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Ponant Adds Europe Itineraries for 2024

 

 

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Ponant’s 2024 itineraries are now on sale, and among the 50 voyages are four new ones in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and northern Europe.

The new cruises include Islands and Cities of the Mediterranean and Landscapes and Cultures of the Adriatic, both on Le Bougainville, and an Adriatic round-trip from Venice, visiting the Croatian ports of Rovinj, Primosten, Split, Hvar, Brac and Pula, plus Piran in Slovenia.

Poignant Cruises LogoThere are two new Mediterranean cruises: one from Athens to Malta, visiting Paros, Hydra, Pylos and Taormina; and a 10-night sailing from Valletta, Malta, to Antalya, Turkey on L’Austral.

Other new options are Cultural Treasures and Scandinavian Panoramas, an 11-night sailing on Le Dumont-d’Urville, from Edinburgh to the Orkney Islands and then to Norway, Sweden and Denmark; and British Archipelagos and Celtic Shores, sailing from the French port of Saint-Malo to the Channel Islands, Dartmouth, the Isles of Scilly, and Bantry, Cobh and Dublin, Ireland.

Ponant earlier this week announced another new expedition, a nine-day Cruising the Historic Cities of the Baltic Sea, the first of 21 planned itineraries in partnership with Smithsonian Journeys. Departing Stockholm on August 10, it will feature an onboard presentation and discussion with the former president of Poland and Nobel Peace Prize-laureate Lech Wałęsa, as well as Baltic historian Glenn Kranking and foreign affairs journalist Robin Wright.

Sailing the Baltic Sea on Le Champlain, it will visit seven countries: Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Denmark, and five UNESCO World Heritage sites, including the 18th-century Fortress of Suomenlinna in Helsinki and the Curonian Peninsula of Lithuania.

Other journeys in the partnership will see a solar eclipse in Australia’s Kimberley, and “sun and merry live steel drums while our Ducasse-trained chefs prepare a regional barbecue lunch during a stopover on a private Caribbean beach,” business development director Dale Woods told TRO. “Traveling closer to home does not mean sacrificing experience, however, as you will also be joined by Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart for a musical celebration along the St. Lawrence Seaway.”

Ponant’s new itineraries in Asia will be announced in January, the company said.

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