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My grandparents loved cruises, my grandad used to tell everyone saga stood for "send a granny abroad" lol... They really loved their cruises, and always sang their praises!
My wife and I sailed on the Spirit Of Discovery for a cruise to Ireland on the 4th of April 2023. The Spirit Of Discovery is an absolutely beautiful ship with the most attentive, kind and nice crew of any ship my wife and I have sailed on previously. Nothing is too much trouble. It really is service with a true smile. The quality of the food onboard is simply outstanding. The Grand Dining Room has magnificent furnishings and is a wonderful place to dine. An alternative is The Grill restaurant which allows you to choose from an absolutely massive selection of different dishes. There are three speciality restaurants, East To West, an Asian restaurant, which serves incredibly well prepared flavoursome dishes, Coast To Coast, a seafood restaurant with a fabulous menu and The Club, a steakhouse restaurant with tremendous cuts of meat. You can also eat in The Lido which serves lovely burgers, hot dogs, fish & chips etc... The food in every restaurant was of very high quality and cooked to perfection every time. Our cruise started with being collected by an incredibly smartly dressed chauffeur in an executive Mercedes car. He was extremely polite and nice, he gave us bottled water, sweets and fruit and when we stopped at the services offered to buy us coffee. What my wife and I found really wonderful with the Spirit Of Discovery is that all the following elements are included in Saga's price : return chauffeur service, all inclusive drinks package including premium spirits, every restaurant onboard including the speciality restaurants, 24 hour room service, WiFi, certain excursions, every cabin has a balcony and travel insurance. These inclusions make Saga such absolutely fantastic value for money. On almost all other cruise lines all these elements are chargeable as extras.We had two very informative included excursions, one in Dublin and another in Belfast. Days at sea were filled with craft classes, a book club, classical concerts, art classes, guest speakers and much much more. There is a superb spa with a hydrotherapy pool which we used every day. The power jets were wonderfully relaxing. The evening entertainment was first class and very varied. Neither my wife or I could find anything negative about the whole cruise. In fact, while onboard we booked another Saga cruise. Saga are definitely our cruise line from now on. Thank you Saga for a fantastic experience.
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Great service being chauffeured to the ship, so easy to board and find our comfortable cabin. Lovely caring and such helpful crew members all over the ship. The food was superb every meal. The destinations were beautiful and so clean and everyone was very welcoming. The entertainments were brilliant.
We loved being able to walk everywhere though we did once or twice use the lifts. It was a great first time experience and we do look forward to next year and another trip.
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This was mine, and my wife's, first ever cruise so we really did not now what to expect. From the outset, which was being picked up from home by a chauffeur, it went like clockwork. We were delivered at the port of Dover, where our luggage was whisked away, and we were processed at the check-in, which all went extremely smoothly, and then taken to our cabin which was really very, very well laid out, clean, and well lit too. All the information that we could have wanted was to hand in the cabin and indeed accessible on the TV there too, so we felt very well supported and not all left to stumble along alone. All the staff we met were so polite and helpful, and with the signage near the lifts it was fairly easy to sort out where all the restaurants and other places of note were located. We set off exploring the ship, and were amazed by the cleanliness and sparkle of everything we came across. That evening we went for our dinner fairly early on. The food was amazing, the service equally so, and this was so throughout our cruise. During dinner, being sat on a table of four, we learnt a lot from the other couple about the ship, and about the other restaurants and bars throughout the vessel. We made great use of the promenade deck for some fast walks, and indeed the Spa area for the sauna, steam room, and the hydro-pool; each time were were surprised to find very, very few people there - on the promenade deck or indeed in the Spa - normally just another couple or two, we reasoned that perhaps the average age of the passengers was probably responsible for that. However, the bars were well frequented by everyone in the evenings, and the entertainment we found there was very enjoyable. We took four excursions while in dock in Norway, and each disembarkation and re-embarkation was handled superbly by the staff - always going so very smoothly, which was amazing given that some of the passengers were not always that quick on their feet. The trips were excellent, and the ones that we paid for in addition to the others were very good value for money. At the end of the cruise the disembarkation was so well done, with us being matched with out luggage and our chauffeur for the return home within minutes of coming down the gangway! All in all, being treated like honoured guests for a week was a fabulous experience, one which we will definitely repeat as soon as!
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Spirit of Discovery
Spirit of Discovery is a medium ocean ship sailing with Saga Cruises.
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