Seabourn Venture Expedition Ship and Program: Everything You Want to Know! (Update I)

Goldring Travel November 16, 2021

Today, December 4, 2019, the Seabourn Venture’s keel has been laid, so with this milestone bringing the first purpose-built luxury expedition ship into reality, I figured it was the best time to explain everything and anything that is known (and can be made public…hint, hint) about the Seabourn Venture and the Seabourn Ventures Expedition experience

Seabourn’s Antarctica and Patagonia – Goldring Travel’s Third Expedition – Part III (South Georgia Island)

Goldring Travel December 27, 2019

After years of “You have to go to South Georgia Island” it was time. I was finally going to get there. And Seabourn let us know that there was a change in the schedule: Rather than the two days in South Georgia we would have three full days there! South Georgia Island During a coffee

Seabourn’s Antarctica and Patagonia – Goldring Travel’s Third Expedition – Part II (Anticipation)

Goldring Travel December 23, 2019

Anticipation. I remember the first moment I saw Antarctica. It was about 5:30 a.m. and I was in the Observation Lounge on the Seabourn Quest. It was a grey morning with thick fog. There were about four other people there drinking coffee. I had no idea how close we were to Antarctica. I mentioned in

Seabourn’s Antarctica and Patagonia – Goldring Travel’s Third Expedition – Part I

Goldring Travel December 9, 2019

On December 19, 2019 I board the Seabourn Quest for my third trip to Antarctica and Patagonia. Yes, I have the “ice bug”! For me it is the most personally enlightening and biologically magnificent place on earth…and I feel like I have but only begun to scratch its surface, in part because that is the

Expedition Cruising – Seabourn Style…or Shall I Say “Styles” (Seabourn Venture & Seabourn Quest)

Goldring Travel April 10, 2019

Seabourn Venture Bottom Line: Don’t Wait For Seabourn’s New Luxury Expedition Ships! OK, now that I have said it, you are asking, “Hold on! Huh? Why not?”. The reasons are quite simple: If you are interested in visiting say Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, Patagonia or Norway…or even Alaska, Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia these are

Seabourn’s Antarctica Revisited – Part II (Desolation, Getting the Party Started and Perspective – Chilean Patagonia)

Goldring Travel January 21, 2019

While some of my future articles on this Patagonia and Antarctica journey will be more about my in depth view of things, this one is more of my normal travelogue through to our departure for Antarctica. Embarking on the Seabourn Quest for my second trip to Patagonia and Antarctica was quick and stress-free. Even though

Seabourn Sojourn in Alaska – Part V (Seabourn Ventures: Inian Islands, Icy Strait and College Fjord)

Goldring Travel July 30, 2018

With my Alaska experience on the Seabourn Sojourn unfortunately coming to its end, I wanted to write an article about something very special: The Seabourn Ventures Program. I have watched the program develop and grow, not only from offerings, but to the quality of its scientists and naturalists and its integration into an otherwise “normal”

Seabourn Announces Two Ultra-Luxury Expedition Ships (June 2021 and May 2022)

Goldring Travel July 2, 2018

Seabourn Cruise Line has announced it is constructing two 264 passenger ultra-luxury expedition ships with deliveries in June 2021 and May 2022. The first expeditions will be in the Arctic before the first ship transitions to Antarctica. These Seabourn Ventures integrated ships will be built to PC6 Polar Classification, which means it can operate in

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