Ryndam (Retired) Review

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1st week in January family cruise

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Ryndam (Retired)
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10+ Cruises • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Jan 2012
Cabin: Large Interior Stateroom
Traveled with children

We just returned from a 6 night trip on the Ryndam and really enjoyed it. This is about our 12-15th cruise and we have traveled on NCL, Carnival, Disney, RCI and on Holland American (previously on the Westerdam). We are in our 40's and traveled with two teenagers and other family members.

After reading some of the recent reviews I was concerned that the quality had deteriorated, but am glad to report that there were many more positives than negatives on this cruise. The ship is certainly much smaller than most, but it still had all the basics needed to have a great time. I especially liked the Culinary Arts Center, which doubled as a movie theatre throughout the day. We got to see Moneyball and I was pleased that the movies offered were pretty current. They offered complimentary popcorn while there. I think it is a great idea that they offer computer classes free of charge too; however, none of the classes were Apple/Mac related - so that counted us out.

It was nice that the traditional hairy man contest and newlywed game weren't offered, so instead we took advantage of going on the complimentary behind the scenes kitchen tour and the backstage entertainers tour. Speaking of entertainers, while the first show was absolutely awful, the others were very good. The quality of singers was exceptional - some of the best singers I've ever heard on a cruise. I almost felt bad for them that they went from working on Broadway to working on a cruise ship until I found out that their only job the whole is week is those 5 shows. The comedian was enjoyable - wish she had done two shows or that they brought another comedian on too.

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Large Interior Stateroom

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We had an inside cabin on deck 5 and our cabin steward was awesome. Thanks Edhy! Everything was clean and organized daily. Our hallway was quiet and our steward must have sprayed air freshener regularly because there was usually a pleasant odor...no smoke smell as others had indicated. There were 4 of us to the room and although it isn't ideal, it was one of the better inside room layouts to accommodate us. Two beds were pushed together to make one queen bed and one bunk type bed over this, and another twin bed that acted as a couch. The room appeared larger than other ships with this bed/couch being in a separate area- across from the desk/tv area. The closets were large and we had no problem fitting 5 suitcases worth of clothes in them (and the drawers). The only negative was that the telephone was under the bunk bed which made it really hard to get to...we had to crawl on the bed and try to avoid hitting our head on the bunk.

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