Good News From The Noordam

[LizB1]

Just spoke with someone who is presently aboard the Noordam (in Barbados). They had a surprise health inspection on Wednesday and scored 100%!!!

Think this is great news considering they experienced a few days of Code Red on the last cruise.

CONGRATUATIONS TO THE CAPTAIN, HM, AND CREW!!

Liz

[Krazy Kruizers]

That's great news!!

[Harry1954]

well done, as expected.
harry

[jhannah]

Fantastic! Kudos to the entire crew!

[waiting2retire]

Excellent news, especially to me since I will be boarding the Noordam in 15 days!

Bonnie

[LAFFNVEGAS]

Yes in deed that is great news. Gongratulations to all the Officers and hard working crew:)



Excellent news, especially to me since I will be boarding the Noordam in 15 days!

Bonnie

Bonnie, I hope you have a great cruise on the Beautiful Noordam. hopefully you will run into some of my favorite Bar Staff, Bede, Romeo, Angie and of course Ronald.

[waiting2retire]

Thanks Lisa! I will keep my eye out for your friends, especially now that I know Bede is female :p , and give them your regards.

Bonnie

[RevNeal]

That is excellent news. It means that the Noordam has now scored 100% two times in a row!!!!! EXCELLENT!

Here are the posted scores for each ship of the Fleet as found on the CDC website.

Amsterdam -- 5/20/2007-- 95
Maasdam --5/26/2007-- 96
Noordam --4/25/2007-- 100
Oosterdam --5/5/2007-- 95
Prinsendam --3/12/2007-- 97
Rotterdam --3/20/2005-- 98
Ryndam --7/15/2007-- 95
Statendam --9/5/2007-- 95
Veendam --1/18/2007-- 97
Volendam --6/18/2007-- 97
Westerdam --12/3/2006-- 97
Zaandam --7/14/2007-- 97
Zuiderdam --7/9/2007-- 98

[mamaofami]

Way to go, Noordam ! :D Thanks for letting us know.

[RuthC]

100%? Wow! :) Good going, Noordam crew, staff, officers, everybody!

Liz, do you happen to know what goverment authority did the inspection? I presume it was the Barbados authority? Do they use the same standards the US does? Who knows, could even be tougher ones! :rolleyes:

[RevNeal]

100%? Wow! :) Good going, Noordam crew, staff, officers, everybody!

Liz, do you happen to know what goverment authority did the inspection? I presume it was the Barbados authority? Do they use the same standards the US does? Who knows, could even be tougher ones! :rolleyes:

On Wednesday the Noordam was at St. Thomas.
Hence, it was a CDC inspection.

[sail7seas]

Whoppee........ So happy to hear it. Congratulations and Well Done to the Officers and Crew.

Hope Gayle and Joe are enjoying every minute on that gorgeous ship! Lucky them........ahhh, Barbados.

[hammybee]

Not to rain on the Noordam parade........

One of the long time posters with decades of shipboard experience, recently shared with one of the boards that there is no correlation between inspection scores and the norovirus. He went on to say that the smaller, high end, ships usually score lower on inspections and rarely, if ever, have a norovirus outbreak. Conversely, the larger, mass marketed ships tend to do well on inspections and yet norovirus breakouts are relatively common on all cruise lines.

So what's the difference? Passengers carry the virus onboard. The more passengers a ships carries, the greater the likelihood some passengers are boarding with the virus. Some board knowing they are or have been recently ill and do not disclose. Probably, most board and do not realize they have it, yet. And around we go.

My hat is off to the crew of the Noordam for scoring so well on their recent inspection. If only all passengers did as well.......

[RuthC]

On Wednesday the Noordam was at St. Thomas.
Hence, it was a CDC inspection.
Thanks, Greg. I got confused on the timing. :eek:

[RevNeal]

Thanks, Greg. I got confused on the timing. :eek:

I did, too, at first ... but then I re-read the post and realized what was being said. :)

[Mr Veendam06]

Hi sounds great i was aboard her in NYC this past weekend with my TA .He had a group going on her .She look great .I check out the cabin we will be having on her 2/16 cruise out of NYC . PS the bread putting is still the best in the world !!

[sail7seas]

It's true that the overcall excellent condition and cleanliness of the ship is not always an indicator of presence of Noro Like Viruses. But there are so many other illnesses we could be exposed to but for the high maintenance and sanitary conditions....salmonella, e-coli, Legionnaires etc etc



Amsterdam -- 5/20/2007-- 95
Maasdam --5/26/2007-- 96
Noordam --4/25/2007-- 100
Oosterdam --5/5/2007-- 95
Prinsendam --3/12/2007-- 97
Rotterdam --3/20/2005-- 98
Ryndam --7/15/2007-- 95
Statendam --9/5/2007-- 95
Veendam --1/18/2007-- 97
Volendam --6/18/2007-- 97
Westerdam --12/3/2006-- 97
Zaandam --7/14/2007-- 97
Zuiderdam --7/9/2007-- 98






I'm amazed that after Rev posted the fleet's most current Inspection scores no one commented on the overall excellence achieved by the whole fleet. Obviously, HAL really means it when we hear 'the clean fleet'. We all see the stewards vacuuming, and polishing and washing.... Obviously, CDC thinks they keep clean ships as well.

Congratulations to ALL the crews of all the HAL ships and seeing as Noordam has the newest (and highest) score....HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to the fabulous Noordam!

[RuthC]

Obviously, HAL really means it when we hear 'the clean fleet'. We all see the stewards vacuuming, and polishing and washing.... Obviously, CDC thinks they keep clean ships as well.
I've been known to toddle on back to my cabin at 2:00 AM a time or two (or a lot ;) . It's amazing how many people are out cleaning, polishing, and vacuuming at that hour.
The best one I ever saw---and this was daytime---was someone washing the ceiling outside the Ocean Bar. Who would think to wash their ceiling?

[sail7seas]

If it moves, they greet it.

If it doesn't, they clean it.

[RevNeal]

I am often "out and about" late at night/early in the morning. Between 2 - 4 am the cleaning staff is out in full force. It's amazing how MUCH gets done during the night-time hours. There's a whole shift of the housekeeping staff that works while we sleep to clean, polish, repair, paint, etc.

Many of them are surprised to see me. I smile, nod, and go on about my walk. But it must be rare that they get to see "us."