By Eric Goldring
As the Silver Spirit engages in its sea trials, the time has come to explore this ship. First, Silversea has started a blog on its newest ship, which is scheduled to debut on December 23, 2009, the Silver Spirit. You can find the blog here: http://www.silverspiritblog.com/ . The place to
Virtuoso, one of the premier travel consortiums (I belong to another, Ensemble Travel Group), has voted Seabourn Cruise Lines as the best small ship cruise line. (A travel consortium is a group of affiliated, but independent, travel agencies.) This “award” is far more relevant to me than, say, the Travel
On the Celebrity Equinox there are a number of “traditional” touches that Celebrity Cruise Lines continues ranging from complimentary iced towels and water greeting you when you return to the ship to complimentary sorbet passed out in the afternoon around the pool to the lack of announcements to the staff,
On Sunday my family embarks on a 13 night cruise on the brand new Celebrity Equinox. Our cruise is roundtrip Rome with port calls in Naples, Italy; Athens and Rhodes, Greece; Kusadasi, Turkey; Haifa and Ashdod, Israel and Alexandria, Egypt (overnight)…with four sea days. We will be overnighting off the ship in
Seabourn has released an interesting time lapse video of the construction of the Seabourn Odyssey. Enjoy! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXDlBWOSrb0&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1&w=445&h=364]
I guess I asked for this. I pointed a number of my readers to Ralph Grizzle’s Avid Cruiser website as I posted his short video on Seabourn Odyssey’s cuisine. So today I read Ralph’s post about which is the best luxury cruise line. He mentions Seabourn, Silversea, Regent Seven Seas,
You know I consistently rave about the quality of Seabourn’s cuisine and have found it to be of even higher quality on the Seabourn Odyssey. While I was onboard the Odyssey I had the opportunity to chat with Charley Palmer about the new and enhanced menus, his galley setups and
Frank Del Rio, President and CEO of Prestige Cruise Holdings, owner of Regent Seven Seas, recently was interviewed by Travel Weekly Magazine. The article was about sales and marketing of Oceania and, to a much lesser extent, Regent. There was an interesting exchange: Q: With Regent, you chose to include
While I am writing how there seems to be little cross-over from Silversea to Seabourn, it appears that Seabourn may well be trying to change that! Possibly smelling Silversea blood in the water, Seabourn has essentially put all of 2010 on sale adding additional discounts to virtually all of its
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