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Itineraries of the Star Legend

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Ship's attributes

Services And Amenities

  • Elevators
  • Self-service laundry room
  • Casino
  • Jacuzzi
  • Pool
  • Beauty salon
  • Spa & body care

Specific needs

  • Wheelchair accessible staterooms

Technical specifications

  • Classe:  Star Class
  • Tonnage:  12995
  • Speed:  15.0 knots
  • Passengers:  502
  • Length:  133 m
  • Width:  21 m

History

  • 1988: Année de construction
  • 2010: Année de rénovation

Four names, three owners, thirty-four years

Few hulls have changed identity so often. She left the Schichau-Seebeckwerft yard at Bremerhaven in February 1992 as the Royal Viking Queen. She became the Queen Odyssey in 1995, the Seabourn Legend in 1996, then the Star Legend in 2015, when Windstar bought her in April and put her into service in May.

In 2020 it was her turn to be lengthened: cut in half, a new twenty-five-and-a-half-metre section inserted amidships, capacity raised to three hundred and twelve guests. Work began in March 2020 and finished in May 2021, eleven months late. Two causes: asbestos found on board, and the pandemic. It was the longest of the three projects.

What that means for you

A hull of this generation offers volumes and materials nobody builds any more, and machinery that is refurbished rather than new. That is neither an advantage nor a fault in itself: it is a choice, and it should be made knowingly rather than in the belief that you are boarding a 2021 ship.

What the fare covers, and what it does not

This is where clients most often go wrong, because "small luxury ship" suggests all-inclusive. Here the base fare covers meals, in every restaurant on board and through suite service. That is all.

A daily service charge is posted automatically to your onboard account, per person per night. It stays adjustable at the guest services desk, but you have to ask. Drinks are charged, with a service charge added to bar purchases. Wi-Fi is charged. Excursions are charged.

An optional package, called All-In, bundles drinks, Wi-Fi and the daily service charge. It is bought before departure and it never covers excursions, whichever way you buy it. Do the arithmetic before you sail rather than at the counter: it is the only honest way to compare this fare with a genuinely all-inclusive line.

Accessibility and comparison

This ship has a lift and cabins described as modified-accessible, with no figure published. The three sailing ships in the fleet, including the Wind Spirit, have none and have no lift. Her two sisters are the Star Pride and the Star Breeze, transformed the same way. All three come from Seabourn.

Booking from Quebec

The contract is with Windstar Cruises Marshall Islands, a Marshall Islands company whose principal office is in Miami. The general maritime law of the United States applies, and where it does not, the law of Florida.

A claim for personal injury, illness or death goes to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami, or to the courts of Miami-Dade County. Every other claim goes to binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association in Miami, and the contract imposes a class-action waiver.

The deadlines are short and they differ by claim type. Six months' written notice and one year to sue, for personal injury. For everything else, ninety days' notice after the cruise ends and six months to start arbitration. The contract also excludes the carrier's liability for communicable illness, including COVID-19, for emotional distress without physical injury, and for consequential damages.

The carrier writes plainly that it does not guarantee the itinerary: it may delay, change or cancel, and substitute another ship or another form of transport. Nothing establishes a Quebec licence for it. Your protection comes from here: Voyages AquaTerra holds a licence from the Office de la protection du consommateur, your payments pass through a trust account, and your departure is covered by the compensation fund for travel agency customers.

Frequently Asked Questions

They are not, at the base fare. A daily service charge writes itself onto the onboard account and another is added to every bar purchase. The line's optional package is the only way to settle them in advance.
They are not. Wine, beer and cocktails are charged as you drink, and a service charge is added to the bar bill. Two choices: pay as you go, or take the package before departure.
It is charged separately, or through the package. Check the real capacity before promising your office you will be reachable: on a ship this size it is not a given.
They are charged in every case, package or not. Worth knowing, because on the busiest itineraries this is the line that climbs fastest once you are on board.
The All-In package brings together three things that are otherwise charged: drinks, Wi-Fi and the daily service charge. It has to be taken before departure. Excursions stay outside it. Work it out from your habits rather than from the sales pitch.
Not on the three sailing ships, which have neither lift nor wheelchair-accessible cabin. Yes on the three yachts, which also advertise modified-accessible cabins. Confusing the two families is the costliest mistake you can make here.
Your counterparty is a Marshall Islands company whose principal office is in Miami. The text names United States maritime law, then Florida's, and sends personal injury to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
There is one, and it is broad. Personal injury keeps the court route; everything else goes to binding arbitration in Miami-Dade County. The contract also has you waive any class action in advance.
Ninety days to report an ordinary claim after you return, six months to start arbitration. For personal injury, six months' notice and one year to sue. Those clocks start at the end of the voyage, not when you notice the problem.
The guarantee does not come from the line, which has no established Quebec licence, but from the agency selling it: a licence from the Office de la protection du consommateur, a trust account and cover by the compensation fund for travel agency customers.
No advertised call is guaranteed, and the contract is explicit about it. Delay, deviation, cancellation, ship substitution: all of it is open to the carrier. Choose your cruise for the region rather than for one particular port.
Four times. Royal Viking Queen when she left the yard in February 1992, Queen Odyssey in 1995, Seabourn Legend in 1996, and Star Legend in 2015 when Windstar bought her in April and put her into service in May. Few hulls have changed identity so often.
At the Schichau-Seebeckwerft yard in Bremerhaven, Germany. Launched in May 1991, completed in February 1992, first voyage that same year. She is the only one of the fleet's three yachts whose yard is precisely documented.
Work began in March 2020 for delivery expected that June; it finished in May 2021, eleven months later. Two causes: asbestos found on board and the pandemic. It was the longest of the fleet's three lengthening projects.
Both, and it should be known before comparing. The hull dates from 1992, the midsection from 2021, and the machinery was refurbished rather than replaced new. That gives volumes nobody builds any more, on a base that is thirty-four years old.
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