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Choose cruise because the iteniary was interesting with stops in NYC, Newfoundland and Ireland.

Ship is very lovely but the food services are TERRIBLE. The food preparation, service (never hot in serving temperature), quality and selection of  food venues is the worst of any of my over 1000 sailing days on various lines.  Basically only 2 inside restaurant choices for lunch daily. Both serving below average food in selection and quality. Do not open the Japanese restaurant nor the IndoChina  for addition luncheon variety except on shore days, which makes no  sense.

Other than the IndoChina restaurant, menus remained the same in all the inside restaurants for an entire cruise. Not even Evening Specials.

 Think the only reason for keeping the Atlantide Restaurant open (the worst of all the eating places) is to drive passengers to the 2 pricey optional restaurant choices.....neither of which is outstanding.

The best food is offered in outside venues with no enclosures for weather considerations. This is true of both lunch and dinner. The Grill serves hot food and good service. The Pizza Parlor is also excellent.

The Italian restaurant, which you would expect to be outstanding due to the ship's owner ship is barely adequate. Menu does  not include such staples as meatballs, sausages, Ceasar Salad or cannolis.  Gravy ( sauce) is ok but not authentic Italian taste or quality.

The bar service was very good as well as the nightly entertainment in the bar. Overall entertainment was amateurish with young on- board singers and dancers and  a couple of guests. No professionals.

Activities on the ship definitely designed for non-active seniors. The usual bingo, trivia games,etc.

Cabins and the ship in general were clean, modern and very pleasing.

Excursions were fun and well handled by the staff as were the post trip hotel accommodations and transfers.

Transatlantic Cruise to Ireland Review

The ship is gorgeous, the staff is supreme, the food is wonderful.

Our only criticism is regarding activities and entertainment.

The highlight of every afternoon was Bingo and team Trivia.  Not our idea of exciting and unique entertainment.

There was also only a limited amount of board games on the ship.

Throughout the 16 day cruise, food service was very slow, but the food quality was superior, as was the staff.   The issues seemed to always be in the kitchen.  One night, in the level 4 dining room, it took over 3.5 hours to complete dinner.  We gave up on the idea of dessert.

The head chef was very kind and seemed quite good at her job.  I did go on a tour of the galley.

I will give the benefit of the doubt.  It’s a newer ship and there is a learning curve.  They need to figure out how to shift focus on specific restaurants when business has higher than normal traffic.

With all this said, we generally had a very good experience and plan to continue to use Silversea.

Superior Staff, Great Food, Spacious Rooms, Limited Activities

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