rajkr74

Ahhh..you finally got a cloudy day, lol. We really loved the train ride from Denali to Anchorage when we did it in 2016.

Boy you are lucky in being one of the 33% of people who see Denali when visiting the park. Pictures are great.

Glad you two are having fun. Pictures are great.

YEAH....couldn't be better!!!!

HAL no longer has a ship named Statendam. I think you are probably talking about the Zaandam.

So sorry the river boat Klondike was not open when you were there so I'm adding some photos of the inside of the boat from when we were there in 2016. Cabin photo thru Plexiglas

I was quarantined on the Nieuw Amsterdam with Covid on April 30th and called FE to cancel my flight. I had to wait on hold for 2 1/2 hrs. to get a rep. My wife stayed on the original flight and flew home May 1st while I stayed in Canada for 10 more days. I did not know the date for the end of my quarantine, so I called back the next day to rebook my flight home. This call left me on hold for 3 hrs. I didn't care since I was stuck in a hotel room with the cell phone hooked to a charger waiting. Where else did I need to go...lol. Once I got a rep, in both cases, they were friendly, pleasant and very helpful in canceling and rebooking my flight home on the 11th of May. They even booked me into Eugene OR rather than Portland OR where my original flight went. That meant not having to travel 2 hrs to pick me up in PDX...nice.

The security line at YVR on May 11th after my 10 day Covid quarantine was not bad for my 10:50am flight to Seattle. I left early from the hotel to see if I could get an earlier flight at 8:05am but the staff at the Alaska check-in counter pointed to the hugh long security line behind the counter down the hall and said there would be no way I'd get thru that line and make the 8:05 flight...so back across the lobby I went to sit and wait for check-in for the 10:50am flight. It depends on the time of the day. Jeroen, wish you the best on your cruise and hope everything goes well. Keep the pictures coming as we enjoy watching and reading about your trip. Rick & Joyce

Hey Alphen, glad to see your semi-live report. We'll assume you got out of Amsterdam and the airport mess with not too much trouble. Looking forward to your review. Rick & Joyce

The old saying goes, if you book a cruise just out of dry dock you have to be prepared for some glitches. Especially after this extended "drydock". Pretty happy to hear that the old Microsoft Labs on the bigger ships will be turned into libraries. Pretty sure HAL heard us about the library!

On our April cruise on the Nieuw Amsterdam to Vancouver we had aprox. 845 passengers out of Ft. Lauderdale with 400 getting off in San Diego and another 200 getting on for a new count of aprox. 645 to Vancouver with 735 crew members on board. NA has a max passenger total of aprox. 2106. I had a discussion with an officer and asked him if HAL restricted the booked passengers to the 845 number? No, he said that is all that booked the cruise. There were no restrictions on how many could book the cruise. We had covid cases on board and the ship set up quarantine cabins also. The fourth deck forward on the starboard side along with the same verandah matching cabins on deck 6 were closed off to passengers for the whole cruise. And those cabins were used by passengers during the cruise including by me for one day. These quarantine cabins limit the amount of passengers that can book the cruise or any cruise.