Atlas Expedition

[Elly Garnand]

TheExpedition Currency Strategy grants access to a lot of currency items, Logbooks and the ability to craft powerful items with Rog. It is very easy to get started as you can reach 100% for your map to contain an expedition encounter.

Expedition passives increase the chance for Expedition encounters to appear. They also increase the chance for them to belong to the more valuable vendors, Dannig and Tujen.

1. Clean Your Maps - Ensure all of your maps are identified and then use an Orb of Scouring to make them all normal rarity, since achieving 20% quality on white maps requires significantly less Cartographer's Chisels.

4. Vaal Orbs - Use Vaal Orbs on all of your appropriately rolled maps. Some maps may transform or receive new modifiers, so weed out any maps with modifiers your build cannot run or that are no longer on a favourable layout for Legion. On average using Vaal Orbs on high tiers maps is always worth it.

This is a dead board so I figured I would put some content here. The Antarctic is a bucket list item for me as it is the last of the seven continents for me to visit. During the world gone mad days of 2020/21 we had a "steal deal" on Silversea that was about $5500 pp that ended up being cancelled due to the insanity. We took our refund and never looked back. I survey cruise deals on a regular basis and came across the Atlas "two for one" deal that came out to just over $4400 PP including taxes and fees. For an all inclusive expedition with continent landings and RT charter flight from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia, it does not get cheaper than that from what I have seen. The fact that is on a new ship that is "lux" (near luxury?) and looks beautiful in pictures and has had people confirm that the World Navigator is as advertised in the case of the ship itself...that was all we needed to book.

We booked with an OTA and there were no issues at all with that process. I had a minor concern when I found out that Atlas was not open on the day (Sunday) that I called the OTA to get detailed quotes for differing cabin/occupancy options. My thinking was that hopefully this was not a "teaser" rate that would not hold up but there was no issue at all with the quotes. There is no 3rd person occupancy availability and the single rate is double...so the same cost as two people less the taxes/fees for the missing person.

Anyway we pulled the trigger and made the booking. So far the process had been pretty much in line with every other cruise line we have dealt with baring a small exception. You have to create a "My Atlas" account and you need your "My Atlas" number in order to create the account...which we did not have since we are new to Atlas. This required a call to Atlas and they gave me the number...like I said MINOR hiccup and purely process related quibble that took a handful of minutes.

6. It is in this "My Atlas" account where you will do your mini bar setup - each person gets a bottle of liquor in your room along with setups (no juice options online though). You also give them your Parka and mud boot sizing in this registration. The Parka is yours and the mud boots are loaned. (As an aside on mud boots - I wear/worn a couple of different brands and they are consistent in that they fit to size on the side of being slightly roomy - IMO if you are 1/2 size ALWAYS go UP to next full size with these boots - worst case they are a little large and you can wear thicker socks.

7. No information on a complimentary hotel night in BA so I am proceeding as if there is not one - we are flying in several days early anyway. ( I think this is another one of the changes from their original launch concept)

8. Charter flights from the USA are NOT part of the cruise for Atlas any longer - fine with me since I am an award mile user and piece together flights so that we are in lie flat business and not paying thousands and thousands of dollars.

I will try -no promises ? to give updates on how things progress for this trip. So far so good. Atlas, if they are trying to ID future improvements, can look to the website...it is not bad but it is a bit basic - though not unattractive (no sample menus for example) and the My Atlas chicken or the egg situation with using a My Atlas number that you don't have was a bit strange. I will emphasize that this is EARLY in the process but so far Atlas is squarely in line with other cruise lines I have dealt with...zero nightmares or large concerns.

I jumped on this when they started their 2 for 1 approach to pricing. There was a little bit of tease in the first pricing, which seems to have worked in getting bookings coming in. Our cabin price has gone up $3800 for our cabin since early September. Same trip in 2024 is showing up as $10,000 higher per cabin.

Thanks for sharing the valuable info. We are booked on the 2024-01-15 sailing and had the same issue with finding the My Atlas numbers for myself and spouse. There is a good 2+ hour video we saw on YouTube about a trip on Atlas.

Congratulations on (shortly) having stood on the seven continents of the world...a rare feat and one I am anticipating next month. We think we will try for the camping as well and I have high hopes for this expedition but am trying to stay realistic. This is easily the most we have ever spent on a cruise but it is also the best value Antarctic cruise we have come across as well. I intend to try to focus on the latter vs the former. Safe travels.

Hi everyone. We are on the Feb 10th 2023 sailing. So far everything has been fine from Atlas bar a small hiccup re bank charges on our transfer. We have filled in the details for the MyAtlas documents and have flights booked to arrive in Buenos Aires on 8th Feb. We are quite excited by the trip - it'll be our 7th continent as well - and hope that the Drake Passage crossing will not be too bad :-). IS anyone else on this sailing? I opened a thread for it a few days ago, but have not had any takers...

So far no more communication after getting our charter flight information by email from our TA. No communication directly from Atlas on the trip at this point. This is not necessarily a bad thing. But reading between the lines across many boards on this site...I think more than a few folks will be unsettled with this level of communication. I don't think that Atlas is going to be a "handholding" type of communication experience. If you are the type of customer that needs regular "countdown" communication from a company as validation of your trip...I don't think you will be in love with this precruise experience.

I think Atlas is going to be more of a skinny "what you need when you need it" type of approach to communication with you. I would keep that in mind and not be upset if you book with them and you are not getting all kinds of status and reminder communications from them. In addition the Atlas website has zero information about your booking. The My Atlas link just reopens the forms you already filled out (it does have a status bar showing completion of the steps)...again they are not big in delivering a customer epxerience of giving you visual validation of your booking.

I think I got my leather binder around 3 weeks before the cruise. You should get it within the coming week, it will have the charter information. You should also get an email from Atlas around the same time. I do agree that the pre-cruise experience is not the "hand-holding" experience some may expect at this price point. I also relied on a social media Atlas passengers group to get additional information or confirm news. For example, I got an email from my TA a couple of days before the cruise that the charter flight was going to USH two hours later, but the two other bookings from a different TA in my group didn't. But the hand-holding does start once you arrive in person at the airport terminal. Also, I do recommend that you verify you're on the return passenger manifest. There was a mixup and two of my friends weren't put on it, but fortunately they got it resolved at the airport with the charter airline when we got back to Ushuaia a day early.

Okay - minus the misstep in address - they confirmed we would be home for a delivery. We got this huge box and I didn't know what the heck it could be - surely not cruise docs! All our cruise docs are supposed to be delivered to us electronically now tomorrow and we will get our luggage tags at port. However, since we booked the Navigator Suite we got THIS!!!!!!!!

We fly to SA in less than a week and since I have not gotten anything from Atlas I called my TA...The TA called Atlas and they said that "nope we will not be sending anything"...because I booked inside the 60 day window or... something. The TA assured me that I am on the manifest booking that they have access too and Atlas assured the TA that all we do is show up to the check in counter for the charter flight from EZE on the 21st. I am not a needy traveler by any means...but to me this is unsat. Is it really so hard to print off some official looking stuff on their letterhead and throw it in the mail??? How about a "we are really excited that you will be on our expedition" email??? Instead...bupkis...nada. This to me is the first misstep in this process. Our group is actually going all the way to SA with nothing more than a Travel Agency confirmation email that we are on this cruise and zero ways to pull up any information on the Atlas website to "prove" that we are on the trip...WOW

The Argentinian peso is not stable and there is an "official" exchange rate and a "blue" exchange rate. Check with your credit card to see what they use. Most of the stores will take US dollars and most of the ones near the port in Ushiuia posted their exchange rates (which ranged from 200 to 340 pesos per dollar, "official" rate was 187)

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