Pricing
Departures: Throughout the year as a private journey.
Prices:
7-Day Journeys
Per person sharing cabin from $3,420
Internal air per person (estimate) $520
8-Day Journeys
Per person sharing cabin from $3,8670
Internal air per person (estimate) $520
9-Day Journeys
Per person sharing cabin from $4,420
Internal air per person (estimate) $520
10-Day Journeys
Per person sharing cabin from $5,360
Internal air per person (estimate) $520
11-Day Journeys
Per person sharing cabin from $6,810
Internal air per person (estimate) $520
SPECIAL OFFERS:
Book a nine-day journey aboard the Santa Cruz departing in May, June, September, or the first half of December 2012, and adults and children save 20 percent off the regular fare. Book the 30 May 2012 departure on La Pinta, and adults and children save 20 percent off the regular fare. Book a journey aboard the Isabela II, Santa Cruz, or La Pinta that departs by 31 July 2012, and solo travelers pay no single supplement.
For more information, to book, or to speak to an R. Crusoe & Son tour specialist, please call us at 800-585-8555.
What Makes This Journey Best?
- Visit the equator.
- Sail aboard the finest ships that ply the waters of the archipelago.
- Complimentary use of snorkeling gear on board.
- Glass-bottom boats available throughout the cruises for underwater viewing.
- Visit the Tortoise Reserve and Charles Darwin Research Station.
- Easy-to-add options to continue on to Machu Picchu, Peru, or Mashpi Biodiversity Reserve with R. Crusoe & Son.
Local Flavor
How do you approach a 500-pound, 200-year-old Galápagos tortoise?
With humility and deference. The noontide iguanas, blue-footed boobies, and waved albatross, however, don't stand on formality (they’ve seen our kind before). As for the seals, they’re positively delighted at the sight of you. This is, after all,
their playground.
Welcome to the planet’s greatest living laboratory. Dozens of species of fish, reptiles, and plants that in all the world can only be found here on these 19 islands and 42 islets. Time to witness Darwin’s theory firsthand (outside the boardroom) 160-odd years after he first laid eyes on those fateful finches.
Galápagos. 7, 8, 9, 10, or 11 Days of Tropical Phenomena.
R. Crusoe offers journeys through the
Galápagos and to Quito, on mainland Ecuador, that range from seven to
11 days. These include between four and eight days of cruising in the
Galápagos archipelago.If you would like to piggyback two or more journeys to make a broader sweep of the islands, please speak to a Crusoe tour specialist for details.
To begin your
Galápagos holiday, jet down to Quito, Ecuador’s colonial capital city,
for a look around. Then fly to Baltra Island and come aboard one of
three small luxury cruise ships that remind us of comfortable floating
hotels: the 40-passenger Isabela II; the 48-passenger La Pinta; and the 90-passenger Santa Cruz. On an 
11-day, eight-day, or seven-day adventure around the islands, we making our landings by sturdy pangas
(rubber boats). Seasoned crews take care of our every desire on board
the ships, and naturalist guides see to our enlightenment and education
as we experience the islands and the waters of the archipelago.
Time to meander on and between these volcanic islands. Baltra
Island, North Seymour, Santa Fe, Hood, Floreana, Santa Cruz, Tower,
Isabela, Fernandina, James, North and South Plaza, and Bartolomé
islands. There are wild animals to meet, birds to watch, otherworldly
terrain to traverse. Snorkel your way around the ocean, or explore like
a wannabee Jacques Cousteau—aboard a glass-bottom boat that accompanies
our ships. Pack your water 
shoes; we make plenty of wet landings along
our route. (You didn’t think there were docks everywhere, did you?)
Please note: During the cruising portion of these journeys, R. Crusoe & Son travelers share the Isabela II, La Pinta, or the Santa Cruz with other, non-Crusoe travelers.
Want
more of Ecuador? Consider extending your visit before or after the
islands with a few days in the private Mashpi Rain Forest Biodiversity
Reserve, where home is a swanky new eco-hotel, the Mashpi Lodge.
To request detailed itineraries for these journeys (and others), click here.