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clarky

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    Perth Western Australia
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    Travel, reading, history, wine, cooking
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    Seabourn

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  1. I just received an email from him. So he must still be with SS.
  2. Fletcher, I can report that there were 8 people in our group for snorkeling 🤿. There was no beach resort and the snorkeling was one of the best we have done and we have snorkelled all over the world. Not a buttock fish to been seen.
  3. Glad we missed this Fletcher. I thought Salalah was boring when we visited many years ago but this may take the cake. We board in Jeddah and are on until Dublin so hopefully we will meet you onboard.
  4. clarky

    Jedda to Athens

    We will be doing this cruise May 2nd this year. This if the first leg of the cruise which will end in Dublin. I will be posting on SS facebook page and I will try and post here as well. So please look for my posts which will give you some information about Jeddah and Saudi Arabia.
  5. Fletcher, I have just been informed by Silversea that the new excursions are available to book. I have made our bookings. We will do the overnight to Al Ula on the 5th - 6th May. I also booked the excursion to Medina via fast train for the 4th May. Not disappointed with the tours at all. The communication with Silversea has been excellent and I beleive they have done an excellent job of arranging some great tours.
  6. Fletcher, like you I'm disappointed with the port cancellations but I have just received an e-mail from Walter at Silversea and he and his team are working on some exciting excursions from Jeddah, including an overnight to Al Ula. The overnight in Al Ula is one of the main reasons for booking this cruise so whilst I'm still disappointed with the canceled ports we are going ahead with this cruise. I think a lot of the smaller ports are getting nervous about accepting cruise ships because of Covid and the many reports in the press about cruise ships with covid on board. It makes no sense to me as the general population have way more cases per capita than a cruise ship (in Australia at least).
  7. Fletcher, Thank you for the quick reply. This makes me feel so much better. We lived in the Middle East and have been fasinated with the culture and history of the region and this is one of the tours that we have wanted to do. One of the main reasons I booked this cruise was to do this tour. In fact I booked this cruise in July 2021 and was baffled that this tour was waitlisted. We are cruising Jeddah to Dublin and I look forward to meeting you.
  8. Hi Fletcher, We are also on this cruise and are wait listed on this tour. Can you share the information you received please as I really don't want to miss this tour.
  9. I'm not sure what you are referring to with articulated truck but a lot has changed in this suite. First you have and expedition closet in the entrance, second the living and dinning are now one open space and third the furniture in the living area has changed. The bedroom and bathroom remain the same thank goodness. This suite is the second largest in size on the ship. It does not have a balcony but if you are in the artic or Antarctica then realistically how often are you going to be using your balcony? If you really want to look for wildlife you need to be out on the decks.
  10. I'm happy to help as I have appreciated all the advice I have been given by other posters. I can not emphasize enough how much better this medallion suite is compared to the silver suite. The silver suite does not have an expedition wardrobe like this suite. It has a much smaller living dinning area and the bathroom as you know from previous posts is a shocking design. This suite also has a powder room which the SS suite does not. I would book this suite in a heartbeat. In fact we have booked it for our Antarctica cruise in January 2024. We have over 250 days with Seaborn and will never cruise with them again after the way they treated us and other guests during our COVID cruise. They don't deserve our loyalty. We do like Regent but find SS offer more adventurous itineraries. We have loved this cruise. The excursions that have been offered have been diverse in both activity levels and duration. All excursions except one have included lunch or a snack and the buses when used have been at least half empty. So distance between guests has been front of mind. At the end of the cruise I will post some photos to give you an idea of what we saw. I will say so far we have seen Dolphins, whales, seals, several species of birds including puffins. Fingers crossed for a polar bear.
  11. hglsland, here are some photos for you. Also our friends in 801 said they had a walk in bath. I feel conflicted posting these photos. We love this suite so much and with the great refurbishment of this suite and the photos I fear it will be booked when we want it. We love the French balcony as it is too cold to be out on your balcony in the artic but we can open and close the window and get some fresh air and take photos.
  12. I spoke with our friends in 801 and they said there was no noise in their suite however they did find that there was significant movement during rough seas.
  13. We will be moving to 741 on the next leg so will let you know.
  14. Our friends are in 801 right now so I will get feed back for you.
  15. As this is another sea day I thought I would post some thoughts on the silver suite. We are in 723 and I will post some photos of the suite. I'm not loving this suite as much as I do the medallion suite 741. Firstly the bathroom is tiny and badly designed. You can not turn on the shower before you get in the bathtub shower. My husband has posted on this topic so I won't go into details of the bathroom here. The walk in robe is also terribly designed. you can not hang a dress. The hanger is not high enough to hang pants or dresses without them being scrunched up. I'm enjoying the extra space but I would not book the silver suite over the medallion suit 741 even though 741 has no balcony, during refurbishment they added a window that can open. Our friends who were in 702 a royal suite had the ceiling collapse last night and were moved to the owners suite, There have been several problems that have come to light with this cruise after the refurbishment.
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