New Style Tickets from Silversea

It's always really nice to return home after a long day's work to have an envelope with your cruise tickets waiting for you on the doormat.  I had that very pleasure this evening.  My tickets for my next Silversea cruise in September had arrived and they were the first I've received in their new format.  I'm really impressed!

Previously with Silversea, tickets were sent in a large silver box inside a wallet and comprised separate sections/pages for the cruise, air, excursions and luggage tags.  The wallet was a nice way of keeping everything together in your hand luggage when travelling.

Now, we still get the silver box (albeit slimmer) but all the tickets and information are professionally printed in a personalised booklet/journal (in Italy) detailing all your travel information, a day-by-day description of the cruise and information on the suite, ship and amenities aboard.  Printed luggage tags are included.  In my view it strikes a fine balance between detail and not being too bulky (it's about A5 size and mine was around 70 pages) that would put you off carrying it about.

Not only that but I can see myself keeping it on my bookshelf afterwards as a reminder of my travels (in addition to my blog entries of course!

Pacific Adventures (part 2)!

As well as sailing out of San Francisco to Papeete in September, in a fit of ebullience last year, I also booked with Silversea to fly back to Papeete in November to re-board Silver Shadow for its return voyage from French Polynesia back to the South American mainland and the port of Valparaiso and an overnight stay in Santiago.

The full itinerary is:

03 Nov 2014	Mon	Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia		19:00
04 Nov 2014	Tue	Bora Bora, Society Islands, French Polynesia	08:00	22:00
05 Nov 2014	Wed	Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia	08:00	17:00
06 Nov 2014	Thu	Fakarava, Tuamotu Islands	09:00	14:00
07 Nov 2014	Fri	Day at Sea
08 Nov 2014	Sat	Day at Sea
09 Nov 2014	Sun	Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands, United Kingdom	08:00	16:00
10 Nov 2014	Mon	Day at Sea
11 Nov 2014	Tue	Day at Sea
12 Nov 2014	Wed	Easter Island, Chile	14:00
13 Nov 2014	Thu	Easter Island, Chile		17:00
14 Nov 2014	Fri	Day at Sea
15 Nov 2014	Sat	Day at Sea
16 Nov 2014	Sun	Day at Sea
17 Nov 2014	Mon	Day at Sea
18 Nov 2014	Tue	Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile	08:00	18:00
19 Nov 2014	Wed	Day at Sea
20 Nov 2014	Thu	Valparaiso, Chile	08:00

I just couldn't miss the opportunity to visit some of the remotest islands in the world and to experience some British history with a visit to Pitcairn Island.  The highlight of this trip has to be the overnight stay to Easter Island lying 2,294 miles west of the Chilean mainland offering the opportunity to see the legendary Moai.  Averaging 7 metres in height and over 160 tons in weight and almost 900 in number these monolithic statues must rank as one of the must-sees on this planet.  So-much-so, it was declared a UNESCO World heritage site in 1995.







Keep checking back for regular reports from my trips on Silver Shadow in the Pacific in September and November.