Statendam Review

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Great Time on the Statendam

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travelbutterfly
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Sep 2012
Cabin: Large Ocean-View Stateroom

From the moment we walked aboard the Statendam, we were greeted with professionalism, friendliness, and a crew and staff that are serious about their business. True, we have only one cruise line to compare this to, (SS DOLPHIN II, that is now out of business), but from others recommendations, we selected HAL because we knew it must be a good cruise line.

Our cabin was down on Deck 4 (A DECK), room 810, and perfect for not feeling any wave action -- smooth the whole 7 days. It was also easy to disembark, since it was only 1 level UP, to disembark at ports. Our window was also a godsend, to be able to look out on the water, or ports, and to see when it was "daylight". Our cabin stewards, Made & Gede, were both excellent and always had the stateroom spic and span, each day, with those cute towel animals, sitting on our bed, when we returned to our room! Plus 2 chocolate candies, and the day's activity flier as well.

We had room service each morning, of coffee and juice, which always arrived within 5 mins. of the ordered time. Filled out Room Service menu, each night, hung on door handle, and each morning, we received a tray with our ordered coffee, hot tea, and juices. We did this, mainly to tide us over, until we got dressed and went up to Lido Buffet for full breakfast.

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Large Ocean-View Stateroom

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Stateroom 810 - Deck A (4) -- Plenty of room for 2, large bathroom, plenty of storage space, large window (ocean view stateroom). mostly quiet area of ship, also didn't feel the wave action, as you did in upper decks. Only minor thing, was about 8:00 a night or so, the crew's "galley" where they prep the dirty dishes, was about 2 doors down from us, and we would hear clanking/rattling of room service trays/dishes, for maybe about an hour, then it was quiet, the whole night. I would request this deck again, as it was not bad location, to us. We didn't feel at all cramped, as we are RV'ers anyway, so felt like we were in a Class C RV. :)

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