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Luxury expeditions
The seven highest-priced ships sailing the islands, ranked by each ship’s usual per-person rate where one is published.
Departures aboard the seven highest-priced ships in the fleet — ranked by each ship’s usual per-person rate where one is published, not by sale prices.
Typically all meals, guided excursions, snorkel gear, wetsuits, kayaks, and transfers in the islands — the fare on the departure page is close to the full trip cost. International flights, the park fee, and crew gratuities are the usual additions. Each departure page lists specifics.
Many premium itineraries favor the western loop — Isabela and Fernandina — where the youngest volcanoes, penguins, and flightless cormorants are, and day-boat traffic is thin. Eastern loops trade that for Española’s albatross colony. The itinerary map on each departure page shows exactly where a sailing goes.
Larger ships ride swells more steadily and carry more amenities; small yachts feel private and land ashore faster. Neither is objectively better — pick by how you weight stability against intimacy.
Pick a departure and send the operator your questions — they answer directly, and there’s no account needed to ask.
The cruises here sail small ships that follow national-park rules on every landing. See how a trip supports conservation, or give directly to the science that protects the islands.
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