Luxury Cruises & Expeditions - Small Ship Cruises

Highlights

Ready for Tahiti? Your flights are on us!*
Order Your Kimberley Expedition Guide
Bookings now open: The Far North aboard our luxury icebreaker
Feel inspired for your next trip with our new brochure!

Book by 30 April

AU$1,500 flight credit per person!*

Now is the perfect time to sail into Polynesian bliss with PAUL GAUGUIN CRUISES. For a limited time, we’ll cover your flights when you book select 2025 & 2026 South Pacific voyages.*

Find out more

Inspire

From sunny cruises to polar odysseys, let's find the destination that inspires you.

Start the test

Spirit of Ponant
a new experience in tailor-made cruises

Embark on board our catamaran where excellence and harmony, comfort and connection with nature, and exclusive services combine, both on board and when at sea or ashore.

Discover

Our ships

Discover our exceptional ships

Sailing ships
Sisterships
Ponant Explorers
ICEBREAKER
Paul Gauguin Cruises

Discover the ships

Discover

The Ponant signature

Explore to better understand, share and protect

Experience a meaningful voyage

Inspiring, human and environmental conscious experiences, accompanied by our experts

Sail to secret shores

Stopovers and moorings off the beaten track, sometimes unexplored

Travel consciously

The latest green technoloy used, environmental impact studies and activities co-constructed with local people

Explore the world on human-sized ships

A limited number of staterooms and suites for intimate voyages

Enjoy a journey crafted just for you

Bespoke onboard services for the most customized cruise available

Experience a meaningful voyage

Inspiring, human and environmental conscious experiences, accompanied by our experts

Sail to secret shores

Stopovers and moorings off the beaten track, sometimes unexplored

Travel consciously

The latest green technoloy used, environmental impact studies and activities co-constructed with local people

Inspirations

A selection of inspiring content to help you prepare for your next cruise.

Travelling solo?

View our selection of departures with Free solo supplement.

‘The Ultimate Kimberley Expedition Guide’

Get ready to explore the Kimberley like never before with our brand new digital guide - view online or order your copy today!

Life on board

Whether you choose a Mediterranean cruise or an expedition journey to the heart of icy Antarctica, you can be sure of exceptional comfort on board our ships

PONANT Plus

We'll take care of your pre and post-voyage arrangements!

Le Commandant Charcot

Immersive your: discover this pioneering ship as you have never seen her before

Paul Gauguin Cruises

Discover enchanting luxury voyages to French Polynesia and the South Pacific now Paul Gauguin Cruises has joined the PONANT Family.

"Opening my stateroom's curtains at 3am to see magnificent pink and purple icebergs was a surreal experience."

Dominique. H Le Commandant Charcot, 2022