Nieuw Amsterdam Review
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We were on the Nieuw Amsterdam for 2 weeks on a collectors cruise, which is a lot like a back to back. Week 1 was Western Caribbean and week 2 was Eastern. There were two ports that repeated during this time, Half Moon Cay and Grand Turk.
The ship
I found the ship to be very large and at times confusing (just my bad sense of direction) but the decor was lovely and nicely done, including the Manhattan dinning room that so many seem to not like the red colors. Although we were on the lower dinning only and I never did get up to see the upper dinning area.
Cabin Review
Deluxe Ocean-View Verandah Stateroom
Our cabin the first week was a huge disappointment. A VA with veranda. Less storage than the Maasdam's Veranda cabins and the beds were very hard. Not anything like the original HAL mattresses. The biggest disappointment was that in cabin 7094 there was a horrible burning smell that come to find out, is a KNOWN flaw in the ships design and the kitchen exhaust fumes leach out directly to this stateroom and at least one other stateroom. We were told that there is no fix that they can do because its under warranty still and they have to get the original ship builders to do it.I would not recommend anyone booking this room or anywhere near it till they get that fix. It made both my hubby and I sick. After the front office skirted the issue for 4 days we finally got through to the supervisor who then told us we could sleep in another lower graded cabin 1094. This cabin was better on not making me sick from fumes but was not cleaned well or matained well. It also had more space to store things, not that we packed anything to bring down with us. We only slept in that cabin. Our things remained in cabin 7094.Also just so you know. 7094 is across from the stewards cleaning supply closet. It was very busy during morning and evening hours but quiet the rest of the time.