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Veendam June 1st-8th Canada and New England Cruise

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2-5 Cruises • Age 30s

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Sail Date: Jun 2013
Cabin: Verandah Suite

My mom and I took this cruise on the MS Veendam leaving out of Boston June 1st with stops in Boston, Bar Harbor, Halifax, Sydney, Charlottetown, and ending in Quebec.

We're both pretty new to cruising. We took a cruise last year to Alaska on Royal Caribbean and enjoyed it immensely. We chose Holland for this cruise since it was the only line that offered this itinerary in June.

Initially we were a bit hesitant to sail on Holland since the reputation seemed to show that it appealed mostly to an older crowd, and that was definitely the case. I'm only 22 but i'm not really interested in the late night activities that appeal to a lot of people my age so it wasn't really a problem. The first night I was worried that the cruise wouldn't be very lively since at the opening night show the crowd was not too enthusiastic but everyone definitely seemed to have a lot of fun as the week went on. We don't like socializing with new people that much but I was surprised how friendly everyone was on this ship. Of course we encountered a few bad apples but I think that's the case wherever you are.The Veendam is small so you see a lot of the same people over and over again. We got to know a few people that we talked with multiple times and we met a lot of people from our area, Bay Area (CA), so that was nice. We were a little frustrated at times at how long we had to wait to walk from one place to another, or get on and off the ships and the tender, since we moved much much faster then everybody else. But that really wasn't that big of a deal.

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Verandah Suite

Cabin B

We stayed in a Verandah Cabin B Category, towards the middle of the ship. We actually were upgraded to a balcony which was really nice. We wished we could have had a balcony in Alaska so it was great to have one this time. We tried to use our balcony whenever we could but there were a quite a few times that we couldn't because it was too cold or rainy, but I think that's unavoidable in the area. I get sea sick so I think the location of the room definitely helped. The ship was very rocky the second night, more so then I had ever experienced, but it calmed down after that. And in our room it never was too bad. Our room was very nice, it was bigger then we expected it to be and I loved that there was lots of closet space. My only complaints would be the shower, which was very complicated and hard to turn on. We ended up taking baths most of the time which was okay since the bath had water jets which was nice after a long day walking around ports. The light switches were also confusing, we could never remember which switch turned on which light since there were so many of them. Our room was always cleaned when we came in and I loved the fact that they leave chocolates on your bed every night.

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