anneke lief

Thanks for the replays. I am glad to hear that the tour was very good.

I hope to find some people who want to participate too. Anyone on the Costa Victoria in January? Anyone interested in taking a tour with us. If so please send me an e-mail: anneke.lief@hotmail.com

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone will be on this sailing.

We are a Belgian couple(49 en 55 years old).We are experienced cruisers. We do not like the cruiseship tours (too much people and too expensive). For that reason we try to do things on our own or we try to find a private tour.

We would like to do a private tour in Brunei because the port is far away from the city so it would be difficult to go on your own. I have contacted a touroperator (Interprid tours). They offer different interesting tours for cruiseship visitors at a reasonable price. They get good reviews on Tripadvisor.

If anyone is interested in sharing a tour with us, please send me an e-mail so I can send you more information (description of the tours, prices...).

My e-mailadress is anneke.lief@hotmail.com

Many thanks for the great information.

I have another question, maybe for someone who lives in Sydny.

We are hikers. Are there nice hiking trails in our around Saint-John with nice scenery.

Thanks

Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a public bus from Sydny (Nova Scotia) to Baddeck. If so what is the price for a return ticket.

Ar there any car rentals in Sydny near the cruise terminal (walkind distance)

many thanks for your help

ann

Hello,

We just returned from our Asian cruise with HAL's Zaandam and we used Zoom for our tour to Saigon, Smile Tours (Thi) for our tour in Halong Bay and Nha Trang River tours (Dung) or our trip in Nha Trang.

All of the tours were exellent and very good value for money.

I can highly recommend them all, you can't go wrong if you choose them.

In Bangkok we just booked a transfert to the city with Bangkok Limo and stayed overnight in the Bossotel. The hotel is very good situated if you want to visit the tempels because it is only 5 minutes walking from the central pier where you can cath the express boat to go to the tempels and the Grand Palace.

Anneke from Belgium

:)

The website says that passengers should have to look for visa prior to arrival but the agency that sells HAL in Belgium says for Vietnam and Korea HAL provides Visa but they can not tell be the cost onboard.

I really do not know who to believe.

Has anyone been on HAL cruises to these countries?

Does anyone knows if HAL provides visa for Vietnam, Cambodja and Vietnam and how much they charge for it?

We will be on the Zaandam next year (March)

Hello,

Some shops are open, but not al of them . Tourist shops are always open on a Sunday. Fors museums, churches.. you will not have problems on a Sunday.

I you are looking for a small, beautiful and very romantic restaurant go to "het Zwaantje". The food is really delicious there It is a little bit out of the center, but it is worth the trip.

Have a nice trip.

ann

Hi,

On that question I have to do some research because I really do not know. Every year there are less and less shops because young people do not want to learn how to do it. And to be honnest less and less people buy them because it is really expensive.

I'll let you know if I have the answer.

You will be in Brugge on a Saturday. That means that you can go to the market on "'t Zand" and the streets around. It is a really big one and is also nice to do. They sell about everything.

We will be in Norway that period on the Century (Celebrity cruises).

anneke

Hello,

I live near Brugge and can give you some good advice.

Take the train from Zeebrugge strand (near the cruiseships, a really very small trainstation) to Brugge (NOT Brugge Sint-Pieters). It takes 16 minutes. You have a train every hour, 33 minutes after hour : 7.33 am, 8.33 am, 9.33 am, 10.33 am...

For a train back to Zeebrugge strand there is a train 9 minutes after hour: 1.09pm, 2.09pm,3.09pm, 4.09 pm... Its is really easy and inexpensive.

There is a website http://www.b-rail.be . If you click en. you will find everything in English.

When you arrive at the station in Brugge, evrything is walkable. It is not a very big city.

Go to the "Minnewater and "Begijnhof first. It is closeby, only 5 minutes. Everyone knows where it is and when you cros the street at the main square before the trainstation I think you already see signs.

Do not miss this. It is really very nice.

Take a boatride on the canals. Visit the "grote markt", "de Burg". Both have beautiful architecture.

I do not know in what you are interested for the rest: let mae know and I will give you soms advice.

Be sure to buy chocolates. You find the best ones at the shop called "Leonidas" of "The chocolateline" (you find them in the largest shoppingstreet). The chocolateline is at a little square in the shopping street). There is even a chocolatemuseum.

ann