Fire on Westerdam

[we2cruisers]

Does anyone have any information concerning the fire on the Westerdam yesterday? The only thing I have seen is an email to someone on the roll call board (small fire that was put out). Just curious as we will be on this ship next week.

[Navy_Chief]

If it didn't make national news, I wouldn't worry about it. Could have been a waist paper basket :D if anything at all. Even a small fire is a serious matter at sea so it could be interperated by passengers as something bigger than it truely was. Or for that matter, a drill that was thought to be something real.

[English muffin]

Hello WEcruisers

We are also on the Westerdam next week we are travelling from England and are on a back to back so I hope that the fire was not serious. There has not been any mention of this in our newspaper, if it was serious it would have been in the news. Although small fires can soon become serious. something may come up in the next threads. Not long to go now.:)

[Schplinky]

I googled this and the only mention of a fire i could find was the one they had when they were building the ship. It doesn't seemto have made the news anywhere, if there was a fire recently.

[Krazy Kruizers]

We had a small fire on the Statendam this past June -- didn't make the news anywhere.

 

So if it isn't in the news - nothing to worry about.

[Debi_D]

We are on the Westerdam now and it happened just after we set sail from Ft. Lauderdale. It was in the incenerator's (sp?) and it was small and they had it under control in a matter of minutes. They did sound the alarms due to the fact that several smoke detectors went off and that will automatically sound all alarms.

 

Other than that we are having a wonderful time, food, service and cabin is fabulous. The weather has been perfect along with the seas.. We are in cabins 6105 and 6107 and our room stewarded Abdul is top notch. Haven't seen much entertainment, we tend to entertain ourselves on our own. The internet is VERY SLOW on the ship... Well off for now and I will try to write a review when I return. BTW, Half Moon Cay was A+, we had the Orange Cabana and a Butler, the food was to die for....

 

Deb

[SarahQ]

Debi_D - thanks for the update!

 

We'll be on the Westerdam next week as well, and we had heard there was a small fire from one of our roll call members doing a B2B (Mary & Don).

 

I've heard lots of great things about your cruise this week, so I hope ours is just as great next week :)

[cruisingclay]

I hope it was just some burnt toast. My family will be on the Westerdam 24- 31 cruise. Cruise critic group meeting after life boat drill on the 24.

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=265585

I hope you can stop by and say Hi. Thanks Clay

[Debi_D]

Update on the cruise. This was fabulous except for today, seas a very rough and it is pouring out... Well at least it is good for packing.... Will write a review next week.

 

Deb