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Call us on 138 747 (AU), 0800 447 913 (NZ), contact your local Viking travel agent or visit viking.com | 27 Daily updates and communication is through the Viking Voyager app on your phone, which includes your shore excursions, dining reservations, details about each art work onboard, weather and itinerary updates, making this the easiest link to what is happening in real time. What you learn very quickly is to be resilient as Antarctica and its weather control the narrative and what you will be doing each day. There are lectures, daily briefings, films and documentaries held in the Aula, a beautiful large lecture hall lined with floor-to-ceiling windows. It has a retractable projected screen and when open, a 270-degree view. The lectures offer more discussion and thinking around Antarctica from past explorers' adventures, offering details about the wildlife, the environment, climate changes and bird migration. The lectures are also streamed live directly to your stateroom on Viking Today Live. The Explorers' Lounge was our go-to spot each afternoon for a cocktail or pre-dinner drink, with the sound of live piano making for a great start to a fun night on board. The Lounges are styled much like a Scandinavian luxury boutique hotel throughout the ship. They feature muted natural tones of greys, blues and browns, faux fireplaces, throw rugs, leather sofas, designer reading chairs, puzzles and a wonderful library of books throughout the ship selected and curated by London's Heywood Hill. The book range is exceptional and you can lose yourself for hours book hopping from anything from Antarctic explorers to Italian gardens ... it's just heaven. The Nordic Spa has saunas, a snow grotto, hydrotherapy pool and massage rooms, fitness centre, and heated indoor-outdoor swimming area. It also has a full-service beauty salon. EXPLORERS' LOUNGE