I wanted to tell you about our cruise. The ms Statendam was the smallest ship we had been on for awhile and with only 1200+ passengers it did make a difference.

Our cabin was in a great position on the fifth deck - and only two doors away from embarkation entrance and debarkation exit. Perfect! Although we had the Promenade deck directly above us - I never found it a problem. Our ocean view was terrific and I found myself using it so much more than I thought. We would sit in our room and watch the sunset and have a glass of wine. We did miss a refrigerator that we had been used to, but we used our ice bucket to cool our wine so not a problem. We loved our stewards and they would even let us keep our towel buddies - so that I had a collection on the back of our sofa over time.

Now not everyone had as great a cabin as we did. We heard about people having rooms too hot or too cold. Then some on deck 4 had water leaks that flooded their cabins. Some people had to sleep in the library one night. I don't know how many cabins may have been affected - but we heard some got off in Cartegena and flew home. Again - it was what we heard. Read more