This was our first experience cruising on Holland America. This was a roundtrip cruise to Alaska out of Seattle. We took this cruise because we wanted to go to the port of Sitka. We had cruised 11 times in the past on a different cruise line. I had also worked for one of the cruise lines in Alaska one year.
We traveled to Seattle by Amtrak and arrived only a couple hours before we needed to board the ship. Holland America did a great job of getting us through the boarding process. My wife is handicapped and they did everything they could to expedite our boarding so my wife would not have to stand around for a long time. We did get a photo background dropped on us during the boarding process but that was no big deal.
We got to our room 8010 a veranda and were very pleased with the room. Our luggage showed up within 5 minutes of our getting to our room and we got to meet our room steward at that time. At this point things were very positive for our first experience on Holland America.
The room was a VA class room 8010. The room was very clean and well laid out. The balcony was one of the highlights of the ship. There was plenty of storage and we have absolutely no complaints about the room what so ever.