I don't want to write a long dissertation about this cruise as my wife and I had a really good time, despite being surrounded by sick passengers with flu like symptoms, coughing and spluttering everywhere.
This was our first cruise on Holland America, having done several cruises on Celebrity. We selected this cruise due to the South Pacific itinerary that was very attractive to us. Moorea was by far the best Island and swimming with the reef sharks an experience not to forget. Rarotonga and Bora Bora were close runners up.
Here are a few items, in no particular order, that Holland America falls short on: