Silver Moon

Japan from Tokyo, Australian summers closer to home

Silver Moon spends March to May, and September and October, on Japan cruises round-trip from Tokyo of 10 to 14 nights. Stops change between departures, but you might see Kobe, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with Busan in South Korea on some sailings.

From December to February, the Australian summer, she works the waters off Australia and New Zealand. One-ways of 11 or 14 nights run from Melbourne to Sydney, with typical calls such as Eden, Fraser Island, the Whitsunday Islands and Cairns. In December she sails 15 nights from Sydney to Auckland, and in January and February 13- or 14-night voyages head back from Auckland to Melbourne or Sydney; ports vary, though Hobart, Stewart Island, Dunedin (Port Chalmers) and Napier are among them. Both directions are among our cruises between Sydney and New Zealand.

February brings her longest voyages: one-ways from Sydney to Singapore of 18 nights, and to Tokyo or Yokohama of 23, 32 or 34 nights, often by way of places like Cairns, Darwin, Komodo Island and Benoa in Bali. They give you weeks rather than days at sea. In June she also sails 7-night one-ways from Seward, Alaska, to Vancouver, and she crosses the Pacific between seasons.

If you live in Sydney or Melbourne, her departures from your city need no flight at all; from another state it is a domestic flight, which we book, and where a voyage finishes in the other city a domestic flight connects the two. For departures from Tokyo, Yokohama, Singapore, Auckland, Seward or Vancouver, and for the flight home from Singapore or Tokyo where a voyage ends there, we book the flights, the hotel either side and the transfers as one holiday.

Her sister ships include Silver Dawn, and the rest of the line’s ships are on our Silversea Cruises page.

Dining on Silver Moon: menus that follow the ports

Silver Moon’s included dining is built around where she is. At S.A.L.T. Kitchen the menu changes by destination, focusing on locally sourced dishes and regional classics, with more than 160 regional wines behind it. In the S.A.L.T. Lab, small groups learn regional techniques from expert hosts in a professional teaching kitchen, at no extra charge.

La Terrazza is an included buffet with live-station cooking at breakfast and lunch, then becomes an Italian trattoria of handmade pastas and seafood after dark, when a charge applies. On a Japan voyage, Kaiseki is the natural booking: light sushi and izakaya dishes by day, miso halibut and wagyu teriyaki in the evening, with premium sake and Japanese whiskies included in its reservation fee. La Dame serves a French tasting menu of seasonal courses and also carries a charge.

Bars, live music and the Zagara spa

Dolce Vita is the social heart of Silver Moon, an Italian cocktail bar set around a central counter with piano music every day, made for an aperitif before dinner. 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 sails, and mixologists ready to talk through the heritage behind each one.

Zagara Beauty Spa is free to enter, with nine treatment rooms, an acupuncture suite, a relaxation area, an outdoor whirlpool facing the sea and separate saunas and steam baths for men and women; treatments are charged.

Silver Moon cabins and deck plans

Every room on Silver Moon is a suite, so there is no inside or ocean-view tier to weigh up. To compare every suite category and see where each sits on the ship, open the Silver Moon cabins and deck plans.

CruiseAway’s cruise experts know Silversea’s ships and fares, and can shape a Silver Moon voyage around how long you want to be away. Before you decide, read what guests have said about Silver Moon, then browse Silversea’s Australia cruises to see her sailings on home waters.