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Beyondthe7Seas

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Do they broadcast the actual Super Bowl to the showroom theater, or will this be in the sport's bar setting.

 

 

We have been on different ships for three Super Bowls and it has always been shown in the main theater. They do a really nice job setting up food and have drink specials throughout the game, as well. 7af600ca5e353b03882b0bf667b0d9d0.jpg

 

 

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We will be on the Zaandam off the coast of Southern Chile during the Super Bowl. Does anyone know whether we will be able to watch the game there too?

Good luck. It will depend on the strength of the satellite, and the angle from it to the ship. How "southern" in Chile, and possibly the direction the ship is heading, could be the deciding factor.

 

There have been times I was able to get coverage on that route, but other times when I was not. I was off the east coast of South America, sailing north toward the Falklands during the conference championships, a few years back. We were able to get the early game, but lost TV coverage just as the second game started.

 

Someone in the lounge got her laptop, and was able to get an update feed from her local radio station, and kept reading them to the fans who hung around in the lounge. The signal was strong enough to provide that.

 

Don't forget there's a time zone difference, too.

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Good luck. It will depend on the strength of the satellite, and the angle from it to the ship. How "southern" in Chile, and possibly the direction the ship is heading, could be the deciding factor.

 

There have been times I was able to get coverage on that route, but other times when I was not. I was off the east coast of South America, sailing north toward the Falklands during the conference championships, a few years back. We were able to get the early game, but lost TV coverage just as the second game started.

 

Someone in the lounge got her laptop, and was able to get an update feed from her local radio station, and kept reading them to the fans who hung around in the lounge. The signal was strong enough to provide that.

 

Don't forget there's a time zone difference, too.

 

Thanks a lot, Ruth!

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We were onboard the Zaandam when our Seattle Seahawks defeated Denver in the Super Bowl. The game was televised in the Show Lounge and the crew put on a great tail gate party. We will be on the Veendam for 2017 super bowl and hope Seahawks play again! Fun times!!

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On the ships that have been through dry dock refurbishment in the past few years, the new, flat screen TV's carry ESPN and ESPN-2. They do not carry any of the US commercial networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX). The other channels on the "Live TV" tab of the on-screen menus are mostly news channels, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, BBC World Service. So, if the playoffs you are looking for are on ESPN or ESPN-2 you are good. As far as any Sports Bar goes, unfortunately, on the renovated ships, the old Sports Bars on Deck 2, near the casino, are gone, and the space absorbed into the newer, bigger, (and questionably improved ???) Billboard Onboard Dueling Pianos. Some like it, some miss the intimate Piano bars of old. I'm sure HAL likes it, because the new venue is much bigger than the old piano bars, so that translates into more drink sales. Every sq. foot on the ship has to show a profit.

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On the ships that have been through dry dock refurbishment in the past few years, the new, flat screen TV's carry ESPN and ESPN-2. They do not carry any of the US commercial networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX). The other channels on the "Live TV" tab of the on-screen menus are mostly news channels, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, BBC World Service. So, if the playoffs you are looking for are on ESPN or ESPN-2 you are good. As far as any Sports Bar goes, unfortunately, on the renovated ships, the old Sports Bars on Deck 2, near the casino, are gone, and the space absorbed into the newer, bigger, (and questionably improved ???) Billboard Onboard Dueling Pianos. Some like it, some miss the intimate Piano bars of old. I'm sure HAL likes it, because the new venue is much bigger than the old piano bars, so that translates into more drink sales. Every sq. foot on the ship has to show a profit.

 

That's not really the case. On the renovated ships like the Eurodam games were on tvs in the gallery bar. In cabins with interactive TVs you will need to scroll past the other channels to a channel called special events (or something like that). This channel had the games.

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We will be on the Zaandam off the coast of Southern Chile during the Super Bowl. Does anyone know whether we will be able to watch the game there too?

 

We were in that location (Antarctica Cruise) in 2015 and we got the game in our room on the Zaandam without any issues.

 

Cheers,

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That's not really the case. On the renovated ships like the Eurodam games were on tvs in the gallery bar. In cabins with interactive TVs you will need to scroll past the other channels to a channel called special events (or something like that). This channel had the games.

 

On the two recent HAL cruises we were on, with the new TV channel lineup, the special events channel had 24/7 music and just the logo saying "Special Events". There were plenty of prime sporting events happening, especially on the weekends. ESPN and ESPN-2 were the only channels that carried some of the games. When asked, the front desk said they would refer my request for some sporting events to be on the "Special Events" channel, over to the AV department. Nothing ever happened. However, I would assume that anything as big as a major playoff game or the SuperBowl would be carried in the cabins and in some of the bars, especially the gallery bar.

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Last 11 days on Rotterdam, all the NFL playoff games and the NCAA championship were on the ship channels via ESPN International. ESPNI carries NFL outside the US, even if Fox, NBC or CBS has the game domestically. You might have to remind your Cruise Director how important these games are to American passengers, if the time frame is competing with soccer or cricket. But the NFL playoffs ARE available for them to tune in on their system.

 

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Just off the Rotterdam. Last weekend's wildcard games were shown in the Mix. The bartenders caught on the first game and moved all the bar chairs so no one sat in front of entire lounge watching the game.

 

For the NCAA championship game the entire area was packed. Unfortunately for the beginning of the game the shops which are located next to the mix were hosting a sale and drawing and it made hearing the game very difficult at the beginning. Once the free stuff was gone, so was the crowd and noise.

 

Later the issue became that the piano man complained to the cruise director that the tv was too loud so she had it turned down. He was thing singing over all of the game and people complained. There was 8 people listening to the piano and 40 watching the game. When someone said they were going back to their room to be able to be able to hear the announcers, the bar tenders saw sales evaporating and turned the tv back up.

 

They broadcast the special games on channel 39 - so even if it wasn't a normal ESPN game it was still available.

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