Nieuw Amsterdam Review

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Bad honeymoon. Contaminated food.

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emmakgg
2-5 Cruises • Age 30s

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Sail Date: Aug 2014
Cabin: Penthouse Verandah Suite

Where do I start? We had a cabin that seemed fine but got 'upgraded' to the same cabin one floor above due to it being our honeymoon - to the cabin with noise problems (as even acknowledged in their own on board video). Presumably someone in the know wouldn't book unless they got our original quiet cabin. Got no sleep all cruise (and not for fun honeymoon reasons - no energy for that, so tired!).

I am vegetarian (husband is not) but they would drip the meat to carve up across the vegetarian dishes to carve on a chopping board, leaving meat juice and piece in the veggie food (= food poisoning!). Why not put the meat next to the chopping board, not the veggie dish that didn't need carving? Staff have no sense. DO NOT CRUISE WITH THEM IF YOU HAVE ALLERGIES - YOU COULD DIE. It was not just the food you can see that was a problem as I found meat in things that had been prepared out the back etc. Seems picky but you can get v ill from it if your body is not used to it (not to mention not nice/against ppl's beliefs etc) and obviously raises serious concerns for allergy suffers. Husband's meat was bad. Juice just water with hint of juice. Everything watered down - could do with trading standards weights and measures visit.

We got photos on board and paid for whole package of all photos plus digital versions. Weirdly they scan the photos in order to give you the digital photos. Package dear yet when we got home realised we were missing photos. Scans also poor quality but had to purchase as part of package.

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Penthouse Verandah Suite

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