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As I recall those were for our life vests but there are two big drawers in the bed frame - which we didn't know about until after we left the ship.

We have found that the app dayuse is great and there are hotels listed right by the airport for today that have rooms available. You can hang out with a real room and relax and use all the hotel facilities.

The medical and repatriation coverage from Holland America is not sufficient for an out of the country trip IMHO. What Holland America trip coverage does do is let you cancel your trip for any reason and get 90% of your cost back for the platinum plan. If you have issues during the trip you will get $$. back. If you purchase private travel insurance w/in 14 days of your first payment you can buy any of the travel insurance plans offered by private companies and determine the amount of coverage you need. Sorry I can't answer any of your Covid questions. Not sure if cruise critic will let me post this but we use a site that has a square mouth to get our quotes.

We had only sailed on Celebrity and with our children on Royal Caribbean. We did not like that Celebrity now has the ship within the ship experience. We also thought the price point was much higher than Holland America/Princess. We also did not want an infinity veranda which for us meant that it was unusable for the hot Caribbean where all the a/c would leave the room when we opened it up. We tried the Statendam this past winter for a Caribbean cruise and loved it. With that being said - we don't care about the large production shows and doing trivia etc during the day. Instead we booked a retreat - and we stayed there with a private hot tub and breakfast and lunch delivered to us in our cabana. We booked two more cruises with Holland thanks to our experience with them.

You need to contact senior people at HAL the agents give you ridiculous answers to questions like this. The airline changed the flight not you, HAL should change your flight with no charge unless it is American who is demanding the fee for the change - in which case you need to deal with American or HAL does.