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I think that “banana” looking thing is a crescent moon shape of polenta.

Glad you are aboard Terry. Enjoy every minute.

Nice to see the crew!

Terry !

Enjoy!!!

Happy sailing!!!

Safe travels all to Mumbai!

NOPE.

Thee is no way to compare MSC with Silversea.

Even in the MSC Yacht Club, unless you never leave the Yacht Club. Only been on Celebrity once for a brief cruise. 

The crowds, yikes!

You only live once, make it the best it can be. 

As we all have experienced in the past several years, unexpected stuff happens and life gets put on hold. 

Enjoy yours. 

Silversea will help!

2 hours ago, mysty said:

Here is the photo from last night's special request dinner....sapasui.....

 

And here is a very interesting cloud formation last evening.....

 

And there is now a fly in the ointment.  It seems I have developed a bacterial throat infection.  Currently on antibiotics.  Myster will be going off solo for the excursion in Apia.

Feel better soonest. 

13 hours ago, drron29 said:

Well it got me reading the reviews section. just Wow. just reinforces the fact that people will post negative reviews much more frequently than positive reviews. That Ship score is therefore screwed to the lower end. A bad way to choose your cruise ship.

I really liked the fellow who gave the Nova a score of 1. the main gripe was with the excursions. why you would want to continue with the included excursions after a couple of really bad experience amazes me. But the clincher was saying at one port docking was delayed at one port so that all excursions could depart at the same time. Me thinks SS would not delay docking but rather dock early so that all excursions leave on time. But then goes on in capitals how he had to queue in the stairwell for an hour waiting for the ship to be docked. Obviously a fellow who doesn't read the Chronicles or listen to announcements which virtually every time say go to the gangway when your tour is called. I really dislike the crowds that cram the gangway area making it difficult for those that are called to get to the gangway.

I haven’t read the reviews section. Now i will try.

I also didn’t realize there is a live reports section for many cruises. YIKES!

IMO deck 5 midship is a lovely location. Close to the water and stable with great view. The higher and more forward you go, the more you will feel the movement. 

I just bring my own sweetener (Equal) no matter what. It doesn’t take up much room in the suitcase!

Silversea used to have many more choices of sweeteners, but no more. 

Thanks Les.

Thanks turtle. I will keep trying to get a more reasonable itinerary. If not, we will cancel the cruise or we will try and get flights on our own.  

5 hours ago, gnome12 said:

Because they don’t have contracts with the airlines that fly from the US to Iceland? Sounds a bit crazy. 

No clue but it's still not acceptable when one can fly to JFK and then on to Iceland.

Just checked my Silversea and the newest reservations have us flying from MIA to Germany and then to Iceland. Why???

On 1/25/2024 at 7:35 PM, bobolz said:

I’m sorry to hear about that crazy routing Spins. I agree that would be a no go. I hope you are able to have them changed.
 

We received a not so great routing on our upcoming cruise and asked if they could change the days and our SS agent  got back to us with the flights we wanted(both non stop and open jaw from PHL to/from Europe) , but with a reasonable deviation fee. Even with deviation fee,  there was no way I was getting that BC flight on my own for even close to what SS charged us.  So will wait and see if our  flights are ticketed as planned and if so, this will be the 4th time SS got us a better BC deal and non stop flights .good luck and hope all gets corrected.

No word as of yet. 

This will be a deal breaker for us. 

Just to clarify, we have had Silversky or whatever their moniker is at the moment, book flights for us that were fine. The most recent two cruises have been more of a challenge apparently and they weren’t able to offer us air reservations.  Not the case for this cruise, but then look what they booked for us.  Maybe it’s just time to avoid them altogether!

27 minutes ago, alithecat said:

We were booked Santiago to Toronto to San Francisco last January. Flying into snowstorms. No thanks. We took the air credit and went via Houston instead. 

Omg…these horror stories. 

19 minutes ago, MsCrystalina said:

Flying from Miami to Seattle to Iceland has got to be the most insane itinerary ever!! I hope you are not accepting it?

No we are not. I am incensed 

I am waiting to hear if Silversea will do anything about this partial circumnavigation by air. 

I hope they don't try to charge us a deviation fee!!! Because these flight arrangements are the most deviated or “deviant” by far.

I feel terribly taken advantage of by this air booking for which we upgraded by a lot.

ACE system, bulltwistle.

Just got my flights for a cruise from Iceland to Lisbon.

Silversea has us flying from Miami to Seattle, a four hour layover and then Seattle to Iceland. 

How can this be an ACE?  ABSURD

Need new furniture???

I forgot, VIP’s also get swag, the backpack and the tote.

All on expedition cruises get backpack.

In the past, one would get a bag if in a silver suite or higher. It’s not a beach bag. Usually a white bag, which resembles a Le Pliage, and a backpack. 

I believe this is current info but don’t hold me to it!  Maybe someone aboard can confirm.

Used to be swag like hats and backpack, tote. 

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