Antarctica cruise at cut-rate prices

CruiseDeals.com is featuring an eight-night Antarctica cruise to take place over New Year's 2007-8 at an incredible starting price: $1,499 per passenger for interior staterooms and $1,899 for oceanview.

These prices are thousands of dollars less than you'd find for most other Antarctica cruises. And remember, winter in the Northern Hemisphere is the warmest time to visit the Southern Hemisphere. The cruise includes three stops on the Antarctic Peninsula as well as Drake Passage crossings and Cape Horn on the tip of South America.

The roundtrip cruise out of Ushuaia, Argentina, is aboard the Orient Lines' ship Marco Polo, an 800-passenger vessel that is currently making its last round of voyages under the Orient Lines banner. It's scheduled to leave parent company NCL's fleet in March 2008.

If this date sells out before you book, or you simply can't travel at that time, there are two additional dates in January 2008 -- January 5 and January 13 -- that are priced at $1,799 for interior staterooms and $2,599 for oceanview.

You must book by October 2, 2007, to take advantage of this deal. Click here for more details or call CruiseDeals.com at 800-668-6414.

Antarctica photo from CruiseDeals.com.