SMALL SHIP CRUISING
2020 CULTURAL JOURNEYS & EXPEDITIONS
EUROPE | ANTARCTICA | LATIN AMERICA | ASIA | NORTH AMERICA
Reserve your preferred dates now! Small is Big. Why Tauck Small Ship Cruising?
Uncommon Access and Experiences Come aboard our small ship cruises and immerse in a voyage of discovery unlike any other. Because of their size, our yachts and expeditionary vessels are not restricted to commercial routes or large ports so we’re free to navigate island shores and hidden harbors where bigger ships can’t go. Leave the lines and your cares behind as you disembark for a choice of privately guided excursions and exclusive Tauck experiences in must-see places only open to our guests.
Fully Guided by Expert Tauck Directors Travel with our professional Tauck Directors, averaging over 10 years of service. By your side both onboard and ashore, they’re more than just your guide. They’re your planning expert. Your helping hand. Your fellow globetrotter. The difference between a trip, and the trip of a lifetime.
Sophisticated, Intimate Ambiance Venture out on a ship handpicked for your journey, with no more than 40 to 300 guests. Make yourself comfortable, settling into a stateroom with a spectacular view or steal away to the top deck for an evening under the stars. Meet new friends as you explore the sites in small groups expertly choreographed by Tauck, sharing magical moments and a special kinship with like-minded travelers.
All-Inclusive Travel effortlessly, knowing that every aspect of the trip is already paid for in one upfront price – from shore excursions and hotel stays to gratuities and more, with no hidden fees or surprise added expenses. Everything you need to experience the best of land and sea is included with Tauck.
3 CULTURAL JOURNEYS Our culturally inspired cruises aboard a fleet of small ships handpicked for the destination offer guests a choice of included experiences in historic port cities and island harbors from Asia to Europe to Latin America, North America and the lands Down Under. They indulge with comforts personally delivered, reward with authentic connections unique to Tauck, and engage with welcome camaraderie aboard and ashore.
Cancún Puerto Morelos Riviera Maya GREAT Cairns Tulum BARRIER New for 2020! REEF MEXICO QUEENSLAND PACIFIC OCEAN CARIBBEAN AUSTRALIA SEA Waiheke Island White Island New River Altun Ha NEW SOUTH Caye Caulker Auckland Lamanai WALES Tauranga Belize City Sydney Rotorua Tikal VICTORIA NORTH ISLAND Napier BELIZE Half Moon Caye Melbourne Flores Wellington TASMAN Picton SEA SOUTH Marlborough ISLAND Valley Milford Sound Livingston NEW Puerto Doubtful Sound ZEALAND Cortés Queenstown Rio Dulce Santo Tomás Fiordland Nat’l Park de Castilla HONDURAS Dunedin GUATEMALA Dusky Sound Copán
Mayan Culture & Natural Cruising Down Under 20 DAYS – Prices Available! Wonders • 9-night cruise aboard Le Lapérouse BEGINS MELBOURNE / AUCKLAND • 7-night cruise aboard Le Champlain 10 DAYS – Prices Coming in March! • 2-night hotel stays in Auckland & Eastbound – Melbourne to Auckland • 2 nights in the Riviera Maya Queenstown; choice of hotel stays BEGINS AND ENDS IN CANCÚN Jan 7 Mar 13 • Excursion choices include visits to in Melbourne, Cairns & Sydney Jan 4, 16, 30 Westbound – Auckland to Sydney ancient cities in Mexico, Honduras • Multiple included shore excursion Jan 22 Mar 10 & Guatemala, tastings & river cruises choices in every port in New Zealand
4 Reserve your cruise today – deposit required but refundable until priced! LAKE SUPERIOR SCOTLAND NORTHERN Mackinac IRELAND Island LAKE ISLE OF HURON Belfast MAN Douglas IRELAND IRISH ONTARIO SEA Liverpool NORTH Dublin SEA Traverse City Toronto LAKE UNITED KINGDOM MICHIGAN ONTARIO WISCONSIN Niagara on the Lake Blarney Castle Niagara Falls ENGLAND Welland Cork Cobh WALES LAKE Canal MICHIGAN Muskegon Kinsale London LAKE NEW YORK Hampton Court Palace Holland ERIE Detroit Saugatuck Dearborn PENNSYLVANIA Portsmouth Chicago Tresco ENGLISH OHIO ISLES CHANNEL ILLINOIS INDIANA OF SCILLY St. Mary’s
GUERNSEY St. Peter Port FRANCE Cruising the Great Lakes: Treasures of the Chicago to Toronto 12 DAYS – Prices Coming in March! British / Irish Isles: 12 DAYS – Prices Coming in March! • 7-night cruise aboard Le Champlain Dublin to London • 2-night stays at premium hotels in BEGINS CHICAGO / TORONTO • 7-night cruise aboard L’Austral BEGINS DUBLIN OR LONDON Eastbound Eastbound Chicago and Toronto – Chicago to Toronto • 2 nights each at hotels in Dublin – Dublin to London Sep 24 May 1 • Wrigley Field visit; off-road fun at Lake and London with guided tours Westbound – Toronto to Chicago Westbound Michigan dunes, choice of museums • Steam train ride on the Isle of Man; – London to Dublin Oct 1 May 8 in Toronto; Niagara Falls boat cruise choice of Titanic-inspired tours
RUSSIA CHINA
NORTH KOREA SEA OF JAPAN JAPAN TURKEY AEGEAN SOUTH KOREA GREECE SEA Hiroshima/Miyajima HONSHU Sakaiminato/ Tokyo Matsue Ephesus Maizuru n Athens Busan rai Kusadasi Kyoto let T Piraeus Nara Bul Mycenae Osaka MYKONOS PATMOS STRAIT Nafplion SHIKOKU PELOPONNESE OF KOREA Uno Ko Uwajima IONIAN Monemvasia Nagasaki Naoshima SEA KYUSHU Kurashiki SANTORINI EAST CHINA Kagoshima PHILIPPINE SEA OF CRETE SEA SEA Cruising the Land 14 DAYS – Prices Available! of the Rising Sun 10 DAYS – Prices Coming in March! BEGINS OSAKA Treasures of the Aegean • 8-night cruise aboard Le Soléal Wind Star Northbound – Osaka to Tokyo • 7-night cruise aboard BEGINS AND ENDS IN ATHENS • 3 nights in Osaka and 2 nights in Apr 18 May 4 • Visits to Santorini, Mykonos, Patmos, May Jun Tokyo with guided sightseeing 8, 15, 22, 29 5, 12, 19, 26 Southbound – Osaka to Tokyo Monemvasia, Nafplion and Ephesus Jul 3, 10, 17 Aug 21, 28 • Shore excursion choices in Hiroshima Apr 26 May 12 • 2 nights in Athens Sep 4, 11, 18, 25 Oct 2 & Nagasaki; taiko (drumming) in Kyoto
5 SHETLAND ISLANDS
ORKNEY ISLANDS NORTH CULTURAL SEA ISLE OF LEWIS
ISLE OF Inverness SKYE LOCH NESS Cuillin SCOTLAND Mountains JOURNEYS ISLE OF MULL ISLE OF IONA Greenock ATLANTIC Glasgow Edinburgh OCEAN UNITED KINGDOM NORTHERN IRELAND ENGLAND Legendary Scottish Isles, 11 DAYS – Prices Coming in March! Edinburgh & Glasgow • 7-night cruise aboard Le Champlain BEGINS GLASGOW OR • 1- and 2-night choice of hotel stays EDINBURGH in Glasgow and Edinburgh Eastbound – Glasgow to Edinburgh May 2 • Excursion choices include historic Westbound – Edinburgh to Glasgow castles, abbeys, museums, and a May tour and tasting at Glen Ord Distillery 8
FRANCE ITALY Rome MONACO
Naples Saint-Paul- Monte-Carlo Amalfi de-Vence Nice Portoferraio ELBA MEDITERRANEAN SEA Porto ITALY CORSICA Azzurro
Bonifacio STROMBOLI Ponza MEDITERRANEAN Amalfi LIPARI PONTINE SEA ISLANDS SARDINIA Trapani Palermo Giardini-Naxos Mt. Etna STROMBOLI SICILY LIPARI Siracusa Taormina Mt. Etna Giardini Naxos SICILY Valletta MALTA MALTA Valletta Treasures of the 11 DAYS – Prices Coming in March! Sicily, the Amalfi Coast 11 DAYS – Prices Coming in March! Mediterranean & Rome • 7-night cruise aboard Le Ponant with BEGINS MALTA OR NICE • 7-night cruise aboard Le Ponant BEGINS MALTA OR ROME Northbound only 60 guests onboard – Malta to Nice • 2 nights in Rome at Hotel Northbound – Malta to Rome May Jun Aug Sep Oct May Jun Sep • Visits to Elba, Corsica, Ponza, Lipari, 8 22 31 28 12 Majestic Roma with sightseeing 25 8 14 Southbound Southbound Sicily & Malta for unique excursions – Nice to Malta • 1-night stay in Malta at – Rome to Malta Apr 30 May 17 Aug 23 Sep 6 Oct 4 May 31 Jun 14 Sep 20 • Hotel stays in Malta and Monte-Carlo Phoenicia Hotel Malta
6 Reserve your cruise today – deposit required but refundable until priced! Ålesund
FINLAND Hellesylt Geiranger Loen/Loen Lake Olden
Helsinki St. Petersburg
Stockholm Tallinn Pushkin ESTONIA SWEDEN RUSSIA NORWEGIAN Bergen Oslo SEA DENMARK LATVIA NORWAY SWEDEN
Copenhagen BALTIC SEA LITHUANIA Stavanger Arendal
Göteborg NORTH SEA DENMARK
St. Petersburg 12 DAYS – Prices Coming in March! Norwegian Fjords & Coastal & the Baltic Sea Treasures 10 DAYS – Prices Coming in March! BEGINS COPENHAGEN OR • 7-night cruise aboard Le Dumont • 7-night cruise aboard Le Bellot d’Urville STOCKHOLM BEGINS BERGEN OR OSLO • Overnight stays in Bergen and Oslo • 2 nights each in Copenhagen and Northbound – Copenhagen to Stockholm Eastbound – Bergen to Oslo Stockholm with sightseeing May 31 Jun 14 • A choice of fjord and glacier Jul 28 Aug 11 sightseeing; private concert at • Guided tours in Helsinki, Tallinn, and Southbound – Stockholm to Copenhagen Westbound – Oslo to Bergen Jun 7, 21 Edvard Grieg’s historic home; Aug 4, 18 St. Petersburg guided cruise on Lake Loen
ITALY FRANCE
Venice ATLANTIC Barcelona Rovinj CROATIA OCEAN
Pula PORTUGAL SPAIN
Palma de Sibenik Lisbon Mallorca Split MONTENEGRO Cartagena MEDITERRANEAN Hvar Korcula Seville Dubrovnik Granada SEA Málaga Almería Kotor Cádiz ADRIATIC SEA Gibraltar GIBRALTAR Venice & the Dalmatian Coast 13 DAYS – Prices Coming in March! • 7-night cruise aboard Le Lyrial Treasures of Spain and Portugal BEGINS LISBON OR BARCELONA • 2 nights in Venice with guided 10 DAYS – Prices Coming in March! sightseeing • 8-night cruise aboard Wind Surf Eastbound – Lisbon to Barcelona Apr 16 Aug 26 • 6 UNESCO World Heritage Sites: BEGINS VENICE • 2 nights at InterContinental Lisbon Westbound Venice, Dubrovnik, Sibenik, Kotor, Jun Sep • 2 hotel nights at El Palace in – Barcelona to Lisbon 3, 10, 17 9, 16, 23 Jun 4 Nov 6 Stari Grad Plain & Split Barcelona with sightseeing
7 EXPEDITIONS Nature is the big draw on our expeditionary cruises to remote islands, part of our exclusive Earth Journeys collection created by Tauck with BBC Earth. Experienced Tauck Directors and onboard naturalists skilled in the ways of the wild reveal nature’s unseen worlds through custom film vignettes, select BBC Earth touches, lectures and guided shore excursions that never fail to engage and inspire.
ARGENTINA Buenos Aires GREENLAND SEA Grímsey ARCTIC Island CHILE CIRCLE
Vigur Island DENMARK SOUTHERN SOUTHERN STRAIT Ísafjördur Siglufjordur PACIFIC ATLANTIC Osvor Godafoss OCEAN OCEAN Akureyri Lake Myvatn
ICELAND Grundarfjördur Budir Arnarstapi Ushuaia Djúpalónssandur Thingvellir National Gullfoss Park DRAKE PASSAGE Reykjavik Geysir South Admiralty Bay Keflavik Hafnarfjördur Shetland Islands Blue Lagoon Deception Paulet Island Island Hope Bay ATLANTIC OCEAN Paradise Bay Heimaey Island Lemaire Surtsey Island Channel ANTARCTIC PENINSULA Iceland: Antarctica Land of Fire & Ice • 10-nights aboard L’Austral, Le 13 DAYS – Prices Available! • 7-night cruise aboard Le Champlain 8 DAYS – Prices Coming in March! Boréal or Le Soléal • “Golden Circle” Tour; Vigur Island; • 2 nights in Buenos Aires; shore BEGINS BUENOS AIRES Arctic Circle; day on Heimaey Island BEGINS REYKJAVIK excursions with expert naturalists Jan 6, 12, 25 Feb 4 Dec 8 • A dip in the geothermally heated Jun 10, 17, 24 Jul 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 • Wildlife sightings on land and sea waters of the Blue Lagoon
8 Reserve your cruise today – deposit required but refundable until priced! COSTA RICA
Sarchí CARIBBEAN Puerto San José Caldera SEA San Blas Manuel Antonio Colón National Park Panama City Carara Panama National Park PANAMA Canal
Playa de Muerto
PACIFIC OCEAN
The Panama Canal 12 DAYS – & Costa Rica Prices Available! • 7-night cruise aboard Le Dumont BEGINS SAN JOSÉ OR d’Urville PANAMA CITY • Full daylight transit of the Panama Eastbound – San José to Panama City Canal with insights by a local guide Jan 21 Mar 3 • Meet the Emberá of the Darién and Westbound – Panama City to San José learn about their cultural traditions Jan 28 Feb 25
YUKON White Pass & Yukon Route
ARCTIC OCEAN Haines Skagway
PACIFIC OCEAN 80¼ Fjord de la NORDAUSTLANDET Madeleine ALASKA Juneau Texas bar SVALBARD Haines Skagway Monacobreen Sitka Juneau TRACY ARM Kongsbreen Longyearbyen SPITSBERGEN Sitka Ny-Alesund Ketchikan Nordenskiöldbreen Longyearbyen BRITISH COLUMBIA
GREENLAND SEA NORWEGIAN NORWAY Vancouver SEA
Ketchikan Oslo r e v u o c n a V
m o r f il a Arctic Allure: Spitsbergen S 8 DAYS – Prices Coming in March! and the Midnight Sun 10 DAYS – Alaska’s Inside Passage • 7-night Arctic Ocean cruise aboard Prices Coming in March! • 7-night cruise aboard Le Soléal BEGINS VANCOUVER / JUNEAU Le Boréal BEGINS AND ENDS IN OSLO • Vintage rail journey and wildlife safari Northbound – Vancouver to Juneau • 2 nights in Oslo Aug Jul 3 • Visits to a sled dog camp, native 12 • Earn your Arctic Circle certificate villages, an eagle preserve and more
9 EXPEDITIONS
GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS EQUATOR Baltra GALÁPAGOS ECUADOR EC ADO San Cristóbal ISLANDS