Nieuw Amsterdam Review

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Nieuw Amsterdam March 22 cruise

Review for the Eastern Caribbean Cruise on Nieuw Amsterdam
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mikecranb
6-10 Cruises • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Mar 2015
Cabin: Deluxe Ocean-View Verandah Stateroom

I read all the reviews before I left and I only had two concerns, one being entertainment, and two being the vibration reported. I'm happy to say my wife and I had a wonderfull time! Food was very good, and the menu was varied, with many seafood options and beef, with smaller portions, was always on the main dining room menu. One little trick my wife and I do is to each order on entre and then order a fish entre we both can share. Hopefully something new to try. We are not big on buffets, but we did eat lunch once in the pushy old people line and my Asian choices were very good and my wife's salad was also fresh and good. The salad bar is impressive.

We went to the omlet station for breakfast four days and the main dining room the other three since we got tired of waiting and hearing. I say hearing because I'm floored by how people treat the workers who serve the food. I can only take so much of people barking out instructions or complaining about things out of the servers control, so I will just move on to the main dining room so I don't have to witness disrespect. I always say please and thank you because I know how hard these people work! Again, I'm floored by peoples treatment of the workers. They should be ashamed of themselves.

As for the entertainment, yes it was borderline. The percussion group made it all OK. Great concept, put people in a theater with drum sticks and pans, observe the kid in them come out, then give them a show with their involvement. It was fun. The broadway style shows were a good effort by performers but the canned music limited their impact. The BB King group was impressive. Overall compared to other lines Id say they have some work to do. No comedian. Sometimes people need a good laugh. They could start with buffet line jokes, has to be thousands of those!

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Deluxe Ocean-View Verandah Stateroom

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