Seabourn Spirit Review
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After a couple of days acclimatizing ourselves to the temperature in Singapore, we embarked Seabourn Spirit on Monday, 3 April, 2006. This was a long-anticipated adventure for our Silver Wedding anniversary, our first cruise with Seabourn and our first trip of any length without kids in tow so we were very excited!
Embarkation was very smooth, and the service started almost immediately. As soon as one of the ships staff caught sight of us, they immediately took our hand luggage from us (took my husband a bit of persuading to do that I kept reminding him he had to chill out and switch off for the next 16 nights!), and we were ushered on to the ship and into the Amundsen Lounge for cool drinks and a short wait for check-in.
As expected, a white-gloved steward took us and our hand luggage (no fight given this time!) to our suite, where our luggage was waiting. Beautiful suite, just exactly as we had expected, with of course champagne on ice waiting for us. Our stewardess arrived quite quickly with 2 glasses of champagne and canapEs for us however the service we received from our stewardess was I think the only thing which we marked down on our end of cruise questionnaire. For some reason, this lady was based 2 decks above us, but had 2 suites to attend to on our deck also. This meant that we never saw her, and communicated constantly by note; she was always in a rush on the odd occasion we did bump into her and this included the welcome she gave us; she obviously had to be somewhere else and we were a bit of a bother to her. Our soaps were practically thrown at us, and then she disappeared! Throughout the rest of the cruise, our suite was always clean and tidy but we never had any extras it sounds quite childish, but it was disappointing to return to our cabin at night and never discover the rose petals, towel sculptures etc that we heard friends talking about. Even on the actual day of our anniversary (which was obvious from the cards etc on display), we thought she might make an effort to see us, or do a little extra for us but no.