There is a dance bar with live music plus a piano bar. There is a pool, sauna and laundry. There is a doctor on board and hairdresser. Passengers see the lifestyles of Eskimos and other peoples in remote locations. There are visits to a permafrost research station, walks through various small villages and tours through mountains, tundra and forests.
Passengers are mostly Swiss and German, who dress in suits and cocktail dresses for dinner.
Guides are multilingual, including English. Visas are needed. The ship cruises to the Canary Islands, the Mediterranean, the Baltic, Norway and the North Cape in the spring and summer, and recently to the Amazon, the Caribbean and Latin America for the winter. A new itinerary is a 54-night cruise around Africa. Beds may be fixed, a folding sofa bed, a bed that folds against the wall or lower and upper berth.