Just thought I would add for Julie and other Seabourn fans that it is never nice to see ANY negative on a product you know and love. I do not like it when I see a negative in a review that I truly believe is not correct particularly a negative from one experience when I have multiple voyages and know that this must have been a one time thing or simply the perspective of the reviewer. This review I posted is exactly that, it is from the ONE experience I have had on the Sojourn.

I still have to write the review as I see it and I think it is important to give an honest perspective not a sales hype review or the review really has no merit. I have yet to find a PERFECT product but with their few flaws all these luxury ships are a wonderful experience and the positives onboard FAR outweigh the few negatives.

When I decided to sell river cruises and wrote my reviews on LCT on the river cruises I told everyone to drop their expectations of cabins, food and service. This is the reality, great value, lots of fun but not an ocean cruise line with the food and service experience and of course tiny cabins in comparison to the luxury lines.

There are issues on all the other luxury ships too. Voyager the aft cabin area is like a rabbit warren, the Mariner design flaw with the bathrooms, the Navigator no observation lounge and aft vibration. Silversea Whisper and Shadow are basically the Navigator with the same lack of an observation lounge and with no back entrance to the dining room it is very inconvenient for those on the lower floors. The new Silversea Silver Spirit cabins are too narrow and I understand this is from another design flaw where extra unanticipated space was required for the "floating TV in the mirror" that caused this problem.

The worse ship of all was the Song of Flower, talk about a mess climb over the toilet to sit in your half size knees to your chin bathtub. MAssive vibration all kinds of issues - however with all her flaws my FAVORITE ship of all time.

A few negatives do not mean a product is not absolutely wonderful and I prefer people to be prepared for what they may encounter. The biggest problem is unrealistic expectations, this is what causes people to be unhappy. I do not "look" for negatives just tell it as I see it. As my summary said, I would recommend the Sojourn without any hesitation.