EricaD

we have emailed Atlas, no response heard at all after 4 days!

This is the cruise navigation history of our world navigator. Instead of calling it an antarctica cruise, I think we can call it an Ushuaia cruise where we spent most of time. Extremely short 2 days in Antarctica exploring very limited area in Antarctica. It was supposed to be in Antarctica from 21st to 26th.

Here are the images showing where the other ships from other cruise line were navigating from 23rd to 26th while we arrived in Ushuaia 2.5 days ahead of schedule and just circling around.

Hi, we were on the Atlas world navigator departing on 12/19. It was supposed to be an antarctica Christmas trip. On the 23rd, 2 days after we arrived in Antarctica, our captain shockingly announced that our cruise ship was heading back, 3 days ahead of the schedule that was on the sales sheet and marketing materials. We had to celebrate our Christmas drifting along the coast of Ushuaia. We were supposed to leave Antarctica on the 26th. At the beginning we thought it was due to the bad weather that every cruise ship has to go back, until quickly we found out that people on other cruise lines were still posting pictures of penguins, icebergs and white Christmas. From cruise mapper, we found out that most of the ships supposed to come back around the same time as ours, were still in Antarctica. Ponant, silversea, sea bourn, National Geographic and scenic cruise didn’t have to end their trip and come back early. They didn’t cruise back until 26th, our original schedule. We got locked on the ship from 23rd all the way to 28th drifting around Ushuaia, and finally disembarked on 28th. On the same pier and same gate in the airport, we ran into the guests from Ponant, who told us that their cruise navigated per schedule. They were so excited to tell us the countless zodiac and landing experiences they had in Antarctica. We were so shocked to hear this. The only thing we felt is the deep regret choosing Atlas for Antarctica.