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Nor in Spain, their customer base here must be very very small.

It’s probably because Encore has no passengers onboard as it’s relocating around Africa, no guests no need to publish daily menus,

Only a few items change daily, not the whole menu.

The Solis menus are posted daily on Source along with the other restaurant menus.. Log onto your booking and you can explore all the menus for that day.

Our last few cruises have been on the Encore. However as our Dubai cruise has been cancelled we are now on the Quest from Barcelona. We are looking forward to being on the smaller ships again. The only drawback that I see is that we don’t have the benefit of dining outside in Solis. The advantages are that the top deck is for all guests, unlike the Retreat and padded sun loungers .

That info was referring to BA.

You can always book business class seats on European flights at no cost, If its long haul they charge unless you are a certain status, not sure if it’s gold or platinum now, you pay until 24 hours beforehand. Be aware that seats paid for in the event of cancellation, the money isn’t refundable.

Another suggestion is Jim Thompson House Museum. No need to take a tour, we took a boat along the canal/river and alighted right by his house. Google him and you will find his history, his influence on the silk trade and his eventual disappearance in the Cameron Highlands.

Hi Julie. We are on the quest from the 26 April so we will be able to comment then; It really appeals to me but Alf is more of a carnivore!! Update soon..

You book Solis under the TK section. It confirms on your itinerary as Solis.

They are not available until one month in advance, do you have an estimate of how long the tour lasts?

That’s my next thing to do, thank you.

Booked, thank you.

Thank you all for your suggestions. None of these hotels mentioned have come up in Booking.com search. We only need a hotel for one night, flying Madrid to Barcelona arriving 18.45. We are boarding The Quest the following day. Our must go to visit is the Sagrada Familia , we haven’t been for many years. i shall start looking at your suggestions.

Oh that’s great news, not that I really need it. I’m not often in the UK these days. How does the € to £ work out in the pricing? I spoke to Seabourn in Southampton yesterday, spoke to a lovely lady who booked Solis for me on our forthcoming cruise in April. Currently we cannot access our Seabourn account to book trips, spa or Solis, even though she could with our log in info. She couldn’t understand it, neither can we! We have tried all the normal routes of rebooting, closing down history etc, We have completed Guest Registration etc but then access stops. Next now we will email Seabourn Club. Happy sailing.

Any recommendations for an overnight stay?

Basically you can’t although I would think if you use a VPN you could. I’m not actually sure that the UK has its own website? I asked Seabourn some years ago for the price in UK pounds and was told it’s exactly the same as Euros, it might have been 1€ to 1£ in those days! I use a UK TA to book any cruise. As galeforce9 says use a TA site but be aware that these sites normally give their price after their discounts. However be aware that when the price is calculated for you any discounts applicable come off the full Seabourn fare and any TA discounts are then applied. Also you cannot take advantage of included airfares booking this way if you want to fly from anywhere not in the UK so we take the discounts. We sailed many years with friends from Australia and one year we tried to book through UK TA and it became a problem for them over the Terms and Conditions and I believe in the end the booking was transferred to Seabourn in Australia. Im now waiting, with anticipation, for a contradiction to my post!!

I’ve just seen on the Seabourn website that the 3rd April sailing from Dubai to Venice is now showing as “sold out”, which when I looked at the options 2 days ago, there appeared to be plenty of availability through to Athens which is where we would have disembarked. In addition the 18 and 36 day cruises from Singapore through to either Dubai or Athens are also shown as “sold out”. The cruise from Athens on the 21st April is showing availability. It appears that something is happening that Seabourn has not yet made passengers booked on these cruises aware of.

Have just read an article saying that MSC have cancelled 3 ships due to sail through the Red Sea. One is in April but it didn’t mention the dates of the other 2. I realise MSC sail a different class of ship and have many more passengers but they stressed the most important thing was the safety of the passengers and crew, Maybe Seabourn will soon follow suit and clarify their position.

We are sailing in April, send me a message with your email address and I will refer you,

Very well said!

There are more comments re this cruise on the relevant roll call where various options have been mooted.

Well said.

That’s good news although I knew about the change to Rhodes as I have friends sailing on the same cruise. What prompted my post was a cruise on Windstar that another friend was going on, due to leave 5 November Athens to Dubai which was totally cancelled along with, I believe, all other Windstar cruises in that area for 2024. I wish you a wonderful holiday.

I do realise the itineraries are already set. It was merely an observation that on both cruise critic and Facebook it had been very quiet with comments.