There are 6 of us in our group, my friends from Canada came the night before departure, and my brother and his wife that live in Seattle. My husband and I live on the Olympic Peninsula across the sound from Seattle. We met at the pier around 11:30, left our luggage with the porters and went up the escalator to check in... check is was quick and easy and we boarded the Amsterdam around 11:45,our cabins were ready for us, and we went to our cabin and left our carry ons, then we went to the MDR for the welcome back lunch that is served instead of waiting in the lines at the lido. My brother and his wife came with us, although this is their first cruise, ever. After lunch we explored the ship a bit, we had cruised on Amsterdam before but the others had not. We had our lifeboat drill, but didn't have to have our lifejacket on. We sailed from Seattle at 5pm. We went to dinner around 7pm - open seating, we went as a group of 6 for dinner and asked for a table by the window, we got a window.and enjoyed the view as we sailed , our waiters were Iman, and Gede, (g - day)
June 2, was a cruising day, on our way to Ketchikan, the waters were a little rough, and my Sister-in-law was not feeling well, went to the front desk and got some pills, she then took to her cabin. We went to dinner around 7:30 and asked for the same table, which we were "blessed" with for the entire cruise.
during dinner that evening there were only 5 of us,we saw whales while dining.
anice location, middle of ship on the starboard side, the cabin was a little smaller than we have had in same catagory on other ships, but adequate. lots of closet space. the shampoos, body wash, and conditioner are now on the wall.
I didn't like their hair dryers, but brought my own. Our cabin stewards were very attentive and filled up our rolling ice chest every day. I had lost an earring in the bed, it was sitting on my bedside table the next am.
Our cabin had it's carpets cleaned on of the days we were on board, the carpet was damp for a while, but posed no problem. I was dissapointed to not see the towel monkey this trip!!