We went on a land/sea cruise with Holland America to Alaska, starting first with the land portion. The package deal provides one night in Anchorage before you set off for Denali National Park. We choose to extend our hotel stay to two nights in order to give ourselves a little longer to adjust to 10 hours of flying and 4 time zone changes. Holland America puts you in the Anchorage Westmark ...
An Alaskan Inside Passage cruise was a bucket list trip, we have only recently started taking cruises, in fact all our cruise so far have been in 2016 and all with Holland America, it just worked out this way, we had no prior knowledge of HAL.
We embarked in Vancouver Canada Place and thought the whole embarkation process to be quick and very well organized, quicker than the cruise we took from ...
Prices, food, nice rooms, sightseeing, awesome staff. We saw everything from our verandah whales and dolphins. Room service was awesome and always arrived promptly. Dining was great with very attentive staff. Entertainment eas ok have had better. Laundry service was great I had to see the ships physician and his treatment and diagnosis were correct. Getting on and off the ship was great we moved ...
We were looking for a land -cruise tour of Alaska and considered several lines. HA had the dates, stops and price we wanted. We took the D1 package with a view cabin. The cabin was adequate and the bed was comfortable. The couch was comfy, but very little on TV but that was OK as we spent little time in it. We took advantage of the Windows, classes, the towel folding class, a cooking demo and ...
We were guided to this cruise to Alaska through the Inside Passage on the Noordam by Peter at Discount Cruises. The occasion was our 44th wedding anniversary combined with my husbands 50th class reunion. Four classmates and their wives from India joined us. Peter arranged everything so that we were living next door to each other in beautiful balcony rooms, sitting together for our evening meals ...
After cruising on newer Celebrity and Royal Caribbean larger ships, the Noordam appeared compact, dimly lit and rich in traditional décor. We booked the 14 day return Alaska cruise from Vancouver less than one week prior to the July 10th sailing at an attractive price.
We took the Canada Line train from Vancouver airport to the waterfront station, about 3 blocks from Canada Place and the cruise ...
The staffs are very nice, and that's about it. Overall, I wasn't impressed at all.
1. Their website design is horrendous.
A. I had to do multiple separate Google searches to find all the information I need about the same ship(Nieuw Amsterdam).
B. The excursions will only show details and the actual price after clicking "booking" which takes me to a log in site. Once I get there, I can't ...
We chose HAL because we love this cruise line and this was our first time on Ms Westerdam to Alaska and we were not disappointed. The Westerdam had some slight wear but we experienced no major issues on our cruise. We did encounter some noticeable vibration in the MDR and some slight swaying in our room (that we did not experience on the larger Oosterdam ship) but contributed it to a smaller ...
We had a wonderful time on this cruise. We had a balcony room on the 7th deck. Our room was nice with lots of storage. The room and dining staff were amazing. I live in the Seattle area and am used to seeing beautiful trees and large mountains, but Alaska is like home times 10. Truly a must-visit destination. Food in the dining room was very good (we only ate dinner there), and food on the ...
Instead of doing an overall review (there are already too many of them), I'd like to give my impressions and experiences of the advice I received from reading Cruise Critic:
Large Groups on board - I was led to believe they would ruin my cruise. In actuality, the 600 people with the Inspirations Group were very pleasant people. No issues at all.
Dive-In - Was told hamburgers and fries ...