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Silver Spirit Cruise ReviewPage 2
Silver Spirit: the shipWhen Silver Spirit joined Silversea's fleet late in 2009, some longtime Silversea passengers were convinced that the company had gone over to the dark side by launching a ship with room for 540 passengers. (Mind you, the same hubbub occurred when Silver Whisper and Silver Shadow joined the line's original and smaller ships, Silver Cloud and Silver Wind, earlier in the decade.) Although it's true that Silver Spirit is bigger than Silversea's previous vessels, "bigger" is a relative term. Compared to a megaship like Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas (5,400 passengers double occupancy, with a maximum capacity of 6,296), Silver Spirit is like a Fiat 500 next to a Greyhound bus. It's also smaller than luxury vessels such as Regent's Seven Seas Voyager (700 passengers) and Crystal Serenity (1,070 passengers). More to the point, Silver Spirit feels surprisingly intimate, in part because it has one of the cruise industry's highest space-to-passenger ratios at 6,700 cubic feet or 190 cubic meters per guest. The ship doesn't seem crowded, even when--as on our cruise--it's packed to full capacity. (In nine days of cruising, we never had difficulty finding a table for two in the restaurants, seats in the theatre, or quiet places on the outside decks.) A few facts about Silver Spirit:
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