Rare eroller Posted February 25, 2019 #1 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Enjoying a fantastic cruise onboard NIEUW STATENDAM so far. Really impressed with the ship and cuisine especially. A big improvement from my last HAL cruise almost 10 years ago. Woke up this morning to our mirror image, as sister ship KONINGSDAM is anchored next to us. Tendering was very smooth in the large island tenders and HMC did not feel crowded even with the two newest and largest ships in the HAL anchored together. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeponcruising Posted February 25, 2019 #2 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Nice pictures, thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare eroller Posted February 25, 2019 Author #3 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Off she goes. Bon Voyage to KONINGSDAM. Very fun horn exchange between NS and K-Dam. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazy Kruizers Posted February 25, 2019 #4 Share Posted February 25, 2019 Great pictures. Thank you for sharing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crossingfan Posted February 26, 2019 #5 Share Posted February 26, 2019 As usual your photos are beautiful! Can't wait to see and hear more Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatcat04 Posted February 26, 2019 #6 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Such lovely pictures. I had actually wondered how crowded the island would seem with 2 big ships. I have only ever been there with one HAL ship. But now looking, sometimes 2 big Carnival ships are there together and that is over 7000 people. Eek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doone Posted February 26, 2019 #7 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Great pictures, thanks for sharing. We are on the next sailing of the Koningsdam and cannot wait. We are looking at the Nieuw Statendam for our next cruise, very excited......especially sitting here in New England with temps around 24 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ski ww Posted February 26, 2019 #8 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Thanks for sharing the great pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CM1984 Posted February 26, 2019 #9 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Would love to have heard the horn exchange! Thanks for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare rafinmd Posted February 26, 2019 #10 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Were there enough of the shore based tenders to serve both ships or did the regular tender boats need to get involved? Roy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare puppycanducruise Posted February 26, 2019 #11 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Lovely. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiserBruce Posted February 26, 2019 #12 Share Posted February 26, 2019 2 hours ago, rafinmd said: Were there enough of the shore based tenders to serve both ships or did the regular tender boats need to get involved? Roy I am sure they used ship's tenders. Unless there has been a recent increase in island based tenders, there aren't enough at HMC to handle both ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare eroller Posted February 27, 2019 Author #13 Share Posted February 27, 2019 No ship’s tenders were used for either ship. It was the large land based tenders only. I noticed even the “glass bottom boat” was being used as a tender. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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