
On all luxury cruise ships, public spaces are of the utmost importance since they are the places you’ll spend much of your waking hours, particularly on sea days. And Silver Muse does not in any way disappoint.

Signature dining is a big deal on the Silver Muse, particularly since there is no main dining room to speak of. So do your homework (or have your travel advisor do it for you) and make nightly dining reservations before your cruise begins.

Don’t you just love a brand new ultra-luxurious ship with superior service, outstanding cuisine, and the very best of ambience? All this and more can be found on Silver Muse, Silversea’s newest flagship.

If you think you’ve seen beautiful restaurants onboard luxury cruise ships, think again.

It’s easy to become overwhelmed with the extravagant details onboard the Regent Seven Seas Explorer—the $500,000, three-ton, hand-cast bronze sculpture outside the Pacific Rim restaurant; enough marble onboard, half of it Carrera, to cover a football field; Eduardo Arranz-Bravo paintings in the lobby; a Chagall and Picasso in the Prime 7 steakhouse—but why? All you need do is look around to know that everything you see is only the very best.

What exactly is the definition of a luxury cruise, and why pay so much more for one?

River cruising sounds pretty intriguing, particularly if you are a fan of Masterpiece Theater where Viking Cruises regularly runs quite the alluring ad campaign. It certainly sounded alluring to me, so when the chance to sail AmaWaterways on the Danube presented itself last November, I went for it without hesitation.

For those that adore cruising, a transatlantic repositioning ocean crossing is a sure bet when it comes to long, wonderful days at sea.