Le Ponant

A brand-new itinerary from PONANT EXPLORATIONS will take travellers along the Côte d’Azur, aboard Le Ponant from May 2026.

Reservations for the 2024 and 2025 seasons aboard PONANT’s Le Ponant, the Relais & Châteaux affiliated three-mast sailing yacht, are now open. From the Mediterranean to Cape Verde and the Caribbean, 29 sailings have been carefully crafted to reconnect with the essentials, embrace the elements and discover iconic destinations.

After four years of varied partnerships, PONANT and Relais & Châteaux are strengthening their ties with Le Ponant, the French-flagged luxury cruise operator’s flagship superyacht are joining the large family of Relais & Châteaux establishments as a new member.

PONANT has announced a special promotion in celebration of its 35th anniversary. Guests can enjoy an extra 10% savings on more than 200 departures to a variety of captivating destinations around the world, including The Kimberley, Antarctica, Alaska, Seychelles, Japan’s old sea routes and subtropical islands, Melanesia, the European Arctic, the Mediterranean and more.

PONANT is expecting to reveal details of a new carbon-neutral passenger vessel in the coming weeks, the luxury cruise operator’s Global CEO, Hervée Gastinel has revealed today in Sydney.

PONANT has released official photography of its renovated three-masted sailing yacht Le Ponant, after extensive renovations at the San Giorgio del Porto yard in Italy.

PONANT has this afternoon confirmed the appointment of former APT Travel Group boss Chris Hall as the ultra-luxury expedition cruise operators CEO, Asia Pacific and Special Advisor, commencing in the role full-time from 1 February 2023.

PONANT has continued to deploy innovative solutions across its fleet, setting the seal on environmental excellence by obtaining Green Marine Europe certification for the third year running.

PONANT has opened sales for its highly anticipated 2023 inaugural Kimberley sailing expedition program offered aboard the three-masted sailing yacht Le Ponant.

Since welcoming the resumption of cruising in April 2022, PONANT’s newly restructured Asia Pacific Business Development Team have been making a vast impact on the Australian travel industry through a variety of dedicated partnership opportunities.

Imagine cruising the Kimberleys in a three-masted luxury yacht with only 32 other guests. It’ll be possible from April next year when PONANT debuts its iconic sailing yacht Le Ponant that’ll be based in the Asia Pacific region for six months of the year.

Ponant’s triple-mast sailing yacht, Le Ponant, will operate a series of 9-night sailings in the Seychelles this northern winter, with reservations for the program on sale.