I've been on 13 previous cruises on Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Princess since 1995. The city of Seattle is a vibrant city with a soul and you should absolutely spend some time exploring this wonderful city. I had one day before and 3 days after and I want to come back to this city that never sleeps and where music flows from the bars in Capitol Hill. It was safe to walk back to my hotel and we had fantastic weather in both Seattle and Alaska.

I loved this medium-sized ship and the artwork aboard, however several matters greatly affected our cruise. This was an all charter cruise with RSVP and I was part of the Lazy Bear Out To Sea group.

First I traveled with a vegetarian, and he called Holland America on August 10 and told them he was a vegetarian, and gave them our stateroom number 2638. He was assured that there would be adequate vegetarian options available onboard. In actuality, there were very few vegetarian meals on board and he went hungry several times. On the second to the last night, we found out there was vegetarian menu we should have asked for. How can we know to ask for it if we were not aware of its existence! The front desk made it sound like it was our fault too. Read more