Westerdam Review

Westerdam - Eastern Caribbean

Review for the Eastern Caribbean Cruise on Westerdam
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minmor719
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Oct 2006
Cabin: Deluxe Ocean-View Verandah Stateroom

We arrived on Ft Lauderdale on Sat 10/14 we stayed at the Ramada near the port. Our room was OK, we booked through an internet discount site. The room was fine but the entire hotel kinda smelled musty. We ate in the hotel dining room it was expensive for what we got but fine since we took the free shuttle from the airport and we had no car to go elsewhere-note this hotel is not close to anything for walking to, But the shuttle driver took us to the store to pick up some diet soda to take along with us to the ship we did tip him although he did not charge us, we though that that was very nice for them to do. We took the free shuttle to the port as well.There wa alot of pre and post cruise people staying there. They also have a free breakfast buffet in the morning that was fine as well.

On 10/15 We arrived via the free port shuttle from the hotel to board the ship at 12:00 noon, there was a huge line out the door of the terminal, that being said we actually arrived on board at a little after 1:00pm. Everything moved along in a well organized fashion. We went directly to the Lido to eat lunch it was packed but we were able to get a seat pretty quickly. At about 1:30 they announced that all the rooms were ready, we got our bags by 4:00pm. Our cabin number was 8101 it is a balcony cabin on the navigation deck closest to the rear of the ship. We were two feet from the elevator which we only used to return from deck 3 to our room. The room was much bigger than we anticipated with nice sized balcony with two chairs a foot rest and a table. The bathroom had a tub and shower and the soap, shampoo and such was by Elemis.  We had a seating area next to the bed and room was equipped with lovely bathrobes for our use.

We had the 8:30 seating for dinner. We sat a a table for 6 with 3 couples no kids. In fact there was a very small number of kids on board that week . We got on very well with our table mates and loved the dinner conversation and in fact met up with them during other times too. We picked late seating so we would not have to rush on port days which was perfect for that but eating that late was hard since we rarely left the dining room before 10:00pm. The food was fabulous presented gorgeously and everything we ate was the perfect temp. Our table steward was a man a few words and was somewhat slow with the service, but other than that it was perfect. We did eat in the pinnacle grill on Monday 10/16 which was the 1st formal night. The food was adequate and the service was impeccable, but honestly the food in the dining room was so good I would not bother with the pinnacle grill in the future. We did purchase a wine package and the head wine steward Bearnie was great as was all of his staff. We attend one of the wine tastings and it was very informative and the wines were all high end. The Lido is hands down the best buffet on any cruise ship we have been on. We ate breakfast and lunch there every day, there were many stations that prepared the food to your specification both for breakfast and lunch every thing was very good tasting.

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