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Cunard is expanding its destination-led strategy for 2027, with publicly available information indicating that the line’s World Voyages program will feature around 600 curated shore experiences across South America and other global cruise destinations.
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Expanded World Voyages Portfolio Across the Cunard Fleet
Published material on Cunard’s 2027 World Voyages shows an enlarged program that spans multiple continents, combining full circumnavigations with extensive World Voyage sectors. World cruise information indicates that Queen Victoria and other Cunard Queens are scheduled on long-duration itineraries that link Europe with South America, Australasia, Asia, Africa, and North America, reinforcing Cunard’s positioning in the premium world-cruise segment.
The dedicated World Voyage overview highlights that these itineraries are designed to connect “iconic destinations across the continents” with overnight calls in major cities and a strong focus on cultural immersion ashore. This framework underpins Cunard’s claim of offering hundreds of individual shore experiences over the course of a season, with 2027 promoted as one of the line’s most wide-ranging global programs to date.
Booking information and brochures for the 2026 to 2028 period show that Cunard’s World Voyages are complemented by partial segments of 40 to 90 nights, many of which overlap with the core world cruise routes. These sectors add further demand for organized experiences ashore, contributing to the tally of roughly 600 tours and activities that Cunard associates with its 2027 World Voyages across the fleet.
South America Discovery Voyages Anchor the Program
Within the 2027 lineup, Cunard’s South America Discovery itineraries stand out as a major pillar of the shore-excursion portfolio. Online sailing details for January to April 2027 show extensive South American itineraries of around 80 to 90 nights, featuring ports such as Rio de Janeiro and Búzios in Brazil, Cape Horn and Ushuaia towards the southern tip of the continent, and a mix of Atlantic and Pacific gateway cities.
Itinerary descriptions emphasize that these voyages are structured around scenic cruising and access to natural landmarks, in addition to classic city calls. Sailings highlight glacier viewing, the dramatic approach to Cape Horn, and time in Patagonia, all of which typically generate multiple shore-excursion options, from wildlife viewing and national park tours to cultural and culinary programs in coastal towns.
Publicly available cruise overviews for these South America Discovery routes note that guests can choose from a wide variety of organized shore experiences in nearly every port. When aggregated across the entire South America season and across multiple ships and sectors, these offerings form a substantial share of Cunard’s stated total of about 600 experiences linked to its 2027 World Voyages.
Range of Experiences From UNESCO Highlights to Adventure Tours
Cunard’s world-cruise information emphasizes that 2027 itineraries will continue to prioritize UNESCO-listed and culturally important destinations, many of which are paired with signature excursions. Promotional material for recent and upcoming programs references more than 100 UNESCO World Heritage sites visited across a broader multi-year window, and the 2027 season is presented as building on that approach with a similar emphasis on heritage-rich ports.
Shore-excursion descriptions across South American and global calls showcase a spectrum of experiences: guided visits to historic districts, wine-country tours, scenic rail journeys, glacier and fjord viewing, and small-group adventures in national parks. In South America specifically, examples include day trips into Patagonia from Ushuaia, coastal sightseeing around Cape Horn, and beach and resort excursions from Brazilian ports such as Búzios and Fortaleza.
Beyond South America, the 2027 World Voyages link these tours with experiences in other regions, including European cultural capitals, Australasian city stays, and Asian gateway ports. According to Cunard’s published World Voyage materials, the breadth of these activities is a core selling point, with the line encouraging guests to combine days at sea with curated time ashore on small, locally focused tours.
Onboard Benefits Tailored to Long-Duration World Cruisers
The World Voyage program for 2027 is accompanied by a suite of benefits and services aimed at guests booking full world cruises or extended sectors. Cunard’s World Voyage pages and brochures describe inclusions such as the services of a World Voyage concierge, additional onboard events, and recognition benefits intended specifically for long-duration world cruisers.
These enhancements sit alongside the expanded shore-excursion menu. Information provided in itineraries suggests that guests booking longer sectors are particularly encouraged to make use of pre-bookable tours and curated multi-port experience combinations, using Cunard’s shore-excursion program as a way to structure time ashore across a journey of several months.
In practice, this means that a passenger on a 2027 South America Discovery sector can choose to join guided experiences at many consecutive ports, from cultural city overviews to active excursions. The cumulative effect is an itinerary in which shore experiences function as an integral layer of the overall product, rather than an optional add-on.
Booking Timeline and Global Reach Through 2028
Information published by Cunard on its 2027 and 2028 voyage programs shows that these world cruises and segments are part of a longer planned cycle extending to at least May 2028. The company has outlined booking windows in which Cunard World Club members receive early access, followed by general public on-sale dates, reflecting strong demand for world-cruise itineraries that can sell several years in advance.
Alongside the 2027 World Voyages focused on South America and multi-continent routes, Cunard has announced broader deployment patterns for its four-ship fleet, including European, Caribbean, and repositioning cruises. These additional deployments feed into the global network of ports where Cunard offers shore experiences, but 2027 World Voyages remain the anchor for the most extensive excursion program.
As 2027 approaches, publicly available information indicates that Cunard is using its World Voyages to spotlight both the traditional hallmarks of world cruising and a steadily expanding catalog of organized experiences ashore. With roughly 600 shore experiences connected to the 2027 season and a significant emphasis on South American discovery routes, the brand is positioning its long-haul voyages as immersive journeys that combine sea days with in-depth exploration of multiple continents.
South America Discovery 2027 itinerary details