Ponant opens 2015-16 Antarctica bookings

The world’s only French-flagged cruise line and top cruise line worldwide in polar expeditions for 15 years, COMPAGNIE DU PONANT’s itineraries to the Antarctic for the 2015-2016 season are now open for bookings. Including Open Bar, these cruises benefit from the PONANT BONUS (up to 30% savings on brochure prices) for a limited period, and may be extended with a host of pre and post cruise programmes.

THE ANTARCTIC EXPERIENCE

Exploring the world’s extreme regions in five-star comfort is a unique concept created by COMPAGNIE DU PONANT that has become its hallmark.

From November 2015 to January 2016, COMPAGNIE DU PONANT has three outstanding itineraries offering a genuine polar safari experience to observe the region’s unique wildlife in its natural habitat. Aboard LE BORÉAL, L’AUSTRAL and LE LYRIAL, luxury French-flag yachts of 122 to 132 staterooms and suites, designed for polar cruises and complying with the international “Green Ship” label, passengers gain access to protected sites only accessible to small capacity ships, limited in this region to 200 passengers.

Flexibility at all times is the approach that sets these cruises apart, with Zodiac® outings to get passengers as close as it is possible to be to nature, with time to linger over the region’s most emblematic sites. At any moment the ship may alter its course to admire the acrobatics of a humpback whale or land passengers on a beach to meet a particularly impressive penguin colony. It is a unique experience made all the more interesting by renowned South Pole specialists who are only too delighted to share their views and passion for these polar lands which they have been roaming for years.

The Antarctic Peninsula

Complete immersion in the vast white world of the Antarctic Peninsula, discovering the tabular icebergs and drifting pack ice where fur seals and colonies of Gentoo, Adelie and Chinstrap penguins live.
Ushuaia – Ushuaia (11 days / 10 nights)

Currently available: Ponant Bonus 30% for lead in Deluxe Stateroom is $9080.00 AUD (based on Le Lyrial 29th November 2015).
Direct return flights and transfers from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia included.

Antarctic & South Georgia

Essence of the Antarctic Peninsula’s white landscapes and discovering of South Georgia with its imposing glaciers and black sandy beaches, home to vast colonies of king penguins.
Ushuaia – Ushuaia (15 days / 14 nights)

Currently available: Ponant Bonus 30% Superior Stateroom $11,270.00 AUD (based on L’Austral 15th December 2015).
Direct return flights and transfers from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia included.

The Great Austral Loop

Highlights of three regions – Falklands and the black-browed albatross, South Georgia and king penguins, plus the majestic icebergs of the North Antarctic Peninsula – make for an unforgettable journey of 14 or 16 nights.
Ushuaia – Ushuaia (15 days / 14 nights)
Currently available: Ponant Bonus 25% Deluxe Stateroom $13,680.00 AUD based on Le Boreal 15th November 2015
Direct return flights and transfers from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia included.

The website www.ponant.com provides details on the fleet, voyages, itineraries, inclusions – and the videos in particular will give an appreciation of the French style that is the PONANT signature.

Further details available by calling 1300 737 178 or +61 2 8459 5000, or see your travel agent.