tipsygirl

We only travel on Oceania in a Penthouse Suite. Once you do it is hard to go back to Concierge. Love having a Butler.

Thank you for the reply jpalbny

We are new to Silversea. Due to a special program when we booked we have significant On Board credit. Can we use this when we are booking restaurants before we board for restaurants that have a charge?

I have had the same experience.You can request Gluten free at Tea. but if there are gluten free offerings at Barristas they are not identified.

We also love Jacques, and asked our TA to call O to see if Jacques would remain on Marina. That was a couple of months ago. At that time the agent said that had not been decided. I guess that I will find out next week when we make our Specialty Restaurant reservations

If you are flexible on dates and time you can usually get additional reservations.

Once we had a penthouse suite we could never go back to Concierge

It is easy to get a taxi. Does takes some time, depending on where you are in the line coming off the ship.

We did this on our last Oceania cruise and we’re disappointed. The pours were generous , but the food was not as good as the other special dinners. I must not have a Champagne pallet . after that many champagnes I could not distinguish one from another, I do highly recommend the other two dinners. Better food and the wines were more to my taste.

We will be taking our first cruise with Silversea on Silver Spirit in August. Do they have a good gym? Do they have exercise classes?

Glad to hear your report. We are about to take our first cruise on Silversea. We live in a resort in Texas (The Woodlands). Dressing up for dining out means nice slacks and a nice shirt for my husband and a nice top and pants or a casual dress for me. We travel frequently. Often on cruises. But my husband gave up his tux, and I gave up the sparkly ball gowns years ago. He always takes a coat and tie a nice pants, and I will have dark pants and a lacy top.Good to know that we won't have to go out and buy a new wardrobe.

All was well yesterday.

Thanks for the clarification. So the SB drink package is like wine on a river cruise.

Since we have never purchased a drink package (we bring our wine suitcase and/or purchase wines onshore) and now have one as part of SB, pardon my questions. I assume that one can order a glass of any wine on the SB list, and the price listed is what someone would pay who does not have a drink package? Is that only with meals, or in bars also?

We have booked a cruseon Silver Spirit forAugust 2024. I was trying to get into MySilverSea this morning and got the message that the server could not be reached. Am I doing something wrong. I have tried both Safari and Goggle Chrome.

We switched ti the Simply More pricing for considerably less.I left it to my TA to work out the pricing

Thanks for the info. We never purchase a wine package on a ship. We like to pick up wines onshore. But it would be nice to have an OK glass of wine for lunch without opening a bottle and paying corkage.

We booked our cruise using the Simply More promotion. Our invoice states that we have the Simply More House Beverage program. Does anyone know how the contents of House Select package and the Prestige Select package differ from the Simply More program?

We were avid Crystal cruisers for years. And we’re very sad when they went out of business.Now that they have been bought and are beginning to sail again we are waiting for reviews before we book with them again. In the meantime we have booked a cruise on Silversea fo 2024.I would appreciate comparisons of Crystal and Silversea from those who have sailed on both. Cindy

I am interested in information on the Silversea air program. Cindy

There is a nice Hilton hotel that is connected to the airport by a walkway. We have stayed there several times pre-Covid. Don’ know if they still do this, but they used to have a shuttle into Rome for guests. So you could go into the city for a few hours to dine or see the sites.

We always travel will prescriptions medications from our family doctor...Inhalers, antibiotics, and Medrol packs. He is a traveler like we are and, keeps us up to date on what drugs to take with us.This has saved us from going to the ships doctor more than once. We also take an assortment of over the counter meds for congestion and pain relief. And we have MedJet insurance, and trip insurance through our credit card. We now also travel with CoVid test kits.

We were on our first Viking Ocean cruise earlier this year. Regarding Viking's included excursions, most were very good. We had one very bad included tour, and one very bad ship tour that we paid for. FYI, On Viking it does no good to complain, which we already knew from previous Viking river cruises. Food was definitely NOT up to Oceania standards, and the main restaurant was very crowded, with tables very close together. No social distancing. Also, though wine is included with meals, it was not very good. Their ships are beautiful. We are about to take our 3rd cruise on Oceania. We have only sailed on the larger Oceania ships. Regarding pricing on Oceania....If the cruise is one where we want to do excursions we pick the O Life price and select the excursions option. If we are not concerned about exploring the ports we will be visiting , or plan to arrange our own tours, we select the cruise only fare We usually book our own air and take a credit for the air. We either bring our own wine on board (we have a wine suitcase), or purchase wine onshore. We don't frequently drink mixed drinks, so don't buy the drink package, and pay as we go for any bar drinks we purchase. Oceania's Brochure price is just so Oceania can advertise 2 for 1 pricing. We love the food on Oceania and the service is very good. We especially like the Penthouse suites where we have a butler and a nice size cabin. We like the flexibility of the Oceania pricing

We are wine drinkers and rarely drink hard liquor. We bring our wine suitcase with wines we prefer and pay the corkage fee if we take it to a restaurant. We also bring on wines from ports if we find something good. The wine dinners in Privee are one of our favorite things.

I would add have Global Entry, or at least TSA pre-check. If you have a connection be sure you have a generous amount of time between flights. If you are not traveling with carryon luggage only (I have not mastered that skill) be sure to pack items that it would be difficult to replace on arrival in your carryons.(We pack some shoes since we both have irregular shoe sizes.Also some underwear. Again, irregular sizes .) Most of our problems recently have been on return flights, so we pack our carryons with items that we would need for 1 or 2 days.