Seabourn, the chief in ultra-luxury cruising and expedition journey, will kick off its 2024 Alaska season on May 10,2024 with Seabourn Odyssey departing from Vancouver for an enriching and in-depth schedule to a few of the area’s hottest locations and infrequently visited ports all through the Inside Passage. The season can even mark Seabourn Odyssey’s last season with the cruise line, offering yet one more alternative for visitors to sail on the iconic ship.
Seabourn Odyssey will sail on 12 seven-day voyages from May by August 2024, crusing northbound or southbound between Vancouver and Juneau, with totally different websites, scenes, adventures, and ports to expertise every approach. Each seven-day voyage may also be mixed to create an extended, extra immersive 14-day round-trip Vancouver voyage. The ship can even supply two 10-day Alaska Fjord Odyssey itineraries, in addition to one 11-day Inside Passage & Alaska Fjords voyages, scheduled spherical journey from Vancouver in June. In addition, visitors could select from a lot of immersive experiences by Seabourn’s well-liked and distinctive Ventures by Seabourn program, that includes non-compulsory guided kayak and Zodiac excursions led by the line’s world-class expedition staff. The ship will full its last season with a 22-day Farewell Voyage, touring by Alaska earlier than crossing the Pacific to Japan.
“While Seabourn will continue sailing to Alaska in the future, this upcoming season marks the final journeys of Seabourn Odyssey to ‘the Great Land,’ and we invite our guests to embark on one final voyage with her before she departs our fleet,” mentioned Natalya Leahy, president of Seabourn. “As our very experienced Alaska Captain Tim Roberts shared with me once, ‘you have not seen Alaska until you have sailed with Seabourn’. This is because our meticulously crafted itineraries will take our extraordinary guests on the ultimate retreat into nature with a blend of up-close adventures and ultra-luxury amenities to immerse themselves in the beauty of Alaska. The ship’s intimate size and yacht-like atmosphere will grant them unparalleled intimacy with the land’s vast wildlife and breathtaking wilderness.”
Seabourn Odyssey’s 2024 Alaska season consists of:
- Seven-Day Alaska Itineraries– Each seven-day Alaska itinerary options days of pure cruising by jaw-dropping settings reminiscent of Seymour Narrows, Stikine Strait, Snow Pass and the Behm Canal, interspersed with landings at culturally vital cities from Ketchikan to Sitka to Wrangel, Alaska, and Prince Rupert and Alert Bay in British Columbia. Each crusing will embody no less than one scenic cruise of glaciers like Tracy or Endicott Arm or Glacier Bay.
- On the 10-Day Alaska Fjords Odyssey, visitors journey roundtrip from Vancouver with a number of sea days by locations reminiscent of Queen Charlotte Sound, Clarence Strait, Snow Pass, Sumner Strait, Misty Fjords and extra, in addition to visits to Ketchikan, Sitka, Icy Strait Point, Juneau, and the Tlingit village of Klawock on Prince of Wales Island. There might be plentiful alternatives to go deeper with Ventures by Seabourn actions at Inian Island, Tracy Arm or Endicott Arm and Misty Fjords.
- 11-Day Inside Passage & Alaska Fjordsis a roundtrip voyage from Vancouver with a day to discover Wrangell on an eponymous island at the coronary heart of the Tongass National Rain Forest, setting for the Stikine River, Shakes Glacier, and Anan Creek Bear Observatory, dwelling to the largest pink salmon run in the Inside Passage.
Ventures by Seabourn in-depth experiences
Seabourn Odyssey’s 2024 Alaska season will supply quite a lot of luxurious adventures by Ventures by Seabourn, that includes non-compulsory escorted actions for visitors to stand up near wildlife and different wonders by way of hike, kayak, catamaran, and Zodiac with expert skilled guides main the approach. Ventures by Seabourn will embody explorations of Hubbard Glacier, Tracy/Endicott Arm, Inian Islands, Rudyerd Bay (Misty Fjords), Alert Bay in British Columbia, and extra. Ventures by Seabourn excursions are led by the ship’s expedition elite, world-class staff of naturalists, science, wildlife and historic specialists who usually work together with visitors all through every crusing, sharing insights and in-depth data on the historical past, ecology, and tradition of respective areas.
22-day Farewell Voyage
Seabourn has additionally deliberate particular actions and leisure to commemorate Seabourn Odyssey’s 22-day Farewell Voyage, departing September 2, 2024, from Seattle, Wash., to Yokohama, Japan. The one-of-a-kind voyage will function a lot of memorable tributes to Seabourn Odyssey’s biggest moments, together with appearances from the unique staff and performing forged, unbelievable native artists, and distinctive presents and recollections to be made with their Seabourn household. The ship will traverse the glacial surroundings of Alaska’s southern reaches, go to the wildlife havens of Kodiak Island and Dutch Harbor, and discover the cultural enclaves of Japan’s Hokkaido Island to revel in the first flip of fall foliage.
