Silver Nova travel tips

Next year, Silversea Cruises will operate the vacation of a lifetime: a "pole-to-pole" cruise. And at a cool $95,000 per person, this 125-day trip will also sail as the most expensive cruise of 2024. 

As Lisbon began its St. Anthony's Day celebrations, marking the anniversary of the saint's death, the cruise world celebrated the birth of a new luxury cruise ship, Silversea Cruises' Silver Ray, with a christening ceremony in the heart of the Portuguese city.

Silver Ray (Photo Credit: Silversea)

Passengers aboard the Silversea Silver Nova have been informed, more than a week in advance, that their disembarkation time in Fort Lauderdale would be delayed by four hours. The reason offered for this change was a photo opportunity with the Royal Caribbean Icon of the Seas and the Celebrity Ascent two days before disembarkation.

The forecast looks bright for luxury cruising as a new wave of ships prepares to take the seas in 2024. These new vessels accelerate the trend of next-level luxury liners with innovative design, higher staff-to-guest ratios and exceptionally curated itineraries covering dream destinations. Consider Forbes Travel Guide all aboard these eight new cruise ships.

Cruise Critic just announced its annual list of the Best Cruise Lines of The Year. This is the 15th iteration of the list compiled by the online cruise community’s international team of cruise experts.

ONBOARD THE SILVER NOVA — As we were seated for dinner on the first night of a four-day preview sailing aboard Silversea's newest, most ambitious vessel, Barbara Muckermann, the line's CEO, was pleased. Despite all the last-minute challenges common to any cruise ship launch, as she looked around the Marquee — a new-to-Silversea dining concept — the venue was bubbling.

You don’t need to be more than an occasional cruiser to have noticed a boom of late in fine art displays on luxury vessels. In addition to all the great design innovations to discover on Silversea’s new Silver Nova, one of the most exciting elements is the enormous and diverse multimedia contribution from fifty-nine world artists.

Picasso had his off-kilter Cubism—think of the mesmerizing tableau of skewed ladies in Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. And Hollywood has long had its perfectly imperfect idols—few of whom, even Marilyn, were ever symmetrically spot on. As it turns out, we humans actually subconsciously favor the irregular.