labrasett

I have been three times with Silversea and always got into Stanley plus several landings on other islands. It is an absolutely magical place, very unusual lifestyle, delightful people, amazing wildlife but very desolate. If you love wild places and birds and animals it will be perfect.

The key is in the terms and conditions of the agent through whom you signed up ie who is your contract with?

Never the case on our trips, the boots have been in our suites along with the parkas.

Just to throw in a curve ball on our flight to P. Williams in March we had to divert to Punta Arenas due to bad landing conditions in P. Williams. We were advised of the diversion about 45 minutes before we were due to land in P. Williams. We landed and within 45 minutes we were on buses to a hotel where they already had our information and just handed out room keys, they advised us dinner would be served in an hour and it was. We ate a pleasant supper with wine included, had a good nights sleep, good breakfast then went back to the air field around mid day and flew on to P. Williams. I have no idea what happened to the incoming cruise pax. We left P. Williams within an hour or so of boarding and were able to enjoy a daylight trip down the Beagle Channel where there was an amazing array of wildlife both in the water and in the air.

I recently had issues with MySilversea but moved to a different browser and asked to reset my password and lo and behold it all worked.

Not a jump in boot hire it has been the higher amount for several years now. The rental service is very good an efficient.

For anyone doing a new visa application please make sure you are using the bona fide Indian Government website, there are a couple of sites which come up on the web which are not the real deal and they charge about four times the true cost!

What a joy this post and the pictures have been, so lovely to relive our trip in March this year. Thank you so much.

Me neither, I love to pick at various foods and dishes but I never (very rarely) feel the need to eat too much. I enjoy what I have but as soon as I feel I have had enough I just stop, there's always going to be lots more to eat later in the day or tomorrow so little and often is my motto.

Are you actually talking about Silversea not Seabourn?

Dont you know how fast polar bears can cover a mile? Very sad that you were all so disappointed but safety is paramount and an expedition is man expedition with very few guarantees. You have to go with the flow. You may be lucky and get an FCC to compensate for your disappointment.

Indeed we are and then joining the Silver Whisper after three days in Sydney.

Not an issue and the laundry rooms are locked overnight so no machines in action between 10 pm and 8 am .

Pias chicken curries were beyond divine.

Same on the Dawn in March, not a problem.

I am not sure that is quite so, our last (former) SS agent fixed us up with significant discounts on one particular trip, way beyond what I had been expecting or even hoping for. I think it depends very much on your particular agent and the relationship you have with them although mostly the reports of UK London based agents are good.

Thank you so much AusMum. I am starting to look at what to do as I know we need to book quite early since we will be there in the holiday season (New Year).

Duplicate bridge available on the Dawn in March on Barbados to Lisbon cruise but not very user friendly for less experienced players.

What I can say if it is any consolation to those wishing they were going to Quito in March in this year our flight arrived around 3pm, we picked up our bags and caught up with a Silversea rep and got into our transport, it took nearly 3 hours to get to the hotel due to the rush hour traffic most of the time we were stationary. You may be glad you dont have to face that. Although on the plus side we did have a fabulous day trip out the following day.

Personally I would like to bank with an organisation which declines a customer who is a misogynist, racist, bully, but there you go.

That should have read Silver WHISPER for the cruise section.

My butler gets my breakfast at the weekends but he is not quite so attentive during the week, makes the occasional coffee and pours me a glass at wine o'clock but is useless when it comes to laundry and cleaning my shoes.

Have to say I have been well looked after by Silversea consultants. In eleven years of sailing on Silversea we have only had three different consultants, the second one looked after us for some nine years and was very good although to be fair we are very undemanding customers. Said consultant was promoted by Silversea a couple of years back and has now left to move on to pastures new but I was both surprised and delighted to receive a message from him the other day saying he had enjoyed our chats over the years and he was sorry he hadnt been in touch to say goodbye when he was leaving Silversea. He did NOT mention the new organisation to whom he has moved although I looked on Linkedin and am aware where he has gone. My new consultant is very good and attentive although he has had a few holidays recently, always very annoying just when you want to make or change a booking but others in the office have picked up my requests and I have received very good service.

We are flying from UK to Perth with five nights there to get out and about and to visit Rottnest Island to see the Quokkas. Then we are doing the Indian Pacific train from Perth to Sydney (four nights) then we have three days in Sydney before picking up the Silver Wind to cruise to Tasmania and on to New Zealand with most of the NZ time being spent around South Island. So looking forward to our trip, I planned it myself, very easy to organise apart from trying to tie up train with ship. Our itinerary is third time lucky having been bumped off trains by certain travel company booking out the whole train on two other proposed dates. We had originally planned to cruise first then do the train in a westerly direction, ie en route towards home but by turning it on its head and rebooking our cruise we finally managed to achieve what looks like a fantastic trip, cant wait only 170 days or so to ship time.

Sorry that happened to you, on the Dawn in March it usually had no more than six or eight other people after dinner. Cant say about before dinner as we usually have a glass (or two) of wine in our suite before we go for dinner rather than go for pre dinner drinks "out".