Holland America Opens World Cruise Booking

Holland America Line has opened bookings for 2 new Grand Voyages that can depart in January 2025. The Grand Voyage: Pole-to-Pole aboard Volendam will go to 5 continents on a south-to-north journey, whereas the Grand World Voyage aboard Zuiderdam will cowl six continents on an east-to-west route. Each voyages will sail roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale’s Port Everglades.

“We craft one-of-a-kind itineraries that resonate with our world voyage company, as indicated by pre-bookings on these cruises,” mentioned Beth Bodensteiner, Holland America Line’s chief business officer. “Our group put collectively two superb Grand Voyages so our company can’t go fallacious with both. We’re excited to supply two distinctly completely different, but equally bucket-list itineraries.”

2025 Grand Voyage: Pole-to-Pole Highlights — Volendam

• 133 days. Departing Jan. 25, 2025, roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale.
• Follows a south-north-south route via the Panama Canal, down alongside the west coast of South America to Antarctica, then up alongside Argentina and Brazil to the center of the Amazon River. The ship then crosses the Atlantic Ocean to Africa, sails north to Europe and as much as the North Cape earlier than heading west throughout the northern Atlantic Ocean by way of Iceland and Greenland, and eventually down the jap shores of North America.
• Pole to Pole: Down south Volendam spends 4 days of scenic cruising in Antarctica and up north the ship crosses the Arctic Circle to the North Cape.
• 68 whole ports throughout 5 continents and 28 international locations.
• 8 in a single day calls: Fuerte Amador, Panama; Callao (Lima), Peru; Buenos, Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Barcelona, Spain; Lisbon, Portugal; and Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Memorable Moments: Panama Canal transit, Cape Horn, Antarctica, Falkland Islands, exploring the Amazon River, Strait of Gibraltar, Norwegian fjords, North Cape, Iceland and Greenland.

2025 Grand World Voyage Highlights — Zuiderdam

• 124 days. Departing Jan. 4, 2025, roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale.
• Transits the Panama Canal and makes solution to Easter Island earlier than crossing the South Pacific to Australia. Explores the Nice Barrier Reef en path to Indonesia and Sri Lanka, then sails south to Cape City, South Africa, by the use of the Seychelles, again up alongside the jap coast of Africa, via the Suez Canal to Portugal earlier than crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
• 46 whole ports in 32 international locations throughout six continents.
• 9 in a single day calls: Callao (two nights); Easter Island; Papeete, Tahiti; Sydney, Australia; Singapore; Cape City; Mombasa, Kenya; Safaga, Egypt; and Barcelona.
• 7 late-night departures: Manta, Ecuador; Seychelles; Cape City and Durban, South Africa; Aqaba, Jordan; Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy; and Gibraltar, U.Okay.
• Memorable Moments: Panama Canal transit, two nights at Callao permitting time to go to Machu Picchu, Easter Island, scenic cruising within the Nice Barrier Reef, two full days in Cape City, the chance to go to Petra from Jordan and expertise Luxor from Safaga.

The mixed Grand Voyages will function greater than 4,000 dwell performances, 1,400 shore excursions and 5,800 pickleball video games — greater than any two simultaneous voyages for Holland America Line. An infographic in regards to the breadth and depth of the voyages could be discovered here.

Grand Rendezvous in Barcelona