Ponant is a luxury cruise company with a strong reputation in expedition cruising to some of the world’s remotest regions. However, their latest vessel, Le Commandant Charcot raises the concept of Polar cruising to new heights of innovation, comfort and ecosensitivity. Le Commandant Charcot, the world's first luxury expedition icebreaker, with hybrid propulsion combining LNG and electric generators, has been custom-built to navigate the hostile waters of the Polar regions with ease and attention to environmental protection, but without neglecting the Ponant group's passion for design and elegance. Two internationally renowned architecture and design houses were involved in the project from the very start, and their influence pervades throughout the ship's elegant interiors. A polar cruise becomes the ultimate, immersive adventure in the company of experts with opportunities never seen before like hot air ballooning, hovercraft rides and whizzing across the ice on electric snowmobiles. Ultimately, the vessel offers the most ambitious expedition cruise programme enabling guests to explore the Earth's last great wildernesses with extended itineraries into the Wedell and Ross Seas in Antarctica and to the North Pole in the Arctic. Le Commandant Charcot Polar Expedition Cruising with Ponant 74
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