Randyk47

Kind of wonder what the Shelter is all about. Kind of a strange name for a room on a ship.

I hadn’t noticed the Salt Bar and Salt Kitchen locations until you mentioned it. Strange they put them at basically opposite ends of the ship on different decks. Really got used to every eating venue being aft oriented in all the classic ships. Of course cabins aft is also a real change so “completely different” is an understatement. 🤔🙂

The Grill/Hot Rocks and Spaccanapoli appear to be in an eating area called The Marquee on the pool deck. It’s slightly aft of the pool area. The pictures make it look quite nice. I don’t mind eating around the fringes of the pool but this looks like a nicer eating venue.

I’m afraid I’d get in trouble with the host(s) here. 🙁

Really liking the pictures I’m seeing of the Nova over on the site that cannot be mentioned. Those were taken on the “almost” inaugural cruise of travel agents, cruise line executives, and other invited guests. Some of the venues are very different and look fantastic. About the only new layout I’m not sure about is the pool area. Will probably have see and experience it myself.

It shows on MySilversea as “Promo Htl to Pier- Group” for embarkation date. We usually haven’t booked door-to-door but when we have the “group” transfer has been everything from a bus to a big limo depending on the number of booked passengers at our hotel booked through Silversea.

If you booked door-to-door then yes. If you booked port-to-port but opted for the Silversea pre-cruise hotel then yes. If you booked port-to-port but booked your own hotel even if it is one used by Silversea then you are on your own.

I have never seen a service club meeting but then again I haven’t been looking for one.

Like many I have noticed the lack of hype about the Nova. Of course having an upcoming cruise on the Nova I’m quite interested to get as much information as I can. On top of that our best friends and cruise partners rely on me for information. I often feel like their mini-TA which is fine and I enjoy the research and planning of our cruises. It actually has been easy with pretty much the whole Silversea classic fleet. Other than being smaller or bigger the ships are all laid out about the same. The Nova is very different with a completely different pool deck layout, cabins both forward and aft, less reliance on the usual center hall configuration, and venues spread out rather than the aft orientation of the rest of the fleet. Come on Silversea share more. 😀

Interestingly our help at home (i,e, chef, butler, wait staff, room attendant) all share our names. 🤔🙄 The only other strangely named entity is Somebody…..like in “Somebody needs to go to the grocery store.” or “Somebody needs to take the garbage out.” or “Somebody needs to empty the dishwasher.” 😬

As I recall way back when we first started with Silversea they advertised on their website their butlers were school trained. I think they even said the schools were in England and India. Fast forward to our last cruise on the Dawn and our favorite waiter in La Terrazza was all excited he had just passed his butler test. No explanation of what that consisted of or how he had gotten whatever training he might have gotten. He said after his upcoming break over the summer he was being assigned to the Nova as a butler. Super guy and we would love to have him as a butler next April.

In 2012 on the Wind we paid $100 per person. It was our anniversary/my birthday (yes we got married on my birthday to make a cruise the next day) so it was in line with what we would have paid for an upscale restaurant back home. It was an amazing dinner, way more than LaDame today.

At the “low” end of $1,000 per day for a couple that means you’ve invested at least $350,000 USD. Reminds of the included laundry which you get at 100 days or $100,000 USD. Nice but certainly not “free”. 🙄😬 That said we are booked for the Nova next April and if this new upcharge holds for the Nova I don’t see us booking La Dame which we do typically once a cruise. 🙁

Highly recommend a tour or visit to the Akrotiri archeology site on Santorini. One of the best in the whole Med.

We’ll be on her for a trans-Panama Canal cruise in April. Very excited about the cruise and a whole new Silversea ship with a completely different layout than the rest of the fleet.

3:2 game with Vegas strip rules last I played. Again, been a few years and contractors come and go and may play different rules now.

I agree with Neilio, they play 6 or 8 card shoes. They used to use Vegas rules but I haven’t played on the last couple of cruises so not sure now.

Hehehe…..nope. 😀 Mrs K got up at 4:45 AM to get to work before 7 AM so I was up early though.

A shoe on all the Silversea ships we’ve been on.

Seems to be working now. Maybe they “fixed it” overnight.

Any update on what the issue was?

There are taxis available at the cruise terminal. We have done both scheduling a limo or grabbing a cab. Either works though the taxi will be less expensive.

Actually I disagree that it is not the TA’s responsibility to sort this out. While Silversea IT has had its challenges with MySilversea they can only post what is input by whomever at Silversea. Either the booking was not entered right or for some reason the system isn’t seeing it as a completed booking.

Not sure about “add a booking” as only Silversea can add a booking. On the top left of the MySilversea home page there is a tab labeled “bookings” and if you hit that one it takes you to your present active booking(s) and past bookings.

We started with Silversea on the Wind 12 years ago and have been on her several times since. We have also sailed on the Spirit and the Dawn and have to say as much as the smaller ships like the Wind will always have a special place in our hearts and minds we like the bigger ships dining venue choices. We’re booked in the Nova next April and that will be a very different ship with it’s asymmetric layout.