We left the ship in the light rain and took the train
down to Nice, about half hour ride. There we walked around the main town and
had a coffee in a wayside cafe and then found a nice flee market and finally
bought some tuna buns which we ate on the sea front as the weather was slowly improving. We continued walking around town but as we did not want to miss the
ship sailing without us we headed back and boarded at around 4pm. We both fancied a coffee and went to the observation
deck where it is said they serve coffee, only they don’t serve it but leave it
for several hours in a pump pot and it tasted revolting, and so we headed for
the aft lounge. We ordered our coffee and there was obviously insufficient staff to serve
everybody(two waiters for 35 guests) and then the waiter forgot our order and eventually after 30 minutes
one, not two, coffees arrived and guess what, it was cold. So this time we made another
complaint this time to reception desk. In the cabin we had brought our own small electric
kettle and settled down for home made tea. Tonight we thought we would try the Italian
Restaurant and went to book a table only to be told in a rather strange way that the
room was fully booked as the Captain had taken over the restaurant for the
night to invite some special guests (most likely seasoned Silversea Travellers) who were on board. The way which it was presented to us made us
feel a little second class. If he had just said , sorry sir we are fully booked
tonight I would have understood but his reply lacked respect.
Oh well back to the main restaurant and now they appeared
to be aware that I was a dangerous passenger as the plate was extremely hot and
food good but our neighbours to whom we had been appraising of or views then
said well their food was cool tonight as well. It therefore pays to complain.Tonight we sail overnight for Livorno and the weather was forecast was set to be bad.
