silvesea having assigned primary butler is great idea, but not having secondary butlers on off hours / off days is odd
Originally Posted by
Pausanias
I have done one cruise each with Seaboard and Silversea on ships with no more than 300 pax. Food on Seabourn was markedly superior in my view but otherwise standards were roughly the same. In both cases, pretension counts for more than genuine quality.
totally casual on 2006 seabourn crossing, no problem with food
pretty mediocre on 2011 silversea alaska, including fake formality
hope to see more yachts taking individual bookings in future
but presumably basically no owners really want to do that