Good place for sailaway on Maasdam

[Orcrone]

I'm looking for suggestions for a good location for sailaway get together on the Maasdam.

1/1990 - RCCL Song of America
4/13/2003 - Carnival Inspiration
10/30/2004 - Maasdam

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Till sailing on the Maasdam

[Krazy Kruizers]

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We have met people at the Ocean Bar, Crow's Nest and the sail-away party at the aft pool.

The best was the crow's nest where we could be in out of the weather (if it is cool or rainy) and you could look to see where the ship is going.

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[wcolucci]

The only issue w/ crows nest is that the ship backs out of the port

[sail7seas]

The sailaway party is always at aft pool. You could make arrangements to meet.....pre-arrange specifically port side, all the way aft or something like that if you don't know what eachother looks like.

[Orcrone]

The sailaway party is always at aft pool. You could make arrangements to meet.....pre-arrange specifically port side, all the way aft or something like that if you don't know what eachother looks like.Since we're leaving out of Norfolk at a time of year that the weather is iffy, shouldn't we think about a sheltered area?

[Krazy Kruizers]

Not all ships back out of a port.

We have been on ships in Ft Lauderdale where sometimes we went forward and other times we did have to back out.

[Orcrone]

Not all ships back out of a port.

We have been on ships in Ft Lauderdale where sometimes we went forward and other times we did have to back out.I live in the Norfolk area and watched the Maasdam leave the pier on a local webcam several times this spring. It goes forward for a few hundred yards to clear the pier, turns around in the channel and continues from there.

OK OK, I know I have to put this cruise out of my mind for a while. I spend entirely too much time thinking about and planning it.:D :cool:

[firecake]

My wife and I are sailing on the Maasdam 12/11/04. I will be driving from the suburbs of Philadelphia. Where is the best place to park? Can you park on the pier as you can in Baltimore?

Wayne

[ekerr19]

The sailaway party is always at aft pool. You could make arrangements to meet.....pre-arrange specifically port side, all the way aft or something like that if you don't know what eachother looks like.

I think Sail is referring to HAL's sailaway party - usually aft pool area, drink specials, music, etc.

If you are looking for a CC meet & great location - it can be anywhere. We met at 9:30pm - 10:00 pm in the Crow's Nest - one of our group made little table cards and name tags - we had an absolute blast!