Holland America Line Australia & New Zealand Cruise Reviews

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Amazing service staff, nice size ship, management and entertainment poor

Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Westerdam

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Sallyandtex
6-10 Cruises • Age 50s

Embarkation. Best we have ever had. Used Verify for Vax and test status, so easy and quick. Cabin. SS category very spacious and clean. Ice delivered twice a day. Cabin stewards and general staff. Amazing, friendly and helpful. Cafe. Awful, awful, awful. Dining room. Good at start, but declined. Nowhere near as good quality as experienced on New Amsterdam 4 years ...
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Sail Date: November 2022

Cabin Type: Signature Superior Verandah Suite


HAL shoots holes in bucket list

Review for a South Pacific Cruise on Noordam

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JanMontauga
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

I am in the middle of a 67 day HAL cruise from the states all around Australia. This is a bucket list cruise, until HAL put holes in my bucket. No on-board passengers while sailing from the states were allowed to book any excursions in future ports of AU until we reached Sydney. Meanwhile close to 1500 passengers boarding in Sydney had been booking excursions from home, resulting in all good ...
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Sail Date: October 2022


Route actually travelled: 45 days round trip San Diego including 16 ports of call: 5 stops in Hawaii, 1 in Samoa, 2 in Fiji, 1 in Tonga, 1 in Cook Islands, and 6 in Polynesia.

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Harbor1492
10+ Cruises • Age 80s

1. Itinerary kept being changed before and during the voyage mainly due to islands with Covid-related issues such as lack of tourist infrastructure for two years. During the cruise, stormy weather also affected some scheduled ports, especially tendering operations. We were about 1,700 passengers, mostly from the US but a large group from Canada and a few from other countries. Due to the length ...
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Sail Date: October 2022

Cabin Type: Neptune Deluxe Verandah Suite


First cruise into the South Pacific was a bumpy one, but still fun

Review for a South Pacific Cruise on Westerdam

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ingridzoo
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

We choose this cruise for a few reasons. 1) we had always wanted to go to this area of the world 2) we love the "at sea" days as much as port days and 3) there were at sea days between every country visited, so on the off chance that someone would have gotten Covid, we would only have missed at most 1 country. As it was, we traveled with another couple,1 person got Covid, and missed 1 country. ...
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Sail Date: October 2022

Cabin Type: Signature Superior Verandah Suite


This has to be the worst cruise I’ve been on.

Review for a South Pacific Cruise on Westerdam

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Dodge7707
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

This was a 51 day cruise and has been terrible with rubbish entertainment and now on the New Zealand part we have repeated entertainment, even the trivia has the same questions! Don’t waste your money!! A penny pinching cruise line with many cancelled ports. BB kings perform the same songs nightly which gets very boring after a while. The food in the restaurants is very basic with an option to pay ...
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Sail Date: October 2022


Enjoy Holland America

Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Noordam

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Shonajane
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We had our MiddLe Eastern cruise cancelled and thought that by sailing around our own New Zealand and Australia we would be fine. It was great, we managed to book another cruise for the return to Australia but sadly they cancelled that in the week we had as a stopover in Auckland. Understand the situation completely. The Noordam is perfect for size for us, love the crew, well presented ship with ...
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Sail Date: March 2020

Cabin Type: Deluxe Ocean-View Verandah Stateroom


Terrible experience - Money taken from my account on return from cruise

Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Noordam

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alfiebarney
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

What was meant to be a holiday of a lifetime was spoilt by choosing Holland America as our cruise line. We were on a 15 night cruise starting from Sydney on February 26th. Although this ship was refurb the only changes to the cabins was the television on the wall. The bathrooms are very tired and our friends whose cabin was next door had the enamel peeling off the bath. On return from our ...
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Sail Date: February 2020


A Huge Disappointmemnt

Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Noordam

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Stephrharris
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

We chose this cruise because we had heard good things about Holland America and it was going to places we wanted to visit. We have been on many cruises before always using Cunard, Celebrity and Royal Caribbean in the past without criticism. However, from the moment we boarded we were disappointed. The ship looked very tired. Our stateroom had a balcony and we had paid a lot of money for it. ...
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Sail Date: February 2020

Cabin Type: Deluxe Ocean-View Verandah Stateroom


Excellent and relaxing cruise

Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Noordam

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Antechinus
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

We heard that Holland America has a more mature passenger crowd and fewer kids. The activities are geared towards a more mature clientele, but there is still a kids club and swimming pool for the few kids who were on the cruise, but no water slides, etc. Holland America really went the extra mile to keep the guests happy. One of the sightseeing destinations On the itinerary was a morning of ...
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Sail Date: February 2020

Cabin Type: Standard Interior Stateroom


Never again

Review for a Australia & New Zealand Cruise on Noordam

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Bellsallino
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

The itinerary was good. A place we had never been before and very much wanted to see. We Hadn't been with HAL before but will never go with them again. Extortionate drinks prices, happy hour lasted 15 minutes in BB kings. Entertainment rubbish other than BBkings. Food luke warm, not much choice for vegetarians, lots of pasta and pizza and salad. They were proud of the fact they would make you some ...
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Sail Date: February 2020

Cabin Type: Deluxe Ocean-View Verandah Stateroom


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