Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris
South Georgia and Antarctic Peninsula
October 23 to November 14, 2025 Trip Portal
Welcome to your South Georgia and Antarctic Peninsula October 23 to November 14, 2025 Trip Portal: This resource page includes everything you’ll need to register and plan for your Cheesemans’ adventure and make the most of your trip!
Reservation Information
Please review this now to secure your reservation.
Reservation Materials
Please fill out the following forms by the noted deadlines.
- Reservation Form: Please fill this out IMMEDIATELY.
- Oceanwide’s Reservation Form (we’ll send you a link unique to your reservation closer to the trip). Please fill this out by May 15, 2025. For hotel and flight detail information, please leave the form pre-selected as “Other” with “Cheesemans’ has this information” pre-filled in the text box.
- Insurance Form: If you plan to buy insurance that covers you for pre-existing conditions, please review this before sending a deposit. Please fill this out by May 15, 2025. For this trip, we recommend purchasing at least $250,000 coverage per person in emergency medical and evacuation insurance. For more information, see our travel insurance webpage. For further details on travel insurance, we invite you to visit our travel insurance webpage. The providers listed on our resource page present a range of travel protection plans. Feel free to obtain quotes or reach out to them for information on coverage options that address typical travel concerns, including trip cancellation, interruption, delay, medical expenses while traveling, baggage and personal effects, emergency medical evacuation, among others.
- Medical Form: These forms will be reviewed by our ship doctor and will be available for completion closer to the trip departure. We will email you when they become available.
Payments
We accept payment in US Dollars by check, money order, bank draft, wire transfer, and credit card. Most US clients pay by check and most international clients pay by wire.
To make a payment by:
- Check, money order, or bank draft: Please make payable to Cheesemans’ Ecology Safaris and mail it to:
Cheesemans’ Ecology Safaris
PO Box 304
Moss Landing, CA 95039
USA - Wire transfer: Please follow these instructions.
- Credit card: Fees are involved if paying by credit card (3% of total, but waived for the $2,000 per person deposit). Please pay on our secure webpages for the $2,000 deposit and for any payments thereafter. For your security, we do not take any credit card information by phone or email.
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Share Your Adventure with Us!
We invite you to join our exclusive Google Photo Sharing Folder for your recent Cheesemans’ Ecology Safaris trip! This is a fantastic opportunity to share your favorite moments and stunning shots with fellow travelers and the Cheesemans’ community.
By uploading your photos and videos, you grant us permission to showcase your incredible experiences in our marketing efforts, helping to inspire future adventurers. Rest assured, all media used will be credited to you, ensuring your contribution is celebrated.
Share the beauty of your journey and leave a lasting impact by helping us highlight the wonders of our natural world. We can’t wait to see the amazing memories you’ve captured!
Trip Information
Information to help you prepare for your trip. We will notify you by email when the following information is available.
Conservation
Our company ethos has always regarded conservation as inseparable from responsible tourism. We struggle with the dilemma that traveling worldwide expends climate-changing carbon. However, we wholeheartedly believe that traveling with us will cultivate your passion for conserving our beautiful world while stimulating each destination’s local economy. We encourage you to explore the various ways in which Cheesemans’ operates within this context:
- Ecotourism and Conservation for the Antarctic
- Cheesemans’ Trips are Carbon Neutral
- Offsetting your Travel to/from our Trip: We ask you to pledge to offset the carbon emissions for your travel to and from our trips. Use this tool to calculate your emissions and purchase your carbon offset today through Sustainable Travel International, or through your favorite carbon offsetting organization.
Responsible Tourism Guidelines
Please familiarize yourself with the guidance documents provided here.
- General Guidelines for Visitors to the Antarctic
- IAATO Don’t Pack a Pest
- Biosecurity Checklist
- Reducing Waste
- Expedition Cruising to Antarctica
- IAATO Avian Influenza Poster
- 2023-2024 Avian Influenza Protocols
Trip Planning Materials
Documents to help you prepare for your safari.
- Trip Planning Materials: A must read for every traveler! This will include logistical information for your travel to and from the voyage, luggage requirements, packing and dressing strategies, a general packing list, information on electricity, communications, and more.
- Trip Itinerary: If you’d like a PDF of the itinerary, click <Print Trip> at the bottom of Safari Overview section.
- Falkland Islands Extension Trip Planning Materials: This has a checklist of what we need from you in addition to the main safari.
- Falkland Islands Pre-Trip Extension Itinerary: If you’d like a PDF of the itinerary, click <Print Trip> at the bottom of Safari Overview section.
- Chile Extension Trip Planning Materials: This has a checklist of what we need from you in addition to the main safari.
- Chile Extension Itinerary: If you’d like a PDF of the itinerary, click <Print Trip> at the bottom of Safari Overview section.
- Life Aboard The Plancius: If you want to start imagining life on board the Plancius and on shore, this is just for you!
- Minimizing the Spread of Cold, Flu, and Other Infectious Disease: We will send you finalized protocols closer to the trip, however we have a draft protocol based on our 2023 expedition. Note that this is subject to change.
- Reading and Resource List
- Polar Photography Essentials
- Expedition Photo Submissions FAQ: What to know if you wish to submit photos onboard for our slide show and expedition log.
- Map of South Georgia
- Map of Antarctic Peninsula North
- Map of Antarctic Peninsula South
- Species List for the Falkland Islands Extension & South Georgia Island and the Antarctic Peninsula
- Species List for Chile Extension
Final Reminders and Updates
Closer to the departure date, we will email you final reminders and important updates, plus we will post a trip participant list with photos and contact info listing only trip participants who opted to share information. Let us know if you’ll be unreachable for any significant length of time two months prior to your tour, thus needing anything from us sooner than usual.
- Final Reminders and Updates
- Chile Extension Participant List
- Falklands Extension Participant List
- Participant List
Trip Evaluation
We will notify you by email when the following information is available.
After you return home, please fill out our Trip Evaluation.
We would love to see the photos you took on the trip! Please upload to our Google Photo sharing folder today! Photo credit will always be given for any photos of yours that we use, and we ask the same as well!
Questions?
If you have any questions, please contact the tour coordinator Lauren Kleppin. If you have immediate concerns or questions, please email us or call our office at 1-800-527-5330 or 1-408-741-5330.