Preface:
I travel extensively throughout the USA, Europe and Asia. After doing some research on the Seabourn Odyssey, my wife and I decided to take a Caribbean vacation (without our kids).
Before getting into the details, I want to commend the crew, a fine group of people who did their best to provide a good experience.
The Ship: (Tired, Can't Handle any Swells)
The Odyssey is small, ...
This was my first Seabourn cruise, having previously sailed with Crystal one can't help comparing experiences. However, there is little I can say about Seabourn that would compare favourably, or entice me to sail with Seabourn in the future.
Overall it was a dull experience, I did not find the ship to be well laid out, I found the decor bland, ceilings low, generally lacking in colour with ...
We just left a 12 day cruise on Odyssey--had a suite with a veranda on 9th floor, and are non smokers. We were lucky? enough to have on either side of us 4 chain smokers- who due to no smoking in suites, decided to camp out morning, noon, afternoon and evening on their verandas smoking, drinking, playing cards-living on the veranda. We couldn't use our veranda due to noise and smoke at all ...