We took this cruise because the dates worked out well for out schedule. We also had never been on a Holland Ship before and thought that might be interesting. The ship itself is older and smaller but is well maintained. We found the food in the dinning room to be comparable to other cruise lines. The Lido cafeteria had food prepared for you rather than sitting out. This made the food fresher but also slowed down the eating process at busy time. Overall, I liked the Lido system better than other ships. The ports of call were very lacking but we new this when we booked the cruise. We stopped at the private island but it rained all day so we didn't get off. We had a sunny day on our stop at Grand Turk Island. There is not much to do there but it was a nice day on the beach. Our stop at the Dominican Republic was cancelled due to rough weather. That left our final stop at San Juan. We toured a fort but being we've been to San Juan twice before, we chose to return early to the ship.

I guess I found the smaller ship more confining. The staff were nice but at times it seemed they were under staffed. Usually on ships, the staff are picking up your dishes before your even done eating but here there were often tables that had not been cleared. This occurred around the ship not in the main dinning room.

The fitness room was very small. They had a good number of treadmills and bikes but there weight machines were few and old. Read more