Nieuw Amsterdam Review

Great ship, poor ports

Review for the Panama Canal & Central America Cruise on Nieuw Amsterdam
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jimcoup
10+ Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Sep 2018
Cabin: Large Outside Stateroom (fully obstructed views)

Convenient as if departed from Vancouver, about 1 hour from home. Good price as is with most repositioning cruises. Love Florida. Ports were poor. A morning in the industrial section of Seattle was not impressive. Several central American ports were industrial and not worth stopping at. Huatulca was the best. We missed two ports because the captain chose not to enter because of swells. Received compensation.

The ship is beautiful and we appreciate Lincoln Center with classical music evenings and afternoons.

One gripe is that nearly every room and hallway has piped in music. I fell like I'm in Wal-Mar. After 22 days one gets pretty sick of the same castratos wailing about love and romance and everything wonderful and hot, hot, hot.

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Large Outside Stateroom (fully obstructed views)

Fully obstructed is correct. Couldn't see over or around lifeboat in front of big floor-to-ceiling window.

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