Cruising on Silversea’s Silver Spirit We recently had the opportunity to cruise from Lisbon to Barcelona on Silversea’s Silver Spirit. The purpose of the cruise was to see firsthand what changes have taken place since Royal Caribbean’s purchase of two thirds of the company. We have...
Silver Galapagos On May 4 2019 I had the opportunity to do a site inspection cruise for a client aboard the Silver Galapagos. Being a unique destination and an Expedition cruise, it was very different from your typical Silversea classic cruise. First off, I would HIGHLY recommend...
The Recently refurbished Silver Shadow by Silversea Currently many ships are getting refurbished or reimagined or just a plain well deserved modernization. Last year we did a review on the Silver Whisper who had a major refurb job just after the Silversea/Royal Caribbean acquisition. This job...
Cruising on the Scenic Eclipse Scenic For years now people have been using “Yacht Like” and other such terms to make people feel like their vessel was a yacht or as close to a yacht as possible. Having started servicing, chartering and actually being guests on...
Cruising on Royal Caribbean's Liberty of the Seas This review is from a meeting perspective. Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas was the venue for the EGroup Communications fifth Annual “X-Change” a Mice Industry business forum. The Liberty of the Seas, along with 9 other ships,...
Cruising on the Wonder of the Seas In April I had the chance to sail on the newest Royal Caribbean ship, Wonder of the Seas. (In fact, she was so new she still had that new ship smell.) In case you didn’t know, she is the...
Dockside Review of Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Seas Normally we only do ship reviews of ships we have actually cruised on. However, this review is special and very significant for many reasons. The first is that this is the first time a major cruise line...
After a successful summer season cruising in the Med, Symphony of the Seas checked in to her new year round home in Miami. Her arrival also coincided with the opening of a brand new purpose built terminal to service her. The Symphony of the Seas...
Cruising on the New Norwegian Bliss We were recently invited on a 2 night pre-inaugural cruise onboard the new Norwegian Bliss. This 168,028 ton ship carries only 4,004 passengers who will need more than a week to experience everything on this ship. Today’s big 3 contemporary...
Cruising on Holland America’s Nieuw Amsterdam This is certainly not our first time cruising or chartering the Nieuw Amsterdam but it will be the second charter Worldwide operates in the restart era. The purpose of this cruise was to prepare for an upcoming charter November 6....