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For those of you aboard Silver Moon at the moment, any idea when the Christmas decoration will be on display? Thanks. 

2 minutes ago, Silver Spectre said:

Here it is designated ‘Crew only’. I asked the captain why and he replied ‘things change’.

Thanks. Good to know. 

38 minutes ago, wine-wine-wine said:

Indeed and this makes me ponder our potential booking to the Norwegian fjords in 2023…

If my memory serves me well, on the Muse there is an open forward-facing terrace above the observation lounge. I thought it would be the same on the Moon. Isn’t it the case?

32 minutes ago, sloopjohnb said:

The only thing I don't understand about the ship itself is that there is no outdoor, forward-facing public space. Perhaps we'll never be able to sail along La Giudecca canal but where on a ship would you want to be as you sail into Rio or Sydney or Oslo or Saigon, or anywhere, actually?

On the Muse it is possible to take a stair next to the observation lounge and to move up one floor accessing an open terrace with a complete view forward facing. I entered Sydney Harbour in 2019 and it was a memorable experience. Is the Silver Moon different?

New itinerary available now on MySilversea. 

2 hours ago, les37b said:

I did take a peak on Skyscanner to check flights back from Guayaquil and there are none on 19th Jan. In fact there are zero flights showing from the 12th to 24th Jan.

KLM operates direct flights from Guayaquil to AMS. There is one on January 19 KL 755 departing GYE at 20:10 and arriving at 13:25 the next day. As far as I am concerned, SS took care of us and rebooked us on KL flight from GYE to AMS for our December 18 flight. It seems that they will add 1 port of call in Costa Rica and maybe 1 more overnight stay in Panama City. We should know soon I guess

5 minutes ago, les37b said:

Have a great time SS.... Get them to fix all those glitches before we arrive.... And stay away from deck 6! 

Thank you so much! I will make sure the ship is in perfect order. 

3 hours ago, Silver Spectre said:

It’s currently the whole deck, 601-663!

Thanks. I understand better now why there are only 313 passengers on board at the moment! Enjoy your cruise on board the Moon. I will board her on December 2nd at FLL!

2 hours ago, Silver Spectre said:

The Quarantine deck. Vaccinated crew only have to isolate for a week now.

 

Does it mean that suites 601 to 633 are kept for quarantine?

1 hour ago, Silver Spectre said:

That’s ok when the ship is 30% full but becomes more of an issue with anything like 50%

How full is your ship?

5 hours ago, zqtchas said:

 

This is what my TA says about that voyage for us. We are on that leg plus the next one.

 

I have not received any notification regarding changes to your cruise and Silversea Reservations does not have any specifics either.

 

 

 

I am so sorry that your TA is not yet aware of this change. I am in direct contact with Silversea London and once again the change has been confirmed by Barbara Muckermann herself on Facebook. The website is not updated yet since SS wants to finalize the new itinerary before. Should be the case beginning of next week. I would suggest that you have a direct contact with SS to get more reliable information. My air ticket has been updated with a return from Guayaquil. If you have the opportunity to go to Silversea passenger page on Facebook you will see that there are many interactions on this change. 

I have been ticketed my new inbound flight from Guayaquil. SS TA told me this morning that we should have one more port of call in Costa Rica and one more in Ecuador.

7 hours ago, zqtchas said:

Just checked with our TA in FLL and she has not heard anything about that. The return air was supposed to be from Chili and was changed to Equator ? Delta has been having problems. 

The termination of the cruise in Guayaquil instead of Lima has been confirmed by Barbara Muckerman on FaceBook. Since I had booked my flights through SS (Air France and KLM), SS has already proposed a return flight from Guayaquil instead of Lima. At the moment I can see both bookings on MySilversea. But by tonight, I guess SS will cancel the return from Lima, leaving only the return from Guayaquil. The question now is what will be the new itinerary for the last 4 days of the cruise. I guess we should know soon. At least, I hope so.

My return flights have already been amended by SS departing Guayaquil on December 18

So far no idea what the new itinerary will be. We terminate in Guayaquil on December 18 although we were supposed to call there on December 14 according to the original itinerary. Are we going to have 4 sea days? Are we going to have a 4-night stay in the port of Guayaquil? We shall know soon I guess. 

I have just been informed by my SS travel advisor that my cruise from FLL to Callao Lima Peru will now terminate in Guayaquil since Peru is now closed for cruise ship. I hope that it is not going to be a domino story where other countries will close one after another. My cruise is in 14 days but I am not really optimistic.

I got the same mail this morning!

8 hours ago, bethtex said:

With an August 2022 cruise, when would Silversea contact us about booking the flights?  Or do we contact them?  I don't see anything online about it.

SS usually book flights 300 days before cruise departure. What I usually do is that I make my own search for flights and send a detailed proposal with dates and flight numbers to SS. Usually they book exactly what I want and in most cases they even cancel deviation fees if flying 1 or 2 days before cruise departure which I usually request.

Just now, les37b said:

 

Strange systems they have that they cant spit out how many fare paying passengers are sailing!

 

400 is quite a lot, though having sailed the Muse fully loaded, it still didn't feel crowded anywhere.

 

I wonder if everything will be fully open?

 

I have sailed the Muse end of 2019 between Bali and Sydney with 500 passengers and it was quite quiet! So even if there are 400 PAX, should be quite nice knowing that from what I have understood the SS executives/employees will not remain on board for the entire duration of the cruise. We shall see but even fully loaded, I know that SS ship never seems to be crowded! I will let you know as soon as I board the ship on December 2.

8 minutes ago, les37b said:

 

I'm on the second iteration of this starting on 3 Jan. My SS agent seems to think the loading for ours is nearly 400 - though his figures are based on availability and suspect a fair number of the booked rooms may be solo or "reserved for quarantine" rooms.

 

I suspect if there is a sudden large jump of guests, its an absolute certainty its a group booking or a ridiculously cheap sell off via a third party (like to agents in the travel industry - who do exist and give excellent mouth watering discounts.)

 

I'm guessing we will find out in due course! 

 

Will be finally sorting car parking, seat reservations and ESTA today and the reality a cruise I'd given up any hope of sailing on will now hopefully happen.

Your cruise seems to be more loaded than mine (36 cabins available for sale on yours vs. 64 cabins on mine). According to my SS travel advisor, my cruise departing December 2 will have some high rank SS executives/employees on board for some days that could explain why the number of available cabins has suddenly decreased. He told me that the loading should be approximately 400 passengers.  

3 hours ago, Lois R said:

Good morning, yes, they do provide masks but I bring my own too. I have a black one with a bit of bling on it for evenings🙂......it goes with every outfit🙂

 

Thank you very much for your answer. 

Hello I am starting thinking of what I should put into my luggage and was wondering whether SS provides  masks on a daily basis or if I should take my own supply? Thanks.

On the upcoming Silver Moon cruise from FLL to Lima departing December 2, 2021, while the number of cabins available for sale was quite stable for a long time at approximately 130, suddenly during the last weekend of October that number fell to approximately 70 and that number remains stable since then. So 60 cabins (max 130 PAX) were potentially sold in just a couple of days and I suspect that it could be a huge group joining the cruise. I find it strange because it’s quite a long cruise for a charter (16 days) but maybe those people will disembark after a shorter period of time. Do you think my assumption is realistic?

1 minute ago, Silver Spectre said:

As far as I can tell tickets are sent out much later in Europe, we got ours on Saturday for the 19th Nov crossing on the Moon, about 2 weeks after those in the US got theirs. On that basis yours should come sometime next week.

Thanks for this information. Appreciate!

Thanks @brimary, @Lois Rand @Silver Spectrefor your answers. I guess we will try not to arrive before 1 pm. I have not received my cruise ticket yet but I assume we will have the same timing for the Moon as you for the Whisper, i.e. 2 to 4 pm to check in.