Antarctica is the trip people save for. There are no hotels and no roads — you travel by expedition ship, sleep aboard, and go ashore twice a day by zodiac among penguin colonies, glaciers and whales.
Our polar specialists have sailed the Drake Passage and know which ships, cabins and departure dates are worth the money.
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