{"id":4565,"date":"2008-07-07T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=4565"},"modified":"2008-07-07T04:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T04:01:00","slug":"christmas-in-antarctica-a-voyage-of-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2008\/07\/christmas-in-antarctica-a-voyage-of-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTMAS IN ANTARCTICA \u2013 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SHGVGuLfHhI\/AAAAAAAADi4\/7OjMIqQ8i_w\/s1600-h\/Discovery-789964.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/SHGVGuLfHhI\/AAAAAAAADi4\/7OjMIqQ8i_w\/s320\/Discovery-789964.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220117385807076882\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christmas in Antarctica is amongst a series of cruise holidays aboard the smaller, classically-styled expedition ship Discovery from South America in December and January.<\/p>\n<p>And savings of up to $1500pp can be enjoyed by those who book and pay through Cruiseco by July 31 for these 15- to 18-night adventures, bringing the 15-night Christmas package from as low as $4195pp twin-share.<\/p>\n<p>Guests will have two-nights pre-cruise in Buenos Aires including a half-day&#8217;s organised sightseeing, and on December 17 fly to Ushuaia to join Discovery for Drake Passage, six days in Antarctica&#8217;s South Shetland Islands, Antarctica Sound, Paradise Island to celebrate Christmas Day, and Half Moon Island.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a rounding of Cape Horn, cruising the Beagle Channel and Strait of Magellan, Punta Arenas, 2-nights and a half-day&#8217;s sightseeing in Santiago.<\/p>\n<p>Other packages on the luxury Discovery include 16-nights return from Buenos Aires to Antarctica and the Falkland Islands on December 4; Santiago to Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Buenos Aires for 19-nights on December 27; and 18-nights Buenos Aires to Santiago via Antarct-ica and the Chilean Fjords on January 11 2009 (or vice-versa January 25.)<\/p>\n<p> Prices include all onboard dining, airport\/hotel\/ship transfers, and gratuities for cabin stewards and restaurant waiters; for full details including costs of air to join these cruises, phone 1800 225 656 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruising.com.au\">www.cruising.com.au<\/a> for the name of your nearest Cruiseco cruise specialist agency Australia-wide.<\/p>\n<p>ADDITIONAL DISCOVERY DETAILS: The uncrowded 20,000 tonne Discovery that carries just 700 passengers has two restaurants and optional on-deck alfresco casual dining, ten bars and lounges, a nightclub, guest lecturers, a theatre and cinema, library, casino, card room and internet caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p> There are two pools, two jacuzzis, a gymnasium, health centre and beauty salon.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas in Antarctica is amongst a series of cruise holidays aboard the smaller, classically-styled expedition ship Discovery from South America in December and January. And savings of up to $1500pp can be enjoyed by those who book and pay through Cruiseco by July 31 for these 15- to 18-night adventures, bringing the 15-night Christmas package [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}