Silver Spectre

Stay well Chas.

I hope you didn’t mean that literally, there’s been enough cruise ship damage around recently without having your home assaulted!

We come from a non tipping culture, thankfully as yet untainted by our cousins across the pond. Our rule of thumb on tours and guides is: Good tour and knowledgeable guide, we tip. Poor tour but good guide, we still tip, with a poor guide we don’t tip. @ronrick1943you have to remember its personal and cultural. As a long standing SS cruiser the quality of the beef has been a bugbear of mine since before the Pandemic. It used to be a bit hit and miss, but generally good. Since 2021 the quality has been average to poor with one or two examples of bloody awful.

There is plenty of reporting appearing on ‘V’.

You will almost certainly need to organise that in advance with SS.

When you get onboard go and speak to the senior receptionist or the GRM and they will arrange for you. It may depend on the port and the timing involved, I.e. a couple of days warning. Be prepared to pay in cash as they cannot always put it on your account. And beware, some Port agents charge a fee to arrange. For the first time ever, in Spain, the Port Agent charged me an extra 15E to organise some roses.

Sad to hear that the slide in standards continues to accelerate. Hope you got rocked to sleep.

As a matter of interest what time are you going to dinner?

Have a great cruise Lois, how full is the ship?

At home in North West England and I believe retired.

The WC on the Shadow is due in Milford Sound in 2 weeks, I hope it’s nice and clean 🧽

Sea snails and biofoul apparently, there is a thread on the Viking boards covering this. At least no one has died so far on the Orion unlike the Polaris!

Monopole, the other Champagne that SS stocks.

So that’s where all the Pommery went.

It happened on the Whisper in March, 5 days before we got off. Luckily 3 of those were dry days in Saudi 🍾

Thanks for the info, I had not spotted that the books were numbered.

Thanks for continuing to keep us in touch Charles.

Ours turned up on Christmas Eve, must have got stuck in the postal strikes.

It’s a good job that you don’t have to explain it to the Echoes as well!

Houdini or Hewitt?

@zqtchasnice photo of you and your wife on Voldemort today. Looking good. Merry Christmas.

You are right to be concerned, when we joined the Moon in October we arrived at about 2:30 and took almost 2 hours to get onboard. Someone joining the Muse in Sydney a couple of days ago took about 2.5 hours. It can now be a very time consuming business. Arriving later in the 2-4pm window will almost certainly help shorten it.

Seen nothing. Not sure if anyone in the U.K. has had it. Would like to see the details though.

Agree with what you have said, but how long will your post remain here?

Apparently Roberto Martinoli has been bumped up the food chain to the role of special advisor to Royal Caribbean Group and has promoted his wife, Barbara Muckermann to be President and CEO of Silversea.