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Horrible experience. Terrible Cruise Director and schedule!!!!!!
"Another port and a canceled port we cruised around the destination and looked at it from the ship!On another port we reported to the World Stage as directed to be sent on our shore excursion...."Read More
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Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Volendam
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2-5 Cruises • Age 70s
We selected this cruise because of the itinerary and wanted to see the South Pacific!
Three ports visited on a Sunday! NOTHING OPEN! Except a McDonalds in one port. Papeete was a two day stop and was closed for a national holiday Veterans Day. The excitement was watching the re-provisioning of the ship. Another port and a canceled port we cruised around the destination and looked at it from ...
Read MoreSail Date: October 2023
Cabin Type: Large Ocean-View Stateroom
Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Volendam
tc5903
10+ Cruises • Age 50s
Selected this cruise to celebrate my wife's retirement. She wanted to sail to/through French Polynesia. First HA cruise. Despite the warnings about HA appealing to an older demographic (average age is 70), that has not been a problem at all. But after many cruises on Princess & Celebrity, the level of service particularly in the restaurant has been disappointing. The menu descriptions bear no ...
Read MoreSail Date: October 2023
Review for a Asia Cruise on Volendam
Zinio
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s
Some people have inflated expectations, and (as a result) complain too much. We embarked in Sydney and stayed on the Volendam in Singapore for a second cruise in SE Asia. We liked the Volendam much. It is smaller than the Oosterdam (which we sampled in March 2015), easier to find your way around, and you don't feel feel (after walking stern to bow) that they should install travelators.
Our ...
Read MoreSail Date: November 2015
Review for a Transpacific Cruise on Volendam
dockman
10+ Cruises • Age 70s
This was my fourth cruise on the Volendam in past three years.
Last year I did the reverse Sydney to Vancouver so I was well aware of sea days and port calls and quite familiar with the Volendam.
Overall it was a pleasant cruise with lots of sea days which I often enjoy more than all the hectic activity of port days.
A few observations:
The Volendam is well maintained and the ...
Read MoreSail Date: September 2015
Cabin Type: Large Outside Stateroom (fully obstructed views)
Review for a Transpacific Cruise on Volendam
JosNaylor
First Time Cruiser • Age 70s
I am not a usual contributor to review forums but I am struggling to reconcile the wonderful cruise just experienced on Volendam with these recent negative reviews on Cruise Critic. A strong influence on the enjoyment of any cruise will be the availability, cheerfulness and helpfulness of the ship’s crew and on Volendam from Vancouver to Sydney I thought it was outstanding.
The embarkation at ...
Read MoreSail Date: September 2015
Cabin Type: Large Interior Stateroom
Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Volendam
wkpjr01
6-10 Cruises • Age 80s
Our cruise on the Volendam -- 22 November - 8 December 2014 -- from Sydney to Singapore was a serious disappointment on many levels.
First, there were many annoyances, such as the cruise director choosing to make some routine public address announcements during scheduled church services on Sunday morning. The itinerary skipped major ports, except for Darwin, and chose to stop at isolated ports ...
Read MoreSail Date: November 2014
Cabin Type: Verandah Suite
Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Volendam
JMAUST
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s
We have just returned from a 34 night Circumnavigation Cruise of Australia. We had a wonderful time after being a little unsure how we would survive a 34 night cruise.
Embarkation in Sydney went without a hitch and we were aboard within 25 minutes. This was at White Bay which is out of town and lack and form of public transport.
The public areas were well maintained and there was always a quite ...
Read MoreSail Date: October 2014
Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Volendam
IRL 123
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s
We were a bit nervous about 32 days on a ship but we could not have been wrong. The Volendam crew made us feel welcome from first boarding in Sydney. We liked the idea of a smaller ship and the bonus we found out on the way was we got to sail through the Barrier Reef out of Cairns and also the smaller ports could take Volendam where alot of the larger ships cant get into these lovely smaller towns ...
Read MoreSail Date: October 2014
Cabin Type: Large Ocean-View Stateroom
Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Volendam
raeallan76@hotmail.com
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s
Our third cruise on the Volendam during past six years.Chose the transpacific repositioning cruise to visit LA, Hawaii and Pago Pago for the first time.
We had no problem with the age of the ship and the condition of it. Very clean and well presented.....and the flower arrangements!!!!
Amazing that given the problem on the Alaskan cruise prior to this cruise that for 24 nights the problem didnot ...
Read MoreSail Date: September 2014
Cabin Type: Large Ocean-View Stateroom
Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Volendam
possum6446
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s
This was our third cruise with HAL, the others being Alaska and Mediterranean, which they offered to us at an attractive rate for being returning cruisers. ( Mariner's Society members ). We cruised a sector of the Australian Circumnavigation cruise and found it a very pleasant way to get to Melbourne. The ship was sick with GI problems ( probably norovirus but this was not mentioned by name. ) and ...
Read MoreSail Date: November 2013
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