Seavoyage
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Just received our refund from March 2020 cancellation...
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Still NO REFUND from APRIL 12, 2020. However, 99.9% sure Orlando Ashford received his paycheck - because his money matters. #disgustedwithHAL
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3 hours ago, FlaMariner said:
Praise God Oprah is gone, right?
Perhaps the experiment is now over and we can go back to normal....
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Sure - he runs Holland America Line into the ground then leaves. The joke's on us.
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Thank you President Trump and Governor DeSantis! Win for the HAL and her faithful!
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On our last cruise (12/19), we were able to purchase the internet package direct from our own device in our stateroom. Upon "login" - I recall it appeared there was a pro-rated rate - not sure it was each "remaining" day of the cruise but there was indeed a pro-rated rate at some point. Happy Sails
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3 hours ago, Hlitner said:
Oh my! I guess they will have this book on the top of many bookstore displays, especially in airports. I will have to add it to my Kindle and read it on our next cruise 🙂
Hank
Better get one of these too! https://www.filtersfast.com/p-RZ-Mask-M2-Black-Mesh-Mask.asp?kpid=M2+Mesh+Black+43651+-+Large&fsrc=G1F5F&optid=2785&gclid=Cj0KCQiAs67yBRC7ARIsAF49CdXksBGdAAsd6-7Zav43saaILbiwFvkyVWPboUqAVu--PCzD0GoMTd4aAlTHEALw_wcB
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19 minutes ago, DesertSailors said:
Interesting video just posted. My thoughts continue to be with all who were on the ship and continue to be there.
Yikes - Ship of death....terrible.
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Who's the President of HAL.....
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On 12/6/2019 at 7:26 PM, bup1224 said:
The Floating market as it was is closed. There are a few (as in 2 or 3) local vendors there.
I have seen Soursop in the Marshe Nobo
Thank you bup - will look there. Happy Sails
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Hello - Does anyone know if Soursop fruit is available for purchase at the floating market or at a Food Market in Curacao?
Thank you in advance.
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Such beautiful people - such a beautiful island - prayers for them! It's nice to be nice....memories
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Holland America Line DOES NOT SUCK. Appears a lack of understanding of the term "interline" is at issue here on the part of the OP. Not a HAL problem. Moral of story....😋Ya get what ya pay for..
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You can take a bus to Mendenhall on your own - will have much more time to explore. Walk to Nugget Falls is beautiful. We were there last September - it was amazing! Have fun.
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Well the Dutch don't run it anymore....sooooo 😏
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On 7/26/2019 at 12:27 PM, InTheWASide said:
Found this link on the HAL website with a quick compare chart across the fleet.
file://usflnas1/Home$/559897/Downloads/HAL_Ships_at_a_Glance_Chart.pdf
Comparing Ryndam to sisters Koningsdam and Nieuw Statendam a couple things stand out:
No De Librije popup (dont in the PG 1 or 2 nights each cruise)
Instead of the Fuji Wonder Shop for photos, there is just "Photo Shop"
BLEND by Chateau Ste Michelle will not be onboard
Another thread someone was wondering if it will be a "Crow's Nest" or an "EXC" and the chart shows EXC.
So there's at least one space with something new coming and that's the space BLEND previously took up.
It will be around the corner from the Ocean Bar and Pinnacle/Sel de Mer and directly adjacent to Club Orange (and it DOES show Club Ornage will be carried forward to Ryndam)
Ahoy There InTheWASide - my sincerest apologies for hijacking this link and stalking you, however desperation unfortunately has no bounds. 😮🙂 With that, do you still have your pictures available from the inaugural Koingsdam cruise? It appears the twitter link has been broken. Interested in the cabin photos folks write about. Again, apologies for the intrusion and thank you in advance for any assistance. S
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31 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:
Again, a shaped charge, not something you bring in your rubber dinghy. One ship has a cargo of methanol, and this did not catch fire even after the explosion. One ship has a cargo of naptha (the same stuff used in coleman lanterns and camp stoves), and this flammable cargo did ignite. Both of these cargoes are carried in inert tanks to prevent explosion, but when leaked to free atmosphere they will burn. On the other hand, marine residual fuel is almost impossible to ignite without an incendiary attached to the explosive, and this is what would be most likely in a cruise ship. Further, neither explosion has caused sufficient damage to the ships to consider them "sinking", I believe at least one is under tow. On a cruise ship, there are no fuel tanks along the side of the ship, and no flammable cargo tanks, all fuel tanks are along the bottom of the ship. Yes, even using something like this limpet mine on a cruise ship, you would put a hole a couple meters across in the hull, but none of the passengers would be in danger, few of the crew, and the ship would not sink. Have either of these two ships, carrying thousands of tons of highly flammable cargo, exploded in a fire ball, or broken in half the way hollywood always shows these things? Nope.
"Yes, even using something like this limpet mine on a cruise ship, you would put a hole a couple meters across in the hull, but none of the passengers would be in danger, few of the crew, and the ship would not sink." ~Chengkp75
Well just a 7 Foot hole in the hull? Huh - that's comforting news. Wonder how many thousands of gallons per minute pour into a 7 foot wide gash in the hull? Perhaps we can still make it to Cohenhagen on time - Happy Sails
#Remember Green Peace
Look Movie Man - history will prove one of us right- hopefully it's you....till then keep your...
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"I call them monsters" ~ Wolfgang Meyer-Hentrich -
ZEIT ONLINE: Do you still believe that there can be sustainable cruise tourism?
Meyer-Hentrich: Unfortunately, it is to be feared that this type of cruise imperialism will continue and cause further damage. Even if places begin to regulate mass tourism through taxes and banish them from the centers, this octopus simply spreads a little further off and calls it "like a local ." '
Huh, seems Wolfgang is a tad bit "paranoid"- 🙄
https://www.tellerreport.com/life/--cruises--"i-call-them-monsters"-.Sy8RuHcOV.html
Twitter feed of the 'lovely' Zuiderdam protesters - @smashcruiseshits
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On 6/11/2019 at 3:28 PM, chengkp75 said:
To the best of my knowledge, none of the SDS's activities were violent. So, I wouldn't lump them with the Weather Underground. And keep your paranoia about the "dangerous criminals" to yourself. And, so what if they want to abolish the cruise industry, they have just as much right to their opinion as you do. And, again, get your facts straight, as "slapping a plastic explosive" on a ship would require hundreds of pounds, its not at all like Hollywood portrays it.
Whatever bud...
U.S. releases video it says shows Iran's military recovering mine
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12 minutes ago, cruisemom42 said:
Like you US Citizen - I am free to comment because that's my First Amendment right. It's apparent you have not read what these individuals are wanting to accomplish. So allow me, if you will, to enlighten you. They want to abolish the cruise industry. Not just in their homeland - EVERYWHERE and at any cost. Perhaps you forget the protests of the young and naive members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Weather Underground in the 1960's and early 1970's, you know Bill Ayers - Angela Davis - Bernardine Dohrn, et al, when they peacefully protested and then bombed the Pentagon. Then they peacefully protested and bombed the New York City Police Department. These seemingly peaceful naive activists were responsible for 25 bombings throughout the US. There are many other examples and history demonstrates there are no zealots that remain peaceful anymore - (e.g. current news ANTIFA) Like those that came before them, these people are dangerous criminals endangering thousands of completely peaceful people whose only crime, according to these ill-informed climate activists, is wanting to holiday and swim in a pool on a cruise ship. It's time for the cruise industry to step up, protect the ships and its passengers. Note to HAL - Rev up the engines, sound the horn, pull the gang plank, drop the ropes and stay on schedule. It's only a matter of time before one of these dangerous climate nitwits slaps a plastic explosive to a hull of a ship. Recall the bombing of the ferry in Playa del Carmen....Oh and speaking of walls - Mass Murderer Jim Jones had these words placed on the wall of his "Peoples Temple." "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." So there ya go.....Happy Sails🛳️
12 minutes ago, cruisemom42 said:This thread gives me mixed emotions. I find it interesting that many Americans (and I am one, so no flames please) feel free to comment on the security processes, legal processes and "rights" of other countries, while at the same time, I am quite sure that some of those same posters would quickly deflect or villify any comments from non-Americans about situations in the US where innocent travelers from other countries have been shot and killed due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Unstable? Angry? Dangerous? Or just youthful, naive, and strong (if perhaps misguided) believers in a cause?
And after all, no one was hurt (at least not among those who were the focus of the protest, who knows about the protesters themselves...). Perhaps in other countries people have not lost the ability to appreciate the right of "disagreeing" without having to resort to violence over the disagreement. Isn't a freedom of expression at least as important (if not more so) than a 'right to bear arms'? Without it, we are living in a totalitarian state -- which in my mind is closer to what the words on the Berlin wall really mean....
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Gone are the days of a decent Spaghetti and Meatballs....😏
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These so called "climate warriors" have grandiose delusions of shutting down the cruise industry. #nutjobs
Behold a quote from one of its 'warriors'🙄
"We [will] no longer allow Pacific states to sink into the sea because holidaymakers lie in the pool and meanwhile want to travel from city to city," one group member, named only as Johanna, explained. "We will not tolerate the operation and certainly a further expansion of cruises."
It's just amazing these psychotic individuals were able to get so close the the hull of the Zuiderdam and even hang off her ropes. Obviously all unstable - angry - dangerous individuals testing the waters - if they were able to paste a 10 foot banner on the side of the ship - what could their next move be? A 💣? Wake up - HAL. SECURITY NOW!
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HAL Cancels ALL cruises through March 31, 2021
in Holland America Line
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Forget the US CDC - We are now in Professor Klaus Schwab's, (Founder of the World Economic Forum) "The Great Reset" nightmare. https://www.weforum.org/projects/climate-ambition-initiatives These people are going to destroy the cruise industry. It's in the plan....
Oh and as an added bonus, attached find a lovely picture of Bruno Latour - The Grim Reaper of Cruising
"Hence the primary importance for using this time of imposed isolation in order to describe, initially one by one, then as a group, what we are attached to; what we are ready to give up; the chains we are ready to reconstruct and those that, in our behaviour, we have decided to interrupt.7 As for the globalisers, they seem to have a very clear idea what they want to see coming back post-crisis: the same but worse, fossil fuel industries and giant cruise ships as a bonus. It is up to us to confront them with a counter-inventory. If in a month or two, millions of humans are capable of learning how to ‘social distance’ at the blow of a whistle, to space themselves for greater solidarity, to stay home so as not to overload the hospitals, then it is easy to imagine the power of transformation that these new protective measures have against bringing back business as usual, or worse, against another battering from those who want to escape from terrestrial attraction forever."
Source - http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/P-202-AOC-ENGLISH.pdf