Live from Nieuw Statendam 14 day Canary Island Allure April 21 - May 5, 2024

VMax1700 · April 27

View of the Orange party at Lido pool. The roof was mostly open and the atmosphere was raucus. There was so, so much food being offered.

tjcox9 · April 28

On 4/26/2024 at 5:52 PM, VMax1700 said:

I will do the 'housekeeping' of menus etc later, but we had a great day touring part of Tenerife arranged by @sailingdutchy Tony . We had a great day, a fine lunch and wonderful conversation. The guide whom Tony picked was absolutely top class. We visited Icod de los vinos and Garachico along the north coast. Our guide selected various plates for our lunch which we all shared, including bean soup, grilled cheese with sauces, berenjenas con miel ( deep fried sliced egg plant drizzled in local palm honey), and goat stew with canarias potatoes.

The onboard entertainment tonight was a Flamenco group, who gave an above average, though unatmospheric, performance. Flamenco is not local to las Canarias but the tourists expect it!

We have a late sailaway tonight at 11pm for the short trip to Gran Canaria.

Would you or sailingdutchy be willing to share the name of the company/guide you used. Sounds like our kinda tour.

Also, thanks for the daily reports!

oakridger · April 28

15 hours ago, cavecreekguy said:

I have fond memories of the "pub crawl" events that were discontinued years ago. I hope the "bar hop" is similar.

From the descriptions, it sounds like the same kind of event! Crawl....Hop......I guess it depends on how many drinks one has!!! 😁

~Nancy

POA1 · April 28

Your Orange Party snacks look to be much more extensive than we had in the Caribbean. I like the pool as a venue as opposed to BB King.

VMax1700 · April 28

Catching up on today, Sunday 28th April in Arrecife, Lanzarote

Here is where NSDM was docked

approx 5 kms (3.5 mls) from town centre.

a free shuttle was offered supposedly to centre, but it was a good distance from the centre (about 1km) but close to tourist office and restaurants/cafes on the front.

Being Sunday there was very little retail open, but we walked up to the shopping centre which had the usual range of stores (Zara, Primark, Primor cosmetics, Jysk, a supermarket etc) all open.

we took a taxi from the stoes back to the ship for €9 (nine euro).

VMax1700 · April 28

Here are today's menus

MDR Dinner

Lido Lunch

Lido Dinner

Lido Late snack

VMax1700 · April 28

The files for today's menus

north_europe_dr_menu_06_reformat.pdf

m8-day8-_lido_lunch_north_europe.pdf

m8-day8-_lido_dinner_north_europe.pdf

day_1_lido_late_snack (1).pdf

VMax1700 · April 28

There was a special Tapas corner with many Spanish delicacies in Lido tonight....

It was so good that I had dinner just from the tapas...

the "main course"

and churros for dessert. 😋

VMax1700 · April 28

Here is Today's Daily

VMax1700 · April 28

And today we received the dreaded Disembarkation Notice

Mary229 · April 28

2 minutes ago, VMax1700 said:

And today we received the dreaded Disembarkation Notice

😢

Mary229 · April 28

@VMax1700 do you know if pax can purchase the airport transfer on the ship, not the tour plus transfer but simply the transfer. I have a large OBC on an upcoming voyage and was hoping to use it for the transfer. Thanks for your input and thanks for the detailed report.

VMax1700 · April 28

1 hour ago, POA1 said:

Your Orange Party snacks look to be much more extensive than we had in the Caribbean. I like the pool as a venue as opposed to BB King.

Pool venue has so much more party atmosphere. Under the big screen was dance area and they had put in the 'high pedestal tables' that are used for Captain's reception etc around the rest ot the pool area. Jose, the entertainments host, was giving it max volume and max encouragement, but no one needed encouraging. It was the best Orange party I have experienced so far.

VMax1700 · April 28

This afternoon the BBK band were trying out some new material

VMax1700 · April 28

9 minutes ago, Mary229 said:

@VMax1700 do you know if pax can purchase the airport transfer on the ship, not the tour plus transfer but simply the transfer. I have a large OBC on an upcoming voyage and was hoping to use it for the transfer. Thanks for your input and thanks for the detailed report.

Yes they can $39 pp.

VMax1700 · April 28

22 hours ago, tjcox9 said:

Would you or sailingdutchy be willing to share the name of the company/guide you used. Sounds like our kinda tour.

Also, thanks for the daily reports!

Tony did all the booking so I will check with him.

Edited April 28 by VMax1700

YourWorldWithBill · April 29

Following this, @VMax1700, in preparation for boarding the NS next Sunday, 5 May, in Rotterdam!

oakridger · April 29

@VMax1700 I also am so happy to see the enhanced regional foods in both the Lido and MDR! The party by the pool looks so great and fresh air to breath while dancing! (Weather permitting of course) There have been reports on other ships about classical music and additional music added in the World Stage too!

It sounds like HAL is listening and adding what many cruisers have been missing since the restart after covid. I'm feeling good about this!

I really hope that guests that are pleased with the new/improved food and entertainment offerings are giving lots of positive reinforcement to HAL via "Tell Us" on the Navigator app and post cruise surveys! 🙂

Thanks for sharing all the good stuff happening on board!

~Nancy