Holland America Line Dover Cruise Reviews

EURODAM CRUISE REVIEW - AUGUST 24 - SEPTEMBER 10, 2011 ROUTE OF THE VIKINGS - TRANSATLANTICI am Phil Haggerty and my wife is Edith Goble. I am a retired city attorney and Edith an unretired homemaker who previously worked in health services. This was our 28th cruise, since 1999, including one river cruise. Without providing a boring laundry list of destinations, we have sailed in Tahiti and the ...

Embarkation in Dover. Quick and fairly simple - mainly because we were fast tracked. Suite ready almost as soon as we boarded. This was after running the gauntlet of the girls dressed in huge pink feathers and the inevitable photographer. When will they learn that you are not looking your best at this point. Tell them you are in the 'Witness Protection Scheme' it will go over their heads but what ...

I have been on several cruises previously (HAL/Alaska, several RCCL/Caribbean and Bahamas), as well as traveled in Europe on land, but was very excited for our two week trip through the Baltic on HAL. I was not disappointed! We flew overnight from US into Heathrow and used Smiths for Airport to drive us to Dover. It was expensive, but well worth the price not to have to deal with luggage and bus ...

Check in - EASY! No queues or lines when we arrived. Luggage handed over, car parked in RED zone, Mike brought back to the terminal by shuttle and in we went. S health questionnaire to fill in ( Hum!) passports checked. Photo taken. Room cards provided and off we went up the gangplank. Passengers - 2104 . Mostly the grey haired brigade or should I say silver surfers? I did see some ...

Ship - FineFood - Better than prior ratings on Cruise Critic led us to expect. In fact, we found the food quality and variety ro be quite good. We did not go to any of the fee-based specialty restaurants because our Dinner tablemates did not give them high reviews, especially in the light of the extra cost.Transfer from London to Dover - We took the HAL transfer, which was a great mistake. It ...

We chose Holland America because of very good experiences in the past, and because it offered the ports of call, excursions, timing, and quality we wanted. No real surprises here. The internet-based process of selecting our key excursions ensured we had our choice of the best - others who delayed were not so lucky, as several popular excursions were sold out. Internet also expedited the ...

My wife and I took the 10-night Scandinavia/Russia cruise on the Eurodam that departed on June 29, 2010. This was our 40th cruise. Another couple joined us so we made a group of 4. Pre Cruise We flew from Washington, DC to London (Heathrow) on June 25. This was an overnight flight via Virgin Atlantic. We had upgraded to "upper class" so sleeping on the lie-flat seats was not difficult and ...