Silversea Expeditions Silver Cloud Expedition Cruise Reviews for Luxury to Antarctica

My recent cruise to Antarctica Feb 2024 with Silvercloud left a lot to be desired, firstly I chose Silversea because I wanted a safer bigger cruise that had more experience with Antarctica instead of their smaller newer competitors and also how they pride themselves of having 5 dining outlets. (Both to be very wrong of me, seasoned expedition guides basically switch from different companies all ...

As a first time cruiser, I chose Silversea for it's supposed commitment to customer care and luxury service. Unfortunately, the complete bungled mess I experienced impells me to warn others about Silversea's complete disregard for the safety and satisfaction of customers in the time of Covid under Royal Caribbean's management. I should preface by saying I'm really not that picky, and can overlook ...

My husband and I chose this cruise because of the "ultra-luxury" status that Silversea promotes themselves to be. We are not high-maintenance people by any means, but wanted our trip to Antarctica to be truly a once in a lifetime experience. Even before departing the USA, we had difficulty with Silversea. The requirements to enter Chile are extremely strict, and our Silversea agent was ...

After stressing their comprehensive anti-COVID policies and procedures and requiring passenger vaccinations and triple COVID tests, Silversea embarked approximately 150 COVID-negative passengers on a ship with many already COVID-positive, quarantined and ill staff. By day 2 of the cruise we were told approximately 10% (a deliberate under-estimation per crew members asked to do double duty) of ...

I’ve been reviewing the Silver Cloud and Silver Explorer reviews. The overall startling thing I’ve noticed is that people reviewing cruises before Royal Caribbean bought Silversea pretty uniformly had wonderful experiences whereas those who traveled after Royal Caribbean took over had generally dismal experiences. My once in a lifetime Antarctica cruise was one of the latter. There were so ...

We traveled with Silversea on Silver Cloud to Antarctica in February, 2022. The trip was touted as a luxury expedition but turned out to be a dismal, Sail by cruise. More than 30% of the ship crew was infected with COVID pre departure. Still, the ship sailed without us learning about the infection! Instead of cancelling the trip, Silversea disregarded all Covid safety protocols and continued with ...

My daughter got this cruise for my 80th birthday August 2022. It was to be our trip of a lifetime, instead it was a disaster. When we finally boarded after our Covid tests and enduring long lines in Chili, we boarded the ship with known Covid staff and crew infected. We were not told. My daughter has Crohns and I am almost 80, although fully vaccinated with Covid booster we would have chosen ...

Silverseas should’ve never allowed passengers on board the Silvercloud knowing that their crew was infected with the omicron variant of Covid. More than half of the crew was in quarantine with many crewmembers on passenger floors indicated by a tray in front of the room. This was supposed to be a six star cruise and yet we were fed cold Buffetfood, as the chefs were in quarantine. The LaDame ...