Exploring Southern Fiordland & New Zealand’s East Coast Onboard Seabourn Odyssey

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From $11,999

06 to 22 January 2023

Departs: Sydney, AUS Arrives: Auckland, NZ

Seabourn showcases New Zealand superbly in this 16-day Australia and New Zealand voyage, departing 6th January 2023 from Sydney onboard the elegant, spacious, luxurious small ship Seabourn Odyssey. With just 450 guests, plentiful crew to look after your every need, a spacious suite all with expansive ocean views or veranda’s, Seabourn Odyssey extends a heartfelt welcome to guests after an excitable day exploring ashore. Gourmet dining, fine wines and spirits, attentive crew, informative lectures and enrichment programs and sophisticated entertainment, your beautiful floating hotel will add another very pleasurable dimension and experience to your holiday. The voyage melds cultural and university cities with small island ports, fiords with historic towns, and will take you from vineyards to high country stations, national parks to gardens of national significance.

Included in the voyage is 3 stops in Australia, your first port of call after departing Sydney is Phillip Island, infamous for its rambunctious little blue penguins, explore the arcades and alleyways of elegant Melbourne, or the vineyards, wildlife and national parks of the countryside. In Fiordland Mists hang, waters fall and primeval forest stands in this truly beautiful, green treasure of ours. Stewart Island is small with a big welcome, Blue Cod and hot chips in Oban is a must, so too is a visit to Ulva Island, a predator free sanctuary and a botanical explosion of verdant flora and fluttering fauna.

Explore Dunedin, Gaelic for Edinburg with its Scottish heritage architecture. Have a whale of a time in the whale town of Kaikoura. From Picton guests can explore the Abel Tasman National Park or sample some of the best wine produced in the Southern Hemisphere in the plentiful vineyards.

We invite you to join Seabourn on this splendid voyage of discovery.

 

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