Holland America Line Volendam Cruise Reviews

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Boredom on water! *Sigh*

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Volendam

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TravelWhisperer23
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

First up, the good. Our room was nice...actually bigger than we thought. The daily service for the room was excellent too. We found the floor staff very courteous and attentive. As for the bad, well, my wife and I found it very difficult to communicate with most of the staff on board. I will go out on a limb and say that english is not their first language and several times we just had ...
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Sail Date: June 2018


Wonderful time, first cruise

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Volendam

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Texansonboard
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

I choose this ship for our 3 generation trip due to size and itinery, like everyone advised. We all had a great time and no complaints. We arrived the night before, made our way down to the port the next morning around 11:00, and was on the ship within about 30 minutes. We found our cabins (interior 6132, 6134, 7025 and Vista Suite 7084) and met the stewards. The room was clean, larger ...
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Sail Date: June 2018

Cabin Type: Large Interior Stateroom


Holland America Yukon/Denali cruise tour Y3C

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Volendam

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fd222ny
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

Left Vancouver 7/6 on cruise portion first. Spent a few nights in Vancouver before cruise. Our cruise was 3 nites followed by 7 day land tour. Ship was clean, stateroom attendant great. Food was so-so. Went to upscale Pinnacle restaurant for dinner one night. Service was fine. However, both my brother in law and I ordered the halibut. Fish came served barely warm. Vegetables and potatoes ...
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Sail Date: June 2018


An airport on the sea

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Volendam

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andrecsantiago
First Time Cruiser • Age 30s

Check in: My mom has special needs. She’s is loosing her sight for many eyears. They separated us on the check in (I felt as cattle). We lost the welcome picture. Also they denied to carrie my laundry clothes. After theree long lines. They arrived all rugged on the ship. Cassino; Texas Holden; 15% of rate every hand; and the price isn’t the problem here; but it’s good have a ...
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Sail Date: May 2018

Cabin Type: Large Ocean-View Stateroom

Traveled with disabled person


Rotten Food, Expired Soda & Bad Service

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Volendam

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CalvinJoe
2-5 Cruises • Age 50s

I have always cruised on Holland America. This would have been my 4th Holland America cruise & second Alaska cruise. On the first night we went to the Lido Dinner Buffett. The line server said only 1 side item per plate. They gave us only 1 baked potato per plate. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise as that the baked potato was rotten. A person at our table ordered and paid for a ...
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Sail Date: May 2018

Cabin Type: Verandah Suite


We Paid Handsomely To Be Experimented On

Review for a Alaska Cruise on Volendam

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sarahgoodrick
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

This cruise was supposed to be highly rated but it turned into a nightmare. Some of the extremely wrong encounters are as follow. If I have to list all that were wrong and unsatisfactory I will end up writing a few chapters. - the ship is very old and has an stale odour from time to time - bathroom fixtures are mounted lopsided besides visibly unclean and unhygienic - mini fridge door ...
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Sail Date: May 2018

Cabin Type: Verandah Suite

Traveled with disabled person


Loved our 6 days at sea!

Review for a Transpacific Cruise on Volendam

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rosimeltzer
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

We booked this cruise as ports looked great (japan to Vancouver via Alaska) and thought would try holland America line. Overall we enjoyed everything - staff great, food amazing, efficient off and on boat, shows pretty good. A different culture compared to our previous celebrity, princess and royal Caribbean cruises. Found the cruise to be very relaxing with lots of time to read, play games and ...
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Sail Date: April 2018

Cabin Type: Large Outside Stateroom (partial sea views)


Great ship, terrible tour.

Review for a Asia Cruise on Volendam

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evfred
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

We took this cruise because we wanted to see Japan, as well as Shanghai, Alaska and Vancouver. And this cruise did it all! We love the Volendam!! Just the right size, not crowded, great staff everywhere (except EXC tours, more on that later). Nothing was "pushed:" photos, drinks, drink packages, unlike some other lines. Spent some time in the just-the-right-size casino. Embarkation: I ...
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Sail Date: April 2018

Cabin Type: Large Ocean-View Stateroom


Japan Cruise on the Volendam (1 disabled, married pax, 1 husband and a friend)

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MischiefNM
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

There were three adults in our cabin, an inside cabin, that was supposed to be wheelchair-accessible, but when the third adult was added to the reservation, the travel agent changed us to the wrong sized cabin. Not the cruiseline's fault. At once when we arrived with 14 pieces of luggage split between 3 adults in an interior tiny cabin, we called to ask for a larger cabin. At first we were ...
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Sail Date: April 2018

Traveled with disabled person


Great cruise with a wonderful itinerary - highly recommend it.

Review for a Asia Cruise on Volendam

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332266
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

We loved our cruise itinerary. Seeing Japan was our goal and the added days in Shanghai, South Korea, and Alaska were nice additional perks. The ports were all fantastic and the excursions we took through HAL were very good but the excursions team had to make changes to some of the tours and itineraries and instead of being transperent with their reasons, hid behind no-blame disclosures in their ...
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Sail Date: April 2018

Cabin Type: Verandah Suite


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