Quark Expeditions opened bookings for company's newest polar cruise ship Ultramarine. The inaugural itineraries are cruises to the Canadian Arctic, Spitsbergen Norway and Greenland.
Supported by a multichannel marketing campaign named, “Q the Adventure,” the newbuild will join Ocean Adventurer in a season featuring a variety of destinations including Canada’s Northwest Passage, Russia’s most remote High Arctic, Spitsbergen, Greenland, and Iceland.
Quark Ultramarine Inaugural cruise itineraries 2021
- 2021 (May 3, 16, 21, June 7) 7-day itinerary "Spitsbergen Highlights: Expedition in Brief" (priced from USD 12,200 pp) is inclusive of Oslo Norway (airport hotel), flight to Longyearbyen Spitsbergen (embarkation), Spitsbergen Island Svalbard cruising, Longyearbyen (debarkation), group charter flight to Oslo.
- 2021 (May 8, June 2, June 12) 10-day itinerary "Intro to Spitsbergen: Fjords, Glaciers and Wildlife of Svalbard"(from USD 15,100 pp) is inclusive of 2 domestic flights (to/from Oslo) to/from Longyearbyen (embarkation/debarkation).
- 2021 (June 25) 15-day itinerary "Essential Greenland: Southern Coasts and Disko Bay" (from USD 8,500 pp) is inclusive of Reykjavik Iceland (arrival, overnight hotel, embarkation), East Greenland cruising (days 4-5), South Greenland cruising (days 6-7), West Greenland cruising (days 8-9-10-11-12-13), Kangerlussuaq Greenland (debarkation), flight to Reykjavik (overnight hotel).
- 2021 (July 10, 17, 24) 9-day itinerary "Greenland Adventure: Explore by Sea, Land and Air" (from USD 17,600 pp) is inclusive of Reykjavik (embarkation), Southern Greenland cruising (days 2-3-4-5-6-7), Narsarsuaq Greenland (debarkation), flight to Reykjavik (overnight hotel).
- 2021 (August 2) 17-day itinerary "Northwest Passage: In the Footsteps of Franklin" (from USD 32,100) is inclusive of Toronto Canada (hotel), charter flight to Kangerlussuaq Greenland (embarkation), West Greenland cruising (days 3-4), Canadian Arctic cruising (days 6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15), Resolute, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut Canada (debarkation), charter flight to Toronto (hotel overnight).
- 2021 (August 16) 9-day itinerary "Arctic Express Canada: The Heart of the Northwest Passage" (from USD 15,300 pp) is inclusive of Toronto (hotel), charter flight to Resolute (embarkation), Canadian Arctic cruising (days 3-4-5-6-7), Resolute (debarkation), charter flight to Toronto (hotel overnight).
- 2021 (August 22) 12-day itinerary "Canada’s Remote Arctic: Northwest Passage to Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg Islands" (from USD 22,200 pp) is inclusive of Toronto (hotel), charter flight to Resolute (embarkation), Canadian Arctic cruising (days 3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10), Resolute (debarkation), charter flight to Toronto (hotel overnight).
- 2021 (August 31) 17-day itinerary "Northwest Passage: Epic High Arctic" (from USD 32,100 pp) is inclusive of Toronto (hotel), charter flight to Resolute (embarkation), Canadian Arctic cruising (days 3-4-5-6), Smith Sound (days 7-8, North Atlantic crossing from Ellesmere Island to Greenland), Qaanaaq Greenland (Thule), West Greenland cruising (days 11-12-13-14-15), Kangerlussuaq Greenland (debarkation), charter flight to Toronto (hotel overnight).
The Ultramarine ship is currently under construction at Brodosplit Shipyard (Split Croatia) and scheduled for launch in 2020-Q4. The vessel was specifically designed to navigate ice-packed polar waterways. This technologically-advanced boat has max passenger capacity 200 and is ice-classed 1A (PC6 for passenger ships).