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- Grand South America & Antarctica Voyages
- 2013 Early Booking Amenities
- Featured Ports & Excursions
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Grand South America & Antarctica Voyages
Red hot tango and cool blue glaciers
The tango is red hot, the glaciers are cool blue, and the beaches glow gold. Follow in the wake of Magellan, Drake and Shackleton to as you explore Patagonia, Cape Horn and Antarctica. Travel deep into the primordial Amazon. Stand in the mists of Machu Picchu.
Our 2013 itinerary features ports of call in Brazil, Chile, Peru and Panama and overnight stays in Buenos Aires, Callao (Lima), Rio de Janeiro, and the Amazon’s Manaus.
Carrying just 835 guests, the ms Prinsendam is our most intimate ship. She has the feel of a classic yacht, but with the spaciousness of a cruise ship. Stay aboard and expand your exploration of the world by combining this itinerary with our Grand Mediterranean Voyages. Both cruises are sail roundtrip from Ft. Lauderdale, requiring no international flights.
2013 Early Booking Amenities
ms Prinsendam 68-Day Grand South America & Antarctica Voyage Early Booking Amenities
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Exciting Early Booking Amenities are available exclusively for our guests who book the 2013 Grand South America & Antarctica Voyage aboard the ms Prinsendam sailing on Jan. 5, 2013. These consist of a series of valuable amenities for our guests who book by May 31, 2012 in select categories of staterooms and suites as detailed below. |
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Penthouse Suite & Deluxe Verandah Suites (Categories PS - BC):
- Per Person Shipboard Credit
- Penthouse Verandah Suite: $1,000
- Deluxe Verandah Suite: $750
- Verandah Suite: $500
- Complimentary laundry, pressing and dry cleaning throughout your cruise (PS-SY only)
- Complimentary in-suite bottled water and (PS-SY only)
- Prepaid Hotel Service Charges (Approximate $700 per person value)
- Complimentary Shore Excursion from the Collections of Holland America Line
- Unlimited Luggage Delivery Service
- To/From Ft. Lauderdale (Only applicable to US and Canadian residents). Residents of all other countries will receive a $200 per person shipboard credit
- In-suite liquor set-up (4 bottles)
- "Welcome Onboard" bottle of Champagne
Large Ocean-view Staterooms (Categories C-F):
- $300 per person Shipboard Credit
- 2 pieces per person Luggage Delivery Service
- To/From Ft. Lauderdale (Only applicable to US and Canadian residents). Residents of all other countries will receive a $125 per person shipboard credit
- Prepaid Hotel Service Charges (Approximate $700 per person value)
- "Welcome Onboard" bottle of Champagne
Exciting Early Booking Amenities are available for our guests who book a 26+ day segment of the 2013 Grand South America & Antarctica Voyage aboard the ms Prinsendam. These consist of a valuable shipboard credit for our guests who book by May 31, 2012 in select categories of staterooms and suites as detailed below.
Penthouse Verandah, Deluxe Verandah & Verandah Suites (Categories PS-BC):
- Receive a $500 per person shipboard credit
Large Ocean-view Staterooms (Categories C-F):
- Receive a $300 per person shipboard credit
Exciting Early Booking Amenities are also available for our guests who book a segment up to 25 days in length of the 2013 South America & Antarctica Voyage by May 31, 2012.
Penthouse Verandah, Deluxe Verandah & Verandah Suites (Categories PS-BC):
- Receive a $300 per person shipboard credit
Large Ocean-view Staterooms (Categories C-F):
- Receive a $200 per person shipboard credit
View or print a PDF of the 2013 Grand Voyages early booking amenities.
All amenity amounts shown are in USD.
For additional savings, guests who pay in full by May 31, 2012 will save 3%. Call for details.
Featured Ports & Excursions
Cowboy Culture
The lone cowboy rides across the open prairie as he surveys the fertile land before him. Only this storyline isn’t in West Texas. Rather, the cowboy, or gaucho as he is known, is in central Argentina, and the fertile lowlands before him are known as the pampas. A cruise to Buenos Aires with Holland America Line takes you to one of the cultural and commercial capitals of South America. Yet what distinguishes this 21st-century metropolis from other cities of the same ilk is its proximity to the country and, in turn, country living.
Shore Excursion Highlights
Explore the City Further Your cruise from Buenos Aires will allow you to spend a few days before or (if you are disembarking) after to explore this city more fully. To learn more about hotel packages that will extend your cruise vacation, please contact your travel professional or Holland America Line.
Your link to colonial Lima: Cuzco, where ancient Quechua is still spoken in the marketplace, and mist-veiled Machu Picchu.
Sample shore excursions: Archeological Day in Lima; Shopper's Delight; Cuzco & Machu Picchu Overland Adventure.
A lush, irresistible tangle of serpentine streets, steep hills and 15
ascensores - ingenious antique trams. Nearby is the seaside resort of Vina del Mar.
Sample shore excursion: Highlights of Santiago.
Jungle Love
It's a port city, but the ocean is almost a thousand miles away. One of the world's great boomtowns, Manaus rose to glory as the rubber trade exploded in the late 19th century, minting fortunes and redefining extravagance for its nouveau riche. All the better for today's visitors, as the boom-time landmarks still enchant. The Teatro Amazonas is a copy of the Grand Opera de Paris, the Mercado Municipal echoes Les Halles, and the Palacio Rio Negro evokes old Portugal. Of course, the endless jungle stretches all around. From Manaus, cruise visitors can venture even deeper into the heart of the Amazon, on the lookout for jungle birds, manatees, and giant alligators.
Shore Excursion Highlights
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro resists all adjectives. Even if you get that absolute vista from the top of Corcovado Mountain, you'll still thirst for more – for the taste of an acai berry drink, the pulse of samba, and the feel of the Atlantic on your toes. Drink deeply, you have such a journey before you. A cruise to Rio de Janeiro with Holland America Line brings you the stunning setting and joyous lust for life make Rio a cidade maravilhosa, "marvelous city." Ipanema, Copacabana, samba - the words alone conjure Brazilian paradise. Learn more.
Tour Highlights
Explore the City Further Your cruise from Rio de Janeiro will allow you to spend a few days before or (if you are disembarking) after to explore this city more fully. To learn more about hotel packages that will extend your cruise vacation, please contact your travel professional or Holland America Line.
Ghosts in the Salvation Islands
As much a metaphor for endurance and rebirth as a location on a map, Devil's Island was once an infamous French penal colony. Today, it helps facilitate French space launches and welcomes thousands of cruise visitors every year. What's called "Devil's Island" is actually a group of three volcanic islands just off the coast of French Guiana collectively known as the Salvation Islands. The islands are beautiful, but to former prisoners they were the "Green Hell." Come ashore and tour the ghostly ruins.
There are no shore excursions offered at Devil's Island.
Protection Plans
Do You Offer A Cancellation Protection Plan?
A Small Price for Peace of Mind
Holland America's Cancellation Protection Plan (CPP) is designed to protect your vacation investment from loss-no matter what. And like other plans that protect things of great value, it's a small price to pay for peace of mind. Be it illness, family matters, unforeseen work events-anything, CPP is your assurance that your vacation can be cancelled before you leave for any reason for a refund. To add our Cancellation Protection Plan to your new or existing cruise booking, please call us at 1-877-932-4259.
Four reasons to choose the Holland America Line Cancellation Protection Plan:
- YOU CAN CANCEL BEFORE DEPARTURE FOR ANY REASON. Even if it's up to 24 hours before departure under our Standard Plan or right up to departure with our Platinum Plan. For any reason whatsoever, your reservation may be cancelled with ease.
- YOU GET MONEY BACK. Only Holland America Line refunds 80-90% of eligible amounts paid, regardless of your reason for canceling, as long as you cancel more than 24 hours prior to departure (right up to departure with the Platinum Plan).
- SAME PRICE FOR ALL AGES. We offer the same excellent protection for everyone, at the same cost.
- NO PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS. Our Standard and Platinum Plans do not contain pre-existing condition exclusions.
Our Standard and Premium plans at a glance
Unforeseen events do happen. When you book your next cruise, be sure to ask about our Cancellation Protection Plans for the utmost peace of mind.
CPP Standard Plan – Provided by Holland America Line
Our Standard Cancellation Protection Plan (CPP Standard Plan) will allow you, for any reason, to provide written cancellation up to 24 hours prior to the scheduled cruise or cruisetour departure and receive a refund equal to 80% of the eligible amounts paid.
In addition, Holland America Line (HAL) automatically assumes an additional $500 (USD) of liability for lost, damaged or delayed baggage of guests who purchase the CPP Standard Plan still subject, however, to the limitations in our baggage policies. For example, we do not cover losses while baggage is in the custody of airlines. Please review our Baggage Policy.
The CPP Standard Plan is not insurance, and is administered by Holland America Line Inc.; it provides no rights other than those explained above.
Our Platinum Cancellation Protection Plan enables you to supplement the benefits provided under the CPP Standard Plan with enhanced cancellation protection. CPP Platinum also provides insurance coverage for trip delays and interruptions, medical expenses and much more. In addition, CPP Platinum includes 24-hour worldwide emergency assistance services. CPP Platinum may not be available for purchase in some locations outside the U.S. and Canada
CPP Platinum
Our Platinum Cancellation Protection Plan enables you to supplement the benefits provided under the CPP Standard Plan with enhanced cancellation protection. CPP Platinum also provides insurance coverage for trip delays and interruptions, medical expenses and much more. In addition, CPP Platinum includes 24-hour worldwide emergency assistance services. CPP Platinum is comprised of the following:
SECTION I Cancel for Any Reason Waiver Provided by Holland America Line You may cancel for any reason prior to the scheduled cruise/cruisetour departure and receive reimbursement equal to 90% of the eligible amounts paid to Holland America.
SECTION II TRAVEL INSURANCE PROGRAM Underwritten by Stonebridge Casualty Insurance Company
- Trip Interruption: Enables you to cancel or interrupt your cruise vacation for illness, injury or death to you, an immediate family member or a traveling companion, as well as certain other non-medical reasons affecting you or your traveling companion, and receive up to 150% of your cruise vacation cost.
- Trip Delay: If you miss the departure of your cruise due to carrier-caused delays or other specified reasons, you will be reimbursed up to $500 for additional accommodations, meals and “catch-up” transportation expenses.
- Baggage Protection: If your baggage or personal property is lost or damaged, you will be reimbursed up to $1,000. If your bags are delayed or misdirected by a common carrier for more than 24 hours, you will be reimbursed up to $500 for the purchase of necessary personal effects.
- Medical Expense Coverage: Should you become injured or sick during your vacation, you will be reimbursed up to $10,000 for medical expenses.
- Emergency Evacuation/Repatriation: In the event that serious illness or injury requires air or ground transportation to a specialized facility or to return home, you will be provided up to $50,000 in covered medical services and supplies (coordinated by our 24-hour assistance provider) to help ensure your safe transport. Repatriation coverage provides for shipment of remains in the event of death during the cruise vacation.
The Travel Insurance Program is underwritten by Stonebridge Casualty Insurance Company, an AEGON Company, Columbus, Ohio; NAIC #10952 (all states except as otherwise noted) under Policy/Certificate Form series TAHC5000. In CA, HI, NE, NH, PA, TN AND TX, Policy/Certificate Form series TAHC5100 and TAHC5200. In IL, IN, KS, LA, OR, OH, VT, WA AND WY, Policy Form #’s TAHC5100IPS and TAHC5200IPS. Certain coverages are under series TAHC6000 and TAHC7000.
SECTION III WORLDWIDE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE SERVICES Provided by On Call International Provides 24-hour assistance services including: pre-cruise health, safety and weather information; assistance with travel changes; lost luggage assistance; emergency cash transfer assistance; emergency medical and dental assistance; lost travel document assistance; and emergency medical payment assistance.
IMPORTANT: This is a summary. Please refer to the CPP Platinum Plan Description for complete terms, conditions, and exclusions. Note that the benefits and services provided in CPP Platinum are available only to guests who enroll in and pay the appropriate program cost to Holland America Line. Please note that payment of the required cruise deposit does not automatically activate enrollment in CPP Platinum Protection. In order to activate enrollment, you must pay the appropriate program costs in addition to the required cruise deposit amount. The CPP Standard and CPP Platinum Plans are optional and must be purchased prior to the date on which cancellation fees begin to accrue. Payment for the plan is due at time of purchase and is non-refundable. The per person, per cruise costs for both plans are listed with the cruise fares.
CPP Platinum Protection was designed and is administered by BerkelyCareSM. IN CALIFORNIA: BerkelyCare is a service mark of Aon Direct Insurance Administrators, CA Insurance License #0795465. IN ALL OTHER STATES: BerkelyCareSM is a division of Affinity Insurance Services, Inc. in all states other than CA, except AIS Affinity Insurance Agency, Inc. in MN and OK and AIS Affinity Insurance Agency in NY
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