By Eric Goldring
For years I have shunned the Regent Seven Seas Navigator due to her excessive vibration, drab and quirky interiors, horrible maintenance and systems issues and, let me think…could there be anything else as far as hardware goes????? (OK, she has wonderful suites and excellent bathrooms, but those were marred by
I have not commented on Silversea’s newest ship, the Silversea Silver Spirit, for a few days. The reason: I am tired of being told or perceived as being a Silversea basher. So I let the initial couple of days of nirvana go by and have been reading as much as
Well, I guess this is an unfortunate, “I told you so” about Silversea Cruise’s financial turmoil. I have, as previously noted, kept very quiet not only in the hope that something positive might happen, but because I didn’t want to be seen as “piling on” or trying to spoil the
Today I read an article where a number of travel agents were polled about rebating, or discounting, cruises. It was, to be sure, a rather emotional and bitter article with travel agents claiming such things as the practice being equivalent to “the world’s oldest profession” and nothing other than a
For years Park West has made huge profits on selling what I believe to be extremely overpriced “art” based upon pricing that is established through a “feeding frenzy” created onboard ships with novice “art collectors” running up prices on pieces they “just have to have”. Today I read that Park
The past days have been very busy for me, personally, but also very interesting for me professionally. It appears that some of my readers, I guess, read this blog because they perceive me as the Andy Rooney (curmudgeon) of the cruise blogosphere. While I may have earned that reputation through
There have been some quiet discussions over the past months about tweaking Seabourn’s “all guests are treated equally regardless of accomodation” policy. It is, to be true, a very important part of the Seabourn Experience. While a number of improvements are being considered, Seabourn has announced that the top suites
I have always struggled with Azamara Cruises because it had a pretty solid product, but no direction and nothing that made it distinguishable. Honestly, I have said to its parent, Celebrity Cruises, that with Oceania Cruises having such a solid product with consistently excellent delivery of cuisine, service and itineraries,
The Seabourn Odyssey recently made its United States debut. For those travel agents who were not invited to the Inaugural Cruise in Venice Seabourn invited them onboard and made a very interesting video. It tells a very good visual story about the ship. As a side note: When you listen to
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