Westerdam Review

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Review for the Eastern Caribbean Cruise on Westerdam
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kjwent
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Feb 2014

We parked at Park and Fly -- great operation. They got us right over to the ship, and we walked right in, put the luggage through the scanner, walked through the body scanner -- and the fire alarm went off in the building. All the employees started yelling -- get out! get out! So we grabbed our stuff and exited the building. After standing around for about 45 minutes they let us back in. We found out later it was some electrical problem in the building's elevator shaft. Nothing to do with the ship -- people onboard didn't even know about it.

We went right to our Mariner's lunch and found out from the people seated next to us that the cabins were ready. Immediately after lunch we went to our cabin. No sooner had we closed the door when there was a knock -- our luggage arrived! We unpacked and were on our way to the upper deck when there was another knock -- our cabin steward, Faisol. He was checking to see how many pieces of our luggage he needed to find -- we said, none, it's here. He and his assistant, Chamid, were wonderful all week. We got the ice we requested every day, and we always found our cabin was cleaned when we went out for breakfast. Unlike the last ship we were on (Epic), there were never rows of carts in all the hallways at all times of the day. A pleasure not to have to try and walk by 10 carts to get to the elevators.

And the Room Service people pick up the trays in a timely fashion. I like the card on the tray asking you not to put the dirty dishes in the hall. That's another thing we had to walk around on the Epic.

Cabin Review

The Verandah was large, but the glass is never cleaned. So if you're sitting in the chairs you can barely see the ocean! The spray was very strong on this trip, so I used wet wipes on the chairs and the rails to get the crusted salt off everything. Faisol was very good -- he took in the chair pads so they didn't get damp or salty.

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