Maasdam Review

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Very nice family cruise

Review for Canada & New England Cruise on Maasdam
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willoL
2-5 Cruises • Age 40s

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

Our party of three--one adult with two kids aged 5 and 8 years--traveled from Montreal to Boston on the Maasdam during the last week of August 2012.

I opted to make our usual New England to Pacific NW summer visit without flying on any airplanes this summer. I accomplished this by booking the train across the USA westbound (Amtrak), then a combination of train (Via Rail) and this cruise to complete our voyage home across Canada. My boys and I left home in mid-June and returned to Boston on September 1st, so we were traveling with a lot of luggage (6 checked bags at debarkation.)

We'd had the pleasure of my husband's company during the first leg of our Canadian voyage, so, rather than hassle with child safety seats in a taxi, my husband got a cab to drive our luggage to the embarkation port in Montreal while I walked with the children from our Vieux Montreal hotel (Marriott SpringHill Suites--very good!) This port is slightly different than our home port of Boston with a security checkpoint at the exterior gate as well as the security I expected inside the terminal building. That meant I had to show our passports as we walked up the gate, and I was worried that my husband's cab would be stopped since he had no ticket or other proof of his need to come onto the pier. It was actually no problem at all! He passed through in the cab and was waiting for us when we made our way up to the second-story passenger entrance. (Cars dropping people off drive up to this level on a ramp.)

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Large Interior Stateroom

Cabin K

Mid-ship location was convenient. Layout was pretty standard and met all our needs. Sometimes heard a big swishing water noise, which I can't imagine was from outside due to location, although it sounded a bit like the sloshing of water around a boat. I wonder if we were near a laundry water outlet or something else to do with the interior water system? There was also a repeated slam-slam-slam noise for about 5 minutes during our choppiest night on the ocean, but that never happened again so may have been a loose closet door. Overall, we slept well in this cabin and found the location good.

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