THE BIG CHILL

While we can’t spend Christmas thundering down the Swiss Alps this year, there is another way to take to the skies and see some snow. Antarctica Flights charters Qantas Dreamliner 787s for a 12-hour, 10,000-kilometre round trip, which allows four hours cruising over the world’s most isolated continent and a lifetime of bragging rights. Naturally, the best spots are by the window at the pointy end, and deluxe business class passengers swap at the halfway point of the journey so everyone gets an unobstructed view. It’s a total immersion in all things Antarctic, with inflight entertainment about the snowy tundras and on-board experts commentating on the strange landscape below. The journey is the destination and this is the ultimate joyride to the southern hemisphere.

Price: $7999. antarcticaflights.com.au