Port Power

As a solo cruiser, I have never booked restaurants prior to boarding. I don’t know who I might meet and want to share a table with on any given night. I will often arrive at the main dining room (open seating) and join a share table. Can I expect share tables on Silversea? Otherwise the buffet will see me quite often!

Yes, airport transfers (to and from the ship) are included in all door-to-door bookings. Hotels are not, so you shouldn’t be surprised you weren’t offered a day room. I think your TA has misinformed you. Or hasn’t dealt with Silversea before and is not aware of inclusions? Get back to your TA and have them sort it out.

Just to be clear, you are disembarking in Seward but flying out of Anchorage at 12:55am that night, some 15 hours later? Did your TA say why there is no transfer? From your title, it sounds like they have just refused to transfer you. It does seem odd that S/S are not getting you from the ship to the airport, especially given the distance involved. Or is there a group transfer but your TA has told S/S you want to leave at a different time?

My son and I will be staying at the Shangri-La in May prior to boarding Silver Explorer. We love seafood platters and I have already bookmarked this restaurant for dinner on the night we fly in. Thanks for the tip. Maybe I should book ahead to be sure.

Whichever brand, I do like these interesting heels. And have a few pairs of my own! (I hit the wrong keyboard button. The Australian brand launched in 2001. “Copying” was tongue in cheek in any case.)

In Australia all vaccinations are recorded to one’s health record, so we can log into our own Government health system and print out the record. Plus I have all vaccinations recorded in my yellow book, which was the official record before online systems were invented. I still have that book stamped for my own quick reference. (Oops! Just checked and I am some months overdue for tetanus, which is every 10 years.)

I think that company has been copying Django & Juliette. They have been making those style of heel and sole decorations for over 10 years, although the current shoes look quite plain by comparison.

We will probably never know the real reason for missing the port. Simple things like school holidays and enough people in town will never be shared. And that is a very good reason!

Biofouling is particularly about keeping nasty pests out of local waters. However, the ship will have been scraped for New Zealand and wouldn’t need doing again. However there is obviously a reason behind missing this lovely little port community. Sad you are missing Eden.

I’m confused. You seem to be contradicting yourself without answering the question put by @Stumblefoot ? 🫤

As you said earlier, mysty, the type that don’t use a vacuum cleaner but you can press the air out. Rather, roll the bag to expel air.

I used included Blacklanes on a trip last last year. With any standard sedan you can fit two suitcases and two carry-on in the boot. Even three suitcases. The laptop bag and hand bag go with you on the back seat. One cabin bag could also go on the front passenger seat or foot well. I was not at all concerned the car would not show up either at my house or the airport. That is the whole point of using a car service.

You only had to look a bit harder to find your answer. This title is on the next page. As you also don’t say what country you are from, @mysty has kindly listed a few contact emails. Does anyone have an email address for reaching Silversea Customer Service?

I remember docking for the day at Port Canaveral when on Azamara Quest, a ship with 650 passengers. Yes, you could head off to a beach a fair way down the road. Otherwise nothing within walking distance. There was a shop all the crew went to, both to shop and to send money home. If you didn’t do a shore excursion, you may as well stay aboard. Disappointing when we liked to walk everywhere. What we could see was off limits access wise. (Which is how we found the shop.)

I’m with @Sunny429. I rarely turn on the television. I like to read what’s on the next day and circle the activities I want to go to. It’s easy to quickly check opening hours of bars and restaurants. Keep the Chronicle.

Of course that makes a difference. Nevertheless, I think Euros would be just as appreciated by crew sailing in European waters as US$.

I use my credit card with no foreign exchange fee, so I pay in US$ and my bank converts the ship’s bill to AUD. That’s always a better rate than if I buy US$ from Travelex or similar. As for extra tipping, the ship is in Europe, so the crew need Euros for personal shopping.

My advice would be to ask this question on your roll call. Another good place would be the relevant ports of call forum.

Chook food.

But I love soft tofu. AKA Japanese tofu. It is like a lovely custard. Delicious with satay sauce. That is the "Asian" in me from my very good Singaporean friends. You can keep the kale though!

I even heard about the road and highway closures on the radio in Perth, Western Australia, this morning. That snow map looks just so wrong! Snow in California? That's like snowing in Western Australia (well, Perth area, anyway, and definitely not the far north!).

Further to this, my excellent TA asked SilverSky about using Singapore Airlines. S/S came back with a schedule at no extra cost as Singapore Air is in the same price bracket. So instead of a 9 hour layover in Hong Kong, I now leave at 1:00am 😒 with only a 1 hour stopover in Singapore. This way I arrive a day early into Vancouver and will have two hotel nights there, rather than one night in Vancouver and one night in Japan after the cruise. No deviation charges anywhere along the way and both sets of flights are direct and uncomplicated. However, a good TA makes the difference in that he looked at alternatives and asked the question of S/S. I'm a happy camper! Er....cruiser! 😊

I’ve just received my flight allocations for Perth to Vancouver in September, and home from Tokyo. They are direct flights with Cathay Pacific and probably what I would have chosen myself. Alternative flights with Qantas would have cost an extra $4,000. There is a 12 hour layover in Hong Kong, but that is the airline’s scheduling, not SilverSky. I have to spend one night post cruise in Tokyo in a hotel, again due to flight schedules, but transfers are included, so no problems there.

Melt it with a touch of milk as sauce for macaroni cheese. Yummm! We have the same “cheese spread” here in Australia.

Welcome toCruise Critic, and to Silversea. You will definitely enjoy yourself. For solo cruisers, the included excursions make a big difference.