MS Roald Amundsen
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MS Roald Amundsen
The MS Roald Amundsen is a MS Roald Amundsen operated by HX Cruises, offering expedition cruises in Norway, the Arctic, and Antarctica. Its itineraries include the Norwegian fjords, the Norwegian Sea, Norwegian ports, Svalbard, and Lapland. The experience focuses on polar nature-based cruising with opportunities to observe the Northern Lights, the Midnight Sun, and Arctic wildlife. The offering is positioned as a sustainable and premium expedition cruise experience in Scandinavia. The MS Roald Amundsen is well suited for travelers seeking a modern, eco-conscious expedition cruise focused on polar exploration, nature immersion, and remote Arctic and Antarctic environments.
Itineraries of the MS Roald Amundsen
Price and Availability Notice
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decks plans
Deck 11
Observation deck, outdoor gym, running track
Deck 10
Pool deck, lounge & bar, sauna
Deck 9
Cabins, restaurant
Deck 8
Cabins
Deck 7
Observation deck, cabins, gym
Deck 6
Science centre, shop, lobby, restaurant
Deck 5
Cabins
Deck 4
Cabins
Deck 3
Medical center, expedition launch
Ship's attributes
Services And Amenities
- Pool
- Spa & body care
Technical specifications
- Classe: 1A Super
- Tonnage: 20889
- Speed: 15.0 knots
- Decks: 11
- Length: 140 m
- Width: 23 m
History
- 2019: Année de construction
Frequently Asked Questions
There is no honest yes or no here. Depending on the page you read they are included for everyone, or only for suite guests. The asterisk beside the promise points to a footnote the operator does not publish. We get it confirmed in writing, departure by departure.
The company contradicts itself on exactly this point. A 2024 announcement has them included everywhere; its own frequently asked questions say most are optional and booked separately. Since this is the biggest line of spending after the cabin, we do not guess: we ask for the list for your departure.
Yes and no. A free allowance is offered, the rest is charged, and above the Arctic Circle the connection fails anyway. Travellers who need it for work should be looking at something other than a polar expedition.
House drinks come with lunch and dinner, and hot drinks run all day. Cocktails, champagne, fine wines and the minibar are billed. The operator's terms and conditions reserve premium drinks for suites, and of the three texts that is the only clear one.
The operator accepts them, with two limits. The chair's width is capped and the chair must be yours. And it writes that you must be able to board an inflatable: that is the point that decides the day, because landings are made that way.
The floor is five years old for Antarctica and the Galapagos. For those under twelve, each landing is subject to the captain's agreement, judging the sea and the place. A child may therefore stay aboard on a morning they have been waiting months for.
Your counterparty is HX US Inc, a Delaware company, for departures sold on this side of the Atlantic. The text names English law and the courts of England, and contains no arbitration clause. That is more favourable than what several other lines write.
Count on two years for personal injury, death and luggage, and one year for the rest. These are firm deadlines, not guidance. The liability caps come from the Athens Convention away from US ports, and elsewhere amount to three times the total booking price.
The protection does not come from the company, which has no established Quebec licence. It comes from the agency: a licence from the Office de la protection du consommateur, a trust account for your payments, and cover by the compensation fund for travel agency customers.
Boots, yes, where they are mandatory: Antarctica, Svalbard, East Greenland. Your hiking boots, no. As for the expedition jacket, it appears in the company's marketing announcement and not in the contractual text, which is not the same thing.
Yes. Antarctica requires a medical form submitted six weeks in advance, and pregnancy is capped: nobody may travel who will reach twenty-four weeks before the voyage ends. These rules apply across the fleet.
A COVID-19 outbreak affected seventy people, guests and crew together, in July 2020. The independent inquiry the company commissioned found insufficient risk management, untested foreign crew, poorly applied quarantine and twelve hours to notify every guest. Expeditions were suspended into 2021.
Yes, with a useful qualification. Four diesel engines are supported by batteries, allowing fully electric propulsion for about thirty minutes and cutting fuel use and emissions by roughly a fifth. She is not an electric ship: she is a diesel that knows how to go quiet for a while.
Five, out of two hundred and sixty-five cabins, all outside and half with balconies. This is the only pair of ships in the fleet for which that figure is published. Confirm availability early: five cabins go quickly on an expedition departure.
In 2019: hull and superstructure at the Montex yard in Gdansk, fitting out at Kleven in Ulsteinvik. One hundred and forty metres by twenty-four, around one hundred and fifty crew, eleven decks. She is the first of the two hybrids, her sister following a year later.
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