My family of four (my husband and I, plus two teenage boys ages 13 and 16) just returned from a first-time cruise experience aboard the Westerdam from Seattle to Alaska. My husband and I were celebrating our 30th anniversary, and wanted to have a special experience with our boys to commemorate it. We booked a special conference tour aboard the Westerdam with Insight for Living (IFL), a parachurch Christian organization founded by Chuck Swindoll.
The experience with IFL made the trip for us! The IFL group gave us wonderful bible teaching, meaningful and wonderful entertainment at night, and had a youth program that engaged both of our teenage sons--no easy task, even for seasoned professionals.
The Westerdam crew folded our group experience with IFL into the ship's rhythms gracefully. We received all of our conference materials and bulletins in a timely manner, and our dining schedules and port itineraries complemented each other easily without conflicts. The staff was friendly, gracious, and accommodating.