Westerdam Review

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Never Again

Review for the Panama Canal & Central America Cruise on Westerdam
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barrycher
10+ Cruises • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Oct 2013

Lets start at the beginning: the embarkation was flawless with the exception that you had to walk up a lot of stairs if you weren't lucky enough to get an elevator within a decent time frame. Next the cabin, it was a great cabin but I had a problem with the cabin steward from the first minute. We were in 5184, a perfect aft cabin with lots of space on the outside. The inside was normal HAL however, the A/C wasn't working and the steward said when we get going it will be better, that was the first of many temperature problems, the solution was that we were given a big box fan which mad my wife very happy.

The rest was fine unless you consider that we were sideswiping a hurricane, so we spent 1 1/2 days in Puerta Vallarta and nothing in the port of Hutalco. The next port was ridiculous! we went into the town of Chiapis where they took no dollars for anything from water to the most disgusting bathrooms. We got back on a bus that took us back to the ship and that was Chiapis.

Shows were cute and good; casino's were not for the real gambler. The craps table didn't open until 9pm which meant if that was your game you didn't get to play. The excuse was that they didn't have enough dealers. The best "deal" was there were about 3-5 hours of Microsoft education each day and the teacher was great. I loved learning about Windows 8 and my wife learned about improving her photraphy skills.

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Great verandah; very hot cabin; you could easily unpack and store 4 suitcases.

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