Silver Endeavour Cruise Reviews - Reviews

Sal, from United, worked with us to book an exceptional trip to Antarctica. This was our 7th Continent and 95th "country". We cruised with 197 other guests through the pristine waters of Antarctica. Each day brought new surprises to our senses. The sights, the food, the expeditions, and the other travelers made this our favorite voyage yet.

We felt we had very little from the naturalists on board, other than driving the zodiacs. We expected more presentations and more time spent with guests. Our expedition leader was not really interested in the guests expectations, he was a disappointment.

This was an EXPEDITION cruise, different than those we had engaged in previously. This was fun, made more so by the exceptional expedition staff. They were friendly and interactive with the passengers during the evening hours after excursions were completed. They were extremely helpful to passengers during boarding and exiting the zodiacs (these were used in place of the tenders to ferry passengers between the ship and the port locations.), always pleasant. Their lectures on the upcoming excursion locales - history, geography and wildlife sightings were helpful in preparing you for what was coming.

It's interesting how one negative experience can overweight all of the positive and wonderful experiences. We wanted to kayak. I was given a defective dry suit (it was missing a part). I then tried to go to the location in which the suits were located, but no one was there, and it delayed to departure of everyone else (who were given proper dry suits). My wife tried to tell the expedition leader the problem; his response was to berate her and to tell her that she and I were delaying everyone else. He was completely unsympathetic and unhelpful. Another expedition member came to me, got me a proper dry suit, and helped me get onto the Zodiac.

See above. Upside - we got to Antarctica and enjoyed our 7th continent. down side - LOTS!!! this package is not what Silversea advertises. There are all kinds of variables. One couple had been trying to get on two previous cruises and both got cancelled - and they sat in Punta Arenas. Silversea needs to work on the "package" here. from poor provisioning as we were at the end of nearly 40 days away from port to being WAY OVERPRICED for our room. we thought of this as a trip of a lifetime and for what we spent we could have done a private yacht charter with friend. gave Silversea a chance to reach out when we got home and got an auto response from their guest relations team. no contact. this is the old Carvinal "once you are off the ship please go home" attitude. no interest once they have you off and got your $$$$ also of the 200 people on our cruise I would estimate 80 to 100 were extremely unhappy. wish I would have seen more reviews when I booked this almost 2 years ago. do your homework, don't spend too much and beware . . ..