Antarctica Travel Guide

We recently completed an amazing trip to Antarctica and Chile Patagonia, planned by Zicasso’s travel company. Our travel specialist did an incredible job working with us to plan a trip of a lifetime!! He listened and supported our requirements, did all the detailed planning, and provided fantastic support throughout the journey.

We flew to King George Island and boarded an expedition cruise along the Antarctica Peninsula. The excursions, food, service, and all accommodations were phenomenal!! The wildlife and scenic experiences were like no other. Our stay at our hotel in Chile Patagonia was one of the best EVER! We had a delay due to weather when disembarking the cruise portion of the trip and he handled it with aplomb by rebooking driver transports and hotel accommodations.

We could not be happier with the total experience. Thank you to this travel company and Zicasso!!

The trip was amazing. We enjoyed every part of our travel—Buenos Aires, Ushuaia, and Antarctica. Zicasso’s travel company planned a very exciting vacation experience. They were caring, understanding, and reliable throughout the vacation. The travel company booked exciting tours and excellent accommodations. This travel company met our needs and made us feel safe and informed. We would recommend them to travelers seeking vacation planning in South America.

Zicasso’s travel agent was the best! He was so patient with us while we were working out exactly what we wanted from our trip and made many excellent suggestions, which ended up becoming highlights.

Also, and this is something I’ve never heard of before, he personally met us at our hotel to welcome us to his country! I can’t say enough good things.

Zicasso’s travel specialist was excellent. There was a surprise twist with a connecting flight that caused a ripple effect with hotels. The travel specialist was quick to identify and execute a fix that saved the day.

Zicasso's trip planner is perhaps the best travel consultant I have ever engaged. As a point of context, I am a retired corporate executive who traveled 250K to 500K miles per year over the last 15 years of my career. I had the advantages of executive assistants, a corporate travel department, and extensive administrative support. Even with all those advantages, this trip planner and his team set a new standard of excellence. My trip planning covered Antarctica, Argentina, and Brazil destinations over a five-week trip. The full trip was for my wife and me, with an additional two-week block for my two children to join us partway through the vacation. He also helped to arrange the holiday for another couple who were supposed to accompany us, but they had a medical emergency occur before the departed. This necessitated a great number of changes and cancelations, which he handled, seemingly without any problems and without any complaints.

I had only traveled to that part of the world in a business capacity before, so I was entirely reliant on our travel agent, not just for the physical arrangements, but to also take the time to understand our interests, curiosities, and desired outcomes. He brilliantly translated that into choices and recommendations that I truly cannot complain about. He is so wired into the hotels, travel options, restaurants, sites, and culture of Argentina, Brazil, and Antarctica that we were blown away by his skills and knowledge. He arranged boutique experiences, personal guides, and superior transportation at all stops. There were no gaps in our travel coverage and I was 100% confident in all of our day-to-day experiences. He knew of things that I never would have discovered on my own. The ease of communicating with him was superior. He always responded to our queries within hours and even had a direct U.S. telephone number so I did not even have to pay for long-distance phone calls.

Our experience so far exceeded my already high expectations that we want to return to Argentina again, and we want to find a way to employ his services again to plan future trips to South America and Africa. Also, each person he had us interact with (drivers, guides, and support staff) was unbelievably capable, but also displayed exuberance and superior customer-service attitudes. Potential problems were non-existent.

I would be personally willing to speak directly to anyone who is considering using this tour company as their travel provider if that would sway them to choose him and his team. I have run out of superlatives, but trust me, I have very high standards. I have been to over 50 countries in my life. I have lived on three continents and (thanks to him) I can finally say I have set foot on all seven continents. With that said, this travel agent earned my admiration as a professional in his field. I believe if you engaged anyone other than him, you would likely receive a fantastic experience, but not as good as it could have been.

The trip was everything we had hoped for, on the cruise and during our stay in Buenos Aires.