Silversea Expeditions Silver Explorer Cruise Reviews
51 Silversea Expeditions Silver Explorer Cruise Reviews
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Sailed September 2016
This cruise was subcontracted to a British company.
The good bits.
The exploration staff are excellent keeping the passengers up to date and work really hard. Their safety procedures were impeccable both for the initial brief and ...
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Sailed July 2016
Loved the ship & the cruise. We had previously done an Antarctic cruise on the same ship and the Arctic cruise held a few surprises for us. But it was all great.
The land excursions in the Arctic are VERY short. Sometimes as short ...
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Sailed May 2016
We chose this cruise for it's itinerary through Scotland, St Kilda, Orkneys, Shetlands though 24 hour daylight cruising in Norway was a fabulous bonus.
For me the hikes, the bird life (they set you down right in middle of thousands of ...
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Sailed February 2016
Silversea is one class act. All possible categories to review were excellent, so no need to spend time with details. The Captain, his crew and the Expedition team exceeded every expectation that I had for the adventure. Chef Pia ...
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Sailed January 2016
We are experienced cruisers (over 600 nights most of these on Regent) but this was our first experience on an Expedition cruise. It was amazing and surreal seeing all the beauty and wildlife Antarctica offers.
We quickly fell in love ...
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Sailed December 2015
My husband and I were on the Silversea Explorer for the December 22, 2015 to January 3, 2016 trip to the Falkland Islands and Antarctica.
We flew in a few days early to Buenos Aires to just in case there were any issues with our ...
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Sailed December 2015
Where to begin...We have gone on 10 Cruises with Silverseas and have always been satisfied..but this was totally different. If you are not the explorer / outdoors type of person then maybe you should not do this cruise. Here is my ...
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Sailed August 2015
This cruise was greatly anticipated after a fantastic experience on Silver Explorer in Antarctica. Started off badly with the hotel we stayed in as part of the package in Oslo. The Radisson Blu - what a dump. A tired and sad hotel in need ...
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Sailed August 2015
General Overall Impression:
We were deeply disappointed in the expedition portion of the cruise. We missed 50% of the cruise due to excessive ice in Scoresbysund. Silversea’s answer was to do more in Iceland. We did not pay to ...
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Sailed July 2015
The cover of the Silverseas brochure features a polar bear and when you book an Arctic cruise that's what you expect to find.Yes, we were privileged to sight a bear or two, but no we didn’t have crowds of bears queueing up on the ...
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Sailed July 2015
We went on a Silver Sea expedition cruise to Svalbard in July 2015. Our ship the Silver Explorer was a beautiful ship and our service by the crew was wonderful. The issue started when our mandatory charter flight to Longyearbyen was not ...
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Sailed May 2015
With many SilverSea negatives in the forums ,and the memories of the Silver Discoverer hotel dept shortcomings still fresh ; our recent Silver Explorer cruise provides a timely opportunity to review.
We found the ship and it's crew to ...
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Sailed March 2015
We sailed from Ushuaia to Cape Town via Falklands, South Georgia and Tristan da Cunha. The ship was less than half full, probably because there are many sea days and it is basically a re-positioning cruise but with such a difference. ...
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Sailed February 2015
The Explorer is we feel the best of the 3 Silversea Expedition Ships
Having said that I think it is important to say that some passengers/guests expect the Expedition Fleet of Silversea to mirror in terms of service and food and ...
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Sailed January 2015
We went with Celebrity Expeditions to the Galapagos about 8 years ago and thought that experience could not be topped. We were wrong. I did extensive research on all the different Antarctic cruises. Most cost the same, all have zodiacs ...
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Sailed December 2014
We selected the Explorer for our Classic Antarctica cruise, a bit apprehensively, as our only previous SS experience was a disappointing cruise on the Shadow. Still, we were looking for that sweet spot of comfort, education and adventure ...
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Sailed July 2014
We travelled as a family of 5 on the Explorer for a 10 day cruise , from Tromso and ended on Svalbard.
Our time in Tromso was independent of Silversea, its a small northern city. Small arctic museum which makes for a nice morning to ...
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Sailed July 2014
We took the 14-cruise, which started with a charter flight from Oslo to Longyearben, and included Svalbard, Greenland and Iceland. Although we received numerous extreme warnings from Silversea about how luggage limitations would be ...
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Sailed July 2014
It is one of the most boring cruise I have been on. Program is poorly executed and pre and post cruise program and schedule waste a lot of time for nothing. Charter flight to Longbyen is inconvenient for both embarkation and ...
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Sailed June 2014
It was much trepidation that we booked this Silverseas cruise in the Arctic.
Marketing and brochures were fantastic.
We arrived in Tromso. Tried boarding the ship, but first hurdle was a harbour security officer who overstepped the ...
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5 reviews
9 helpful votes
Sailed February 2014
I’ll start this review so that readers have an understanding of my background: late 30s couple, travel 3 months of the year, and have done over 100 cruises in my lifetime. I can enjoy the finer things in life as well as an outdoor ...
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Sailed January 2014
This was my third cruise on a Silversea ship, and the second on the Explorer. The itinerary was fabulous, and the expedition staff was utterly superb; many of them were PhDs. There were frequent lectures, and many of the lecturers were at ...
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Sailed December 2013
Transfers seemed well organized and someone was always there to answer questions should you have any. It was a smooth process from us flying into Quito to embarkation.
Cabins were not redone (I believe bathrooms were). Quite tired, and ...
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Sailed November 2013
SHIP
100 Passenger with a crew of 70, recently refurbished during a quick two week wet dock. Ship looks tired and miss kept with rust showing on many parts, broken stair parts, brass parts not shined left to turn green, holes in the ...
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Sailed October 2013
The Silver Explorer is a nice ship with an excellent crew. The food was as good as on other Silversea ships which means it was very good. The service was outstanding.
This was the least expensive cabin category and the cabin was more than ...
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