Seabourn Sojourn 2020 World Cruise

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Ultra-luxury cruise line Seabourn is offering guests the opportunity to experience one of life’s greatest travel adventures with a 146-day World Cruise: Extraordinary Destinations on Seabourn Sojourn in 2020.The ship will visit many extraordinary and noteworthy destinations around the world, including the Caribbean, Africa, India, Arabia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Australia & South Pacific, and Hawaii. The ultra-luxury Seabourn Sojourn will depart Miami on 4 January 2020, and travel eastbound, arriving in San Francisco on 28 May 2020. The full itinerary is available on Seabourn’s website.“The World Cruise on Seabourn Sojourn will be an extraordinary journey, offering guests a trip of a lifetime with many unique experiences and unforgettable adventures as they sail to so many far off destinations,” said Chris Austin, Seabourn’s senior vice president of Global Marketing & Sales.

“This is the perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in a world of fascination, culture, and people while our gracious crew makes you feel at home aboard the world’s finest resort at sea.” Seabourn Senior Vice President of Global Marketing & Sales, Chris Austin

Seabourn Sojourn will cross three great oceans and stop at 62 ports in 36 countries on five continents throughout the course of the sailing, featuring a combination of visits to world famous marquee ports and hidden gems. The voyage will include 16 overnights in port, and linger into the late evening another 18 times, enjoying more than one day exploring a port for every day relaxing at sea. There will be several exclusive world cruise events planned, as well as local shows, regional cuisines, and palate-pleasing wines for guests to enjoy as they sail around the globe. Seabourn Sojourn’s 2020 World Cruise route map

A sampling of destination highlights includes:

• Dakar, Senegal (overnight) – The Parisian-style boulevards of Dakar bespeak its history as the centre of French West Africa, but its streets are vivid with the colours of the fashionable Sénégalaise in their flowing Grands Boubous and elaborate turbans. The Musée Théodore Monod displays artifacts from the indigenous cultures, while the old slavers’ fortress on Gorée Island tells a different, tragic tale. The old capital of Saint-Louis is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• Mombasa, Kenya (two overnights) – Seabourn Sojourn will linger in this ancient Swahili city for three days, allowing guests to explore its colourful markets, the 16th-century Portuguese Fort Jesus, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and also opt for safari tours to several of Kenya’s world-famous game parks on overland extensions. Other options include snorkelling the coral reefs at Mombasa Marine National Park, swimming at Diani Beach, or shopping for handcrafts at the community-run Bombolulu Workshop.
• Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (overnight) – The ship sails up the Saigon River right to the heart of this former French colonial capital, offering travellers doorstep access to its broad Parisian-style boulevards and bustling shopping streets. The overnight stay allows more time to explore the city’s colourful market on a Shopping with the Chef tour and also discover the fascinating “rice bowl” farming region on a full-day river tour in the Mekong Delta.
• Cairns, Australia (overnight) – Sailing down the Queensland coast, guests will pass into one of nature’s most extravagant displays – the massive, living Great Barrier Reef sprawling in multicoloured splendour beneath the warm waters of the Coral Sea. Two days at Cairns provides time to explore its vast, sub-aquatic ecosystem, teeming with vividly coloured tropical fishes, as well as the nearby, primeval Daintree Rainforest National Park, both of which are UNESCO World Heritage sites.

The line has planned an array of optional shore excursions in more than 20 ports with designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites thanks to its unique partnership with UNESCO.The world cruise will also feature several optional, mid-voyage overland excursions where guests will disembark at one port and rejoin the ship at another port, providing them with a more in-depth experience at certain destinations and sites, such as safari parks and game reserves in Kenya and South Africa, the magnificent Taj Mahal in India, and UNESCO World Heritage sites in Cambodia and Australia.Also available are optional Seabourn Journeys offering guests an immersive longer pre- and post-cruise land-based excursion to and from select destinations such as Cape Town, Singapore and Sydney.Guests from the UK, Europe and Australia who book the full 146-day voyage by 31 May 2019 will receive a value-packed menu of complimentary benefits and amenities, including:

• Roundtrip Business Class Air
• US$2,000 Shipboard Credit per person
• US$3,000 Shipboard Credit per person for Penthouse and Premium Suites
• Unlimited Wi-Fi
• Private car transfers door-to-door from your home
• Personal Valet luggage shipping service between home and ship in Miami and San Francisco
• Unlimited laundry and dry cleaning on board
• Gala Bon Voyage dinner & overnight hotel stay prior to departure in Miami
• Three exclusive World Cruise events
• Special World Cruise pillow gifts

According to Seabourn’s website, prices for the full voyage are priced from $92,999 for an Ocean View Suite, through to $192,999 for a Penthouse Suite.For guests who cannot sail on the entire 146-day voyage, shorter segments ranging from 30 to 116 days are also available.Visit www.seabourn.com.Lead image – Cape Town, South Africa, one of the 62 ports visited on the 2020 World Cruise.

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