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Ms Spitsbergen circumnavigating Svalbard, june 2018, review.


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We've just spent 9 days on Hurtigrutens ms Spitsbergen on an expedition cruise circumnavigating Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Apart from the fact that expedition cruising is exciting, we were pleasantly surprised by the ship and its crew.

The arctic superior cabin 621 is light and big enough but lacks drawer space and has no couch nor desk. The window blind adequately blocked out the 24 hr summer daylight. The large bed has a soft matress and plenty cushions. Sleep was never a problem but that also might be caused by the long active days.

The restaurant is buffet for breakfast and lunch, diner is somewhat depending on the expedition schedule, sometimes free seating buffet, sometimes first and second seating table service with a fixed 5 course meal. Being norwegian there is a lot of fish every day but no worries there is meat. Give dietary preferences the first diner and they will automaticaly adjust the 5 course meals! Snacks and coffee/thee in the bar from 15:00 to 17:00 hrs. There is no roomservice.

The ships crew/lobby are very nice and polite.

The expedition staff consist of about 8 persons, mixed nationality -danish, norwegian, english, french- and spoke good english/german. Lectures were simultaneously translated for the german group using remote radio and earpeaces although that sometimes malfunctioned.

There is at least one landing per day, sometimes two. Due to weather and ice, one scheduled stop had to be changed to a zodiac ice cruise. That was also the only real bad weather day. The rest consisted of clear skies to cloudy days with no precipitation.

Jackets are provided and are yours to keep. Boots provided as well for the duration and are very good but heavy.

We had a wonderfull cruise . Feel free to ask any questions.

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Thank you for these superlative photographs! Most of us will never get to Svalbard, and I cannot imagine there could be finer photos than these to show us what we will be missing/have missed.

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On 4/25/2019 at 10:46 AM, Brockleyjack said:

Hi, we’re taking this cruise in a couple of months time. I was wondering whether to take my walking poles. 

 

Which ship?  Ours provided lots off walking poles by the shore landing sites, included.

Look at the first picture on post nr 7. You see a bulk of stuff on the landing site. That's where the poles are.

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