I have always cruised on Holland America. This would have been my 4th Holland America cruise & second Alaska cruise.

On the first night we went to the Lido Dinner Buffett.

The line server said only 1 side item per plate. They gave us only 1 baked potato per plate. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise as that the baked potato was rotten. A person at our table ordered and paid for a can of coke. After he drank the can of soda he looked at the bottom of the can and saw it was expired. The pasta station was awful. The station attendant joked that he had just been promoted from the ice cream station to the pasta station a month earlier. He had yet to have any training on how to make pasta. It showed. Chef Boy A R dee would have been better. The silverware was quite tarnished. The settings needed to be replaced. The balance of the cruise we ate in the main Dining room. Read more