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Late light catches the glacier front in South Georgia, with a penguin colony strung along the shore below. Photo: Sean De Freitas

Silversea · Silver Cloud · December 2027

Antarctica & South Georgia.
Everything Taken Care Of

An extraordinary expedition, effortlessly arranged. Experience Antarctica and South Georgia in Silversea luxury, with an exclusive package.

Silversea's Silver Cloud expedition ship in Antarctica

20 days · 2 to 23 December 2027

The Southern Ocean, in full

Most voyages to Antarctica sail to the Peninsula and back. This one goes much further. South Georgia first, where king penguins crowd the beaches in their tens of thousands and fur seal pups take their first steps at the water’s edge. Then Elephant Island, where Shackleton’s men waited out the winter of 1916. Then the ice of the Antarctic Peninsula, where the December sky never quite turns dark.

You arrive the way the explorers did, by sea, with albatrosses riding the wind behind the ship and the air turning colder as the Southern Ocean opens around you. Fifteen nights is what a voyage like this asks, and every one of them is spent aboard Silver Cloud, in a Veranda Suite, with the ice going past your door.

This is the kind of journey people carry with them for years before they take it. Our role is to make it entirely yours. We know Silver Cloud deck by deck, we know how a day unfolds down there, and we have arranged everything around the voyage, from the flight out of Australia to the morning you land home, two days before Christmas. Our team is with you before, during and after.

  • 15 nights aboard Silver Cloud
  • Departs Australia 2 December 2027
  • Flights, hotels and transfers included

The December 2027 package

Already taken care of

More than a voyage. This departure comes with an upgraded Veranda Suite, kayaking with the expedition team, your flights from Australia and three nights at The Singular in Santiago, all included.

Upgrade

A Veranda Suite

Your suite is upgraded to a Veranda Suite: glass doors and a private teak veranda, for fifteen nights of ice going past your door.

Included

Kayaking

Paddling with the expedition team in South Georgia and Antarctica, weather permitting, included in the package.

Flights

From Australia and back

Return economy flights to Santiago, out on 2 December, home on the morning of the 23rd. Business class on request.

Santiago

Three nights at The Singular

Two before the voyage and one after, with breakfast, every transfer and a guided tour of the old city.

On the route

Why this route

Three places most travellers only ever read about, on a single voyage, in the best month to see them.

Plaza de Armas in Santiago de Chile.

Santiago and Lastarria

Two nights in Lastarria, Santiago’s most beautiful quarter, to land gently: cobbled streets, galleries, long lunches, and a guided walk through La Moneda, the Plaza de Armas and Cerro Santa Lucía. The Andes stand behind the city on a clear day, and the long flight from Australia falls away.

Day by day

Day by day

The shape of the twenty days. At sea, the ice and the weather decide each day.

You are met at the airport and taken to The Singular, in Lastarria, for two nights with breakfast. On day 2, a guided tour of the old city, and the rest of the day is yours. On day 3, the hotel Silversea arranges in Las Condes, where the voyage begins.

The ship

Silver Cloud

Silversea’s first ship, rebuilt for the ice and kept to 200 guests in polar waters, with the feel of a private house. You learn her in a day: the Panorama Lounge over the wake, the outer deck the moment a whale is called, a long dinner as the light lingers past ten.

Discover Silver Cloud
The panorama lounge aboard Silversea's Silver Cloud expedition ship

The Panorama Lounge, at dusk

A dining room aboard Silversea's Silver Cloud expedition ship

Dinner, unhurried

A guest relaxing in the sauna aboard Silversea's Silver Cloud expedition ship

The sauna, after the ice

A woman relaxing in a hot tub on the pool deck of Silversea's Silver Cloud expedition ship

Whirlpools on deck

A bartender mixing drinks aboard Silversea's Silver Cloud expedition ship

The bar, before dinner

Everything arranged, from Australia and back

  • Return international flights from Sydney or Melbourne
  • 15-night Silversea expedition aboard Silver Cloud
  • 2 nights pre-cruise at The Singular Santiago
  • 1 night post-cruise at The Singular Santiago
  • 1 night at The Ritz-Carlton Santiago
  • Guided Santiago city tour
  • All airport and hotel transfers
  • Internal flights to and from the expedition
  • Complimentary one-category suite upgrade

Silversea’s hotel night in Santiago before the voyage with breakfast, the round-trip charter flight between Santiago and Puerto Williams, and the transfers to the ship. Fifteen nights aboard Silver Cloud with butler service, all meals and 24-hour room service, champagne, wines, spirits and soft drinks, Wi-Fi, gratuities and port taxes, all Zodiac outings and landings with the expedition team, lectures on board, an expedition jacket to keep and a reusable water bottle.

Travel insurance, which is required for the voyage, luggage handling, and optional spa treatments. Extra nights in Chile before or after can be added on request.

Business class flights between Australia and Santiago can replace economy for an additional A$10,000 per person on the package price.


Snowy mountains and a glacier stretching toward the water on South Georgia Island.

Good to know

Before you decide

What guests ask us most about this departure.

Silversea’s charter flight to Puerto Williams leaves from Santiago, and arriving two days early gives you time to recover from the flight from Australia before the voyage. Silversea includes a hotel night before the charter; the package adds the two nights before it and one after.

Three days in South Georgia, a day at Elephant Island, two days on the Antarctic Peninsula and a last day among the South Shetland Islands, with the expedition team planning each outing around the conditions.

Landings are by Zodiac, with the crew helping you in and out, and walks ashore are at your own pace. Kayaking and longer hikes are optional. A reasonable level of mobility is needed to step from the Zodiac onto a beach.

Yes. The Atacama, Torres del Paine, or a few days in Valparaíso and the wine valleys all fit before or after the voyage. Tell us what interests you and we build it into the same journey.

You leave Santiago on 21 December and arrive in Australia on the morning of 23 December, depending on your city.

Your suite

Tell us who is travelling, we hold the rest

Tell us who is coming and how you like to travel, and we confirm your Veranda Suite, the flights from your city and any nights you would like to add in Chile before or after the voyage.