Originally Posted by
wripro
I have no idea what some people expect when they board a cruise ship but I have way over 200 days on Seabourn and over 100 days on Silversea. With one exception they have all been positive experiences. These lines provide excellent service, intimate atmospheres, ability to enter ports that larger ships cannot, good food. Are they perfect? No. But then neither am I.
It occured to me that the poster with so many accumulated days on Silversea may be a staff member who may have a different perspective about his/her employer as someone would have as a passenger. Agree, asking for perfection sets up immediate failure.
But when cruises are 2-3 times more expensive for the same destinations, one is right to enquire about the value added for that expense beyond merely eating, sleeping and traveling for the same amount of time to the same places that make the 2-3 times more costs worth it.
Does Silversea justify that additional cost in meaningful ways - do they really provide a signature experience no one else offers or do they merely gild the lily with some tacked on but essentially meaningless extras.
What is the point of claiming you can have caviar everyday on Brand XYZ, when the (1) caviar is not worth eating and (2) you find you really don't care if you have caviar every day after the initial novelty wears off and all you really want is bowl of cornflakes after all.