Bangkok--25 Mar--Spark Communications
Since its founding late in 2001, SeaDream Yacht Club, with its twin, elegant mega yacht cruisers SeaDream I and II, has received more than 25 Awards, Honors and Accolades from authoritative travel publications, various industry organizations and unsolicited guest comments.
These welcome expressions of SeaDream’s excellence have not only conveyed the message of “World’s Best” or “Best of Class” but, of special interest, many have validated the highly-accepted and unique nature of the SeaDream experience--- an exquisite, casual, leisurely, seagoing holiday that reflects SeaDream’s mantra---“It’s Yachting, Not Cruising — Enjoy the difference”.
Here are some recent honors that add luster to SeaDream Yacht Club:
Frommer’s Guide to Cruises and Ports of Call 2011---Frommer’s authoritative 2011 Guide to Cruises and Ports of Call gave the mega-yachts of SeaDream Yacht Club top billing as # 1 in its Notable Ships category. Author Matt Hannafin and co-author, Heidi Sarna said: “What's not to love about SeaDream I and SeaDream II? Step aboard one of these 112-passenger yachts and you're boarding a floating club where everything's included, ports are appealingly off the megaship drag, service is super-pampering, and the cuisine is fine, fine, fine.”? Berlitz Ocean Cruising and Cruise Ships 2011---SeaDream Yacht Club is “Simply the Best” according to the 2011 Berlitz guide. Researched and written by Douglas Ward - the world’s top authority on cruising and cruise ships - the guide reviews 285 cruise ships, the 10 most highly rated being officially “small” or “boutique”. “Small is Beautiful” said industry authority Douglas Ward. The 2011 guide announced that the 112-guest mega yachts SeaDream I & II are two of the top five sea-going passenger vessels in the world. Europa, a Hapag-Lloyd cruise ship which is significantly larger than the SeaDream yachts, is the only vessel placed above SeaDream II. Since SeaDream’s founding in 2001 it has been honored annually by the Berlitz guidebook. A similar award was made in 2010 when Ward named SeaDream I and II as the tops in its Five Star Club and listed them as the “Cr?me de la Cr?me.”
- 2010 Kreuzfahrt Guide (Germany)---SeaDream Yacht Club’s twin mega-yacht cruisers, SeaDream I and II, were awarded “Number One for Service” in the 2010 Kreuzfahrt Guide, an authoritative German guidebook. This was the second year in a row that SeaDream has been so honored by a panel of independent judges. The award was presented at ITB (International Tourism Bourse) Berlin, one of the world’s leading and largest travel industry trade shows.
- Porthole Magazine 2010---SeaDream Yacht Club was named “Best Passenger Yacht Experience” in Porthole Magazine’s 2010 Editor-in-Chief Awards. Porthole is a sophisticated, international consumer cruise magazine that features well-researched articles on cruising and the cruise lifestyle. It is used as a resource by both travel sellers and cruisers. The award to SeaDream was reported by Porthole Editor-in-Chief Bill Panoff in the February 2010 edition of the magazine.
- The Zagat Survey 2009---Zagat, the highly-renowned organization that publishes reviews of restaurants as well as hotels, inns and resorts, completed its first-ever survey of cruise ships and announced awards for the year 2009. SeaDream was named as having the Best Small Ships (under 200 passengers). The Zagat survey covered 22 major cruise lines and was voted on by 2379 regular cruisers who have taken 9.5 regular cruises, each averaging nine days. All told the surveyors had taken 22,700 separate cruises. Ratings were for “cabins, service, dining facilities and shipboard activities.” SeaDream topped all other cruise lines surveyed in three of these four categories. The only one SeaDream didn’t top was ‘shipboard activities” which just indicates that SeaDream guests are in a class apart and perfectly capable of entertaining themselves with their new-found, onboard friends in a yacht-like ambience.
- Cruise Critic 2009---The 2009 “Editors Picks” named romantic SeaDream Yacht Club “Best for a Honeymoon Splurge.” Cruise Critic, the online guide to cruises, is one of the most influential travel sites on the worldwide web. Acknowledging the award, Bob Lepisto, President of SeaDream, said “A Honeymoon makes the most important moment in a couple’s life even more memorable For this special holiday, couples are looking for intimacy, pampering but unobtrusive service, fabulous dining and exciting destinations. SeaDream offers all that and more. An earlier Cruise Critic awards have honored SeaDream for Best Luxury Service.”
There have been many such commendations for SeaDream since its founding in 2001. These have come from such organizations as Travel + Leisure Magazine, Cond? Nast Traveler Magazine, Cruise Magazine UK, Virtuoso Ltd., Kapital Magazine Germany, Seven Seas Society, Cruise Report.Com, Carlson Marketing Group, Hideaways International, Travel Agent Magazine and Travel Weekly.
For further information, contact your travel professional, call Richard Jones on +6681 970 8487 or visit www.seadream.com.
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