22 Day Antarctica Cruise with Buenos Aires Stay & Flights

Buenos Aires

If only one word could be used to describe this vibrant and richly cosmopolitan city, it would be "mosaic." The day is at leisure to explore Buenos Aires. Stroll along these broad thoroughfares, like the Plaza de Mayo, where famed first lady Evita Perón led fervent crowds to petition for her husband’s release from prison or visit Pirámide de Mayo, the oldest of the city’s many national monuments.

Accommodation: HTL 9 de Julio or similar, Buenos Aires

Meals included: Breakfast

Antarctica Cruise - boarding in Buenos Aires

Transfer to the Cruise Terminal to check-in for your Antarctica Cruise, which will depart at approximately 5 pm.

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast and dinner

Antarctica Cruise - At Sea

Enjoy the ship’s facilities as your cruise towards Antarctica.

The two-deck Grand Cuvée Dining Room, with its grand staircase and musicians’ gallery overlooking the sea through a huge glass wall, offers excellent meals and service at two dinner seatings.

The main show lounge Silhouette Theatre typically presents song and dance revues, along with singers, comedians and musical acts. The Entertainment Court, featuring street performers, is adjacent to the Quasar nightclub. During the day entertainment choices range from games, art auctions, bingo, wine samplings and dance lessons, to educational presentations. 

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Antarctica Cruise - At Sea

Enjoy the ship’s facilities as your cruise towards Antarctica.

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Antarctica Cruise - At Sea

Enjoy the ship’s facilities as your cruise towards Antarctica.

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Antarctica Cruise - Ushuaia

Arrive into port at approximately 9 am, depart at around 9 pm.

No city on the planet has a more southerly latitude. As a result, the sun shines for 18 hours during each summer day, providing ample opportunity to view the mix of glaciers, forests and sea, all framed by Mount Martial to the west and Mounts Olivia and Cinco Hermanos to the east.

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Antarctica Cruise - Cape Horn

Arrive at approximately 6 am, depart at around 8 am.

Tierra del Fuego, Land of Fire, is the most isolated place in the Americas, and Cape Horn is its southernmost point. These craggy cliffs and windswept shores are stark, rugged beauty personified, creating a dramatic setting for the collision between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Antarctica Cruise - At Sea

Schollart Channel, Antarctica 

You are certain to leave with amazing memories, and pictures, as you cruise through Schollart Channel located near Antarctica. Take in the mesmerizing sights of massive ice flows, humpback whales, waddling penguins, leopard seals and more in their natural, and somewhat extreme, element.

Gerlache Strait 

It was the Belgium Antarctic Expedition that first explored this beautiful strait in 1898, and named it after their ship, Belgica. It was later renamed for the command of the mission, Lt. Adrian de Gerlache. This famous strait separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula and provides visitors with calving icebergs, whales, seals, and plenty of penguins.

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Antarctica Cruise - Elephant Island

Arrive at approximately 2 pm, depart at around 6 pm.

This uninhabited island is just off the coast of Antarctica and a well-placed area for nature lovers.

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Antarctica Cruise - At Sea

Enjoy the ship’s facilities as your cruise through Antarctic waters.

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Antarctica Cruise - Port Stanley

Arrive at approximately 8 am, depart at around 5 pm.

Commune with the roughly 2,000 intrepid souls who call this remote former whaling outpost home. As you hike through the rocky, windswept landscape you may observe a few of the island’s flightless residents—including Magellan penguins burrowing underground, and rockhoppers carefully observing you from outcroppings

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Antarctica Cruise - At Sea

Enjoy the ship’s facilities as your cruise through Antarctic waters.

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Antarctica Cruise - Puerto Madryn

Arrive at approximately 7 am, depart at around 4.30 pm.

This deepwater port was founded in 1865 by Welsh immigrants. Extending out into the Atlantic from Puerto Madryn is the Península Valdés, a wildlife sanctuary where vast numbers of sea elephants, whales and penguins far outnumber the few human visitors who make it out this far.

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Antarctica Cruise - At Sea

Enjoy the ship’s facilities as your cruise through Antarctic waters back towards South America.

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Antarctica Cruise - Montevideo

Arrive at approximately 9 am, depart at around 5 pm.

Montevideo is a thoroughly modern city with a rich artistic tradition, the reach of the rural estancias is all around you. If ever there were a time you were inclined to indulge, delicious steaks are the speciality of the house in virtually every restaurant.

Accommodation: Celebrity Silhouette Cruise Ship in a twin-share Oceanview Cabin with private bathroom

Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Buenos Aires

Arrive back into the cosmopolitan city of Buenos Aires at around 5 am. Transfer to your hotel and enjoy the rest of the day at leisure.

Accommodation: HTL 9 de Julio or similar, Buenos Aires

Meals included: Breakfast

Buenos Aires

Full day at leisure to explore this beautiful city.

Accommodation: HTL 9 de Julio or similar, Buenos Aires

Meals included: Breakfast

Buenos Aires

Full day at leisure to explore this beautiful city.

Accommodation: HTL 9 de Julio or similar, Buenos Aires

Meals included: Breakfast

Argentina Australia

Transfer to Buenos Aires airport for your departure flight home.

Meals included: Breakfast and inflight

In transit due to Date Line

Meals included: inflight only

Australia

Arrive home.

Meals included: inflight only