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It involves inserting a new section into the hull of the ship.

Here is a video link of Fred Olsen's Braemar being lengthened

I've just received this email from Silversea regarding my booking :-

"The Silver Spirit is scheduled to undergo a robust and innovative dry dock early next year and return to service. The comprehensive makeover planned for the Silver Spirit will enrich the on-board experience and be appreciated by guests as part of our commitment of maintaining the highest quality and luxury standards of our brand.

Unfortunately, this improvement to the Silver Spirit will affect our mutual guests booking:

It is our absolute priority to do everything possible to find a suitable alternative for your guests and ensure that they will sail with us by offering a compensation savings toward the cost of a new cruise.

There are a few options available to guests:

· 20% saving on cruises sailing in the same area or on the same ship

· 30% saving on any 2017 cruises

· 10% on any other voyage (excluding World Cruise 2019)

Should an alternative not be feasible, we would of course be able to offer a full refund."

We will be taking the full refund as in no way does this offer compensate us adequately or at all, as we would need to spend considerably more for a comparable cruise to the original fare.

So we don't consider this to be any compensation for our cancelled cruise. As previously mentioned by others, prices have increased considerably which negates any of the offered discounts.

Just noticed that my Silver Spirit cruise 5808 on 8th April 2018 from Monte Carlo has disappeared from the Silversea website along with several others. The last cruise listed is 5804 which ends in Dubai on 22nd February and the next cruise listed is 5811 6th May from Civitavecchia. As this is just over 10 weeks, could this possibly be the rumoured stretch period for the ship? From previous articles about other refits I believe it takes over eight weeks to stretch a ship.

I am considering a future Silver Muse cruise and wondered if the "Always Available" menu options in the MDR which we recently had on the Silver Spirit can be ordered in the Indochine and Atlantide restaurants as an alternative to the set menu.