Le Commandant Charcot

Sailings

Ship Information

Dining

Age Restrictions

Tipping

Cabins

Balcony

• Category Code(s): PR6,PR7,PR8

  

  • Private balcony for all cabins
  • Individually-controlled airconditioning
  • Stateroom layout: king-size bed, or twin beds, communicating staterooms available, children welcome
  • Minibar - 24hr room service
  • Satellite TV channels (availability dependent on navigation); selection of videos on demand
  • Bose™ Bluetooth speaker
  • Safe
  • Selection of Dyptique Paris top-of-the-line bath products.
  • Dressing table, bath robes, Hairdryer
  • Direct line telephone
  • 110V American (two flat pins)/220V European (round sockets with two round pins)
  • Internet access Wifi : Satellite reception (availability dependent on navigation and latitude)

Suite

• Category Code(s): DU

  

  • Private balcony for all suites
  • Terrace for the Duplex suites and the Owner's suite
  • Butler service and priority boarding
  • Individually-controlled airconditioning
  • Stateroom layout: king-size bed, or twin beds, communicating staterooms available, children welcome
  • Minibar - 24hr room service
  • Satellite TV channels (availability dependent on navigation); selection of videos on demand
  • Bose™ Bluetooth speaker
  • Safe
  • Selection of Dyptique Paris top-of-the-line bath products.
  • Dressing table, bath robes, Hairdryer
  • Direct line telephone
  • 110V American (two flat pins)/220V European (round sockets with two round pins)
  • Internet access Wifi : Satellite reception (availability dependent on navigation and latitude)

• Category Code(s): Owner's Suite

  

  • Private balcony for all suites
  • Terrace for the Duplex suites and the Owner's suite
  • Butler service and priority boarding
  • Individually-controlled airconditioning
  • Stateroom layout: king-size bed, or twin beds, communicating staterooms available, children welcome
  • Minibar - 24hr room service
  • Satellite TV channels (availability dependent on navigation); selection of videos on demand
  • Bose™ Bluetooth speaker
  • Safe
  • Selection of Dyptique Paris top-of-the-line bath products.
  • Dressing table, bath robes, Hairdryer
  • Direct line telephone
  • 110V American (two flat pins)/220V European (round sockets with two round pins)
  • Internet access Wifi : Satellite reception (availability dependent on navigation and latitude)

• Category Code(s): VS6

  

  • Private balcony for all suites
  • Butler service and priority boarding
  • Individually-controlled airconditioning
  • Stateroom layout: king-size bed, or twin beds, communicating staterooms available, children welcome
  • Minibar - 24hr room service
  • Satellite TV channels (availability dependent on navigation); selection of videos on demand
  • Bose™ Bluetooth speaker
  • Safe
  • Selection of Dyptique Paris top-of-the-line bath products.
  • Dressing table, bath robes, Hairdryer
  • Direct line telephone
  • 110V American (two flat pins)/220V European (round sockets with two round pins)
  • Internet access Wifi : Satellite reception (availability dependent on navigation and latitude)

• Category Code(s): VS8

  

  • Private balcony for all suites
  • Butler service and priority boarding
  • Individually-controlled airconditioning
  • Stateroom layout: king-size bed, or twin beds, communicating staterooms available, children welcome
  • Minibar - 24hr room service
  • Satellite TV channels (availability dependent on navigation); selection of videos on demand
  • Bose™ Bluetooth speaker
  • Safe
  • Selection of Dyptique Paris top-of-the-line bath products.
  • Dressing table, bath robes, Hairdryer
  • Direct line telephone
  • 110V American (two flat pins)/220V European (round sockets with two round pins)
  • Internet access Wifi : Satellite reception (availability dependent on navigation and latitude)

• Category Code(s): PS7,PS8

  

  • Private balcony for all suites
  • Individually-controlled airconditioning
  • Stateroom layout: king-size bed, or twin beds, communicating staterooms available, children welcome
  • Minibar - 24hr room service
  • Satellite TV channels (availability dependent on navigation); selection of videos on demand
  • Bose™ Bluetooth speaker
  • Safe
  • Selection of Dyptique Paris top-of-the-line bath products.
  • Dressing table, bath robes, Hairdryer
  • Direct line telephone
  • 110V American (two flat pins)/220V European (round sockets with two round pins)
  • Internet access Wifi : Satellite reception (availability dependent on navigation and latitude)

• Category Code(s): PV6,PV7,PV8

  

  • Private balcony for all suites
  • Individually-controlled airconditioning
  • Stateroom layout: king-size bed, or twin beds, communicating staterooms available, children welcome
  • Minibar - 24hr room service
  • Satellite TV channels (availability dependent on navigation); selection of videos on demand
  • Bose™ Bluetooth speaker
  • Safe
  • Selection of Dyptique Paris top-of-the-line bath products.
  • Dressing table, bath robes, Hairdryer
  • Direct line telephone
  • 110V American (two flat pins)/220V European (round sockets with two round pins)
  • Internet access Wifi : Satellite reception (availability dependent on navigation and latitude)

Life on Board

Dining

• Gastronomic Restaurant (Nuna)

  

  Le Nuna, is the first-ever shipboard restaurant by celebrated French chef Alain Ducasse. It's here that you'll have the pleasure of enjoying breakfast, lunch, à la carte dinners and a selection of special signature dishes

• Open-air bar (Inneq)

  

  At the open-air bar, you can enjoy a varied and refined range of international sweet and savoury dishes throughout the day (11am-6pm), as well as a permanent menu.

• Sila

  

  In a more relaxed atmosphere, this restaurant is located on deck 9 and welcomes you for your breakfasts, buffet lunches and themed dinners.

Spa and Beauty

• Salon

  

  The salon offers a complete range of top quality treatments designed to strengthen, nourish and reinvigorate hair's shine and brilliance. Our stylists are available to serve all your styling, highlighting, colouring, cutting and tailored hair advice needs.

• Spa

  

  The spa offer a wide choice of top-of-the-range treatments provided in association with BIOLOGIQUE RECHERCHE.

Onboard Activities

• Tea Room and Bar

  

  A tea room and bar with a programme of live music on certain evenings.

• The Observation Lounge

  

  The Observation Lounge includes a library, reading area, live entertainment on certain evenings.

• The theatre

  

  Settle comfortably into your seat and enjoy a range of different shows, concerts and performances organised by the professional dancers and musicians onboard.

Sports and Fitness

• The Gym

  

  Equipped with the very latest equipment and machines. Treadmills, exercise bikes, strength training machines and many other types of equipment are all provided in a laid-back relaxing environment.

Shopping

• Boutique (Illu)

  

  The Illu boutique is a space of wonder, an authentic extension of your journey and the ship, dedicated to the polar world. 95% of the souvenir range is made in France.

Pools

• Blue Lagoon

  

  An outdoor heated lagoon with a temperature that ranges from 27 to 37° C using recycled energy from the ship.

• Heated Pool

  

  A heated indoor pool with a superb skylight thanks to its large glass roof.

Health and Safety Protocols

PONANT is collaborating with the IHU (Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire) Mediterranee Infection of Marseilles, one of the World's leading centers in the field of infectious diseases, as well as with the Battalion of Marine Firemen of Marseilles. PONANT is also the only expedition line to apply to Bureau Veritas Safeguard status, a label which certifies the efficacy of the health protocols. The updated guidelines developed by PONANT is based on health standards that exceed international regulations.

In addition to strict cleaning procedures advised by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO), implementation of social distancing requirements and enhanced employee training, PONANT’s new measures include: 

Pre-Boarding

• Prior to boarding, all guests and crew members will have to present a signed doctor’s *medical form, complete a health questionnaire and undergo a health check and screening by the ship’s medical staff.
• All luggage will pass through a disinfecting zone by sanitizing mist or UV lamps.
• Surgical and cloth masks, disinfecting wipes and hand sanitizer bottles will be provided to passengers.

On-board experience

• 100 percent fresh air in staterooms, through non-recirculating air conditioning systems. Ventilated air will be renewed in the common areas at least five times per hour. 
• Restaurant layouts have been redesigned and will only offer contactless a la carte dining options.
• Public spaces, such as the fitness room and theater will be capped at 50 percent occupancy.
• Hourly disinfecting of high-touch points, such as door handles and handrails, with EcoLab peroxide, which eliminates 100% of germs and bacteria
• Crew members are required to wear a mask or protective visor when in contact with guests. Guests will be asked to wear a mask in hallway corridors and will be recommended in public spaces. 
• Thanks to large investments over several years, PONANT has some of the most complete and renowned onboard medical centers in the world of cruising. Each vessel is equipped with advanced hospital equipment, including mobile laboratory terminals that enable testing on site for infectious or tropical diseases. Advanced diagnostic equipment such as ultrasound, radiology and blood biological analysis is available fleet-wide, one doctor and one nurse are present on every sailing.
• All ships will have five vacant staterooms should guests need to isolate.  

Shore excursions

• Zodiacs will be thoroughly disinfected after each stopover.
• Re-boarding after shore excursions will only be permitted after temperature check and disinfection procedures (individuals and personal belongings).