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On 1/7/2019 at 8:36 PM, aimcat said:

My husband and I are planning a April 2019 cruise. We just randomly came across this ship and it being new and beautiful intrigued us. We have been on Carnival and RC and enjoy the laid back nature of these lines, entertainment, nightlight, and food. We are mid 30s and no kids. Would we enjoy this ship and cruise as well? I dont like feeling overly stuffy atmospheres or having to be dressed up at all times. We enjoy being entertained and some drinks. Both itenteriaries offered in April for this ship were good also with some ports we have not yet been to.

Aimcat, we're 45 and 43 (but I like to think we have a 30's mentality).

There are basically not activities most of the day. The only activities were the like of play bingo, learn about our next port, secrets of diamonds (to try to sell you something) and learn about some fitness program (to try to sell you something again).

But that would only be a minor problem only on sea days and it's a great moment to indulge yourself on the pool, jacuzzi, the great buffet at Lido, some movies in your room.

When it speeds up is at 5 pm altough it depends of the like of music you prefer. There are 2 or 3 classic music plays of about 40 minutes each. The amazing and dynamic piano duo and the rock band alternates playing 3 shows each one of 45 minutes. And the BB King Blues Club has music to dance beginning I think at 9 pm.

The shows at the theater are so so, with the exception of Humanity which was very good.

The bars were animated until about 11:30 pm.

23 hours ago, Jennifire7 said:

Hoping for some help with a stateroom question.  We are booked and within the final payment of our upcoming cruise in a VA category stateroom on the 6th deck and there will be 2 adults and our twin boys in the room.  I noticed that there is a stateroom available, on deck 4, stateroom 4156 with a oversized balcony (their is a crew stair well next to the room, and that’s why the balcony is extra long)

 

Is it worth it to contact our travel agent to move rooms, is it even worth it and would we lose our OBC?

We had rooms 4150, 4152 and 4154 on our december 29 cruise. Stateroom 4154 is exactly the same type and size as 4156 and I can tell it's great for kids.

It's a quad stateroom, with that big queen size bed, the very useful sofa bed and an upper bed that my niece loved.

And the balcony!! It's enormous. Your twins could run and play many games there.

Thank you Angelcat

We've enjoyed the complementary ice creams at Lido in previous HAL cruises.

Also, I remember it was serving ice cream most of the day.

Do you if it's also in the Nieuw Statendam? If so, is it open most of the day?

7 hours ago, crystalspin said:

Actually I had the exact thing happen to me with our family group of 10 (that turned out to be 9 but the booking was for 10) last August on the Zaandam.

 

The A stands for AnyTime(Dining) and indicates that your table for TEN will be on the LEVEL of ATD. There are only so many 10 tops so some are assigned in the "other" level. 

 

We had the best dining stewards ever and they were always the same. Also we were booked for early but they didn't seem to use the table after we left, and once one of our number caught on to that, we were able to shift the time by 30-60 minutes on port days.

The "A" mystery resolved, thank you Crystalspin!

7 minutes ago, catl331 said:

Thanks!  I edited my post #4 as you were replying, to add table 201.  

Thank you Carole!

14 minutes ago, kazu said:

On one of our roll calls, one of our members also had the A.  At the time, it seemed it was a typo by HAL and was actually meant to be 8.

 

I'm not sure if that is the still the case or not, though.

 

I join in Carole's (cat133) advice to call shipboard services and request a specific table.

Thank you kazu!

2 minutes ago, catl331 said:

Well, in that case maybe the A means something else. Did you ask your TA or PCC to "link" the reservations?  If not, maybe you can call and have that done now.  Looking at the Koningsdam MDR plans (which is probably the same as the Nieuw S)  I only see 8 tables for 10 downstairs and 2 upstairs.  Give HAL a call and ask for 40, 42, 57, 58, 95, 99, 104, 115, 200, or 228. 

catl331, you're amazing! thank you for taking your time for do this research, I'll do as you suggest, thank you so much!

5 minutes ago, catl331 said:

My guess is that the A means "any", or unspecified. You have a table at Main, but size is tbd.

Thank you catl331

We're an extended family and have 3 cabins, and all 10 guests received the same message. Do you know how do we get to be seated in the same table?

We just received our boarding passes for the Nieuw Statendam's december 30 departure and among its information it says:

"Confirmed dining: Main, Table of A on request"

I´m confused, we didn´t something specific.

Do you know what does it mean?

http://www.cruiseportinsider.com/cozumelschedule2018.html

Always subject to change.

 

HAL is part of Carnival group.

This was what I was looking for, thank you so much!

Do you know which pier is for HAL cruises?

I see there's Punta Langosta and International Pier (Puerta Maya seems to be only for Carnival).

Excellent! Thank you for the information

The ships are nearly identical. NS has a few more cabins. Some venue names have been rearranged. For instance the Queen's Lounge on KD is now Lincoln Center Stage.

Thank you Hunky!

We'll navigate on Nieuw Statendam begining december 30 and because it has not had its inaugural trip, so far I've researched all the information about the Koningsdam asuming it's identical to Nieuw Statendam.

Do you know if that's accurate? Are there in facts differences in the configuration of the ships, public spaces or cabins?

It is just a small door by the railing that can be opened up -- thus no big balcony.

Thanks Krazy, not as desired but good anyway!

we had 5 cabins on eurodam and they opened the doors for every one,

Fantastic! Thanks so much!

Hi! We'll travel on Neuw Statendam december 30 in cabins 4150 and 4152 (they're connected) and also in cabin 4154 (not connected).

Do you know if it's posible to remove the separation of one balcony to the others to form a big spacious balcony of the 3 rooms? It would be amazing because there are kids, adults and seniors in our group and would like to be together.