Having sailed on Viking, Holland America, Oceania, Celebrity, Windstar this was the ideal opportunity to test drive Silversea on a short cruise between Singapore & Bali.
Embarkation was very slow as two ships leaving the same evening & queues for immigration were very long
Superior Veranda was a great size & you could easily enjoy this size of cabin for a cruise of 2-3 weeks. Butler ...
Silversea markets itself as a high end luxury liner and for the most part it meets its hype. People joining Grand Voyages part way through, hoping on and off after a few days and discount cruisers tend to bring down the luxury experience. The Muse is a well-designed ship for intimate cruising with nicely designed suites, multiple restaurants, bars and open spaces to relax. The suites are spacious, ...
This trip should b a no brainer for SS, but it's not. To many little issues turn into stupidity.
Examples, a Milk shake in US is made with ice cream and milk, they use no milk but use ice. Very difficult to explain how to make since there order system doesn’t allow explanations.
The restaurants have a set menu, which means no different meals. Oceania, Regent, Crystal all have new menus for ...
This was our 59 cruise and second experience with Silver Seas.
We always travel during January and February to get away from the cold of the Northeast of the USA. And we always, always, look at the itinerary first with any cruise line.
We picked the Silver Shadow for our third trip to Asia and all but one port was new for us.
The Philippines added to our booking as we always wanted to ...
Travelled with family, attracted by the itinerary to Myanmar. Stayed in a Silver suite on level 9 with adjoining room. Previous personal experience on Silversea is only on a Galapago cruise and mainly have taken Crystal cruises (sorry if I use it as a benchmark a lot). Other family members have been on other Silversea cruises.
Embarkation - easy and quick.
Disembarkation within Silversea's ...
We sailed on the Silver Muse earlier this year from Rio to Fort Lauderdale and were blown away by the service, the quality of the boat, the frendliness of the staff etc etc.
Grabbed a late minute deal to cruise again from Singapore as a round trip with the longest stay in Yangon for 3 days.
Suite was 941 which is under the Pool Deck and at night and in the early morning you can hear the ...
After reading a number of mixed reviews, I had lowered my expectations going in, but was pleasantly surprised. Everything was clean and comfortable and relatively efficient. Although we had slight concern initially that the linens appeared to not have been changed after a few days, since I noticed the same blood stain from my husband’s-cut on his finger. Although the linens did not smell, I ...
Have mostly cruised Celebrity for the past several years. We had two criteria for selecting this cruise--I wanted to see Singapore, and we wanted to try a more upscale cruise line. We had sailed Silversea years ago with a group for work, and they had a good price going places I've never been, starting and ending in Singapore.
We have minimal requirements for a good cruise--a place to sleep, ...
Burma, Rangoon or Mandalay had always sounded mysterious and exotic to us and had been on our bucket list for a long time. This was the chance. We could just add this 12 day cruise to our Hong Kong to Singapore 10 day cruise without leaving the Silver Shadow and stay in the same stateroom. The highlight of this cruise of course was the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar. We loved the itinerary, ...
We decide to chose a top end cruise line having previously been many times with Princess, Royal Caribbean and Oceania. We were not disappointed but we were occasionally surprised.
Silversea fellow travellers we found extremely loyal to the cruise line and were in many respects the best advocates for the company. In fact, we were telling people that we wanted to try Seabourn for a future cruis ...