OCTOBER 2015 update: HAL charters, groups & dry docks

additions and changes noted in red

DRY DOCKS AND CHARTERS

Eurodam : 01 November 2015 - 08 November 2015 : Caribbean : Malt Shop Memories charter

Eurodam : 10 December 2015 - 19 December 2015: DRY DOCK , Grand Bahamas Shipyard, Freeport, Bahamas

Eurodam : 10 January 2016 - 17 January 2016 : Caribbean : Smooth Jazz Cruise charter (first sailing) dedicated to the memory of Joe Sample

Eurodam : 17 January 2016 - 24 January 2016 : Caribbean : Jazz Cruise charter.

Eurodam : 21 February 2016 - 28 February 2016 : Caribbean : Smooth Jazz Cruise charter (second sailing) dedicated to the memory of Joe Sample

Eurodam : 28 February 2016 - 06 March 2016 : Caribbean : The 80's Cruise,

Eurodam : 06 March 2016 - 13 March 2016 : Caribbean : The Gospel Music Cruise

Koningsdam, 22 January 2017 - 29 January 2017 : East. Caribbean : Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise charter

Maasdam : 04 January 2016 - 13 January 2016 : DRY DOCK, Grand Bahamas Shipyard, Freeport, Bahamas

Maasdam : 15 August 2016 - : Prairie Home Companion charter

N. Amsterdam : 17 January 2016 - 24 January 2016 : Caribbean : Legendary Rhythm & Blues charter

N. Amsterdam : 07 February 2016 - 14 February 2016 : Caribbean : RSVP charter

Oosterdam : 04 April 2016 - 18 April 2016 : DRY DOCK

Oosterdam : 28 August 2016 - 04 September 2016 : Mediterranean : Gertrude Byrne Promotions Irish charter

Veendam : 12 November 2015 - 19 November 2015 : Mexican Riviera : Olivia Charter

Westerdam : 14 October 2015 - 17 October 2015 : private Charter, Sysco group

Westerdam: 24 October 2015 - 31 October 2015 : West. Caribbean : Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise charter

Westerdam: 09 January 2016 - 16 January 2016 : Caribbean : Delbert McClinton's Sandy Beaches Cruise charter (Blues music cruise)

Westerdam: 16 January 2016 - 23 January 2016 : The Country Music Cruise charter

Westerdam : 30 January 2016 - 06 February 2016 : Olivia charter (originally chartered by Soul Train, who moved over to Celebrity sailing

Zaandam : 25 September 2016 - 02 October 2016 : Pacific Coastal : Olivia Charter

GROUPS ONBOARD

Eurodam : 24 January 2016 - 31 January 2016 : Caribbean : Gospel Music Celebration group

Konigsdam : 18 September 2016 - 30 September 2016 : 12 day Iberian Discovery : NW Anesthesia seminar

Maasdam : 17 October 2015 - 30 October 2015 : 13 day Atlantic coast : Road Scholars group

Maasdam: 01 March 2016 - 15 March 2016 : Panama Canal : Road Scholars group

Maasdam : 15 March 2016 - 29 March 2016 : Panama Canal : Road Scholars group

N. Amsterdam: 13 December 2015 - 20 December 2015 : Western Caribbean : the Nation group (oldest weekly newspaper dedicated to instigating progress since 1865, celebrating 150 years)

N. Amsterdam : 03 January 2016 - 10 January 2016 : Caribbean : Dancing with the Stars

N. Amsterdam : 10 January 2016 - 17 January 2016 : Caribbean : Dancing with the Stars

N. Amsterdam : 20 March 2016 - 27 March 2016 : Caribbean : NW Anesthesia seminar

N. Amsterdam : 10 April 2016, 15/19/20 day Panama Canal :RCAF 1st Air Division group.

N. Amsterdam : 25 June 2016 - 02 July 2016 : Alaska : Inspirations group

N. Amsterdam : 06 November 2016 -13 November 2016 : Caribbean : Master Chef sailing

Noordam : 25 October 2015 - 08 November 2015 : Australia/NZ : Scientific American Bright Horizons (Insight Cruises)

Noordam : 30 January 2016 - 13 February 2016 : Australia/NZ : Road Scholars group

Noordam : 25 March 2016 - 08 April 2016 : NZ discovery : Road Scholars

Oosterdam: 28 December 2015 - 08 January 2016 : Jazzdagen Tours group *** note about group:http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showp...5&postcount=17

Oosterdam : 08 January 2016 - 18 January 2016 : Southern Caribbean Seafarer : Jazz Sea group

Prinsendam : 24 November 2015 - 19 December 2015 : 25 day Amazon explorer : Road Scholars group

Rotterdam : 08 January 2016 - 06 April 2016 : Passage to Far East : Road Scholars Group

Veendam : 21 October 2015 - 05 November 2015 : Panama Canal : Road Scholar group

Veendam : 26 November 2015 - 13 December 2015 : 17 day circle Hawaii : Road Scholars group

Volendam: 19 October 2015 - 21 November 2015 : 33 day Australia circumnavigation : Road Scholars group

Volendam : 05 January 2016 - 19 January 2016 : Indonesia : Quilt Seminars at Sea group (Batiks of Bali)

Volendam : 01 March 2016 - 17 March 2016 :Indonesia Eclipse : Sky & Telescope

Volendam : 31 March 2016 - 16 April 2016 : China, Korea, Japan : knitting group

Westerdam: 23 January 2016 - 30 January 2016: Western Caribbean: 2016 All Star Polka Cruise group and Sport Dressage group

Westerdam : 20 February 2016 - 27 February 2016 : Caribbean : Inspiration cruises : Sandi Patty & Friends

Westerdam : 27 February 2016 - 05 March 2016: Caribbean : Gaither Homecoming/ Inspirations group

Westerdam : 02 July 2016 - 09 July. 2016 : Alaska : Pathway to Victory/ Inspirations group

Westerdam : 30 July 2016 - 06 August 2016 : Alaska : Thrive/Inspirations group

Westerdam : 06 August 2016 - 13 August 2016 : Alaska : Stand to Reason / Inspirations group

Westerdam : 20 August 2016 - 27 August 2016 : Alaska : NW Anesthesia seminar

Westerdam : 12 November 2016 - 19 November 2016 : Mexican Riviera : Gospel Music Celebration group

Zaandam : 25 October 2015 - 08 November 2015 : South America : Road Scholars group

Zaandam : 08 November 2015 - 22 November 2015 : South America : knitting group

Zaandam : 22 November 2015 - 06 December 2015 : South America : Road Scholars group

Zuiderdam: 09 November 2015 - 20 November 2015: Panama Canal : Quilt Seminars at Sea

Zuiderdam : 30 November 2015 - 11 December 2015 : 11 day Panama Canal sunfarer : Road Scholar group

Zuiderdam : 04 January 2016 - 15 January 2016 : 11 day Panama Canal sunfarer : Scientific American Travel group

Zuiderdam : 25 January 2016 - 05 February 2016 : 11 day Panama Canal sunfarer : Road Scholars group

Zuiderdam : 05 February 2016 - 15 February 2016 : 10 day Panama Canal sunfarer: Road Scholars group

Zuiderdam : 17 May 2016 - 29 May 2016 : Fjords & Highlands : Knitting group

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If anyone has any further information, please post it here and I will update.

Carol

Carol this is a very useful service you faithfully provide us. Wishes your both doing fine and thanks for the update.

Thanks for the update on Oosterdam April 2016. Nice to see that we will be boarding her right after a freshening up.

Dennis

Really appreciate your time and effort with these updates. Thank you so much.

Thank you for the update.

I really appreciate all the work you do for us.

Thank you!

I really appreciate all you do.

I enjoy checking to see what is going on!

Denise:)

Thanks for the update! I always enjoy it, as it makes planning a little bit "safer." :p

Thank you for posting this important information.

I just read on a Prinsendam roll call that the ship will be in Dry dock before Sept 2016. Can you confirm?

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N.Amsterdam full charter for Malt Shop Memories cruise

Oct 30th -Nov 6th 2016

Thank you Carol for the hard work and useful info. Your post has helped me to choose my next cruise.

I just read on a Prinsendam roll call that the ship will be in Dry dock before Sept 2016. Can you confirm?

 

 

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I believe it goes May 5-16 as we are on the 17th sailing.

Koningsdam, February 5, 2017, chartered to, as of yet, unknown group.

All CC members who were booked on this cruise have been rebooked on other cruises.

Thanks as always for the information!!

I am on the 1/24/16 Eurodam cruise and see there is a gospel group. Is there a way to find out how large this group is? Has anyone sailed with a gospel group before? Thanks for any additional information

Thank you so much for the very useful information! It is a real service to us and we wish to express our gratitude to you for doing this!

My TA found out that the gospel group is over 1000 people!! I sincerely appreciate having been notified of this information from this post and switched to th Nieuw Amsterdam sailing on 1/24/16

Thanks for the update. We are booked on the Eurodam in February. Anyone know what they are doing during the December dry dock?

My TA found out that the gospel group is over 1000 people!! I sincerely appreciate having been notified of this information from this post and switched to th Nieuw Amsterdam sailing on 1/24/16

This happened to us two years ago when we booked the Eurodam and found out about the Gospel group. HAL would not tell us how large the group was but went on the group website and found out it was over 1,000 and they had shows in the theatre each evening. We knew a group that large would have an impact on the cruise so we too canceled.

Thanks for the information.

Just bumping this up to the top because people have been posting recently on the Aug thread

Westerdam - April 2-May 2, 2016 30-day portion SD to SD Road Scholar [i'm signed up but if they don't get a big enough group they will cancel.] But I will still be on, I made my own Cruise arrangements. I'm going - no matter what - but I would enjoy it more with them.

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Does anyone know when the Rotterdam had her last drydock? Are there any plans for a current drydock?

The Rotterdam had her last drydock this year in april.

Couple of drydock addition/date changes for ya:

EUDM 07-19 DEC 15 - Grand Bahama Shipyard, Freeport, Bahamas

VEDM 28 MAR-08 APR 16 - Grand Bahama Shipyard, Freeport, Bahamas

OSDM 05-17 APR 16 - Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A., Palermo, Sicily

PRDM 05-16 MAY 16 - Grand Bahama Shipyard, Freeport, Bahamas

Cooper, anything special going on with the Prinsendam dry dock next year? We are going on her right after the DD.

Cooper, anything special going on with the Prinsendam dry dock next year? We are going on her right after the DD.

As far as I know, just a regularly scheduled routine dry-dock for standard maintenance in Freeport. Her last similar one was in NOV 2012 and then she had a six-day emergency dry dock to repair her starboard stabilizer in OCT 2013 in Piraeus