canderson

While I agree fully, this simply shows that everyone draws their own lines in the sand ... in different places.

That's surprising. The new locks 'recycle' the water to avoid depletion of Gatun... but I didn't note in the article that the capacity restriction was limited to the old locks (which SS would normally use). Going to gave to do some additional reading.

Not Cunard? Would be fascinating to know what % of us actually made the SS decision with that in mind - vs Oceania, for example.

Of you Google it, you'll find a couple of recipes. Here's one. Use champers for the "sparkling wine". Sound like what you had? Ingredients 2 oz. vodka 1 oz. lemon juice 1 oz. beet simple syrup Top with sparkling wine Beet-infused simple syrup Add 12 oz. water and 12 oz. white sugar to pot and stir to combine. Add two rough-chopped (peeled) raw beets to the liquid and heat on your stove top (medium heat) covered for about 20 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool. Transfer to clean glass jar. Store in refrigerator for up to three weeks. To make one delicious cocktail Shake your ingredients with ice & strain into a chilled martini glass or champagne flute. Top with sparkling wine. We like to garnish ours with a beet section, speared on a toothpick.

Many things tend to progress to a state of greater entropy. We're seeing that on just about every front these days. Some of us would prefer not to see it happen quickly - so quickly in some cases that it represents an exothermic reaction. Change in and of itself does not necessarily represent progress, providing a bit of a recent whipsaw to Karen Gibson's instructions. Using the historical reference to wigs isn't very useful in this context. They became popular to hide the effects of syphilis. For that same reason, they fairly quickly became unpopular a couple of hundred years ago. Contrary to popular belief, Washington never wore a wig. Like me, he was a redhead. He did, however, practice the powdering of his hair, since it was fashionable at the time.

Yes, it would be easier if the same dress code was required universally in every dining and entertainment space on any specific night - the way it used to be for most lines. Ah, but too much of a constraint they cried ... so now you have an attempt to cater to everyone's tastes at the same time, and the result is a bit confusing for some. It really was simpler 'back then'. It's due to the complaints about dress that things are less simple now. I'm sure the next answer here is going to be "anything, any night, up to a point yet to be determined" to simplify things again, which is exactly how some wanted it to begin with. As someone recently said it ... regression to the mean.

Are you able to discern the difference in the demographic from the last leg vs the current one?

No, and they're welcome to their artic air. We'll be lucky to see 30F here on Sunday!

How well does their online content square up with the paper? Do they include menus?

Being an Italian line, bet La Terrazza has some fabric you can use in a pinch. 😁 Or is that just a 'guy thing'? 😅

Yes, that does seem to help minimally, although the reference there to 'mycruise.com' is equally unhelpful - at least until after boarding. There actually is such a site out in the 'real world', but it has nothing to do with SS. I assume that when on ship's WiFi, they have a dns redirect that sends mycruise.com to an internal site aboard ship. Someone at Silversea needs to work on their use of language a bit.

Just received our first 'cruise ticket' from Silversea, and in reading one of the latter pages, under "Enhanced Safety Drill", they say the following: "The safety drill's first phase must now be completed by viewing and acknowledging the safety drill video on the 'My Cruise' app or on your in-suite TV once you arrive aboard". What's this 'My Cruise App'? I know that RCCL and Celebrity have phone apps, but had never heard (nor can I find) such an app for Silversea. What's this about?

Alas - not a question of disappointing guests with odd tastes, but instead, due to the requisite warnings about eating 'undercooked' food, including eggs.

What was the weird glaze over the beef?

Not a prayer of moving anyone in MY family that fast! You chose well! 😁

I think I used "least common denominator" a few dozen pages back. We booked our first cruise with SS (for next month). If they slide to the mean, and the current differentiation is lost, other lines become equal or better options. Banking on garnering market share by regressing to "the mean" cuts both ways, especially for those with no previously loyalties. Could be that rather than a harbinger of the future of the entire line, a different tenor is being set on the new builds to capture a different part of the market on those ships.

It does (part of the ship-wide code), but if the point is to pair an evening at Murano with an "Evening Chic" night, that only happens once aboard (for most pax, anyway) - but it's at least easier than rolling the dice on a reservation 120 days out on which evening is which for a dress up night at La Dame. Much better chance of my getting a reservation at Murano for any given night on embarkation day, to be sure. So while neither is ideal, odds at making the match-up are better on Celebrity.

It's not ideal on any of the RCG lines, but SS certainly puts a twist on it by allowing pre-booking for dining for all cabins. On Celebrity, for example, you wouldn't know for certain where the 'bow ties' will land until you board, but neither would you be scrambling to make reservations for dinner 120 days ahead of time - you'd do it upon boarding.

I suspect the reason for the Google suggestion was because the answers may be found on a competitive site whose url, if posted here, would cause instant moderator 'consternation'.

This being our first SS cruise coming up next month, I had no point of reference, but at 120 days when I started reserving things, the bow ties were already in place for our cruise, and haven't moved.

Found my old post. Search on mobile is greatly limited in scope vs. full PC version! Yeah, in strange topic. See post #7 for sceen shot.

Use MySilversea, not Silversea. Look at each of your itinerary your days for bowties. On a phone or I'd repost the shot I did here a while back.

Argh. 'Sera' a bit of misdirection, then. As to the jigsaws, at least people were good enough to enumerate the count missing, with a date, in the lid of the box. Overzealous vacuuming around the tables was most often cited as the cause. Wouldn't surprise me if a few other game pieces occasionally get Hoovered as well.

The Syrah or Shiraz version??? As to the other, you'll have to be on the same cruise to find out, and you'll still be scratching your head!

When reduced to using a Pebble Beach ball marker for the King, you know you've got problems <g>. Another thing that we've often seen are jigsaw puzzles with a couple or five pieces missing.