Is this a new HAL tile ??

[GmaPajama]

 

I read on another thread that no new tiles have been seen for 2010. We received this one on the Noordam in February. I've not seen it before, and am wondering if it's new. Or maybe I just didn't happen to have this one? Please note: It's not bad photography on my part - the ships really ARE blurry on the tile. :(

[Mary Ellen]

Maybe the designer and approval committee had too many wang-wangs???

[sail7seas]

I've not seen that one before but I like it. :) Thanks for posting it, donna.

 

[SwissMyst]

Blurry tile? I hope they are not using the same manufacturer that foisted those ship logo disappearing shot glasses that dissolved with the first contact with water like we purchased on the Oosterdam last year.

 

Never did get any satisfaction on that defective purchase. HAL said it was the manufacturers problem. The manufacturer agent said talk to HAL customer relations. Bah.

 

And it finally took a separate letter to HAL Mariner email contact to finally get our tile from our Christmas cruise which was delivered promptly last week once the request was made. But the promise was made on the Christmas cruise they would be sent to us since they did not have them in stock during the cruise.

 

Petty matters -- but these little momentos have mattered to us and are our proud little badges of HAL loyalty.

 

They deserve attention because small as they are, they are broadcast widely and symbolic reminders of HAL "Signature of Excellence" --- which now consists of a clear glass shot glass, the Oosterdam ship logo ---- which was very poorly executed anyway compared to past logo shot glasses from the Maasdam and the Rotterdam---- went down the drain like the Titanic when it first hit water.

[Krazy Kruizers]

I have not seen that tile before.

[GmaPajama]

WOW - maybe I did get a new one. I'd sure be excited to think so. :)

[Tricia724]

Looks like a commercial rather than a commemorative.

[bcd2010]

The tiles are shown by year on the HAL website: http://www.hollandamerica.com/marinerSociety/Main.action - yours does not show up under the last 3 years and there are none showing on the website for 2010. On our Jan/Feb 2010 cruise we got 2009 tiles.

[May4]

WOW - maybe I did get a new one. I'd sure be excited to think so. :)

 

 

Neat! I believe that you did receive a new tile-Model 2010. I haven't seen that one either.

[PathfinderEss]

 

I read on another thread that no new tiles have been seen for 2010. We received this one on the Noordam in February. I've not seen it before, and am wondering if it's new. Or maybe I just didn't happen to have this one? Please note: It's not bad photography on my part - the ships really ARE blurry on the tile. :(

I have no idea if it's the new tile or not but I like it, hope we get one on our next cruise.

[solocanadian]

 

I read on another thread that no new tiles have been seen for 2010. We received this one on the Noordam in February. I've not seen it before, and am wondering if it's new. Or maybe I just didn't happen to have this one? Please note: It's not bad photography on my part - the ships really ARE blurry on the tile. :(

Donna: Thanks for posting this photo. Haven't seen this tile before. Hope I get one on my "O" cruise in April . I received the same tile 3 years in a row and it was boring - a big dark blue vent hole from a steamship. If I get your kind of tile, it may look clearer after a couple of Wang Wangs.;)

[RevNeal]

It looks like a GREAT tile. I don't have one like it, and I've cruised in 2010. Hopefully they'll give this out in July aboard the Prinsendam?

 

I've seen before the Ad/poster/postcard from which this was taken. The term "Sail a Happy Ship" was a HAL advertising slogan (kind of like the "Signature of Excellence" phrase) that predominated during the middle of the 20th Century. Here's an ad of my Granddad's ... was a clipping from in/among his tickets and other travel documents from a crossing he made aboard the Maadam in the early 1960s.

 

[realnurse2]

It must be a new tile for 2010 although nothing is posted yet on the HAL site. Saw one on ebay like this and one other I haven't seen before. Yes I agree its much nicer than the ugly one of the ship's funnell. Too bad Hal doesn't sell their surplus tiles to complete collections!:)

[GmaPajama]

Fascinating information, RevNeal - thanks for sharing that. I'm now totally convinced this is a new tile, and wonder why HAL hasn't put the new ones on their website. Maybe they don't realize how much some of us love our tiles. :)

[ugagrad98322]

We received the same tile on our Westerdam cruise last week--glad to know we are among the first to get these!

[sail7seas]

Drat......... We sailed two cruises on Eurodam in February but got the 'old' tiles.

 

Hopefully we'll see this new one on our upcoming Maasdam cruise.

[innlady1]

WOW - maybe I did get a new one. I'd sure be excited to think so. :)

 

I wondered that too, Donna. I really like this one!

[chrismch]

The tile we got last month shows a picture of a windmill with the inscription on the left side "mariner society cruise."

[modelman]

 

Nice image of, from top to bottom, the Rotterdam (1959), the Nieuw Amsterdam (1938), the Statendam (1957) and the Ryndam/Maasdam twins (1951/1952)

[cruisinjudy]

We got an old tile on Zaandam in March.

[GloBug]

I'll be taking my first HAL cruise in August. Does each cruiser get a tile on every ship/cruise, or do they just go to people in special cabins or special status'? :confused:

[Sprocket]

Tiles are given to Mariners, so on your second Hal cruise you should each receive one.

Unfortunately, they are not given on your first sailing on Hal. But it does give you something to look forward to.

[Copper10-8]

It's one of the four 2010 series. HAL hasn't run out of ad posters to make tiles out of by far!;)

[GloBug]

Tiles are given to Mariners, so on your second Hal cruise you should each receive one.

 

Unfortunately, they are not given on your first sailing on Hal. But it does give you something to look forward to.

 

Thanks Bev

[1aCruise4wks]

Wow!! We were just on the Veendam in February for our 28th HAL cruise and didn't receive any tiles. We assumed that they discontinued that program.

 

Dennis - Harrisburg, PA

 

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