I had 2 weeks vacations with nowhere to go when I saw a last minute sailing offer on the Canada and New England cruise sailing out of Montreal on June 28. As I live in Montreal I thought, why not. No stress to get to the ship and a quick flight home from Boston. I boarded the ship with the expectation that it would just be an ok cruise. Wow was I wrong. I had so much fun. I love the Maasdam and I plan to do this cruise every year from now on. So within one hour of leaving my house I was boarding the ship. This was so cool.

Ship

My last cruise was on Celebrity Reflection so I was little worried about how I would take to an older smaller ship but Maasdam had everything I needed and it was very nicely refurbished. It really brought me back to how I felt cruising 30 years ago! About the only thing I really missed was a Sunset bar. Maasdam’s Sea View bar was a very poor cousin in comparison to the Reflection’s Sunset Bar. I did like the arrangement of all the lounges inside the ship though. Another thing that I loved was that you could go out on the bow of the ship for sailaway. I don’t think many people were aware they could do this as it was never very crowded. Read more