Rome (Civitavecchia) to the Transatlantic Holland America Line Noordam Cruise Reviews

We began our cruise from Civitavecchia, Italy on October 31st, 2013. Yes, it was Halloween. We had enjoyed beautiful weather in Rome for five days prior to embarkation. The temperatures ranged between 23 and 26C every day with beautiful sunshine. We never experienced one drop of rain until our last port of call at the Azores. More about that later. We had arranged for a transfer with RomeCabs to ...

Noordam Cruise Review This was our first cruise ever, for which we chose Holland America, based on its legacy, reviews and family experiences. We are a couple from the Netherlands in our late forties. We booked our cruise at a specialized cruise agency, which helped us at many of our first timer questions. Prior to our cruise, we booked a hotel in Rome for the weekend and ...

Having cruised for 35 years on many ships and different cruise lines we at last tried HAL. Many of our friends had told us about the "service" on HAL and how much they enjoyed sailing there ships. We were not impressed with the ship and both its decor and lack of being clean and tidyness were a real surprise to us. We had a suite for 16 days and the steward never once cleaned our balcony or ...

This was our second Transatlantic and third cruise with HAL and I had forgotten all the little thing that make the differences. Fresh O.J. in the mornings, worldly foods, friendly English speaking staff and much more that I could go on and on about. The Noordam is not the biggest ship, but very comfortable and easy to get around. This was a "Big Band" cruise and the age's of the guests reflected ...

My wife and I recently did the transatlantic crossing on the Noordam starting at Civitavecchia and ending at Ft. Lauderdale. As usual with all Holland American Cruises we have taken, embarkation was amazingly easy...On board in just minutes. This cruise was advertised as a "Big Band Cruise". Now by HAL standards, I'm a youngster at 55 and my wife and I were probably in the youngest 20% ...

Yea!! Going on my second trans and going back to Barcelona and Madeira!! Receiving our luggage was not a problem, the crew delivered them in a timely matter. I went to the gym to learn how to work out since I had put on weight prior to the cruise and was going to add some more weight due to eating the delicious food. Anyway, I did not know how to work the machines and wanted some help ...

Background This was my eighth cruise with Holland America, and my fourth HAL big band cruise. I chose it specifically for the big band theme and am glad I did, since it does not appear that HAL has any big band cruises scheduled or 2007. This was my first experience with one of HAL's Vista Class ships, and frankly I had some misgivings about its size, as I usually choose ships ranging from ...