We went on a 3 day repositioning cruise for the MS Amsterdam to begin its Alaska season. We had been looking for a short cruise to take with the kids after their school year ended, and found this one. We booked it, as well as a hotel in Vancouver for a few days after the cruise ended.

We boarded at the Port of San Diego. The process was simple, but we saw no place to drop our larger bag, so we subsequently ended up dragging it aboard ourselves. No big deal, it was just different than our previous experiences with boarding a cruise.

After getting onboard, we explored a little bit and were surprised at how NON-crowded the ship was, in spite of the face that it may have been fully booked. our previous experiences had been with larger ships with larger crowds, and we were pleased that the Amsterdam was not as "busy" Read more