Saga Cruises, Spirit of Discovery, UK and Ireland Review

Spirit of Discovery, UK and Ireland

My wife and I sailed on the Spirit Of Discovery for a cruise to Ireland on the 4th of April 2023. The Spirit Of Discovery is an absolutely beautiful ship with the most attentive, kind and nice crew of any ship my wife and I have sailed on previously. Nothing is too much trouble. It really is service with a true smile. The quality of the food onboard is simply outstanding. The Grand Dining Room has magnificent furnishings and is a wonderful place to dine. An alternative is The Grill restaurant which allows you to choose from an absolutely massive selection of different dishes. There are three speciality restaurants, East To West, an Asian restaurant, which serves incredibly well prepared flavoursome dishes, Coast To Coast, a seafood restaurant with a fabulous menu and The Club, a steakhouse restaurant with tremendous cuts of meat. You can also eat in The Lido which serves lovely burgers, hot dogs, fish & chips etc... The food in every restaurant was of very high quality and cooked to perfection every time. Our cruise started with being collected by an incredibly smartly dressed chauffeur in an executive Mercedes car. He was extremely polite and nice, he gave us bottled water, sweets and fruit and when we stopped at the services offered to buy us coffee. What my wife and I found really wonderful with the Spirit Of Discovery is that all the following elements are included in Saga's price : return chauffeur service, all inclusive drinks package including premium spirits, every restaurant onboard including the speciality restaurants, 24 hour room service, WiFi, certain excursions, every cabin has a balcony and travel insurance. These inclusions make Saga such absolutely fantastic value for money. On almost all other cruise lines all these elements are chargeable as extras.We had two very informative included excursions, one in Dublin and another in Belfast. Days at sea were filled with craft classes, a book club, classical concerts, art classes, guest speakers and much much more. There is a superb spa with a hydrotherapy pool which we used every day. The power jets were wonderfully relaxing. The evening entertainment was first class and very varied. Neither my wife or I could find anything negative about the whole cruise. In fact, while onboard we booked another Saga cruise. Saga are definitely our cruise line from now on. Thank you Saga for a fantastic experience.