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I cancelled our 5/23 Odyssey cruise on 4/13. Received a full refund yesterday (June 7). I did not contact either my travel agent or Seabourn during that time. One down and one to go.

We flew out of SXM on Saturday, January 19. Our experience was similar to above comments. One thing I would mention is that we were warned to arrive at the airport early so we arrived 3 hours before our departure only to discover that we couldn't check in until about 2.5 hours before the flight and once check in opened just about everyone got in line so we ultimately waited for a half hour or so until the line shortened. After that, getting thru their TSA and immigration was easy and only took a few minutes.  As an aside, food services after security are way better than the services in the check in area.

Does anyone have a recent premium wine list?  We sail the Odysses in January and my last list is from November 2017 which is undoubtedly way out of date.

I received the wine info. Thanks again for your help.

Would very much appreciate it. I'm at g40bull@ATT.net. Thanks

Does anybody have photos of Seabourn's premium wine list?

I'm sure that somebody at SS realized that the original docking date in Tianjin was in the middle of "Golden Week" and transport to and back from Beijing would have difficult--and thus the changed itinerary. My regret with the cruise is that they eliminated a half-day in Shanghai and added a stop at a port (Ishigaki) that would be FAR less interesting to see. I would have liked to see them keep the Shadow in Shanghai for an extra day.

I was asking if Silversea has a free shuttle to someplace like they do in many cities in Europe.

We'll be arriving in Tianjin at the end of September on the Shadow. Having been to Beijing pre-cruise, I would like to know what my tour options are--other than the $200 tour of Tianjin. To that end, does Silversea offer a shuttle bus from the port to any place?

A few years ago, the next to last day of a Seabourn cruise was an overnight in Civitavecchia. Since my wife and I were going to spend another week driving around Italy, we went into Rome for the day and in the late afternoon, picked up a reserved rental car in Rome, drove it back to Civitavecchia and parked it overnight on the dock outside the ship. There was no problem doing this but I have to admit I was a little nervous about leaving the car overnight on the dock.

We'll be sailing the Shadow from Japan to Korea to China to Hong Kong in September Altho I'll get most of my foreign currency from ATMs, near the end of each stay in a country, I may need some small amount of additional local currency to see us through until the end of our stay. Does Silversea do currency exchange on board and if so, will they take back the remaining foreign currency when we leave the country? If they do currency exchange, any idea on how good or bad the exchange rate would be?

We just got off the Spirit on Wednesday. Stayed in Veranda 722--no DVD player only an iPod docking station.

We took a similar Seabourn cruise a couple of years ago--Montreal to Ft Lauderdale- and it was okay altho some of the ports weren't too exciting (Sydney) and others we had all ready been to (Bar Harbor, Boston, Martha's Vineyard). We've booked another Canadian cruise for next year--Crystal 10 days, Montreal to Montreal departing October 5. You might want to look at the itinerary--besides the usual stops, also includes St. Pierre & Miquelon and Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Another plus is that the cost is 2/3's of Seabourn's.

We're on for two weeks starting 8/20. Can someone update me on who the CD and maitre'd are expected to be.

We're doing the same sailing on 12/6. Can you tell me if it was easy accessing beaches (i.e., walking from tender disembarkation point).--specifically, Road Bay and Le Marin. Also who is the current cruise director? Thanks

As to storing your luggage, it's quite easy to pick up the end of the bed and slide your luggage in. We did this on our last Legend trip--it didn't hurt our luggage but that of course depends on what type of luggage that you have.

We did this trip last month using Civitavecchia cab service (highly recommended on tripadvisor). He picked us up right on time. We left the port at 9 AM and we were at the airport at 9:50. Cost was 69 Euros.

We've done both on Seabourn and would consider the 2nd option as far more interesting.

I think staging "rock the boat" depends on the weather. We've been on Seabourn 17 times and it seems like it is always scheduled but then cancelled if the weather is inclement--however I don't remember if it was or wasn't performed on our North Cape cruise. I am quite sure we didn't have a "theatre under the stars". If not to cold to sit from 9-11 PM, it would be too light at these hours. I have a picture of my wife on the ship at 12:45 AM--still light!

I've been up there twice--on the Legend in June, 2012 (as far north as the North Cape) and in August 2011 ( as far north as Spitzbergen). The August trip had (I was told) very good weather. Once we got north of Alesund it started to cool but was in the high 40's even up in Spitzbergen altho at night it could drop into the 30's. Seas were remarkedly calm considering where we were. The only rain I can remember was one day in the Shetland Islands. The June trip on the other hand left much to be desired. Not particularly cold-in fact quite pleasant south of Stavanger--but a lot of mist, drizzle and some light rain. At the North Cape, one could not see more than 10 feet in front of you and in fact if the bus that took us there wasn't so noisy, I still might be wandering around. There were still 10 foot piles of snow at the North Cape and I'd guess the temp was in the 40"s (The locals told me that this type of weather is sort of normal). I don't want to make the whole trip sound dreadful because there were some sunny, warm (50's) days mixed in (maybe half in total). The seas were quite calm and therefore no problem with ship movement. I would recommend taking a warm sweater, gloves, anorek or wind breaker, jacket and wool hat. Overall was still a great trip. So overall I'm guessing you could have nice weather like I had in August or semi good weather like June--it all depends on Mother Nature.