To begin with the MS. Westerdam is one of the older ships in the Holland America Line up of ships! It is not equipped with the modern day roll prevention stabilizers that newer ships have so when the waves hit you will feel the roll and rock of the ship however, I found a number of the mosaics within the ship to be quit interesting hinting of yesterdays when you could tell that this was an elegant ship.

We booked on the MS. Westerdam to bring in the new year of 2014 and was quite pleased with the formal dinning requirements although we as a rule prefer to eat more casually! They provided other options to formal dinning and indeed on a couple of occassions we took advantage of them.

On this particular cruise it was just me and my wife because we wanted a hlliday just for us. We also took advantage of touring their private island where we road on the newest craze the segway! Which I by the way mastered in a very short time! It was fun and the cruise was very relaxing even the rocking and rolling of the ship was relaxing in the evening as we slept.