Nieuw Amsterdam Review
HAL Holland American Line Should Stand for HOME AT LAST!
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For starters I will need to say that my Wife and I have only cruised Royal and our experiences were not perfect by any means. But we never gave ourselves the opportunity to try other cruise lines for comparison. Although we had heard the HAL was low key and geared mainly for the older generation, we thought it would still be a nice relaxing cruise.
Our cruise was leaving Ft Lauderdale with Sailing Dates of Dec 22nd with a return Date of Dec 29th. We were sailing east to Grand Turk – Puerto Rico – St Thomas – Half Moon Cay.
Before I start my review I would like readers to know a little about us. We are couple in the age range of 45-50 – We love to laugh and have a good time – We like to socialize – we are not heavy drinkers – and not really social drinkers – we are somewhere in between having 2 or 3 will get us us by for the evening. We are smokers but we are polite with our habit. We enjoy all types of music except for the Head Banging and Rap. We are self-sufficient but understand that some jobs such as cruise crews require us to be waited on – Not a Problem with us but we do not expect to be spoon fed.
Cabin Review
Our State Room V8115The GoodAre room was located on the Starboard side of the ship and we will give HAL a kudos the room was spacious and set up for easy get around – The beds were comfortable and always maintained. There were no issues with our state room.– The Not So GoodThere is limited TV ChannelsNo external Radios or anything to even plug in a portable IPOD into so it makes for some relatively boring times when you want to sit and relax.(2) 3 prong 110 volt outlets by desk (also 2 euro outlets), 1 shaver outlet in bathroom. Taking room card out of electric input slot kills outlet juice in the whole room bring some other worthless plastic card to use there instead of room card.TV Remote very unfriendly – when asked for a new one we were told there was nothing available