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Eurodam 10 Day Baltic Cruise

Review for the Baltic Sea Cruise on Eurodam
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CathyK2
First Time Cruiser • Age 20s

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Sail Date: Jun 2012

We started with 2 nights pre-cruise in Copenhagen. We got the 24 hour Copenhagen Pass at the airport which included all public transportation and admission for over 65 attractions and museums. We were on high speed as soon as we landed so this Pass was an amazing deal for us. We took the train from the airport to the center of Copenhagen (about a 45 minute trip) and checked into our hotel. One word of warning that I know others discussed as well, but make sure your train is heading the right direction. It's easy to think you have the right track and get on it the wrong direction. We stayed at Clarion Mayfair Collection Hotel which was selected since it was walkable from the Central Copenhagen Train Station (two short blocks). Also, the fact that it included a full breakfast, a tea time as well as a light dinner from 6-9 pm. Trip Advisor had given the hotel amazing reviews but the one bad issue I saw that most often came up against it was that it was on the cusp of the red light district and had a "club" across the street. I found that once getting there, in reality, it was really just a great landmark with the lights of the signs an easy way for finding our hotel in the evening, since it is right across. It was more of an upscale Gentleman's Club and by no means an issue. It did not feel unsafe or seedy in any way but yes, there is definitely huge signage letting you know that "Lady Love" is there. :-) We had a room overlooking the front of the hotel and found no noise coming from it. The included food was excellent at the hotel and the "light dinner" that we did attend both evenings was so much more than we were expecting. Very creative and tasted great which is why we did make a special trip back the second night just for this. They change the menu each night but both of our nights were amazing and fun things to try.

Copenhagen: I had been here before in the late 70's and loved this city, but my husband had not, so having the Copenhagen Pass, we started with some of the basics that were all included in the pass price. This pass is pretty extensive and there was nothing that we had wanted to do that wasn't included in the admission price, so it is an excellent deal if you plan to go to more than a few of the places on this pass. We started with the Canal tour that is about an hour long and gives you a quick overview of this very walkable city. Our tour was done in English so we got a very good insight of the foundation. Like most European cities, this too had a pedestrian street that we walked with lots of shops and restaurants , although we used it only as a street to get from point A to point B. Since we had taken an all night flight and didn't get in until the afternoon, we were exhausted, but after dinner, we went in to Tivoli. This is a scenic amusement park that is known to be Walt Disney's inspiration for Disneyland. We were not there to ride rides, but to see the place lite up at night. I'm not sure it is a good deal if you are paying to just walk around but with it free with the pass, it worked out great for us. The Nimb Restaurant is gorgeous with all the lights and fountains. I had wanted to get smrrebrd which is a Danish open faced sandwich, unlike anything we have in our country so since my first choice place of Ida Davidsen wasn't opened on weekends (I had seen it when Samatha Brown was doing a Copenhagen segment), we went instead to Groften in Tivoli. Normally, I wouldn't have paid admission to get in the park to go here, but we were already in. Tivoli has many of the Michelin Awarded restaurants so this isn't a typical amusement park with unappealing fast food. At night, they have many free concerts and stage shows. The night we were there, they had anything from ballet to an Australian band called Wolf Mother that I would say is a cross between Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath with a few others tossed in. Since this was the night we flew in, we watched a few numbers, took lots of night time pictures, ate since although we had the light dinner, that came in as lunch time since we were still on east coast time in the U.S and then went back to the hotel. The next morning, we got up and after a great breakfast at the hotel and we headed to Christiansborg Palace and were actually going for the ruins underground, but first ended up at the admissions desk for the actual palace and since it was included in our pass with separate admissions, we did both. This is the palace that the Queen of Denmark will use on occasion for her various receptions. Very elegant but we really didn't stay long since we were really there for the ruins which were fascinating. From there, we went to Rosenborg Castle where the Crown Jewels are. Lovely grounds as well. All of this is very walkable and we headed over to Rundetaarn which is the Round Tower which is the oldest functioning observatory in Europe but has a viewing platform of the city at the top. You get up by walking a cobblestone spiral type road inside the building. Since we had a great sunny day and enjoyed our view from the top here, we headed to the s-baun to the Church of our Saviour which took a lot more energy since it's a lot of stairs on the inside and then an external winding staircase in the corkscrew spire. With the wind and small path, it made it a bit hair raising but was quite an adventure. Our pass was coming to the end of the 24 hours so we headed over to the Hans Christian Anderson Museum which was near our hotel since we were tired and wanted to be there for tea time. This is one thing I would probably pass on in the future but since we didn't actually pay for it, it was acceptable. It has a lot of displays with HC Anderson's various stories where they give you the 2 or 3 minute version in an animated display in various languages with some history about him, but surely not worth a special trip. We took a short trip over to the Amber Museum which has the largest personally owned piece of amber on display and all sorts of other pieces, but again, nothing to make a special trip for. Spent some time in Nyhavn which is the adorable harbor there and probably the area that most would be familiar with the pictures from this part of town. We had seen the Little Mermaid from the canal tour but walked over there for another picture since the sun was wrong the day before on our canal tour. We were EXHAUSTED but saw so much and slept well after all of that.

The next morning, we slept in since this was the day we were boarding our ship. We had a late breakfast and headed to the cruise ship by taxi. The Eurodam was lovely. We, like most of the ship, those paying before final payment were upgraded in cabin category. We had paid for a guarantee balcony and got the most expensive verandah mid ship category on deck 8 but this was more the norm on this sailing than the exception. The cabin was pretty much like most cruise lines of this category so nothing stood out as being bad or good. It was nice and comfortable. I don't think I had ever been on a ship that had so many people talking about their great upgrades, but this was a good feeling for all of us. Our Captain for this sailing was Bas van Dreumel from the Netherlands and our cruise director was JC. One of the things we enjoy on many of the lines is the travel talks by the travel guides and Ian did an amazing job with his seminars. Although, we basically knew what we were doing in each port, we still would go to his seminars since you always pick up so many tidbits that make your time in port so much more fulfilling. I highly recommend these and Ian was very informative on this sailing.

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