Noordam Review

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20+ day Mediterranean cruise

Review for the Eastern Mediterranean Cruise on Noordam
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Mary from Hawaii
First Time Cruiser • Age 70s

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

I booked this cruise ON MY OWN. I contacted HAL on several occasions to ask about the cruise, the facilities,the ports and I was ALWAYS met with half answers and fairly nasty attitudes. Their reply to me was to "Contact your travel professional for these answers"...HELLO!

Because of their lack of information, I spent a great deal of additional time researching the ports and actually did quite well. Things about the ship remained a mystery until we actually got there!

The ship was old, but nice enough. Our room was on the end of the ship with an extra large verandah. Our room stewards were wonderful and very attentive. The dinning room waiters were slow, the passengers were not all that friendly and basically kept to themselves. It may be because of the busy schedule and lack of activities on the ship. The front desk people were great but I sent post cards from every port to the grandchildren and paid the going rate for that port, but I see that a lot were mailed from the same port with the same stamps so they must have just held on to them and mailed when they could. They promised the mail went out everyday. I think not.

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Deluxe Ocean-View Verandah Stateroom

Cabin VB

We had a stateroom on 7 97140) at the end of the ship. We had a larger verandah than rooms on the sides. The room was a tiny bit larger, but not that much. Sitting and watching the wake was restful and we always had beautiful views of the ports as we left. It was 2 decks right below the buffet and 4 decks just above the Vista Dinning Room...very convenient. We did have some fall out from the pool deck a couple of times but it was more of a laugh than a problem. We usually backed into port so we had the best view and if we did not, we could see both sides being on the end. I am sold on rooms in that area!

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