HX's Black Friday Sale: Up to 40% Off the Galápagos, Antarctica, Alaska and Greenland

The sale we’d book ourselves

We’ve sailed with HX Expeditions twice now: the Galápagos aboard Santa Cruz II, and Alaska aboard MS Roald Amundsen. Both voyages are in this year’s Black Friday sale, and so are Antarctica, Greenland and most of the Arctic.

HX ran the same sale last year, also up to 40% off. This year’s version covers more than 200 departures between late November 2026 and March 2028, with savings of up to 40%. The booking window is short: November 10 to December 2, 2026. Bookings made before or after those dates don’t qualify.

The prices below are HX’s own “from” fares, per person based on two sharing, with the discount already applied.

Destination	Savings	Cabins from	Suites from
Galápagos	up to 40%	$6,245	$8,277
Antarctica	up to 25%	$9,865	$13,980
Alaska	up to 35%	$5,369	$8,787
Greenland	up to 35%	$6,943	$9,431

The Galápagos: the biggest discount, on a ship we know

The deepest cut is in the Galápagos, and it’s on a ship we’ve actually lived on. Santa Cruz II carries 90 passengers, and our nine days with HX started in Quito before they flew us out to the islands and put us on the first Zodiac ride. It’s the ship on our nine-day Galápagos itinerary.

The sale covers nearly every Santa Cruz II departure from late November 2026 through March 2028, about four or five a month, all round trips from Baltra. There are two main itineraries: In Darwin’s Footsteps (6 nights) and Nine of the Best Isles (8 nights). A few shorter 4-night sailings run in December 2026, if you want a taste before committing to a full week.

The Galápagos doesn’t really have an off-season, so the question is less “when” and more “which wildlife.” We’ve written about why HX is our first call for the Galápagos, even in peak season.

Antarctica: two full seasons

Up to 25% off, on 62 departures across two seasons: late November 2026 to March 2027, and October 2027 to March 2028. Three HX ships share the work: MS Fridtjof Nansen, MS Roald Amundsen and MS Fram.

• Highlights of Antarctica, 10 nights round trip from Ushuaia, is half the list (30 departures). It’s the classic Peninsula voyage.
• 14-night voyages from Ushuaia: Antarctica & Falklands, Iconic Antarctica – The Explorer’s Route, and the Antarctic Circle Expedition, which goes farther south than most.
• In-depth Antarctica, Falklands & South Georgia, 21 nights from Punta Arenas, 11 departures across both seasons. This is the big one, with king penguin colonies on South Georgia, and it’s the voyage behind our In-depth Antarctica itinerary.
• Season openers and closers: a 22-night springtime voyage from Buenos Aires in October 2027, a 17-night southbound run from Valparaíso through Patagonia, and northbound voyages ending in Montevideo or Buenos Aires in March.

If you’re still choosing between lines, our guide to HX explains the basecamp idea: two off-ship outings a day and a Science Center instead of a casino.

Alaska: the route we sailed, May to September 2027

Up to 35% off, on eight departures in summer 2027, mostly on MS Roald Amundsen, the ship we took from Vancouver to Whittier. That route, Fjords of the Great Land (9 nights), is on the list three times between May and July, and it’s the trip behind our Alaska expedition itinerary. It also runs in reverse, Whittier to Vancouver, over 12 nights.

For more time, two 16-night voyages connect Vancouver and Nome through the Inside Passage and the Aleutian Islands, in July and September 2027.

Greenland: June to September 2027

Up to 35% off, on ten departures aboard MS Fridtjof Nansen and MS Fram.

• Grand Greenland – The Icy Giants of Disko Bay, 10 nights round trip from Nuuk, June to early July. The icebergs of Disko Bay are the reason most people go, and it’s the voyage behind our Disko Bay itinerary.
• Grand Greenland – Mythical Lands of the North, 14 nights from Nuuk, in July.
• Reykjavik to Nuuk in early June, and two Arctic Island Odyssey voyages linking Svalbard, Greenland and Iceland in late July and August.
• Serene Greenland in September: East Greenland out of Reykjavik, toward the world’s largest national park and the largest fjord system on Earth.

Our Greenland expedition cruise guide explains why it’s the most overlooked polar trip there is.

Also on the list

HX’s flyer leads with the four destinations above, but the sale reaches further. Ask us for the exact savings on any of these:

• Norway under the Northern Lights. 35 departures on MS Spitsbergen, 7 nights round trip from Tromsø, in two winters: November 2026 to March 2027 and November 2027 to March 2028. That includes Christmas sailings both years and a 12-night New Year’s Eve voyage in December 2027.
• Svalbard. 22 departures, May to September 2027: Svalbard in Spring (7 nights), Circumnavigating Spitsbergen (9 nights) and Circumnavigating Svalbard (12 nights), all from Longyearbyen.
• The Northwest Passage. August 2027, 23 nights between Nome and Nuuk, in both directions.
• Arctic Canada. September 2027: a Baffin Bay circumnavigation from Nuuk (18 nights) and Greenland to Newfoundland (16 nights).
• Iceland. May 2027, including two 7-night circuits from Reykjavik.
• One-offs. The Chilean Fjords from Ushuaia to Valparaíso in April 2027, and Lisbon to Hamburg along Europe’s Atlantic coast in late April.

The fine print, minus the lawyer voice

The booking window is November 10 to December 2, 2026. Bookings outside those dates don’t qualify, even for a sailing on the list.

Departures run from late November 2026 to March 2028. Not every HX sailing is included, so tell us where and roughly when, and we’ll tell you whether yours is.

“Up to” means it varies. The percentages are the maximums for each destination. The “from” prices already include the discount, and they’re for the lowest-priced cabin on the cheapest sailing. Your quote will show the real number for your voyage and cabin.

Traveling solo? On 35 of the sale departures, as of this writing, HX is also waiving the solo supplement, and the two offers combine: the Black Friday savings, with no single supplement on top. That covers Norway (10 departures), the Galápagos (9), Alaska (5), Antarctica (5), Greenland (4), Arctic Canada and the Chilean Fjords. The waiver is for new bookings made by November 30, applies to the cruise portion only, and doesn’t apply to group bookings. On the other sailings, single supplements may apply. More in our guide to solo cruising and single supplements.

It can end early. The offer depends on availability and HX can withdraw it at any time. The most popular departures will sell first: the 21-night South Georgia voyages, the Christmas sailings, and anything with a suite.

Our extras. As a Virtuoso agency we usually add perks to an HX booking. We’ll price your voyage every way it can be booked and use whichever comes out ahead.

How to get your number

Send us the destination, a rough window, how many of you there are, and the cabin you have in mind. We’ll come back with the departures in the sale that fit, the savings applied, and an honest read on which one is right for you.

Request your HX quote before December 2, or if you’d rather talk it through first, start here.