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Information regarding Ctrips

Ctrips is a Shanghai, China, based travel agency which offers organised group travel as well as individual travel.

Ctrips Group travel on HAL

Their group travel offering includes Chinese speaking tour leader, visa applications (where necessary), arranged excursions during the cruise, pre and post cruise hotels, transfers and options for pre and post cruise travel extentions. Most require a minimum take-up of 16 participants before confirming the group. The group travel is only available for specifically offered tours/cruises.

Some of their group travel offerings may overlap individual HAL cruises. They may offer a group tour comprising two or more Back to Back cruises as one tour. This differs greatly from the usual ‘groups on board’ who usually are only onboard for one specific cruise. For this reason I have given a bit more information on the actual ‘onboard’ dates for these groups.

Dates onboard for Ctrips groups

Nieuw Statendam

25 July 2026 – 22 August 2026 – 28 day Legendary Solar Eclipse with Greenland & Scotland – 11 sold

Oosterdam

05 July 2026 – 09 August 2026 Piraeus to Lisbon

18 November 2026 – 19 December 2026 Fort Lauderdale to Buenos Aires

• 18 November 2026 – 04 December 2026 – 16 day Inca & Panama Canal Discovery
• 04 December 2026 – 18 December 2026 – 15 day South American Pathway

Rotterdam

31 October 2026 – 21 November 2026 Fort Lauderdale to Fort Lauderdale

• 31 October 2026 – 10 November 2026 – 10 day Western Caribbean
• 10 November 2026 – 21 November 2026 – 11 day Eastern Caribbean
• 10 November 2026 – 01 December 2026 – 21 day Eastern/Western Caribbean

Westerdam

20 December 2026 – 31 January 2027 Hong Kong to Singapore

• 20 December 2026 – 03 January 2027 – 14 day Far East Discovery
• 03 January 2027 – 31 January 2027 – 28 day Legendary Coral Triangle
• 03 January 2027 – 14 February 2027 – 42 day Legendary Coral Triangle/Gt Barrier Reef

Ctrips Individual travel on HAL

The following bookings are showing on the Ctrips website. Unfortunately it is not possible to break out the numbers for each specific cruise. Nor can I ascertain if these numers relate to Group Tours whenever a similar Group Tour is offered.

Koningsdam

• Alaska : 13 sailings May – September 2026 (7 days) – 60 places sold

Nieuw Amsterdam

• Alaska ex Whittier : 13 sailings May – September 2026 (7 days) – 2 places sold

Noordam

• Alaska : 12 Sailings May – September 2026 (7 day) – 10 places sold
• Sydney – Sydney : Sailing 20 December 2026 (14 days) – 2 places sold
• Auckland – Sydney : 3 sailings Jan – March 2027 (14 days) – 2 places sold

Oosterdam

• Fort Lauderdale -Buenos Aires : Sailing 18 November 2026 (31 days) – 2 places sold
• Buenos Aires – Santiago : Sailing 19 December 2026 (22 days) – 10 places sold
• Buenos Aires – Santiago : Sailing 01 February 2027 (22 days) – 3 places sold

Rotterdam

• Iceland & Scotland : Sailing 16 August 2026 (14 days) – 2 places sold
• Norwegian Fjords : 7 Sailings April – August 2027 (7 days) – 4 places sold

Zaandam

• Alaska: 18 sailings May – September 2026 – 17 places sold

Zuiderdam

• Miami – Quebec: sailing 18 April 2026 – 4 places sold