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2LoveBikes

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  • Location
    Florida
  • Interests
    Cycling, Beach, guitar, Volunteering
  • Favorite Cruise Line(s)
    Carnival, Holland America, MSC, Celebrity, Royal Caribbean, Princess, Norweigan Cruise Line
  • Favorite Cruise Destination Or Port of Call
    Alaska, Caribbean, Italy, Spain

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  1. I think you will be happy with the music venue on Nieuw Statendam. Lots of dancing opportunities with the BB King All Stars. If you haven't seen the Step One dance performances before, you will enjoy them, especially Humanities and Musicology. Go to the cruise and travel director's talks in the theater; they are interesting and well done, especially the Origin Story. Food and service and friendliness of crew are superlative. Enjoy your trip!
  2. Some may be looking too much into why HAL implemented the program. I believe that the new standby program is a creative way to way to fill cabins when and if flight cancellations blanket the country which leaves HAL in the lurch. HAL has a deep (qualified) bench waiting to get in the game all they have to do is send them an email and pull the trigger to fill the empty cabins. They have a baseline of guests that have already paid, prequalified and they can offer upgrades for higher level inventories as well. Happy sailing!
  3. Thanks. What's nice is it was an unobstructed verandah on deck 8.
  4. We are on Nieuw Amsterdam Mar 2 sailing. We were notified of confirmation on Tuesday for an inside cabin but took an upgrade offer to Oceanview for $98 for the cabin. We accepted and were called to upgrade to a verandah for $149 pp which we accepted. Total additional upgrade was $396.00
  5. To ALL - at what point were you allowed to CHECK-IN before you received confirmation that you were CONFIRMED to travel? Thanks
  6. If you use this link on your ship day of departure it will give you a list of ships with their arrival/dept terminals. I use it all the time: https://pevvesseltraffic.broward.org/webx/
  7. We have about 40 cruises with HAL and perhaps 3 times a priest was not on board. Like others said it was due to illness. Several times Guest Services check the passenger manifest and found a priest on vacation and he filled in with daily Mass. We love HALs commitment to providing this service. We include this in our surveys as well.
  8. The process could be improved if HAL would take some added preventative steps: 1. Assign boarding times according to early vs late dining seating. Mixing everyone creates stress and disorganization. 2. Survey incoming cruisers in advance (before boarding) on any food allergies. 3. Find ways to solicit/resolve new (boarding) passenger special dining request. a. Example allow incoming passengers to make request via Navigator 7 days in advance of boarding (ie. names/ room#s in party). Trying to resolve dining issues on embarkation day creates long lines/& stress especially when dealing with rushing from flights, waiting for luggage, unpacking and making shore excursion reservations. Passengers from that first encounter form opinions on their experience which is difficult to forget. Presently, after the 1st day the issues tend to get resolved but the question is why can't the problems get resolved up front rather than later.
  9. HAL Zaandam arrived in Puntarenas today. 1. Which tour did you take today? 2. How was your tour? 3. Would you recommend to others? Thanks
  10. Wonderful sail away. Will be on her Jan4- Jan19 with Panama Canal crossing. This is a clip of the Zaandam leaving today.
  11. Condolences to family and thank you for the many pleasures of watching the cam from Port Everglades
  12. You can Google the price on Uber. I'm sure it will come out cheaper
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