Who Would Try Silversea Cruises?

Being working on cruise boats for several years as a photographer gave me the chance to meet many different people. Something that not many people seem to understand is that living in a boat is very different to living in a flat or a house and it has a big impact on people’s social behaviour. People seem to be more open and relaxed as admittedly they will accept the fact that the boat is where everything happens from developing a new friendship and flirting with someone to breaking up and divorcing!

Any of those massive luxurious boats that cross the oceans are in a sense like small towns. One thing to remember is that apart from the passengers there are hundreds of employees for whom the boat is the place where they work, live, socialise and sleep 24/7. It is strictly forbidden for those people to develop social relationships with the passengers but sometimes it is inevitable.

The most typical profile a passenger is that he is around 60 years old, retired and wealthy. They all come from a wide range of different professions but with a few exceptions most of them were very successful professionally. Apart from the expected diplomats, lawyers, architects, doctors and highly credited professionals it’s common to come across shop keepers, vendors and many small scale businessmen. That signifies that high education is not really one of the main factors, although a high income is.

Of course there is a small part of passengers who although they don’t make enough to be afford a luxury, they are happy saving hard in order to make their dream come true cruise. Some of them simply want to experience a different lifestyle which differs from their daily one greatly. Although I had that experience on Silversea Cruises where I used to work, other friends mine that used to work for Oceania Cruises and Cunard Cruises have witnessed similar incidents.

Talking about sports, golf is definitely the king with tenis and polo being popular too. Taking up a luxury cruise for many people could be a ‘once in a lifetime’ experience but it is definitely worth it..