Saga Cruises Spirit Of Discovery Reviews

This was our first cruise with Saga. Door to door service was excellent, the driver telephoned the day before our outward journey to confirm pick up time, he arrived on time and with a short service station stop we soon arrived at Portsmouth. Check in was quick and efficient, short ride on shuttle bus to ship, slight blip with gangway and tide but we soon boarded. We were shown to cabin ...

This was our 5th cruise with Saga and the 2nd this year in 2023. For this voyage we had breakfast in our room or the balcony as we had the space and so missed the chaotic crowds in the restaurants. Everyone for some reason wants to eat at 09.30 even though the place closes shortly after. If you go earlier it is a lot easier. When at a destination, we know when the others are getting off ...

We felt we needed a break after some unwelcome medical issues and settled on this, our second, Saga cruise just recently. We were again on Sprit of Discovery - and Captain Darin Bowland was again in command. We always feel that the Captain sets the tone for any cruise and it was obvious that the Captain was well liked by his crew which meant that everything was relaxed and well organised. The ...

At 62 and 70, we were certainly not the youngest passengers, although it’s fair to say we were definitely not the oldest! We’ve been on a lot of cruises where passengers were much less agile and seemed much older. Perhaps Saga attracts more affluent guests who are in better health. The reason for picking this cruise was to celebrate our 35th anniversary. Our 25th had been very different as my ...

Cruise with my mum and cousin in their 80's Mum is a seasoned Saga customer and I can see the things she values in them as it's not all bad but its more Premier Inn than a luxury boutique hotel experience The pick up was great and check in/boarding smooth The cabins are nice and well maintained - housekeeping excellent Food is decent too but the F&B service is mixed. English is ...

Initially pickup and drop off service was very good - on time, pleasant, helpfull drivers, (City Elite Cars) happy to lug the weighty luggage around. Took about 1 hour for the luggage to appear in our cabins. Cabin not enormous, but larger than river cruise, under bed storage really useful. More pillows than we knew what to do with. We were at the front of the ship, high up (level 10), and ...

Last month we took our second Saga Cruise on Spirit of Discovery. It was not meant to be because we had originally booked to sail on the third voyage of the new Oceania Vista to celebrate our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. But when we were on our first Saga cruise last August we were told that Vista would be late being delivered and our cruise for May 2023 was cancelled. My wife looked ...

I went on this short cruise for 4 things. Good nights sleep, Excellent food, onboard entertainment , and outside of Saga's control , good weather. I picked this cruise to try out Portsmouth as a cruise terminal. This was excellent, The negatives started in the cabin, I had the same cabin on Discovery just before Covid struck. I was not impressed with the bed then, too hard, and I had asked for a ...

For some time we have thought about a Saga sea cruise, we are of an age when we thought we would be the right age demographic, i.e. mid 60’s and the thought of being picked up at the door and taken to the port by a liveried chauffeur rather than suffer the tedious queueing and waiting at an airport, being herded around like cattle and paying a fortune for parking was something of a draw. The ...

Standards have fallen on SAGA. The restaurant staff all seem hassled. Food delivered via cabin service was not hot. Disembarkation at Portsmouth was lengthy and dispiriting. The overall atmosphere is a cross between a retirement home and a golf club bar. The captain seemed to use that as an excuse for a sense of humour that belongs in the 1970s. The best thing is the hardworking ‘hotel’ staff who ...