Complete customization makes life’s milestone moments an unforgettable experience in the most extraordinary places on Earth, seeing what others don’t from Swan Hellenic’s luxury boutique ships.
8 May 2025
Swan Hellenic has announced a sensational new service called “Celebration Voyages” to transform any big moment in life’s journey into a cascade of unforgettable custom celebrations with family and friends, cruising the most remote and unique places on the planet in distinctive style.
And when they say “any”, they clearly mean it, mentioning everything from birthdays, engagements, bachelor and bachelorette parties, honeymoons and anniversaries to new product launches, book publications and album releases, workplace promotions and retirement, and friendship celebrations and reunions.
Whatever anyone could want to celebrate, Swan Hellenic has clearly made it its mission to ensure they can do so just as they like. From the jewels of the Mediterranean to the coasts of Africa and ends of the earth.
As you’d expect from Swan Hellenic, the service has been designed so that every aspect of the cultural expedition cruise experience can be customized as desired, with anything from couples’ massages to private fine dining and musical performances, personal expert talks, and unique individual expeditions and excursions ashore.
And all of this is of course enriched by moments of thrilling discovery in the world’s most beautiful places, luxuriating in the laid-back lifestyle of Swan Hellenic’s boutique Scandi-design ships, each conceived to connect guests in a seamless experience of their surroundings.
Full assistance is provided with every choice, after which Swan Hellenic’s caring experts attend to all the details.
“Celebration Voyages” follows in the footsteps of Swan Hellenic’s much admired “Love Aboard” custom packages for romantic ceremonies at sea, and everything to go with them, launched on Valentine’s Day this year.
Swan Hellenic Chief Commercial Officer Patrizia Iantorno says: “We’re thrilled to offer this transformative service. It’s the ultimate expression of our passion to take people to celebrate what’s special in their lives with those closest to them, exploring the most extraordinary places on earth.”
Complete information is available on a dedicated page of the Swan Hellenic Website:
https://www.swanhellenic.com/celebrations-at-sea
While a full color brochure can be downloaded here:
https://swanhellenic.canto.global/b/TPL5U
About Swan Hellenic
Swan Hellenic was relaunched in July 2020 to proudly advance the spirit of cultural expedition cruising the company pioneered in the 1950s. Building on its British roots, the new company has a distinctly cosmopolitan culture dedicated to providing guests with global opportunities to see what others don’t.
Swan Hellenic’s purpose-built boutique ships feature elegant Scandi-design interiors, extensive outdoor spaces and dedicated expedition facilities. SH Vega is a 5-star Polar Code PC 5 expedition cruise ship with ice-strengthened hull that was launched in July 2022. She accommodates 152 guests in 76 spacious suites and staterooms, the majority with large balconies. SH Diana is a slightly larger PC 6 ice-class vessel launched in April 2023. She accommodates 192 guests in the same distinctive comfort and style in 96 staterooms and suites.
While sharing the unique design features of her sister ship, SH Diana also introduces certain key enhancements, including a dedicated presentation and lecture theatre overlooking the lounge, and on-board Tender boats to take guests ashore in addition to and in greater comfort than the customary expedition Zodiacs. Like her sibling, SH Diana features a state-of-the-art gym, spa, panoramic sauna, club room and swimming pool with poolside grill.
Both ships feature three dining venues – the Swan Restaurant, Club Lounge and Pool Bar & Grill – and are built in full compliance with SOLAS Safe Return to Port requirements. Dedicated to guests with a passion for adventure and cultural exploration, the company’s meticulously planned itineraries explore the wild landscapes, wildlife, peoples and cultures of the world’s less travelled and most historic regions.
The crews each include a team of 12 seasoned expedition guides, expert speakers and lecturers, for a total complement of 120 and 140 persons respectively, offering outstanding staff-to-guest ratios to deliver the highest standards of attentive personal service.
Swan Hellenic’s cultural expedition cruises have always been distinguished by the company, guidance and expert lectures of famous explorers, seasoned expedition guides and leading authorities in their fields. Now, many of the cruises are also enriched by partnerships with unique organizations to bring very different experts on board in the same way, including JRE-Jeunes Restaurateurs and the SETI Institute.
Maris Culinary Discovery at Sea brings a different JRE gourmet chef aboard each in a series of exclusive cruises which take guests on a parallel voyage of gastronomic discovery. While the SETI Explore Space at Sea Series brings a different world-renowned scientist from the SETI Institute aboard each cruise to provide guests with expert insights into the history and latest discoveries in astronomy, astrophysics, astrobiology and planetary science, as well as the quest to find other forms of life within and beyond our solar system.
On many cruises, guests can also participate in Swan Hellenic’s Citizen Science partnerships, contributing valuable data obtained during their expeditions and on board, reporting cloud data with NASA, recording whale sightings with Happywhale, monitoring phytoplankton with the Secchi Disk Study, and Antarctic seabird numbers with Stony Brook University.
Headquartered in Cyprus with offices in London (serving the UK and Ireland), Dusseldorf (serving Continental Europe), Monaco, Fort Lauderdale (serving the North American market), Hong Kong (serving Greater China, India and South-East Asia), and Sydney (serving Australia-New Zealand), together with a partnership serving Japan, Swan Hellenic supports the travel trade with local specialist partners to provide customers with expert personal service worldwide.
For more information about Swan Hellenic, please visit www.swanhellenic.com
or call:
+44 (0) 207 846 0271 (United Kingdom)
+1 800-537-6777 (North America)
For Swan Hellenic, please contact:
Patrizia Iantorno, Chief Commercial Officer: patrizia.iantorno@swanhellenic.com
Joe Maloney, Vice President of Sales North America: joe.maloney@swanhellenic.com
Mario Bounas, General Manager UK & Ireland: mario.bounas@swanhellenic.com
Thomas Harrison, Sales Director Europe: thomas.harrison@swanhellenic.com
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