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Silversea Cruises has built a reputation for exclusivity and exemplary service, with staples like spacious suites, diverse onboard activities and gourmet cuisine. The line's 13 small luxury ocean and expedition ships – carrying between 100 and 728 guests – foster an intimate experience, with nearly one crew member for every passenger.

These small-scale vessels can sail to remote ports in more than 900 destinations across seven continents, enabling you to choose unique excursions like a guided tour of Ephesus or a scenic flight over the Namib Desert. Silversea's voyages last anywhere from five to 140 days, with itineraries covering seven continents.

During your cruise, you'll be able to soak up the scenery from your suite, since all of Silversea's accommodations offer ocean views. You'll find plenty of amenities on board as well, such as fitness centers, pools, theaters, spas and casinos. Also, be sure to take advantage of enrichment programs, which feature guest lecture series from expert onboard guides.

Plus, with Silversea's flexible dining schedule (which allows you to eat whenever and with whomever) you can cater meals to your preferences. The ship's upscale dining options include La Dame, which serves up gourmet French fare.

U.S. News Insider Tip: While passengers are primarily American, a smattering of international passengers ups the global glam factor. Guests may be affluent but they're friendly and eager to meet fellow travelers, often in lounges or at the poolside bar. – Janice Wald Henderson, Contributor

Pros & Cons

Smaller ships sail to off-the-beaten-path destinations

All-suite accommodations offer ocean views for every passenger

One complimentary shore excursion per port included in cruise fare; exclusions apply

No activities available for children or teens

Cruise fares are pricey year-round

Not all onboard restaurants are included in cruise fare

Expert Rating » 4.4
Traveler Rating » 4.1
Health Rating » 4.4

Silversea Cruises has been ranked based on an expert evaluation of the line's level of luxury, as well as an assessment of user reviews and health ratings.

# 5 in Best Luxury Cruise Lines
# 8 in Best Cruise Lines for Couples

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Silversea Cruises Ships

Silver Moon

Silver Muse

Silver Wind

Silver Dawn

Silver Spirit

Silver Whisper

Silver Shadow

Silver Nova

Before You Book

A 25%?deposit is required within seven days of booking. Final payment is due 120 days before your cruise departure date. For bookings made 30 days prior to departure, final payments must be received within 48 hours of booking.
A $200 administrative fee will be charged if you cancel more than 120 days prior to departure. Additional cancellation fees apply and vary depending on departure date. For more information, refer to? Silversea's Terms and Conditions .
Each ship has medical staff on board. Upon booking your reservation, you must inform Silversea in writing of any physical or mental conditions that may require onboard medical attention. You must supply your own wheelchair. Note that not all shore excursions are handicap-accessible.

Before You Board

You must present all essential travel documents (ticket, passport and medical cards) upon embarkation and obtain necessary visas prior to departure. Consult the U.S. State Department's? website ?for required visa and passport information based on your cruise itinerary.
Be sure to visit the? World Health Organization ?for a list of standard vaccines for travelers and the? Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ?for a list of current regulations.
Shore excursions can be booked up to 180 days prior to departure by accessing the? My Silversea ?page on Silversea's website. If you miss the deadline, you can still book shore excursions once on board.
Excursions canceled within 48 hours of the tour departure are not refundable, and cancellation fees vary by excursion.
Dining reservations can be made on board or through the My Silversea portal 120 to two days prior to departure.
Round-trip chauffeur service from your home to the nearest domestic airport (up to 50 miles) is included in Door-to-Door cruise fares.

Disclaimers about ship ratings: A ship’s Health Rating is based on vessel inspection scores published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). If a ship did not receive a CDC score within 22 months prior to the calculation of its Overall Rating, its Health Rating appears as N/A; in such a case, the ship’s Overall Rating is calculated using the average Health Rating of all CDC-rated ships within the cruise line. All ship Traveler Ratings are based on ratings provided under license by Cruiseline.com.

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A1 service in every way a wonderful…

A1 service in every way a wonderful experience highly recommended. If you want 6 star service and an amazing experience Silver moon is your dream ship. Faultless. We had the best week totally blown away by it all and not much blows me away but this has completely. Special mention to Jack and Aristotl in the Salt restaurant these two guys are an asset to Silverseas. Thanks for a memorable 50th Birthday on board Silvermoon. Best regards Jo & Jason Wilkes

Date of experience : July 18, 2024

Terrible and pathetic customer care!

The booking experience is terrible. Poor customer service, hardly respond to emails or calls and never come back with fulfilled requests. I had used free cancellation option for Antarctica cruise while booking and had to cancel well ahead of 6 months before the sailing date. Received cancelation confirmation on time but no refund yet, it's been a month now. I haven't received even an email response to my multiple emails to various departments. It's horrendous. I wonder how they might be treating their customers on board. Pathetic!!

Date of experience : May 10, 2024

Since Royal Caribbean has taken…

Since Royal Caribbean has taken ownership the company is no longer 6-star; at best it's a 4-star cruise line for the moment. Welcome onboard no longer offers a butler greeting or champagne; instead you get handed a face towel - thats it! RCCL has cut everything; all the extras in the suites, and in fact, the Silversea ships are now instructed to use at least 30%+ frozen fruits and vegetables onboard; in dishes where it will not be noticeable; drinks, smoothies, desserts, steamed veggies, stews, soups. RCCL appointed a new CEO, and many new SVP's across the Silversea fleet in all departments. They are replacing all Silversea procedures with RCCL procedures in an attempt to aggressively cut costs and create revenue. Cheaper brand of champagne onboard now. Many previous in-suite amenities have been eliminated or must now be requested. The only water you get in your suite now is the filtered water called Vero which they refill the bottle onboard. Food portions are getting smaller. For proteins in the buffet, they are offering more cheap fish and less premium meats, roast beef, hams etc. They are moving away from included excursions to where all excursions will be chargeable. And to save money, Silversea is tendering more and more each cruise, instead of docking to save the port fees. This means docking further away from the centre of towns and having to use limited shuttle bus services. It's cheaper for Silversea to hire 1 or 2 buses than to pay docking fees. And don't be surprised if they add more tendering ports as your cruise progresses. It was happening every cruise. It's an ongoing attempt to cut costs at the expense of the guest experience. But they're not worried because they've now grouped the RCCL, Celebrity and Silversea loyalty programs into ONE! As such, whatever Silversea guests they lose as a result of all the cutbacks, they can easily replace them with guests from Celebrity and RCCL because their loyalty level at RCCL /Celebrity will be recognised equally with Silversea Cruises. For the money you are spending on Silversea cruises, you should expect a luxury experience without compromises or excuses.

Date of experience : June 05, 2024

Absolutely shocking

Absolutely shocking! They market them selves as 6 stars! You get 1 star service! Continually having to chase things, email after email, call after call with them being dropped, transferred to departments that are closed! Having attitude given over the phone causing you to loose temper and then being told they don’t like your attitude! Well maybe if you did your job correctly and offered 6 star customer service you’d have no issues! Would not recommend to anyone! Issue after issue!

Date of experience : October 28, 2023

SilverSea "Door-to-Door" is severely flawed

On February 15, 2024, my wife and I booked a 32 day door-to-door cruise ( 11/18/24 - 12/20/24 / Cairns, Australia to Auckland, NZ) on the Silver Nova. For the next 11+ weeks our dealings with SiverSea’s transportation department were very difficult to the point of exhaustion. Having been presented with one abysmal flight itinerary after another, we canceled the trip a couple days ago. One would think that when offering a “door-to-door“ travel experience, they would be prepared to define that experience before the reservation is made. Their claim that a client must book a reservation before they can advise on the specifics of air travel is eerily similar to a “pay-to-play” scheme that one would not expect from a “high-end” operation. The $250/person “administrative fee” they charged us when we canceled was just sad. We have spoken with others who had similar experiences with SilverSea. If you care to hear more of the specifics, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Patrick McBride Scottsdale, AZ

Date of experience : May 03, 2024

Just returned from a cruise around the Caribbean

Just returned from a cruise around the southern Caribbean. Every interaction with Silversea has been exemplary, from booking (via a travel agency) to our return home. This was the most relaxing cruise we've ever experienced, made all the more so because you're not constantly signing for extras throughout the cruise. If we hadn't used the spa our extras bill would have been zero. Our cabin, which was a mid grade one, was incredibly comfortable and spacious, the room attendants and butler were wonderful people who couldn't do enough to help. In fact it's fair to say it was the crew that made cruising with Silversea so memorable and for all the right reasons Silversea sits in a category often labelled as "ultra luxury" and it's a fair description of the experience. Is it expensive? well it's not cheap, but neither is it expensive when you consider the experience in its entirety. Would we go with Silversea again? Without a shadow of doubt, and on the cruise we met so many people who were repeat travellers, which itself attests to how good the experience is. We loved every moment of our trip

Date of experience : March 13, 2023

Cruise of a lifetime

Booked a cruise around the UK from, and back to Tower Bridge in November 2018. Paid in full December 2018.We were to travel 13th May 2020 In March 2020 the country went into lockdown, particularly badly hit was London. The cruise was cancelled, as was always going to happen, on 24th April. This in my view was far too late, as with the circumstances as they were it would have been extremely stupid for a cruise to depart from London, with I suspect many people who were over 70 and considered vulnerable. We were in that category. I telephoned Silversea several times, to always be told the same "at the moment the cruise will still be sailing" We now have to wait between 60 and 90 days to be refunded a considerable amount of money because they have insufficient staff to deal with the demand for refunds. Why? Because they have furloughed the staff and our government are paying them. They will have had our cash for over 18 months, assuming we get our refund in their timeframe. The staff on the telephone are very polite, and I feel sad that they work for such a poorly run company. Apparently they didn't see this demand coming! It was the first cruise we had booked with them, we did it on recommend, but would never use them again. Other cruise companies are treating customers much better. Very Disappointed

Date of experience : June 09, 2020

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Date of experience : May 02, 2024

I’m going to entitled this review…beginnings and endings..

I’m going to entitled this review beginning and endings. We’ve just returned from a 31 day cruise from New York to Lima with a number of stops on Caribbean islands. The beginning and end were disasters. We arrived in New York after a lengthy flight. We were met by the reps who asked to to wait with a number of other guests. After waiting 45 minutes and complaining we were told that the transport had been delayed but another had been organised. It arrived. We all piled in to a very overcrowded minibus for our journey to our hotel. To make matters worse we picked up 2 more customers to have a very uncomfortable 90 minute trip to New York. The following day we had hoped for a walk around the city before boarding the ship. Unfortunately there was then a massive queue for breakfast, most of them Silversea guests. We were eventually offered breakfast 30 minutes later. After a very brief walk we vacated our room. We had to be out by 11.00 am even though transport to the ship did not start until 11.45. More than a hundred guests were then waiting in the lobby with only 2 toilets for the transport to arrive. It was similarly poor on the way home. We were kindly offered a day room in a hotel,in Lima as our flight was not until 10.15. There were a significant number of guests offered the same facility. However, it would seem that Silversea did not arrange sufficient transport. There was not sufficient space for all the luggage in the underneath of the coach and so 6 or 7 cases were piled in with the guests. Had there been a fire on the coach none of us would have survived. When we arrived at the hotel the idiot boy who was our rep got off the coach and started unloading bags from underneath the coach. The guests were forced to move the bags themselves in order to get off. Silversea cannot describe the service as 5 or 6 star with the shambles we experienced. Turning now to the cruise itself which is why I have given Silversea 4 stars. I cannot fault our cabin or the ship. Star were invariable polite and friendly. Not all the staff were competent and some needed further tracing but when issues were raised they were dealt with. I enjoyed the food and there was plenty of variety. Most of the excursions were brilliant. I particularly enjoyed a jeep tour, some Turks and swimming with sea lions. Others were pretty poor. Avoid the excursions which a long coach rides which are usually pretty bad. On one occasions we’re due to visit some caves but there was at least 60 people on the coach. We got off and did our own thing. My one objection to the cruse itself was penny pinching. The internet only allowed you to use one device at a time and was pretty slow. You could upgrade to faster broadband for more that one device at a cost of several hundred pounds if I am paying that much for a cruise I expect the best quality internet to be included. The cost of visiting the La Dame restaurant was extortionate at about £200 extra per person. We didn’t go but those that did go say it wasn’t worth it. Stop the penny pinching. However, on the whole we loved it and will probably go again but Silversea could do much better.

Date of experience : December 19, 2023

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Silversea is an ultra-luxury, all-inclusive cruise line with a unique Italian heritage . There are nine cruise ships in the Silversea fleet, four of which are expedition vessels. Silversea visit more destinations than any other cruise line. Itineraries range from 7-day Caribbean sailings to 150-day World cruises.

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