Holland America Line Noordam Cruise Reviews for Gay & Lesbian to Europe - Western Mediterranean

We took a 20 day cruise (16 ports of call) with Holland America on July 16th 2012 and the first thing they do is loose are luggage. The one with $2,000.00 worth of RX's in it.! The Cabin boy put it in someone else's room and they had to do a search of the ship to find it, 8 hours later we received it thank god. the bag had are cabin number on two tags, one red and are name on three tags, but ...

It was my first cruise and I really enjoyed it. getting on and off the boat was smooth and efficient. Food was excellent at the sit down restaurants. Lido was ok but queues were a problem on occassion. The queue for the fast food at the pool every day was off putting. Entertainment was fine, enjoyed the piano bar guy entertainment, great repetoire. There was almost every night a different ...

We flew from Australia to Rome and had 3 days in Rome before catching the train to Civitavecchia. I had booked this online, it was cheap and easy and a definite alternative to a transfer or taxi. The walk from the station at Civitavecchia to the port entrance is not at all difficult, takes about 15 minutes and if you have wheels on your lugguage is no effort at all. You can even stop for ...

Nice cruise. The port is a bit of a distance from Rome but only about an hour from the airport. We checked into our room and the boarding process went very smoothly. By the time we had a bite of late lunch our bags were in our room. We were in a balcony stateroom and were a bit disappointed that the side window had a bunch or cracks in it so the view was not real good. The door area and windows ...

Noordam is very nice classic ship and it's not the kind of ship i would choose for Med because most of it's restaurants are inward oriented . Two very small pools which are very busy most of the times .The sunbeds are very close to each other and no small tables to put the drinks .The back pool on the ninth floor has no umbrellas so it was very difficult for those looking for shade to ...

My overall impression of the ship was that it was above average. The ship had some nice touches - there were atrium style elevators. Our opening day we were boarded and sent to the Lido to lunch as the rooms werent ready. No issue but the Lido smelt of dishes (this was throught out the cruise and then noticed an opening door with this smell as you entered the area). The seperate pools ...