New Silversea ship begins final sea tests
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Silversea Cruises’ newest ultra-luxury ship - the 540-passenger Silver Spirit, reached an important milestone over the weekend as she sailed out of Ancona to Trieste for a week of dry-docking before commencing her sea trials from 5-8 September.
The all-suite luxury ship will join the Silversea fleet in December taking its total number of vessels up to six and will embark initially on an 11-day “Holiday Spirit” maiden voyage, sailing from Barcelona to Lisbon; followed by a 16-day “Maiden Crossing” from Lisbon to Fort Lauderdale on January 3, where a formal naming ceremony will be held on January 20.
Her Grand Inaugural Voyage will commence on the morning of January 21 and will be an extraordinary 91-day journey, dubbed “The Spirit of South America,” complemented by a selection of celebrity guest speakers and historians.
The Spirit of South America will journey from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles and twist back to New York on a fascinating itinerary highlighted by a visit to Rio de Janeiro in time for Carnival, a journey around the end of the earth at Cape Horn, an in-depth exploration of the Mexican Riviera, a crossing of the Panama Canal and an unforgettable Statue of Liberty event in New York Harbor. Silversea will begin accepting reservations on January 12.
After completing her inaugural season, Silver Spirit will spend the summer in the Mediterranean and then reposition to the Caribbean for fall and winter cruises.
The 36,000-ton vessel will welcome 540 guests who shall indulge not only in the spaciousness of their suites, the largest in the fleet with 95 percent of which feature a private veranda, but also in one of the highest space-to-guest ratios at sea (namely 6,700 cubic feet of personal space per guest). The d
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