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Sea Cloud Spirit

Beautiful ship with poor atmosphere

We couldn’t agree more with the above review about the atmosphere on board. The mostly elderly german fellow travelers were very cranky and disgruntled. Also dinner took forever. If you don't want all the courses on the menu you have to wait for the others. Fortunately, there was a small menu on the outside deck. A nice outdoor bar with very good service. Something was wrong with the chimneys. Exhaust fumes from the engine room blew into the outside bar. You could not stay here if the wind was wrong. The musician did his best to add a bit of atmosphere to it. He also liked to play request songs. If he didn't know them he would look them up and play them the following day. The excursions were boring. The ports were industrial, not a nice place to be. First and last time with the Sea Cloud company for us. If you want a cruise on a nice real tall sailing ship better choices are there.

We selected this 10 day cruise from Valencia to Casablanca, which departed on Oct 26, 2022, based on its itinerary and that it would be sailing alongside of Sea Cloud II. 

Valencia, Ibiza, Malaga and Cadiz were the ports in Spain. We took ship excursion in Ibiza (eBikes) and Cadiz (to Seville). 

In Morocco, Tangier and Casablanca were the ports of call. We took a ship excursions in Tagier to Chefchaoen, the"Blue City".

All three ship excursions were poorly executed and not recommended.

The food on board was excellent, especially the dinners.  Breakfast was good but it lacked variety. 

The atmosphere on board was painfully boring. The clientele is overwhelmingly older, wealthy, German couples and the cruise line caters to the German market. I hope this changes with Ritz Carlton at Sea's involvement because, this could be a fantastic cruise line. Until then, unless you fit that demographic, I would recommend you look elsewhere.

Positives: Food, Bar Service (Bejan was wonderful!), Sailing and the Zodiac photo Safari.

Negatives: Atmosphere, Price, Cruise Director and Ship Excursions

Good food and a nice Ship but nothing else

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