Silver Moon

Australian summers, then north to Japan

Silver Moon spends the Australian summer, December to February, sailing around Australia and New Zealand before turning north for Asia and Japan. Her Melbourne-to-Sydney voyages of 11 and 14 nights run in December and January; stops change between departures, but Eden, the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns are among them. In December she also sails 15 nights from Sydney to Auckland, and in January and February she makes the return run of 13 or 14 nights from Auckland to Melbourne or Sydney. Typical calls on these New Zealand cruises from Sydney include Hobart, Stewart Island and Dunedin (Port Chalmers).

In February she leaves Sydney for Asia on her longest voyages: 18 nights to Singapore, or 23 to 34 nights through to Singapore, Yokohama or Tokyo, with Darwin, Benoa in Bali and Ho Chi Minh City among the ports you might see. In March and April, and again in September and October, she runs 11- to 14-night round trips from Tokyo, part of our range of cruises to Japan; itineraries vary, but Kobe, Hiroshima and Nagasaki are among her calls, with Busan in South Korea on some.

If you live in Sydney or Melbourne, those departures need no flight at all; from another state it is a domestic flight, which we book too. The Melbourne-to-Sydney voyages finish in the other city, with a domestic flight connecting the two, while the Asian voyages end abroad, so the flight home leaves from Singapore, Yokohama or Tokyo. Wherever she sails from, we book the flights, the hotel either side and the transfers with the cruise as one holiday. Her sister ships include Silver Dawn.

Dining on Silver Moon, shaped by the ports

Silver Moon’s signature restaurant is S.A.L.T. Kitchen, included in the fare, where the menu follows the destination with locally sourced dishes, regional classics and more than 160 regional wines. It is the reason her food changes as the coastline does, from an Australian summer to a Japanese spring.

On her Japan voyages, Kaiseki is the natural companion: light sushi and izakaya dishes by day, miso halibut and wagyu teriyaki in the evening, with premium sake, Japanese whiskies and TWG teas covered by its reservation charge. For relaxed evenings that cost nothing extra, La Terrazza moves from a casual daytime buffet to an Italian trattoria after dark, pairing Italian classics with global wines.

Bars, lounges and the Zagara spa

Evenings on Silver Moon gather at Dolce Vita, an Italian cocktail bar with a central counter and piano music every day, made for an aperitif before dinner or a digestif after. S.A.L.T. Bar carries the destination theme into the glass, with cocktails built from the local ingredients and traditional spirits of the regions she visits, and mixologists happy to talk through where each flavour comes from. Entry to her bars is free, and the drinks are included in the fare: Silversea pours champagne, wines and spirits throughout the voyage, with only a few optional premium selections costing extra.

On a voyage of several weeks, the Zagara Beauty Spa is worth knowing: free to enter, with nine treatment rooms, an acupuncture suite, an outdoor whirlpool with sea views and separate saunas and steam baths for men and women. Treatments carry a charge.

Silver Moon cabins and deck plans

Every room on Silver Moon is a suite, so choosing is about which suite and which deck rather than which type of cabin. On a voyage that can run for weeks, that choice matters: her suites and deck plans show what each offers and where it lies aboard.

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