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Sue Perkins joins Classic FM and Hurtigruten Expeditions to host musical race to Antarctica

Classic FM has teamed up with Sue Perkins, one of the nation’s best loved broadcasters, comedians and travel presenters, to host a new four-part series Race to Antarctica with HX – Hurtigruten Expeditions. In the programme, which launched on Friday, Sue takes everyone on a fascinating musical expedition from the UK to Antarctica, exploring cities,

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HX Hurtigruten Expeditions in Antarctica. Photo Yuri Matisse Choufour

HX launch early booking discounts and a Price Promise for 2025 and 2026 sailings

HX (Hurtigruten Expeditions) are offering an early booking discount of up to 25% off sailings between 1 April 2025 and 31 March 2026 along with a promise that they won’t be beaten on price. If guests who have booked later find the same cabin for a lower price, HX will refund the difference as part

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Hurtigruten Expeditions in Neko Harbour, Antarctica

HX (Hurtigruten Expeditions) all set to go all-inclusive

HX (Hurtigruten Expeditions) are to phase in all-inclusive cruising across its fleet by November, starting with Antarctica & Galápagos expeditions, pictured, departing in October. Since rebranding to HX last December, the Hurtigruten evolution features many new initiatives that seek to combine their renowned exploring heritage with the modern-day guest experience. The all-inclusive offering ranges from

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Get off the beaten track with HX this summer and save 28%

This summer enjoy free flights, hotels and transfers, plus an additional 28% off selected sailings with Hurtigruten Expeditions to Iceland, Greenland, Svalbard, the Northwest Passage and Alaska. Join a HX expedition and encounter an all-star cast from the animal kingdom, from salmon-swatting bears in Alaska to breaching humpbacks in Greenland. The offer is valid across

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Exploring the Svalbard

Hurtigruten Expeditions’ 2023-24 season is the most extensive in its 127-year history

Spanning five continents with more than 150 different itineraries, Hurtigruten Expeditions’ 2023-24 season will be the most extensive in its 127-year history. Its ships will be cruising the Galápagos, Antarctica, Arctic and West Africa, along with off-the-beaten-path Alaska small-ship exploration. “We are thrilled to offer the greatest ever selection of adventure travel opportunities covering some

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MS Lofoten

Hurtigruten’s ‘true gem’ MS Lofoten goes into training

After nearly six decades servicing the Norwegian coast, MS Lofoten is to leave the Hurtigruten fleet in 2021 to become a training ship, educating future generations of seafarers. Hurtigruten, a world leader in exploration travel, has signed a letter of intent with the Norway-based Sorlandet’s Maritime High School and the 151-bed vessel is due to

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Hurtigruten CEO Daniel Skjeldam

How did cleaner-than-clean Hurtigruten end up with a COVID catastrophe?

Hurtigruten boss Daniel Skjeldam has spoken openly about the company’s failure to observe strict protocols as a large scale outbreak of COVID-19 swept the MS Roald Amundsen during an Arctic expedition cruise. “We have made mistakes and we have failed,” he told a news conference in Oslo yesterday. “We thought we were ready to start the expedition

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expedition vessel Roald Amundsen

Hurtigruten suspends expedition operations as large scale COVID outbreak hits Arctic cruise

Hurtigruten has temporarily suspended all expedition sailings on MS Roald Amundsen, MS Fridtjof Nansen and MS Spitsbergen until further notice following a large scale COVID outbreak on an Arctic cruise. The line reported that 36 crew members and several guests had tested positive in the outbreak on board the MS Roald Amundsen. Norwegian health authorities

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Hurtigruten plans “step by step” reintroduction of cruising from 16 June

Hurtigruten has further extended its suspension of worldwide sailings but is drawing up plans to gradually restart operations from 16 June. “We are two months into what is a truly extraordinary situation. In one way or another, the consequences of the pandemic impact us all,” says Hurtigruten CEO Daniel Skjeldam. “There is still a lot

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Hurtigruten explorer Fram

We gawped at a gigantic slab of ice. It was one such iceberg from Greenland that drifted many hundreds of miles into the path of the Titanic …

SeaView editor David Simpson begins his series of journeys Down Memory Lane with an unforgettable voyage to the icefields of Greenland on Hurtigruten’s Fram As we drifted among a field of ice-scrapers, some 60 metres tall, others 50 metres wide, it was impossible to believe that we were close to the shores of GREEN-land. It

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