Live: Silver Spirit Grand Pacific Voyage

[beepee1967]

Is that considered formal, informal, or casual?

 

Stumble' you rascal...

 

:)

[Stumblefoot]

Stumble' you rascal...

Thank You!

[Herman The Cat]

Kirk is having a mid life crisis and has now moved the evening shows to 9:45...

 

Happy Birthday to your CD. Maybe you should all sing him Happy Birthday at Trivia today! :D

[Herman The Cat]

Happy Birthday to your CD. Maybe you should all sing him Happy Birthday at Trivia today! :D

 

"Today" meaning Feb. 14. Not sure what day it is where you are....

[Silver Spectre]

Still the 13th here, just left Papeete, 23 released and a further 81 detained for the duration, so now have 447 pax.

 

Two lovely days in Moorea, o/n in Papeete and finally sailed away at 6.

 

Best news, the ship missed almost all of the rain, and rain hard on Moorea it did. Deck BBQ last night and not even a sprinkle.

[Wellseasoned]

Today we are in Bora Bora, Valentine's Day. Moorea two days ago was very lovely. Took a rather hair-raising 4x4 tour including a steep and narrow climb to the top of Magic Mountain. Then sailed the few miles to Papeete for an overnight. Yesterday, changeover day in Papeete, was lovely but hot and humid. I did a "helmet dive" tour which was wonderful. Lots of fish and fun.

 

And the Captain decided NOT to include the in-transit passengers in the lifeboat drill! Only the new passengers had to attend the muster.

 

Bora Bora today, pretty island. Several of its resort hotels are currently closed because of economic troubles. Tomorrow Raiatea, which is nearby.

 

This 19 day segment to L.A. has 3 formal days, 9 informal, 7 casual. We haven't seen any gross dress code violations, but we haven't really paid much attention. So far we've dined everywhere but Stars and have been pleased with the food and service.

Dieter

 

A few recent photos:

 

Moorea. Does that graffiti mean that they love Col. Wes??

 

Rainbow over Papeete

 

Yours truly being "ha-Wrassed"

 

Helmet divers

 

Fishes

[Herman The Cat]

Dieter, fabulous photos. sound like you are having a great time and it looks like the weather has been really good.

 

Perhaps it means "Col. Wes was here"?

 

Nice fish!

[WesW]

another great post & pix Dieter.

 

Yes, that's Jimbo, Janice and Tombo they played for us back in 2005 when we were last in Bora Bora for our two week Paul Gauguin voyage. kidding :)

[Silver Spectre]

Loved Bora Bora yesterday, there was rain but it missed the ship, and there was the most beautiful sunset. Visited Raiatia (spelling) today, and woke up to find us docked, another bonus. Only stayed until 2 and then the captain sailed us through the lagoon on our way out. A really beautiful sail out. Rain about this evening and we now have a bit of a swell.

 

Trivia yesterday was enlivened by the screaming Italian child, the father eventually got the message and left, but not before coming close to a watery ejection! Dinner in the Terrratza was also treated to a good screaming fit.

 

Really not sure why one would bring an 18 month old onboard just to p*** so many people off.

 

Formal night tonight, and the vast majority are tarted up correctly.

[Silver Spectre]

Great sea day, weather cooling though and some serious rainfall at the end of the afternoon.

 

Another day of tough trivia.

 

Did not see any dress code violations on formal night and the MDR was almost full to bursting, only 8 guests booked for hot rock. La Terraza out of bounds because of screaming Nico.

 

Cross the dateline at 5am and loose Sunday tomorrow.

[jtm1]

How unfortunate about the screaming 18 month old child. We were on the Panama Canal cruise that preceded your voyage and Nico and his parents were as well. We experienced no such issues then and thought he was a real cutie -- maybe he's tired of cruising.

But someone (i.e on the staff) needs to get this under control.

[Wellseasoned]

We were seated at the table next to Nico's in Terrazza for dinner last night. Thankfully, he remained asleep in his stroller.

[Goldens4]

Thank you so much for posting the beautiful pics. Absolutely stunning. Glad you are enjoying the cruise and sorry about the tyke.:)

[Herman The Cat]

How unfortunate about the screaming 18 month old child. We were on the Panama Canal cruise that preceded your voyage and Nico and his parents were as well. We experienced no such issues then and thought he was a real cutie -- maybe he's tired of cruising.

But someone (i.e on the staff) needs to get this under control.

 

He was very well behaved in early January and also quite adorable. Perhaps he is getting tired of cruising...I think he is on for 3 or 4 months.....

[jtm1]

Dear Silver Spectre, I will be following your adventure on the Spirit very closely...we just booked a B2B Jan 2014...Ft Lauderdale to Rio....our very first time on Silversea.

 

Wish someone would post photos of the Silver suite as well as Veranda suite, especially the bathrooms and the walk in closets and venues.

 

Hope you will keep a Blog or at last post daily updates re captain. Cruise director, etc.

 

Have a fantastic, fun cruise.....Hi Rachel!...Pat.

 

Hi Pat:

Here is the Silver Suite bathroom. Will post the suite separately, but have none of the closet.

[jtm1]

Hi Pat:

Here is the Silver Suite bathroom. Will post the suite separately, but have none of the closet.

 

Don't know how to get these anything other than thumbnail. Closet doors on either side of the TV wall and drawers opposite the bed. There is an entrance from both the hallway (which is quite a bit narrower than on the Shadow/Whisper) and the bedroom.

[Silver Spectre]

He was very well behaved in early January and also quite adorable. Perhaps he is getting tired of cruising...I think he is on for 3 or 4 months.....

 

Part of the problem is that he has no interaction with any other children and the staff treat him like a favoured guest, so he screams when he is frustrated. I am not blaming the child, but the parents make no effort to get him away from the other guests when he is having a tantrum

[Silver Spectre]

Today we get our day back, this being the first of our 2 thursdays.

 

2 days ago we visited Xmas Island, huge queues for the 30 minute tender ride into the lagoon, at times less than 1/2 a metre clearance for the tender. A large number of guests gave up and did not get ashore, which was a shame. Not very much there but lovely (apart from the copious amount of rubbish which was everywhere).

 

Yesterday was Fanning Island, and only a small portion of the guests got ashore, mainly due to a very heavy squall. We left 2 1/2 hours early and had both strong winds and a heavy swell, bad enough to shut the elevators down. Still windy today but not so rough.

[Herman The Cat]

Today we get our day back, this being the first of our 2 thursdays.

 

2 days ago we visited Xmas Island, huge queues for the 30 minute tender ride into the lagoon, at times less than 1/2 a metre clearance for the tender. A large number of guests gave up and did not get ashore, which was a shame. Not very much there but lovely (apart from the copious amount of rubbish which was everywhere).

 

Yesterday was Fanning Island, and only a small portion of the guests got ashore, mainly due to a very heavy squall. We left 2 1/2 hours early and had both strong winds and a heavy swell, bad enough to shut the elevators down. Still windy today but not so rough.

 

How interesting about Christmas Island--very different from what I imagined.

 

How high were the swells/waves yesterday? I can't remember the last time I was on a ship when the elevators were shut down due to swells....

[Silver Spectre]

I would think about 3 to 4 metres

[Silver Spectre]

I would think about 3 to 4 metres

 

Correction, average 4 metres rising to 5, wind, force 6 galeforce gusting to 7.

 

And its still bumpy!!

[ging466]

Correction, average 4 metres rising to 5, wind, force 6 galeforce gusting to 7. And its still bumpy!!

 

And u are loving it...Right Mr Silver? :D

 

Is it worse than our jaunt across the Bering Sea?

 

Cheers

Jennifer

[Wellseasoned]

As Silver Spirit said, the seas are still rough but a bit better. Hilo, Hawaii tomorrow with forecasts of rain. Christmas Island was somewhat depressing with all the trash around, not many people. Fanning was prettier to us, but again very little infrastructure- no electricity or running water on Fanning. Friendly people, visitors are a rare event for them.

 

Internet has been spotty lately, look forward to better as well as U.S. cellphone service in Hawaii! A couple of photos:

 

Dieter

 

Another nice sunset after Raiatea.

 

People on Christmas Island

 

Tender with crew on top, checking very shallow water in Christmas Island lagoon

 

Children on Fanning Island

[Herman The Cat]

Wellseasoned, amazing photos. I love the one with the children--their expressions are priceless. You really need to enter that in a photography contest! :D

 

Hilo can be rainy...but if you can get out of Hilo it can be sunny elsewhere. You should be ok when you get to Kona.

[Herman The Cat]

Hmmm...one day at sea from Fanning to Hilo? i didnt realize they were so close.

 

What was the issue with the trash on Christmas Island? Do they just have nowhere to put it?