Seabourn kicks off 2024 Alaska Season, with immersive, ultra-luxury voyages in the last frontier

Seabourn, the chief in ultra-luxury cruising and expedition journey, will kick off its 2024 Alaska season on Could 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 barely 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 friends to sail on the long-lasting ship.

Seabourn Odyssey will sail on 12 seven-day voyages from Could via August 2024, crusing northbound or southbound between Vancouver and Juneau, with completely different websites, scenes, adventures, and ports to expertise every manner. Every seven-day voyage can be mixed to create an extended, extra immersive 14-day round-trip Vancouver voyage. The ship can even provide 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. As well as, friends could select from quite a lot of immersive experiences via Seabourn’s common and distinctive Ventures by Seabourn program, that includes non-obligatory guided kayak and Zodiac excursions led by the road’s world-class expedition group. The ship will full its last season with a 22-day Farewell Voyage, touring via Alaska earlier than crossing the Pacific to Japan.

“Whereas Seabourn will proceed crusing to Alaska sooner or later, this upcoming season marks the ultimate journeys of Seabourn Odyssey to ‘the Nice Land,’ and we invite our friends to embark on one last voyage together with her earlier than she departs our fleet,” mentioned Natalya Leahy, president of Seabourn. “As our very skilled Alaska Captain Tim Roberts shared with me as soon as, ‘you haven’t seen Alaska till you’ve got sailed with Seabourn’. It is because our meticulously crafted itineraries will take our extraordinary friends on the final word retreat into nature with a mix of up-close adventures and ultra-luxury facilities to immerse themselves in the fantastic thing about Alaska. The ship’s intimate measurement and yacht-like environment will grant them unparalleled intimacy with the land’s huge wildlife and breathtaking wilderness.”

Seabourn Odyssey’s 2024 Alaska season consists of:

• Seven-Day Alaska Itineraries– Every seven-day Alaska itinerary options days of pure cruising via jaw-dropping settings reminiscent of Seymour Narrows, Stikine Strait, Snow Go 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. Every crusing will embody not less than one scenic cruise of glaciers like Tracy or Endicott Arm or Glacier Bay.
• On the 10-Day Alaska Fjords Odyssey, friends journey roundtrip from Vancouver with a number of sea days via locations reminiscent of Queen Charlotte Sound, Clarence Strait, Snow Go, Sumner Strait, Misty Fjords and extra, in addition to visits to Ketchikan, Sitka, Icy Strait Level, Juneau, and the Tlingit village of Klawock on Prince of Wales Island. There will likely be considerable 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 on the coronary heart of the Tongass Nationwide Rain Forest, setting for the Stikine River, Shakes Glacier, and Anan Creek Bear Observatory, dwelling to the biggest pink salmon run within the Inside Passage.

Ventures by Seabourn in-depth experiences

Seabourn Odyssey’s 2024 Alaska season will provide a wide range of luxurious adventures via Ventures by Seabourn, that includes non-obligatory escorted actions for friends to stand up near wildlife and different wonders through hike, kayak, catamaran, and Zodiac with expert skilled guides main the best way. 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 group of naturalists, science, wildlife and historic consultants who commonly work together with friends 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 characteristic quite a lot of memorable tributes to Seabourn Odyssey’s best moments, together with appearances from the unique group and performing solid, unimaginable native artists, and distinctive items and reminiscences 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 within the first flip of fall foliage.