Champagne, Caviar, Toiletries on SD, SB and Silversea ???

[flamboyant 1]

What brand are the toiletries on Seadream and what champagne do they serve ?

 

Please also post some examples of the complementary wines.

 

For those who are also knowledgable about Seabourn: What are their toiletries and what is the champagne they serve complementary ?

 

 

What caviar (Iranian ? Imperial ? Beluga ? Oscietra ? Sevruga ?) do the lines mentioned above serve ?

 

Is the food and liquor selection on Silversea worse than on SD or SB ?

 

I highly appreciate your input, many thanks!

[flamboyant 1]

The champagne is Monopole Heidseck, the basic toiletries are moulton brown (but you are offered a selection of special soaps, Bijan ,Bvlgari, etc by your stewardess when you are settling in). The two wines ( a white and a red) change each day and are very acceptable -- not your really poor quality,mass produced plonk but not fine vintages either. We usually use a large part of our ship credit to but a couple of fine bottles of wine on a couple of evening when we are dining with friends so we can share them -- are have often found our dining companions to reciprocate. We found the key wine stewards to always be very knowledgeable and eager to help us find the right wine. Did you know that if you buy a bottle at lunch and only want to drink half they will put in a wine stopper and serve the rest to you at dinner/ and even the other bar staff in the dining room are very helpful and responsive -- they seem to eschew an empty wine glass and are always refilling it. I once joked to one of our wine stewards ,Adam, one evening that it was rather hard for me to keep track of how many glasses of wine I had imbibed because everytime the glass was less than half full he would sneak up behind me and refill it. His reply, in his Aussie accent, was " Madam, if your glass is never empty then you have only had one glass!" And yes, all of the water sport equipment is gratis. The pool is poorly located but the sunning area is lovely with a tow level wood deck (not astroturf) and there are two spas in that area where people tend to socialize -- one of them is always kept a bit less warm for those who want to spend some time in the spa socializing and drinking champagne. I often lost my husband for an hour at a time and would usually find him deep in conversation with someone in the spa. There was one gentleman on our last trip who I honestly thought was holding court in the spa -- he seemed to spend all of each afternoon there while his wife was out shopping.(BTW, the other spa is more privare and forward on Deck 5)

 

Honestly, you have to work hard to spend money on Seabourn.

 

Above is the answer to a similar question for the Seabourn cruise line. I still wonder which champagne they serve on SeaDream and which and how often one can get the caviar. Furthermore it would be interesting to compare it to Seabourn because we would like to give one small luxury cruise line our loyalty which involves careful scrutiny.

[luvtojump]

If I remember correctly the champagne was Philliponet. Same as on SS. You can get caviar anywhere, anytime on SD.

 

Have only been on SD and SS. Am planning on SB in Sept. I don't think you can go wrong with any of these choices.

[rainbro]

Oct '02 the Sea Dream I champagne was Pommery and the toilitries were Bvlgari. Not sure of the caviar, but the food and liquor on SD was comparable to SilverSeas. Have yet to try Seabourne. RB