Nieuw Statendam Review
24-day Canada New England & Iceland - Great ports on a masked ship
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Tuesday, August 2 – fly to Boston
We left the house a little after 4:00 AM to meet our friends at their house a half-hour away (but on the way to the airport). We parked our car, transferred our luggage, and off to the airport we raced! We arrived at 5:20 and our friend dropped us off (with all the luggage) at the terminal and he went to park the car. A very helpful American employee helped get all the luggage tagged and checked in. By the time we had it all set our friend arrived from the economy parking and we went through security, had a quick breakfast at the airport Burger King, and boarded our flight.
The flight to Philadelphia was really nice as it was only about 50% full. I had an entire three seats to myself and so did DW. At PHL, we had just enough time to enjoy a Chick-Fil-A lemonade before heading to our Boston flight. Right after we arrived at the gate (when boarding was to start) an announcement was made that the airplane was too hot and it needed to be cooled down. This delayed boarding by nearly an hour. This flight to Boston was completely full and we arrived in Boston about 30 minutes late.
Cabin Review
Large or Standard Interior Stateroom
Our cabin, #1111, is one of four squarish-shaped inside cabins on the main deck. It is spacious and is in a tremendous location. I would book that cabin again in a heartbeat however I have no intentions at this time of sailing again on this class ship. There is some kind of crew area behind the cabin and we did hear noises from time to time, but it was not enough to trouble us. We've seen the standard inside cabins and they are tiny and we would not consider them at all. Even the standard balcony cabins (which we have stayed in on Koningsdam) are tight with barely room to walk between the bed and the TV wall.