Antarctica

There's no single right month — it depends on the experience you want. Your Forest Travel advisor, who has spent time on the ground in Antarctica, matches the timing to your trip: the light, the harvest or season worth being there for, and the weeks the crowds haven't found.

Enough to travel unhurried. Rather than a fixed package, your advisor shapes the length around your pace and the moments that matter — a few unforgettable days or a slow, immersive fortnight.

Entirely. Every Antarctica journey is built around you — private access, the stays that never list, pacing and introductions that only four decades of relationships unlock. Nothing is off the shelf.

Because an advisor opens what no platform can sell. Online platforms list what's already public — the same rooms and flights available to everyone. A Forest advisor opens what isn't: private after-hours access, the host who answers because they know us, pacing built around your life, and logistics that stay invisible. Over forty years we've built the relationships that turn 'impossible' into 'it's arranged.'

It begins with a conversation, not a quote. A dedicated advisor learns how you want to feel — not only where you want to go — then designs a journey around you and reshapes it freely as your plans evolve. There's no fee for the initial consultation and no obligation.

Discretion is built in. We work quietly, share nothing, and arrange private transfers, exclusive-use stays and after-hours access so you're never on public display. For clients who require it, every detail is handled under strict confidentiality.

Yes. Fly the Drake is an Antarctica journey of 6–8 days that skips the crossing entirely: a private flight takes you to the ice and straight to the wonder. It is an expedition built around access, for travelers who want the white continent without the days at sea. Like every journey here, it is a point of departure that your advisor reshapes around you.

Emperor penguins are the focus of The Emperors, a rare 13–16 day Antarctica journey to the emperor penguin colonies of the Weddell Sea. It is a wildlife journey, and among the least common ways to experience the continent. Your advisor arranges it privately and shapes it around your pace, as a point of departure rather than a fixed package.

South Georgia & the Wildlife is a 14–18 day private journey through what is called the Serengeti of the Southern Ocean, home to king penguins, albatross and elephant seals. Among the signature moments of a private Antarctica is a landing on a beach alive with a hundred thousand king penguins, a naturalist at your side and the air full of sound.

Yes. The Night on the Ice is a private camp on the Antarctic continent itself, with the midnight sun low and the silence absolute. It is one of the defining signature moments of a private Antarctica journey, arranged through the few who can and woven into a single journey alongside the private expedition ship and Zodiac landings.

On The Peninsula Expedition, an 8–12 day private journey, you travel the Antarctic Peninsula among icebergs, whales and the great white silence. You stay in a suite aboard an ice-class yacht, with a Zodiac at your call and the white continent gliding past your window. Icebergs the size of cities are part of the passage.

A private Antarctic expedition starts from around US$1,700 per person per night in the November to March season. Our Weddell Sea and emperor penguin journeys, of 13 to 19 days, start from US$26,000 per traveler, and Silversea's expedition fares start from around US$1,200 per person per night, two sharing. The figure rises with the suite, the length of the voyage, flying over the Drake Passage and helicopter access to the ice. Forest Travel's planning fee is US$250 per itinerary.