Onboard Enrichment
Pearl Seas is pleased to offer an extensive onboard enrichment program designed to complement your cruise perfectly. One of the benefits of a small ship cruise is the ability to carefully build a program that seamlessly matches the itinerary and shore excursions. Onboard you will have options ranging from engaging lectures to nightly musical entertainment. Enjoy light jazz in one of the lounges or a culinary demonstration with the head chef in the galley. Each cruise offers a different program tailored to regional styles and flavors. Musicians are often from local ports of call and onboard events are designed to heighten your experience at the next port. Additionally, each cruise will have one or two onboard experts who are well versed in the history and ecology of the region.
One of the evening highlights on all of our cruises is the cocktail hour before dinner. This social time is a favorite for passengers to mingle and share adventures of the day. All cocktails, as with most other amenities, are of course, complimentary.
John Meffert is a published author, a recognized lecturer, and an award-winning photographer. Mr. Meffert travels internationally and domestically as a study tour leader and a lecturer for institutional travel programs.
Mr. Meffert attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Cornell University. In 1982 he served as the director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’ s southern regional office based in Charleston, SC. From 1988 to 1997 he served as the director of the Preservation Society of Charleston, the oldest community-based preservation organization in the United States. Mr. Meffert has led tour programs in the Great Lakes, the Saint Lawrence River, the Canadian Maritimes, and the Caribbean.
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