It’s not just about what you see but how you put it together. You can now combine this cruise with a four-day train trip through the Alps. Uniworld’s SS La Venezia on the Venice Lagoon. Departs October 2023 from Athens, ends in Rome. Comes with champagne on ice-and you can always decide to go back to your cabin. The crew will convert the six-seat lounger into a bed under the stars and rope it off for privacy. The small, recently refitted SeaDream II can squeeze in alongside the megayachts in picture-perfect ports like Hydra (the town an amphitheater around it) or Bonifacio (accessible via a white limestone channel riddled with sea caves). And now, in an 11-night sailing, they are combining stops in Greece Sicily’s Aeolian islands the Amalfi Coast Cervo, Sardinia and Bonifacio, Corsica. The twin 112-passenger yachts of the SeaDream Yacht Club have a cult following thanks to their intuitive crew (the service is akin to a private charter’s), exceptional food, and sense of happy hedonism onboard. The two vessels’small size allows them to pull into other such picture-perfect ports. Have a Mediterranean BlowoutĪ SeaDream Yacht Club ship in Portofino. Departs February 2023, roundtrip from Cairns. The ship itself is all minimalist chic, with a countercurrent pool and cuisine courtesy of Ducasse Conseil. At Madang, where more than 170 languages are spoken, the “Asaro mudmen” perform with their bodies covered in clay as part of a cultural showcase. The Tami and Lusancay islands are mere specks of green and white surrounded by teeming reefs. There’s military history in Alotau (a 1942 Japanese defeat) and extraordinary geology in Tufi, where sheer cliffs plunge 450 feet into glassy green water. They’re all stops on Ponant’s expedition ship, Le Laperouse, on its 11-day sailing from Australia to Papua New Guinea, land of isolated tribes, deep fjords, white sandbars, and tropical forests.
You’ve probably never heard of Alotau, Tufi, Madang, Morobe, Tami, Lusancay, or Samarai. Ponant’s sleek Le Laperouse expedition ship will take you from Australia to Papua New Guinea (with-attention, fitness fans-a counter-current pool onboard). Departs August 2023 from Reykjavik, ends in Vancouver. There are also kayaking and hiking, visits to Inuit settlements, and, conditions permitting, diving into the mysterious blue twilight beneath the ice in the ship’s submarine. You’ll approach frozen shores and icebergs and their inhabitants (polar bears, walruses, ringed seals) via Zodiac inflatables. The exact route will depend on ice conditions. First navigated by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in 1906, the passage has only recently been drawing expedition vessels-alas, because of the shrinking sea ice. This 33-day expedition on the brand new Seabourn Pursuit (launching in 2023), from Iceland to the coastal towns of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska, delivers serious bragging rights as it includes 10 days in the Northwest Passage, the unpredictable 900-mile ice-strewn expanse across the top of Canada. Illulissat, a coastal town in western Greenland, is one of the stops on Seabourn Pursuit’s dramatic northern itinerary, which includes 10 days on the ice-strewn Northwest Passage. Departs May 2023 from Jidda, ends in Athens. Highlights along the way: Hegra, an ancient Nabataean city carved out of rock that is Saudi Arabia’s counterpart to Jordan’s Petra (although far less commercialized), and an overnight excursion to Al Ula, a desert region of dramatic sandstone arches and pillars and archaeological remains-ready Instagram fodder. Silversea Silver Cloud’s 12-day sailing follows the strikingly pristine, reef-rich east coast of the Red Sea north from Jidda, through the Suez Canal to Alexandria, Egypt, then on to Greece. But if you’re curious about this complex country, a cruise that takes in some of its sights (including UNESCO World Heritage sites) is the best way to get there before everyone else does. While nearly every high-end hotel company has announced plans to build there, accommodations (and service) are still pretty basic, except in the cities. Tourism is in its infancy in Saudi Arabia. If you’re intrigued by Saudi Arabia, Silversea’s Silver Cloud (here, on one of its northern routes) will sail next May for the first time from Jidda to Athens.
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