At 52 pages, it's the most extensive appraisal of the 2-year-old Seabourn Sojourn to be posted online, and it includes more than 1,000 photos showing nearly every interior and exterior space of the ship.
Overall, the reviewer gave the Seabourn Sojourn high marks, calling it "a world defined by graces great and small." The ship's design is "beautifully conceived" with a lavish amount of space per passenger, and meals were "well above average for the cruise industry," the reviewer writes.
Still, not everything was perfect. "Service standards were generally high, but not consistently so," the reviewer notes. "Some of the crew was less polished, and a few incidents—such as one audible verbal altercation between two servers during dinner—did not meet the yardstick we think Seabourn aspires to." The reviewer also criticized Seabourn's entertainment program, writing that the guest lecturer on board was "pretentious and dull," while the staged entertainment was "by the book, unoriginal."
Launched in October, VacationCruisesInfo.com was designed in collaboration with Reviewed.com, a network of online review publications recently acquired by USA TODAY, and it's devoted to helping would-be cruisers find the perfect ship.VacationCruisesInfo.com is the first cruise review site to use anonymous reviewers. Unlike reviewers at other sites, VacationCruisesInfo.com reviewers never will travel on free cruises provided by cruise lines, nor will they base their reviews on cruise line-arranged "preview" or "press" cruises for travel writers or any other sailing where their presence on a ship is known.
Overall, the reviewer gave the Seabourn Sojourn high marks, calling it "a world defined by graces great and small." The ship's design is "beautifully conceived" with a lavish amount of space per passenger, and meals were "well above average for the cruise industry," the reviewer writes.
Still, not everything was perfect. "Service standards were generally high, but not consistently so," the reviewer notes. "Some of the crew was less polished, and a few incidents—such as one audible verbal altercation between two servers during dinner—did not meet the yardstick we think Seabourn aspires to." The reviewer also criticized Seabourn's entertainment program, writing that the guest lecturer on board was "pretentious and dull," while the staged entertainment was "by the book, unoriginal."
Launched in October, VacationCruisesInfo.com was designed in collaboration with Reviewed.com, a network of online review publications recently acquired by USA TODAY, and it's devoted to helping would-be cruisers find the perfect ship.VacationCruisesInfo.com is the first cruise review site to use anonymous reviewers. Unlike reviewers at other sites, VacationCruisesInfo.com reviewers never will travel on free cruises provided by cruise lines, nor will they base their reviews on cruise line-arranged "preview" or "press" cruises for travel writers or any other sailing where their presence on a ship is known.
