turtlemichael

Great pics Mysty. Thank you. We loved South Korea. What did you think of your tour?

Your dedication and the quality of your output deserve an award. Thank you very much and enjoy the remaining days of this cruise.

We are booked on a back-to-back on Nova from Cairns to Auckland in November/December. The two legs booked separately attract the discount but not the combined voyage. Oh well.

For us, a very important aspect of our cruise is the fellow passengers. I can identify differences in the four lines we've sailed on - Celebrity, Regent, Seabourn and, of course, Silversea. Silversea has suited us very well in this respect. We have many long term friends in Australia and overseas who we maintain contact with and have visited with too. What are the differences with Crystal?

If he had put an s on you to get yous, he would have covered all possibilities.

That Drayton Vermentino is a passably decent wine. I'd be very happy to have it with my dinner.

That was his one job and you were maybe his highlight of the day. Petty bureaucracy is similar everywhere, just more so in China! Let's hope his boss appreciated his efforts.

Our experience of automatic fruit bowls on Silversea was the fruit was usually so under ripe that it would not get eaten. Peaches like cricket balls for example. The only bits we would eat were the grapes! On request seems reasonable but you have to be told by Silversea that that is possible.

The OP was asking whether they would be disappointed on Silversea, compared with their last sailing 5 years ago, given the increased number of adverse comments in recent times. A perfectly reasonable question to me. My last cruise was the World Cruise 2023 on Shadow. Prior to that it was a Pacific Island cruise on Muse in 2020 and the World Cruise in 2019 on Whisper. All were excellent in most respects. Of course, you'd expect a WC to be good given it is their premium product. The next is on Nova in November. I haven't deserted Silversea for anyone else. I've just done a lot less cruising as there are many other things on land to do and the attractions of cruising after 600+ days are fading. Now, I'm interested to know what are the intentions of the many people here with significant adverse comments. Is it to move to another line, keep sailing with Silversea or cut back sailing overall? Is it so bad now, for the price, that you don't want to sail with Silversea any more? I'm particularly interested in the views of those who have done many trips on Silversea rather than just one, or even none.

You mean it's not the night bottle?

I'm nearly over the indigestion!

I also remember our food hall lunch from 5 years ago lol

Great pics, mysty. Much better day than last year. We were largely limited to indoors because of storms. Glad you enjoyed it.

And the person who thought of it will get a hefty bonus!

I'd suggest to the chef he Google what a chowder might look like. You'd have to conclude from a comparison of the menus and your comments that the food budget has been severely trimmed.

I think that the new structure of fares is superior and cleaner than the one it replaces, I have two provisos. Using the previous name for a different type of fare now is sure to give rise to initial confusion. Second, as always it depends on the dollars they charge for these new fares.

I would be reasonably confident that, if Silversea prices are out of line with the competition, the market will react to this. Unless they have some other agenda, Silversea will be forced to act too.

Our next booked cruise, booked 3 months ago, Cairns to Auckland 32 days on Nova in Nov-Dec 2024 has gone up $1000 per pax on D2D in a superior veranda. Without flights the newly named P2P has around the same increase. This looks pretty normal to me but maybe ours is not as popular as yours.

I don't want to start a conspiracy theory but it looks like the Hotel Director's signature has a $ sign in the middle of it. See the letter above. 😆 Now, where are my pills?

Bait and switch comes to mind.

Undoing it now would create even more mayhem. The rethink should involve the compensation offered to guests.

I'm appalled at the lack of consideration for the paying customer inherent in this decision. As you say, it's not a first. But is Silversea alone in this or are similar things happening on other luxury cruise lines? Reading this forum it looks like it is far from uncommon. Personally, it's time for us to move to vacations over which we have greater control.

I've never understood the appeal of paying heaps to sleep in a smaller cabin so I guess we are all different.