Thinking about taking a nice relaxing cruse on the Westerdam, think again! Better pack your EAR PLUGS and a GAS MASK. Heres my familys 7day Alaskan trip.
July 16, 2006 Sunday room 1107 -- After our family arrived in our stateroom we could not help but notice the noisy commotion coming from under our room. Coming from somewhere directly below us was the banging of hammers (so loud making the floor vibrate) a drilling noise and metal grinders. We excitingly unpack looking forward to our great relaxing trip. Hoping the noise would cease when we left port, we said nothing.
July 17, 2006 Monday room 1107 -- Monday started off just as noisy as the day before. Again all the same noises we heard yesterday. They started up and never stopped the entire day. We spoke with Sheila Arcilla (day manager) and she informed us that this construction was part of the daily maintenance and it would go on until the job was done. That it was an environmental job and it would get done no matter how long it took. But they would only go on until late afternoon. When we left for dinner at 6:00 p.m. the noise was still going on. After a day and a half of this we were told that there was a room available down the hall and we could have it, but only during the day for the next two days. Another family was coming in two days and it was their room when we reached Juneau. We could sleep in our room at night and relax in another room during the day. This was not what we wanted to do. We just tried to stay away from our room during day light hours.