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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


Not user friendly

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Koningsdam

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nashvillegal
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We chose this cruise for the itinerary. We have sailed on Holland America several times before, although in recent years we have chosen Celebrity. This cruise sailed eout of Vancouver, CA which is a wonderful, beautiful city. Now I will get to the problems we have encountered. First, the boarding procedures were horrific. We were given a 10:100 AM Priority boarding time. We were guided to ...
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Sail Date: October 2022

Cabin Type: Neptune Suite with Verandah


Aloha 2.0

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Koningsdam

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2freespirits
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

This is a review of a recent trip on the Holland America Line (HAL) ship Koningsdam. We sailed from Port of Vancouver to Hawaii and visited the four Islands (Maui, Hawaii, Oahu and Kauai) before sailing back to Vancouver. This adventure should have been a trip along the coast of Norway in 2020, but COVID-19 put an end to that idea. HAL offered us a refund or a future cruise credit, so we opted ...
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Sail Date: October 2022

Cabin Type: Verandah Stateroom


Cruising is not the same post-pandemic

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Koningsdam

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TedE
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

After 2.5 years of no cruising we decided to take a chance. As we are from the Vancouver area, the itinerary leaving and returning to Vancouver allowed us to cruise without having to fly somewhere else to get on the ship. We’ve cruised to Hawaii twice in 2019. This itinerary combines both a cruise and our favourite destination. We enjoyed all the ports although we prefer Lahaina and Kona over ...
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Sail Date: October 2022

Cabin Type: Verandah Stateroom


Finally got my round Hawaii cruise after the Rona

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Koningsdam

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Mnratch
6-10 Cruises • Age 50s

I had this cruise set up for September 2020 of course some thing happened that stopped all of us from cruising. With the post Rona hitches in mind the cruise was excellent. See lots of complaining about service. Unfortunately understanding and patience seem to be in short supply. The HAL crew you could see were depleted from pre Rona cruising but the effort expended was above and beyond for ...
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Sail Date: October 2022

Cabin Type: Large or Standard Interior Stateroom

Traveled with disabled person


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.

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Zuiderdam

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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


Horrible cruise

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Koningsdam

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Rebert75
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

Thought it might be better for our age 65. It was so boring and everyone on the cruise was asleep between 7-9 pm. Activities were designed for people in a nursing home. Food was terrible and two meals had hair in them. Laundry service ruined my pants and under garments Entertainment was bad and had the same shows often. Excursions were canceled and we were not notified until the moment we ...
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Sail Date: April 2022


Extremely disappointed

Review for a Hawaii Cruise on Zuiderdam

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captain sarasota
10+ Cruises • Age 90s

I relied on HAL's reputation for excellent food and service and it's reputation for activities for adults and entertainment on previous very long cruises. This cruise was 35 days long, with many, many sea days. I was soon disillusioned. The food was almost always served lukewarm and , for example, never was the toast at breakfast in the dining room served even remotely warm. Frequently, ...
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Sail Date: February 2022

Cabin Type: Large Outside Stateroom (partial sea views)


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