MuseCruiser

Settlement? Over $30? What are the damages otherwise.

This is good to know. I can't answer as I can't speak for my friends and I wasn't there but I'm happy to hear your report.

Just as a point of information. I looked up the retail price of the Duval Leroy champagne in the USA on the pro version of Winesearcher.com. It ranges from $29 to the mid $70's with many bottles available in the low $30.00 range. Assuming SS gets it wholesale they would pay somewhere in the low to mid $20 range. There is no champagne called just "monopole" (that means monopoly in French) so there would be a producer making that champagne called "monopole" for me to look up re price. Point is the difference in price couldn't be all that much.

Thanks. I worded my comment poorly. Yes it goes for staff parties, events etc. I didn't mean to imply everyone got money handed to them but my phrasing made it sound this way. Thanks for posting this.

You guys seem to be missing the point. Every Silversea guest tips. The tips are included in the price paid. If you want to give extra, there is a crew fund to which you can contribute which equally gives and distributes the money to all staff, including those you don’t see directly.

The original post is very concerning and I’m afraid reflects the creep of Royal Caribbean into SS. We have friends who just completed a cruise on the Spirit and are boarding the QM2. Got this text today: “Disembarking this am in Southampton. Next ship tomorrow. You would have been pretty unhappy with this boat. Other than the food and staff which were very good definitely Royal Carribeanized.” So sad to see what has happened to SS.

Same here. Gross behavior.

Hence my comment to UK Jeff. It’s moving to a premium model than a true luxury product no matter what words they use to describe it.

You understand there are more customers for a premium product than for a luxury product, do you not?

The art cheapens it significantly. Can’t believe there isn’t more of a reaction.

I’m CASHIPman’s husband. To quote our friend: ”They’ve got prints of the masters, Dali, Renoir, etc., framed and for sale in the $2 and 3000 range for sale all over the ship. Tacky things like that.” This is really disappointing to hear.

What pray tell are they new options of which you speak?

This was absolutely not my experience on my SS cruises including my last cruise a few weeks ago. The butler was there to attend to specific requests and handled them well.

Oh you meant countryside. At first I thought you meant that specific country where Mysty is haha. I was trying to figure that out.

View from Shangrila Yanuca Island where Silversea is housing guests for the night.

Ridiculous. I deleted the rest as it was unseemly even if sincere and genuine.

I’m on the Shadow now. Have been on the ship three weeks. I always ask for Pellegrino. No problem getting it. I had a full bottle of it on my table today at the pool as I asked the server to leave the bottle on my table at the pool. I also drink Coke Zero and no problem.

We just set anchor in Savusavu, Fiji.

There was music during dinner and dancing spontaneously broke out. Everyone was having a great time as I think you can tell from these pics. People couldn’t stop dancing and it went on until after 10:00pm. So much fun.

We did a special order tonight and it was really tasty. We put in a special order for beef Wellington with potatoes dauphine and they did a great job. First I had the porcini risotto.

Some pics of the Baha’i temple visit and one of the ship 🙂

Just cleared at 7:48pm (6 hours behind eastern time in the USA).

We traveled to Saudi Arabia via Silversea in March 2023. Saudi Arabia has never allowed alcohol due to religious reasons except for a few international hotels. We also had to remove alcohol from our room and there was no alcohol onboard. This is not new. And yes they can inspect your safe and I have heard of them doing so in the past so the notion you can squirrel alcohol safely in your safe is VERY risky you should not do it. You risk being thrown out of the country. They don’t play around there.

Just to be clear—this isn’t American Samoa. It’s Samoa which is fully independent.

I said to the front desk that perhaps the authorities are waiting for their gratuity. 😂