Excellent Service

The service was excellent, but the food was mediocre, both in the dining room and at the lido buffet. Loved the entertainment on ship!

Santiago did not have much sight-seeing that interested us. We like eco-tours, and it's a very arid area.

Buenos Aires was great! We particularly liked our gaucho excursion and tango lesson.

Ushuaia was one of our favorite stops. We rented a car and went for a 10 km hike to Esmeralda Lake.

Our dinner companions told us of an excursion they did that I wish we had done. They went to a sheep farm and saw the sheep being sheered.

We were going to see a penguin colony on the Falklands, but it was cancelled due to inclement weather. We saw a few penguins in Puerto Madryn, but I never saw a king penguin during this cruise.

In Puerto Madryn we booked an excursion on-line to the peninsula to the northeast. We saw lots of wildlife - guanacos, which are like llamas, maras, which look like hares on stilts, burrowing owl, a Rhea (like an ostrich), sea lions, elephant seals and also some little armadillos.

If the food had been better, it would have been an excellent cruise!