The Petrel Luxury Cruise Tour
The luxurious Petrel Galapagos Cruise offers you an extraordinary journey of the Galapagos Islands.
Over 3, 4, 5 or 7-night itineraries, you will cruise across beautiful azure waters to visit islands. And led by skilled naturalist guides, you will enjoy unique and iconic wildlife of the Galapagos Islands. See the famous animals and enjoy beautiful Galapagos scenery.
Activities include:
- Guided treks
- Wildlife watching
- Kayaking tours
- Snorkeling trips
- Dinghy rides
The modern 16-passenger Petrel catamaran effortlessly navigates the islands and ocean currents. This allows you to appreciate the spacious and luxury suites and social areas of this floating sanctuary.
There are nine generously appointed staterooms. And each boasts a lavish en-suite bathroom and twin or king-size beds.
In the window-wrapped elegant dining room or alfresco dining area, a team of skilled kitchen staff and expert chefs prepare your delicious meals accompanied with personalized service. Your meals will include international favorites and local delicacies. You can also enjoy a signature cocktail from the Petrel’s well-stocked bar.
The Petrel Luxury Cruise Tour Summary
Aboard the Petrel Cruise you will visit secluded islands to find fascinating wildlife and enjoy incredible scenery. Enjoy 3, 4, 5 or 7-night bruises.
Our Galapagos expedition packages aboard the Petrel caters to both short and extended voyages, ensuring an unforgettable experience. Regardless of duration, our expert guides will lead you on captivating daily excursions.
Video Introduction
Tour Info
- Country: Ecuador
- Focus Area: Galapagos National Park
- Duration: 4, 5, 6 & 8 days
- Start Point: Baltra Airport (GPS)
- End Point: Baltra Airport (GPS)
The Petrel Luxury Cruise Itinerary
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Day 1 · Friday
San Cristobal Arrival & Giant Tortoise Breeding Center
You'll land at San Cristóbal Airport, the easternmost of the inhabited islands and the site of Darwin's first landing in 1835. After clearing immigration you'll be met by your Petrel guide and transferred to the yacht, with time to settle into your cabin before the welcome briefing and lunch. In the afternoon you'll visit the David Rodríguez Breeding Center, where you can walk through trails to see young giant tortoises raised in semi-natural conditions, part of the long-term effort to secure the species' future, and learn about their evolution and biology from your naturalist guide.
Day 2 · Saturday
Gardner Bay & Suárez Point, Española Island
Española is both the southernmost and the oldest island in the archipelago, roughly four million years old, and its isolation has produced more endemic species than anywhere else in the Galápagos. In the morning you'll land at Gardner Bay, a stretch of white coral sand backed by a resident sea lion colony, where Española mockingbirds and marine iguanas share the beach and green sea turtles come ashore to nest between January and March. In the afternoon you'll walk Suárez Point, one of the richest wildlife trails in the islands, passing colonies of blue-footed and Nazca boobies, frigatebirds and red-billed tropicbirds. From April to January this is also the only place to see the waved albatross, the largest bird in the Galápagos, performing its elaborate courtship display before heading out to sea for months at a time.
Day 3 · Sunday
Floreana Island: Devil's Crown & Post Office Bay
Floreana carries some of the strangest human history in the Galápagos, from the first recorded resident, an Irishman who lived here between 1807 and 1809, to a string of unexplained disappearances among its small 1930s settler community. Its handful of remaining residents still farm the land and collect rainwater for supply. In the morning you'll visit either Devil's Crown, a submerged volcanic cone ringed with coral and dense with reef fish, sharks, rays and sea turtles, or Cormorant Point, where flamingos wade through brackish lagoons and the beach shifts from pale coral sand to green, tinted by olivine crystals. In the afternoon you'll stop at Post Office Bay, where passing whalers set up a barrel post office in the 1700s that visitors still use today, leaving postcards for others to hand-deliver, or at the nearby Baroness Lookout Point for views tied to Floreana's most infamous unsolved mystery.
Day 4 · Monday
Charles Darwin Research Station & Departure
On your final morning you'll visit the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz, the hub of the Galápagos' conservation work, where ongoing projects tackle invasive species and where the long-running giant tortoise breeding program raises animals from egg through to adulthood, before they're released back into the wild. From here you'll transfer to Baltra Airport for your flight to the mainland.
Day 1 · Monday
Baltra Arrival & the Highlands
You'll land at Baltra Airport, where a Petrel guide will meet you after immigration and baggage claim before transferring you to the yacht. Once aboard you'll have time to settle into your cabin before the welcome briefing and lunch. In the afternoon you'll head into the highlands of Santa Cruz to see Los Gemelos, twin sinkholes left by the collapse of an old volcano's magma chambers, reached along a short trail through Scalesia forest. From there you're likely to see giant tortoises roaming in the wild, along with finches and other native birds, before walking through a lava tunnel formed as the islands took shape.
Day 2 · Tuesday
Sullivan Bay & Bartholomew's Pinnacle Rock
Santiago was the second island Darwin visited and was long used by whalers for its salt mine and fresh water. Its land iguanas are now extinct, but the island remains one of the most visited in the archipelago. In the morning you'll land at Sullivan Bay, a satellite islet best known for its Galápagos fur seals and its striking lava formations, including tuff and pyroclastic cones left from past eruptions. In the afternoon you'll visit neighbouring Bartholomew Island, home to Pinnacle Rock, a volcanic spire formed as lava cooled rapidly against seawater. It's one of the most photographed sites in the Galápagos, and its beach hosts nesting green sea turtles and resident Galápagos penguins, with good chances of spotting curious sea lions and colourful reef fish while swimming.
Day 3 · Wednesday
Darwin Bay & Prince Phillip's Steps, Genovesa Island
Genovesa, known as Bird Island, is a horseshoe-shaped island formed by a collapsed shield volcano and home to an enormous concentration of seabirds. The only reptile found here is the marine iguana, but it's one of the few places where you're guaranteed to see red-footed boobies, with an estimated 200,000 nesting in the trees and shrubs around Darwin Bay. In the afternoon you'll climb Prince Phillip's Steps, a stone stairway leading up to a cliff view, then walk through a Palo Santo forest that shelters nesting red-footed boobies and short-eared owls.
Day 4 · Thursday
Egas Port & Buccaneer Cove
In the morning you'll land at Egas Port, once the site of a salt mine and now a black sand beach favoured by Galápagos fur seals, quick-footed lava lizards and a strong population of marine iguanas among the tide pools and grottos. In the afternoon you'll visit Buccaneer Cove, once a repair stop for passing pirates and whalers and now a well-regarded snorkelling site, or Espumilla Beach, a quiet stretch of sand where marine iguanas bask and Sally Lightfoot crabs draw hunting herons, with good chances of spotting octopus, moray eels and reef sharks while snorkelling.
Day 5 · Friday
Black Turtle Cove & Departure
On your final morning you'll explore Black Turtle Cove entirely by dinghy, a shallow, mangrove-sheltered inlet on Santa Cruz's north shore that shows how mangroves shape the marine environment around them. Spotted eagle rays and diamond-shaped golden rays are common here, white-tipped reef sharks pass beneath the boat and Pacific green sea turtles surface to breathe, while pelicans, herons and egrets hunt along the mangrove edges. From here you'll transfer to Baltra Airport for your flight to the mainland.
Day 1 · Friday
Baltra Arrival & North Seymour Island
You'll land at Baltra Airport, where a Petrel guide is waiting to meet you after immigration and baggage claim. Once aboard you'll settle into your cabin before the welcome briefing and lunch. In the afternoon you'll visit North Seymour Island, a flat stretch of uplifted seabed named after the English nobleman Lord Hugh Seymour. It holds one of the largest colonies of magnificent frigatebirds in the archipelago, along with roughly 2,500 land iguanas, sea lions and blue-footed boobies. Along the rocky shoreline you'll often spot both land and marine iguanas within a few steps of each other.
Day 2 · Saturday
Isabela's Vicente Roca Point & Fernandina Island
In the morning you'll visit Vicente Roca Point on Isabela, the largest island in the Galápagos at some 120 kilometres long and shaped, fittingly, like a seahorse. Isabela was built by six shield volcanoes that eventually fused into one landmass, and Wolf Volcano at its northern tip last erupted in 2015. The point's dramatic cliffs and coves are explored entirely by dinghy or snorkel, and the cold, nutrient-rich water pulled in by the Cromwell Current draws blue-footed and Nazca boobies, gulls, storm petrels and brown noddy terns, along with the occasional feeding frenzy of whales, dolphins and sea lions. In the afternoon you'll reach Espinosa Point on Fernandina, the westernmost island in the archipelago and one never touched by an introduced species. Lava fields from the still-active La Cumbre volcano run straight into the sea, and the same current that feeds Vicente Roca makes this a stronghold for the Galápagos penguin and the flightless cormorant. Land iguanas gather near the caldera while marine iguanas nest along the coast, and keep an eye out overhead for the Galápagos hawk.
Day 3 · Sunday
Tagus Cove & Urbina Bay
Tagus Cove sits on Isabela's upper west coast and takes its name from an English warship that anchored here in the 1800s. Generations of sailors and pirates carved their names and ship names into the volcanic rock along the shore, and a trail leads past evidence of the island's varied volcanic history, including small pellets of petrified rain, up to Darwin Lake and its tuff cone. In the afternoon you'll head south to Urbina Bay, where tectonic and volcanic uplift once pushed an entire coral reef above the waterline. The coral is slowly weathering in open air, but it's still visible along the shore. Giant tortoises, land iguanas and flightless cormorants are all regularly seen near the coast here.
Day 4 · Monday
Elizabeth Bay & Moreno Point
Elizabeth Bay, further down Isabela's coast, is a maze of islets, a mangrove-lined lagoon and calm water explored by dinghy. The mangroves are a good spot for birdwatching, and the lagoon itself is a reliable place to see sea turtles resting or feeding just below the surface. In the afternoon you'll land at Moreno Point on Isabela's southwest tip, where black lava fields give the site its striking character and shelter species found only on these barren flows. Depending on conditions you might hike across the lava, take a panga ride past nesting seabirds, or snorkel through the point's clear, wildlife-rich water.
Day 5 · Tuesday
Sierra Negra Volcano & Puerto Villamil Wetlands
In the morning you'll hike Sierra Negra, one of the oldest of Isabela's volcanoes, passing through changing vegetation and geological zones on the way to a viewpoint over its caldera, where hardened lava still marks the landscape. In the afternoon you'll visit the Arnaldo Tupiza Breeding Center, where two species of giant tortoise are raised to help rebuild wild populations, set among gardens of native plants. From there it's a short walk to the wetlands just outside Puerto Villamil, a stretch of lagoons, swamps and mangroves that draws migratory birds including stilts and flamingos.
Day 6 · Wednesday
Charles Darwin Research Station & Departure
On your final morning you'll visit the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz, the hub of the Galápagos' conservation work, where ongoing projects tackle invasive species and where the long-running giant tortoise breeding program raises animals from egg through to adulthood, before they're released back into the wild. From here you'll transfer to Baltra Airport for your flight to the mainland.
Day 1 · Wednesday
Baltra Arrival & the Highlands
You'll land at Baltra Airport, where a Petrel guide will meet you after immigration and baggage claim before transferring you to the yacht. Once aboard you'll have time to settle into your cabin before the welcome briefing and lunch. In the afternoon you'll head into the highlands of Santa Cruz to see Los Gemelos, twin sinkholes left by the collapse of an old volcano's magma chambers, reached along a short trail through Scalesia forest. From there you're likely to see giant tortoises roaming in the wild, along with finches and other native birds, before walking through a lava tunnel formed as the islands took shape.
Day 2 · Thursday
South Plaza Island & Santa Fe Island
South Plaza is one of the smallest islands with a visitor site, but its size belies how much wildlife it packs in. Sesuvium groundcover turns parts of the island red for much of the year, and the prickly pear cactus trees here are a key food source for its land iguanas, whose numbers have grown steadily since mice were eradicated from the island. In the afternoon you'll land at Santa Fe, also known as Barrington Island, home to the endemic Santa Fe land iguana and the only place in the Galápagos with Opuntia cactus growing to tree height. The island's giant tortoises were hunted to extinction by passing pirates and buccaneers, but sea lions still crowd the landing beach and Galápagos hawks are regularly spotted overhead.
Day 3 · Friday
Lobos Island & Giant Tortoise Breeding Center
In the morning you'll visit Lobos Island, a calm, easily explored islet about an hour from San Cristóbal with a resident sea lion colony, marine iguanas along the shoreline and, in season, nesting blue-footed boobies and frigatebirds, with Kicker Rock visible offshore. In the afternoon you'll land on San Cristóbal itself, at Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, the provincial capital and site of Darwin's first landing in 1835, to visit the David Rodríguez Breeding Center. Trails through the reserve let you see young giant tortoises raised in semi-natural conditions as part of the island's long-running conservation program.
Day 4 · Saturday
Gardner Bay & Suárez Point, Española Island
Española is both the southernmost and the oldest island in the archipelago, roughly four million years old, and its isolation has produced more endemic species than anywhere else in the Galápagos. In the morning you'll land at Gardner Bay, a stretch of white coral sand backed by a resident sea lion colony, where Española mockingbirds and marine iguanas share the beach and green sea turtles come ashore to nest between January and March. In the afternoon you'll walk Suárez Point, one of the richest wildlife trails in the islands, passing colonies of blue-footed and Nazca boobies, frigatebirds and red-billed tropicbirds. From April to January this is also the only place to see the waved albatross, the largest bird in the Galápagos, performing its elaborate courtship display before heading out to sea for months at a time.
Day 5 · Sunday
Floreana Island: Devil's Crown & Post Office Bay
Floreana carries some of the strangest human history in the Galápagos, from the first recorded resident, an Irishman who lived here between 1807 and 1809, to a string of unexplained disappearances among its small 1930s settler community. Its handful of remaining residents still farm the land and collect rainwater for supply. In the morning you'll visit either Devil's Crown, a submerged volcanic cone ringed with coral and dense with reef fish, sharks, rays and sea turtles, or Cormorant Point, where flamingos wade through brackish lagoons and the beach shifts from pale coral sand to green, tinted by olivine crystals. In the afternoon you'll stop at Post Office Bay, where passing whalers set up a barrel post office in the 1700s that visitors still use today, leaving postcards for others to hand-deliver, or at the nearby Baroness Lookout Point for views tied to Floreana's most infamous unsolved mystery.
Day 6 · Monday
Charles Darwin Research Station & Departure
On your final morning you'll visit the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz, the hub of the Galápagos' conservation work, where ongoing projects tackle invasive species and where the long-running giant tortoise breeding program raises animals from egg through to adulthood, before they're released back into the wild. From here you'll transfer to Baltra Airport for your flight to the mainland.
Day 1 · Friday
Baltra Arrival & North Seymour Island
You'll land at Baltra Airport, where a Petrel guide is waiting to meet you after immigration and baggage claim. Once aboard you'll settle into your cabin before the welcome briefing and lunch. In the afternoon you'll visit North Seymour Island, a flat stretch of uplifted seabed named after the English nobleman Lord Hugh Seymour. It holds one of the largest colonies of magnificent frigatebirds in the archipelago, along with roughly 2,500 land iguanas, sea lions and blue-footed boobies. Along the rocky shoreline you'll often spot both land and marine iguanas within a few steps of each other.
Day 2 · Saturday
Isabela's Vicente Roca Point & Fernandina Island
In the morning you'll visit Vicente Roca Point on Isabela, the largest island in the Galápagos at some 120 kilometres long and shaped, fittingly, like a seahorse. Isabela was built by six shield volcanoes that eventually fused into one landmass, and Wolf Volcano at its northern tip last erupted in 2015. The point's dramatic cliffs and coves are explored entirely by dinghy or snorkel, and the cold, nutrient-rich water pulled in by the Cromwell Current draws blue-footed and Nazca boobies, gulls, storm petrels and brown noddy terns, along with the occasional feeding frenzy of whales, dolphins and sea lions. In the afternoon you'll reach Espinosa Point on Fernandina, the westernmost island in the archipelago and one never touched by an introduced species. Lava fields from the still-active La Cumbre volcano run straight into the sea, and the same current that feeds Vicente Roca makes this a stronghold for the Galápagos penguin and the flightless cormorant. Land iguanas gather near the caldera while marine iguanas nest along the coast, and keep an eye out overhead for the Galápagos hawk.
Day 3 · Sunday
Tagus Cove & Urbina Bay
Tagus Cove sits on Isabela's upper west coast and takes its name from an English warship that anchored here in the 1800s. Generations of sailors and pirates carved their names and ship names into the volcanic rock along the shore, and a trail leads past evidence of the island's varied volcanic history, including small pellets of petrified rain, up to Darwin Lake and its tuff cone. In the afternoon you'll head south to Urbina Bay, where tectonic and volcanic uplift once pushed an entire coral reef above the waterline. The coral is slowly weathering in open air, but it's still visible along the shore. Giant tortoises, land iguanas and flightless cormorants are all regularly seen near the coast here.
Day 4 · Monday
Elizabeth Bay & Moreno Point
Elizabeth Bay, further down Isabela's coast, is a maze of islets, a mangrove-lined lagoon and calm water explored by dinghy. The mangroves are a good spot for birdwatching, and the lagoon itself is a reliable place to see sea turtles resting or feeding just below the surface. In the afternoon you'll land at Moreno Point on Isabela's southwest tip, where black lava fields give the site its striking character and shelter species found only on these barren flows. Depending on conditions you might hike across the lava, take a panga ride past nesting seabirds, or snorkel through the point's clear, wildlife-rich water.
Day 5 · Tuesday
Sierra Negra Volcano & Puerto Villamil Wetlands
In the morning you'll hike Sierra Negra, one of the oldest of Isabela's volcanoes, passing through changing vegetation and geological zones on the way to a viewpoint over its caldera, where hardened lava still marks the landscape. In the afternoon you'll visit the Arnaldo Tupiza Breeding Center, where two species of giant tortoise are raised to help rebuild wild populations, set among gardens of native plants. From there it's a short walk to the wetlands just outside Puerto Villamil, a stretch of lagoons, swamps and mangroves that draws migratory birds including stilts and flamingos.
Day 6 · Wednesday
Charles Darwin Research Station & the Highlands
Santa Cruz is the most populated island in the Galápagos and home to the archipelago's longest paved road, but its conservation work is what draws most visitors. At the Charles Darwin Research Station you'll see ongoing efforts to remove invasive species and the long-running giant tortoise breeding program, from egg to hatchling to adult, alongside research shared with the Galápagos National Park and institutions further afield. In the afternoon you'll head up into the highlands to see Los Gemelos, twin sinkholes formed when the empty magma chambers of an old volcano collapsed, reached by a short walk through Scalesia forest. From there you'll likely spot giant tortoises roaming freely and a good range of finches and other native birds, before walking through a lava tunnel formed as the islands took shape.
Day 7 · Thursday
South Plaza Island & Santa Fe Island
South Plaza is one of the smallest islands with a visitor site, but its size belies how much wildlife it packs in. Sesuvium groundcover turns parts of the island red for much of the year, and the prickly pear cactus trees here are a key food source for its land iguanas, whose numbers have grown steadily since mice were eradicated from the island. In the afternoon you'll land at Santa Fe, also known as Barrington Island, home to the endemic Santa Fe land iguana and the only place in the Galápagos with Opuntia cactus growing to tree height. The island's giant tortoises were hunted to extinction by passing pirates and buccaneers, but sea lions still crowd the landing beach and Galápagos hawks are regularly spotted overhead.
Day 8 · Friday
Lobos Island & Departure
San Cristóbal is where Darwin first came ashore in 1835, and where the first permanent settlement in the Galápagos was founded. Its port, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, is now the provincial capital and home to the islands' government offices, naval base and an airport with daily flights to the mainland. In the morning you'll visit Lobos Island, a small islet about an hour offshore, calm and easy to explore, with a large resident sea lion colony, marine iguanas along the rocks and, in season, nesting blue-footed boobies and frigatebirds, with Kicker Rock visible in the distance. From here you'll transfer to San Cristóbal Airport for your flight to the mainland.
Day 1 · Friday
San Cristobal Arrival & Giant Tortoise Breeding Center
You'll land at San Cristóbal Airport, the easternmost of the inhabited islands and the site of Darwin's first landing in 1835. After clearing immigration you'll be met by your Petrel guide and transferred to the yacht, with time to settle into your cabin before the welcome briefing and lunch. In the afternoon you'll visit the David Rodríguez Breeding Center, where you can walk through trails to see young giant tortoises raised in semi-natural conditions, part of the long-term effort to secure the species' future, and learn about their evolution and biology from your naturalist guide.
Day 2 · Saturday
Gardner Bay & Suárez Point, Española Island
Española is both the southernmost and the oldest island in the archipelago, roughly four million years old, and its isolation has produced more endemic species than anywhere else in the Galápagos. In the morning you'll land at Gardner Bay, a stretch of white coral sand backed by a resident sea lion colony, where Española mockingbirds and marine iguanas share the beach and green sea turtles come ashore to nest between January and March. In the afternoon you'll walk Suárez Point, one of the richest wildlife trails in the islands, passing colonies of blue-footed and Nazca boobies, frigatebirds and red-billed tropicbirds. From April to January this is also the only place to see the waved albatross, the largest bird in the Galápagos, performing its elaborate courtship display before heading out to sea for months at a time.
Day 3 · Sunday
Floreana Island: Devil's Crown & Post Office Bay
Floreana carries some of the strangest human history in the Galápagos, from the first recorded resident, an Irishman who lived here between 1807 and 1809, to a string of unexplained disappearances among its small 1930s settler community. Its handful of remaining residents still farm the land and collect rainwater for supply. In the morning you'll visit either Devil's Crown, a submerged volcanic cone ringed with coral and dense with reef fish, sharks, rays and sea turtles, or Cormorant Point, where flamingos wade through brackish lagoons and the beach shifts from pale coral sand to green, tinted by olivine crystals. In the afternoon you'll stop at Post Office Bay, where passing whalers set up a barrel post office in the 1700s that visitors still use today, leaving postcards for others to hand-deliver, or at the nearby Baroness Lookout Point for views tied to Floreana's most infamous unsolved mystery.
Day 4 · Monday
Charles Darwin Research Station & the Highlands
Santa Cruz is the most populated island in the Galápagos and home to the archipelago's longest paved road, but its conservation work is what draws most visitors. At the Charles Darwin Research Station you'll see ongoing efforts to remove invasive species and the long-running giant tortoise breeding program, from egg to hatchling to adult, alongside research shared with the Galápagos National Park and institutions further afield. In the afternoon you'll head up into the highlands to see Los Gemelos, twin sinkholes formed when the empty magma chambers of an old volcano collapsed, reached by a short walk through Scalesia forest. From there you'll likely spot giant tortoises roaming freely and a good range of finches and other native birds, before walking through a lava tunnel formed as the islands took shape.
Day 5 · Tuesday
Sullivan Bay & Bartholomew's Pinnacle Rock
Santiago was the second island Darwin visited and was long used by whalers for its salt mine and fresh water. Its land iguanas are now extinct, but the island remains one of the most visited in the archipelago. In the morning you'll land at Sullivan Bay, a satellite islet best known for its Galápagos fur seals and its striking lava formations, including tuff and pyroclastic cones left from past eruptions. In the afternoon you'll visit neighbouring Bartholomew Island, home to Pinnacle Rock, a volcanic spire formed as lava cooled rapidly against seawater. It's one of the most photographed sites in the Galápagos, and its beach hosts nesting green sea turtles and resident Galápagos penguins, with good chances of spotting curious sea lions and colourful reef fish while swimming.
Day 6 · Wednesday
Darwin Bay & Prince Phillip's Steps, Genovesa Island
Genovesa, known as Bird Island, is a horseshoe-shaped island formed by a collapsed shield volcano and home to an enormous concentration of seabirds. The only reptile found here is the marine iguana, but it's one of the few places where you're guaranteed to see red-footed boobies, with an estimated 200,000 nesting in the trees and shrubs around Darwin Bay. In the afternoon you'll climb Prince Phillip's Steps, a stone stairway leading up to a cliff view, then walk through a Palo Santo forest that shelters nesting red-footed boobies and short-eared owls.
Day 7 · Thursday
Egas Port & Buccaneer Cove
In the morning you'll land at Egas Port, once the site of a salt mine and now a black sand beach favoured by Galápagos fur seals, quick-footed lava lizards and a strong population of marine iguanas among the tide pools and grottos. In the afternoon you'll visit Buccaneer Cove, once a repair stop for passing pirates and whalers and now a well-regarded snorkelling site, or Espumilla Beach, a quiet stretch of sand where marine iguanas bask and Sally Lightfoot crabs draw hunting herons, with good chances of spotting octopus, moray eels and reef sharks while snorkelling.
Day 8 · Friday
Black Turtle Cove & Departure
On your final morning you'll explore Black Turtle Cove entirely by dinghy, a shallow, mangrove-sheltered inlet on Santa Cruz's north shore that shows how mangroves shape the marine environment around them. Spotted eagle rays and diamond-shaped golden rays are common here, white-tipped reef sharks pass beneath the boat and Pacific green sea turtles surface to breathe, while pelicans, herons and egrets hunt along the mangrove edges. From here you'll transfer to Baltra Airport for your flight to the mainland.
The Petrel Luxury Cruise Activities
Snorkelling
Wildlife walks
Dinghy rides
Birdwatching
Volcano hikes
Geology and lava formation walks
Sinkhole and lava tunnel walks
Photography stops
Conservation center visits
Wetland walks
Cultural and historical stops
Rates & Inclusions
4 days / 3 nights
Golden Stateroom (Double Occupancy): $4,190
Golden Suite (Double Occupancy): $4,490
5 days / 4 nights
Golden Stateroom (Double Occupancy): $5,190
Golden Suite (Double Occupancy): $5,590
6 days / 5 nights
Golden Stateroom (Double Occupancy): $6,190
Golden Suite (Double Occupancy): $6,690
8 days / 7 nights
Golden Stateroom (Double Occupancy): $8,290
Golden Suite (Double Occupancy): $8,990
Notes
- Programs per person based on double & single occupancy
- High Occupancy Dates: A 10% surcharge applies & 100% Single Supplement applies
- Single Suite: 50% single supplement for suites
- Single Suite: 100% supplement applies for a second single suite / stateroom in the same booking
- Single Suite: Not applicable on high occupancy dates
- Children Policy: The 25% discount for children applies per child (#1) when traveling with two adults. Children must be under 12 years old when they board the cruise. Not applicable on New Years’ Eve and Christmas departures.
- Supplied Expedition Gear Sea kayaks, Ocean paddle boards, Wetsuits and fins, Water containers, Masks and snorkels, Expedition Binoculars, Action Cameras, Micro SD Card 4K (Surcharge)
Included
- Transfers in the Galapagos: airport/catamaran/airport
- Airport reception and assistance
- Double or single accommodations
- Guided expeditions based on itineraries
- Top bilingual National Park guide (English / Spanish)
- Cruise Service Officer
- Daily briefing of activities
- All meals and snacks
- Soft drinks and juices
- Captain’s welcome and farewell cocktails
- Use of sea kayaks and paddle boards
- Expedition gear
- Yoga mats
- Kettlebells and dumbbells
- Stargazing laser pointer
Not Included
- Round trip to Galapagos
- Galapagos National Park Entrance fee ($100 – subject to change)
- Transit Control Card ($20 – subject to change)
- Alcoholic and bottled beverages
- Gratuities for guide and crew
- Travel and health insurance
- Micro SD Card
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About Golden Experiences
Golden Experiences & Travel own and operate unique premium experiences in Ecuador, including La Selva Lodge & Spa and the luxury-class Ocean Spray, Endemic, Elite and Petrel cruises for the Galapagos Islands. These modern and luxurious catamarans are spacious, comfortable, steady, and eminently seaworthy, setting a new standard for luxury yachts in the Galapagos
Golden Experiences promotes a sustainable relationship with the natural and social environment. They offer high-quality service, trained motivated staff, responsible management practices, and maintain positive relationships with the communities they work with.
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