Silver Spirit Review
Enjoyable cruise, but ship could do better!
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Just returned from 9 days on Spirit Venice - Istanbul.
Lovely people/guests, great staff, and wonderful ports of call. Entertainment - missable. Shore excursions very expensive - cheaper to do it on your own. The furnishings, being that it is their newest ship, are out of Victorian times and very dark, tired and depressing. TV in cabins is difficult to fathom out and you need glasses to view it as it is set behind glass and has a minute screen!! Food - a lot to be desired, badly presented, boring and certainly not 5* or 6*. Presentation needs a lot to be desired and quality of food definitely poor and uninspired. The upmarket "special restaurant La Champagne" where you pay $40 per head for the privilege, was so bad we walked out but were still charged. We waited 25 minutes from entry into the restaurant before anyone even spoke to us, offered a drink, menus or even a crust of bread!!
It would have been nice to have seen the Captain or his "elite staff" even once on the ship apart from general introductions at the beginning. They were all in hiding.
Cabin Review
Veranda Suite
Cabin is a reasonable size. Plenty of cupboards/drawers.
TV difficult to fathom out. Set behind the glass of the mirrors and so small you need glasses. Beds comfortable and choice of pillows.
Although a "butler" looks after your cabin, ours or should I say the pair of them, worked well together but we had little need of their "services". They were very pleasant but we were never offered anything over and above the general cleaning of the cabin - eg ?canapes in the evenings perhaps?