2021 – Oceania Cruises, the world’s leading culinary- and destination-focused cruise line, introduced Vista to the world today, naming the first of two new 1,200-guest Allura Class ships that are being constructed by renowned Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri S.p.A. The luxury vessel, the seventh for the line, will set sail in 2023, followed by a sister ship in 2025.
Named to reflect the dawn of a new age in travel, Vista will exemplify all the hallmarks of the Oceania Cruises experience that guests have come to expect. A marvel in the making, Vista will deliver The Finest Cuisine at Sea, exceptionally personalized service with two staff members for every three guests, a warm and welcoming ambiance as a result of the ship’s captivating residential furnishings, and introduce several unique firsts for the brand in the realms of dining and guest experience.
“Oceania Cruises is an innovative and ever-evolving brand. We are always looking over the horizon, and Vista represents our view to the future,” stated Bob Binder, President & CEO of Oceania Cruises.
Consumers and travel advisors can expect to be wowed by the dramatic and glamorous public spaces such as The Grand Dining Room, which soars almost two decks in height and pays homage to the “beautiful age” of early 20th-century Parisian society through its contemporary interpretation of Belle Époque.
Vista’s nine additional best-in-class culinary experiences, luxurious signature public spaces, and spacious, residentially inspired suites and staterooms will be revealed starting in May 2021, with her inaugural voyages opening for sale in September 2021.
Oceania Celebrity Chef Jacques Pepin
Vista represents not just a view to the future for the Oceania Cruises brand, but also the unique vision of the company’s thousands of officers and crew who played a pivotal role in the design of the ship and helped shepherd it from concept to design to reality.
“Our officers and crew are always bringing great new ideas to the forefront and then implementing them. More than any other part of the Oceania Cruises organization, we owe our success to our onboard teams. They are the ones who made Vista possible, and it is a credit to them, these true visionaries of the seven seas, that we name the ship for them, in their honor,” added Binder.
Currently under construction by Fincantieri S.p.A. in Italy, Vista will sail her first commercial voyage in early 2023. Measuring approximately 67,000 gross registered tons, the ship will accommodate 1,200 guests and be staffed by 800 officers and crew, offering industry-leading space and staff-to-guest ratios. An unnamed sister ship will debut in 2025.
Complimentary VIP Perks!
How to Book an Oceania Cruise
The first thing to know is that booking a cruise direct with Oceania or booking the cruise with Roaming Boomers Travel Services will get you the same price and perks.
However, when you book with us, not only will you enjoy our expert advice and service, but we also have our renowned Virtuoso Voyages perks on many of their sailings.
So why do-it-yourself?
Give us a call. We’ll take care of the details. We’ll be your advocate all along the way. And perhaps, we’ll have some exclusive VIP perks to add to your booking.
For more information or to book a fun Oceania cruise, please call Roaming Boomers Travel Services at (480) 550-1235 or use our convenient online information request (click here), and we’ll reach out to you.
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Regent Seven Seas Cruises: 2022 Caribbean Sailings
Regent Seven Seas Cruises expands its lineup for 2022 winter Caribbean sailings.
Before we get started, you should know that Regent is one of our ‘go-to” luxury cruise lines. To learn more about our favorite ocean cruise line brands, please CLICK HERE.
Ok. Let’s get to the announcement:
Regent has relaunched Seven Seas Navigator’s early 2022 Caribbean Season to provide travelers with more choice and diversity of luxury vacations in the popular Southern Caribbean. Ranging from 7- to 30 nights in length and sailing between January and April 2022, there are 12 voyages in the season in total, 7 of them brand new. The redesigned season means that there are now 9 itineraries that sail to or from Bridgetown, Barbados, with 6 being round-trip journeys.
“As the leader in luxury cruising, we continually review and enhance our itineraries to ensure the most immersive destination experience possible, and with our previously announced voyages that sailed to and from Bridgetown proving to be very popular, we are delighted to offer more opportunities to cruise right from the heart of the Southern Caribbean,” said Jason Montague, president, and chief executive officer, Regent Seven Seas Cruises. “Travelers on board Seven Seas Splendor will also be enjoying an amazing Caribbean Winter and Spring, plus, Seven Seas Mariner and Seven Seas Voyager will touch upon the region too, so there’s a myriad of travel choices for guests to explore this wonderful destination onboard our intimate, yet spacious, ships.”
Allowing Seven Seas Navigator to showcase the Southern Caribbean’s alluring attractions more intensively, the season begins January 6, 2022, with the first new sailing embarking Cartagena, Colombia, on January 25, 2022. New itinerary highlights include the scenic pitons in St Lucia; the white sand beaches of St Kitts & Nevis; and the stunning islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. Eastern Caribbean gems also feature calls at the islands of St. Barts, Antigua, Martinique, and Trinidad and Tobago, to name a few. Guests looking for longer vacations can combine sailings for a 30-night voyage that allows for complete Caribbean exploration.
As part of Regent’s wider 2021-2022 Caribbean Season, the ship that perfects luxury, Seven Seas Splendor, visits Southern, Eastern, and Western Caribbean destinations in multiple sailings from December 2021 to March 2022; Seven Seas Mariner cruises a 24-night sojourn combining the Southern Caribbean and South America in November 2021 and a 10-night Eastern Caribbean voyage in December 2021; and Seven Seas Voyager sails a 10-night Eastern Caribbean itinerary in March 2022.
To view all of Regent’s Caribbean sailings, pleaseCLICK HERE.
Regent’s 30-Night Complete Caribbean Sailing
We know that many of you are looking for longer cruises after the Covid-19 pandemic. If that is you, let us recommend Regent’s new 30-Night Complete Caribbean Sailing.
The cruise starts on January 6, 2022 in Miami and will sail for 30-night allowing you to visit the entire Caribbean in one fell swoop.
This Holiday Cruise leaves Miami on November 5, 2021, circumnavigates South America, and returns to Miami on January 6th.
How fun is that!
Complimentary VIP Perks!
How to Book a Regent Seven Seas Cruise
A Regent Seven Seas Cruises price is the same booking directly with the cruise line or booking with Roaming Boomers Travel Services.
However, Regent Seven Seas Cruises is a member of our Virtuoso Voyages program. Therefore, we have complimentary VIP perks to share on many of their voyages.
Further, our affiliation with Cadence allows us to bring you group benefits on many sailings in addition to our Virtuoso perks.
For these reasons, combined with our expert advice and experience, it really is to your benefit to book with Roaming Boomers Travel Services.
For more information or to book a luxurious Regent Seven Seas cruise, please call Roaming Boomers Travel Services at (480) 550-1235 or use our convenient online information request (click here), and we’ll reach out to you.
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And before I attempt an answer, I’m always quick to let our clients and readers know that my crystal ball broke many years ago.
Nonetheless, here are my current thoughts on the issue:
As we talk to our clients each day, many report that they have received their Covid-19 vaccinations. Further, the folks in the UK are well along with their vaccinations. It seems that folks in Europe are a few months behind the U.S. and the UK, but I suspect that they will also be reporting large swaths of their populations have been vaccinated in the next few months. This bodes well for a restart of ocean and river cruising.
As we reported a few months back, Canada has closed its cruise ports through January of 2022. This caused a great deal of dismay for the cruise industry as this effectively shut down Alaska cruises and the popular New England Fall Cruises for 2021. The U.S. and Canada are working together on a possible solution. Some speculate that this was in retaliation for our current administration’s immediate shutdown of the gas pipeline. While I don’t know about all of that, I further suspect that this will change as both countries get further into vaccinations. After all, Canada’s cruise port cities make a lot of money from American cruise line passengers.
U.S.-flagged cruise lines American Queen and American Cruise Lines have started sailing in U.S. waters this week. If all goes well, we expect a big influx of new bookings for these “close to home” cruises.
Viking announced yesterday that they were putting one of their ships in the water to sail in European waters. This sailing is strictly for UK residents. The cruises sold out in a day. All eyes will be on Viking to see how this goes.
Many of the European cruise brands are currently sailing in the Mediterranean. Again, another good test to possibly reveal the safety of cruising post-Covid.
A number of the large-ship cruise brands have recently suspended sailing through the end of June 2021. They have very high hopes for a restart in July.
Genting, an Asian-focused cruise line, recently announced their 100,000th cruise passenger post-Covid. Again, providing further evidence that cruising is again starting in various parts of the world.
For reasons unknown to the cruise community, the CDC has been very slow to provide guidelines for a restart of cruising from American ports. I was reading a JP Morgan report yesterday, and they believe that we will get some guidance from the CDC on this issue very soon. This will be a big shot in the arm for the cruise industry. Pun intended. 🙂
We are beginning to see country after country announce that they will begin to accept international travelers who can demonstrate that they have received a Covid-19 vaccination. This is fabulous news.
All of the foreign-flagged cruise lines have suspended all cruises through the end of May. And as I mentioned above, a few have suspended their cruises through the end of June.
So, when might we begin sailing again? I believe there is significant momentum afoot that might allow cruise lines to begin sailing this summer.
As I started at the beginning of this article, my crystal ball broke a long time ago. Nonetheless, we’re finding tremendous industry optimism to support our theory.
Fingers and toes crossed! 🙂
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Vaccine Passports are currently a hot topic in the world of travel.
We are beginning to see countries like Iceland and others open up their borders to those who have proof of a Covid-19 vaccination.
Further, I would not be surprised to find that airlines, cruise lines, more countries, sporting events, and maybe even your favorite local restaurant require proof of a Covid-19 vaccination for entry.
And if this all comes true, some digital verification is a likely outcome.
However, this rapid race for a digital solution does not come without its challenges:
Should we be concerned about the privacy of our health records?
What if someone, for medical reasons, can’t take the Covid-19 vaccination? Will they have a difficult time traveling?
What if someone refuses to take the Covid-19 vaccination? Could they be prevented from traveling?
The world is awash right now with companies trying to elbow their way into becoming THE vaccine passport accepted worldwide. If you sign up for a vaccine passport now, might you have to do it again with another “accepted” app?
When traveling, if you don’t have a vaccine passport, will you be required to stand in a slower line to have someone physically look at your CDC-issued Covid-19 Vaccination Record Card?
Wouldn’t these CDC-issued Covid-19 Vaccination Record Cards be easy to forge?
If our Federal Government gets involved, which they likely will, is it going to take 15-years for our divided government to reach a consensus on the issue?
I don’t know how this is going to shake out. However, vaccine passports are a topic that international travelers will want to pay close attention to in the coming months.
We will do our best to keep you abreast as this conversation begins to play out. Stay tuned.
What are your thoughts on the issue? If you’re so inclined, feel free to share in the comments section below.
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One of the first things to understand about an expedition cruise is that it is as active as you want it to be.
Expedition Teams
