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joedniceguy
2-5 Cruises • Age 80s

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Sail Date: May 2012
Cabin: Deluxe Ocean-View Verandah Stateroom

This is our 4th cruise with Holland America, and the second on the Westerdam. My sister and I travel together, she had a ocean view room and I had a verandah room.

We flew into Seattle 2 days before and stayed at the Fairmont Olympic hotel. Wonderful "old world" hotel with excellent service, comfortable beds and great atmosphere. Seattle is a wonderful city. Thank you "Tours Northwest" for a wonderful 3 hour tour of Seattle (best I've ever taken). We took in the "King Tut" exhibit which was OK, but the highlight was the Dale Chihuly glass exhibit which was fantastic. Had lunch at the Space Needle which was great, reservation includes free entrance to the viewing deck. Really loved Seattle and in hindsight, wished I had stayed longer in Seattle.

We had prepaid transfer with HAL for airport to hotel, and at the end of the cruise transfer from the ship to the airport. I would not suggest this transfer. HAL representative met us at the luggage carousel and escorted us to the waiting area for transfer. It was chaotic with mass confusion reigning, the young attendants did not seem to know what they were doing. Shuttles came and went loaded with people from other cruise lines. We waited over an hour & half for a shuttle, only after complaining very loudly did we finally get a shuttle to the hotel. Wish I had just taken a taxi to the hotel. At the end of the cruise, did not want to miss our airline flight because of the confusion with HAL transfer, so we went with "Sabra Limo Service" to transport us to the airport. We carried off our luggage and called them when exiting the terminal. They were there within a few minutes - great service, arrived at the airport with plenty of time to spare for our 11:30 flight.

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