Svalbard Wildlife In-Depth Reviews

Reviews from Swoop customers who travelled on the Svalbard Wildlife In-Depth trip over the last nine seasons.

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Steve Liu  - USA Travelled: June 2019

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The Trip was great. We were lucky with the weather and the wildlife. We must have seen over twenty polar bears, include cubs. The highlight and magical moment had to be Mama and Baby bears swimming right up to the ship to say hello. The landscape was like a mini Antarctica - we did not see the large ice-floats as we did down in Antarctica but the glass smooth sea surface and the reflections of blue sky and milk white glaciers were very photogenic. It is not easy to comment on fellow passengers when there are over 10 nationalities on-board. The inherent different tongues and customs can dampen the moments.

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Ted Schipper  - Canada Travelled: June 2019

8

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Highlights were wildlife sightings and excursions off the ship. People were very nice with a good mix of backgrounds and nationalities. The second 4 hour visit to Longyearbyen after the cruise was unnecessary. We did not know about the stop in Tromso to re-enter Norway.

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Andrew  - USA Travelled: July 2022

10

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Seeing the first polar bear.

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Phyllis  - USA Travelled: July 2024

10

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There were so many. Weather sometimes forced a change of plans. One of these was a zodiac cruise to a small island thru fog. The expedition team hadn’t been to this particular island although they knew about it. We discovered several haulouts of walrus, many cows with cubs, that we could quietly get quite close to. It was surreal!

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