River Cloud II
	Sailing on Sea Cloud Cruises
	Sea Cloud II
	Anja Ringel vice president international sales and marketing Sea Cloud Cruises & Jackie Foggitt managing director Sea Cloud Cruises

Sea Cloud Cruises has released its calendar programme for 2013, highlighting a bounty of exclusive sailing and river yachting adventures to various destinations for a range of budgets.

A collection of new on-board concepts, cultural highlights and a variety of themes and activities have been added to next year’s itineraries for guests to enjoy and experience.

“Sea Cloud Cruises is a privately owned German company but it’s an international product... that’s very important,” Sea Cloud Cruises vice president international marketing and sales Anja Ringel said.

Sea Cloud Cruises operate three vessels and journey the regions of Europe, the Mediterranean and Central America, offering unique sailing voyages and intimate river discoveries.

Luxury yachts, the Sea Cloud and Sea Cloud II, operate as authentic sailing vessels and are manned by an international crew and sailed completely by hand.

The two opulent windjammers embody the private atmosphere of a floating five-star hotel.

From the beginning of next year the ships will be passing through the Panama Canal, exploring the waters of Costa Rica, cruising Central America, visiting the shores of Cuba and exclusively touring the islands of the Lesser Antilles and the British Virgin Islands.

The River Cloud II offers guests the rare opportunity to travel aboard a river-yacht, an intriguingly different experience from the regular European river cruises.

From 2013, all voyages aboard the River Cloud II will encompass a subtle theme and be accompanied by an artist, a scientist or a lecturer.

The river-yacht will be cruising between the Ijssel Sea in the Netherlands and the Danube delta in Romania throughout the 2013 calendar year.

In addition to the extensive upcoming cruise schedule, Sea Cloud Cruises will undertake two expeditions without fixed schedules or destinations.

“Just letting yourself go, relaxing and sailing freely without a plan is an adventure of its own,” Ms Ringel said.

The two specialty journeys will be sailed by traditional means and only the stopping and starting points of the cruise are set, with the wind taking responsibility for the bulk of the experience.