My wife and I take a holiday every August to celebrate our anniversary and decompress from an otherwise stressful existence. We are fairly well traveled and prefer to stay in high end hotels frequently using Relais and Chateaux as well as Leading hotels... We have sailed on Silversea as well as Cunard in the past although we are not avid cruisers and generally prefer to string several unique hotels together and "wander" at our own pace. We set up our own excursions with private guides or rental cars at the port. (were really not the 40 passenger bus type). On one port we booked a "choice" excursion but more on that later. This ship seems to have been reviewed many times so i'll skip the in depth physical description and give my overall impression.

We booked this cruise on the suggestion of our travel agent who described Regent as on par with Silversea which I would disagree with on almost every point. While I don't think there is a truly 5 star 5 diamond Michelin 3 star experience at sea short of a private yacht charter. In hotel terms I was hoping for a ritz carlton rather than a Relais what I got was an airport Marriott. Very clean and efficient; everything that was needed was provided but it was in no way a high end experience.

We were in Europe and took this cruise as part of a larger holiday so we had been in Denmark at the Falsled Kro property south of Odense (I would highly recommend) we drove into the city Sunday morning and boarded the ship at 12:30pm and were herded into the ships theatre where we sat for 20min waiting on the check in clerks to discover how to use the computer system (presumably they do this every week right??) One interesting side note was that the cruise director (a former child star of some sort) was participating in a reality TV show so for the first few hours there was a film crew onboard... not welcome or particularly high end in any capacity.... After getting our suite key we were told that the housekeepers had not managed to clean the room quite yet and we could sit in the theatre or there was a buffet at the pool. Not being much on buffet dining but wanting to see the ship we chose to wander about and were "caught" on the 7th floor and asked to go to the pool deck or theatre... a bit like boarding school but alas we went up to the pool where we did get a first hand look at the film crew circulating about.... Read more