Be warned, Seabourn, Crystal and Regent Seven Seas Cruises: One of your top competitors in the luxury cruise space, Silversea Cruises, has set a new bar for just how spectacular luxury ship design can be. Silversea's new 728-passenger Silver Nova, which debuted Monday with its first sailing...
CHRIS GORMAN/GETTY IMAGES Silversea Cruisesguests may smoke cigarettes, cigars, pipes and e-cigarettes in the Connoisseur's Corner cigar lounge. Outdoor smoking areas include the seating areas outside the Dusk Bar, Panorama Lounge and Pool Bar, and select sections of open decks (these vary by ...
Silversea, for instance, includes premium access for guests in its Medallion, Silver, Royal, Grand, and Owner’s suites and standard access for those in Vista and Veranda suites (in the latter you’ll have to pay if you want upgraded service). Seabourn includes complimentary basic Wi-Fi for...
A few lines do not encourage tipping, including Radisson Seven Seas, Seabourn, Silversea and Windstar. Crew members are reportedly higher paid and not tip dependent. Many passengers tip anyway for outstanding service or special favors and give them tips face to face immediately they get serviced....
including private balconies. Expedition vessels built since 2014 increasingly have more spacious accommodations that include verandas. Cruise lines whose newest expedition ships have private balconies include Ponant, Scenic, Seabourn, and Silversea. In other cases, lines such as Lindblad offer balconies on...
While other cruise lines like Seabourn, Regent Seven Seas and Silversea may specifically target the upscale sector, both Carnival and Royal Caribbean offer a wide range of price points. Royal Caribbean pricing Given the wide range of cabin types, including high-end suites and typically more ...
If small ships sound more appealing to you than their larger, floating-city counterparts, choices abound. How do you know when small is too small -- or which small ships are still too big for your taste? For the sake of this discussion, we'll use the following classifications: Small Yach...
That said, there are cruise lines that cost more than Oceania (Regent, Crystal, Silversea and Seabourn come to mind) yet their food is not better IMO (again - food is subjective). Just as a simple example - on our 21 day Crystal cruise they had lobster only twice. Oceania ...
The company sees a three-ship fleet of ultra-high-end 298-passenger ships—with 149 all-suite, balconied cabins—that will play in the same international waters as the luxe lines Regent, Seabourn, and Silversea. Courtesy Ritz Carlton “We felt now was a better time than ever to enter ...
Meanwhile, as of July 2017, 63 vessels are registered with the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO), including some big names in cruising, such as Hurtigruten, Holland America Line, Seabourn, Silversea and Celebrity Cruises. ...