Brianc1215
September 19th, 2004, 06:08 PM
I am only going to post my own views about this cruise, since I believe everyone is entitled to there own opinion. I did read comments by Lois, who I happened to talk to breifly on a stairway on the ship, when I overheard her talking about this web site.
This was my wife and I's first cruise, actually it was our honeymoon. We stayed in cabin 7110 with our own balcony. The service was absolutely outstanding for us. Our cabin steward was also lucky who I felt must of been spying on us to see when we exited the room, because it was immaculate when we came back. The chocolates on the pillows was a nice touch.
We were on the 6:15pm sitting in the lower vista dining room. Our head waiter (gus) seemed too quiet, but seemed to smile a lot, and always called me sir. Newman was the assist. waiter who I feel should be promoted, he was outstanding, then Walter our wine steward, was outsanding as well. All three of them, we became good friends with them. Walter liked to make roses with napkins and do magic tricks at our table as he sold us wine. We didn't really see our maitre'd to much, but that didn't matter much to us.
The Lido deck, we made quite a few friends as well that all remembered our names, or at least tried there hardest too. I think we gained so many friendships there because my wife is a fillipina, and a good majority of the crew was also fillipino.
We thought the entertainment was better then we have ever seen anywhere. We live at the border of Hollywood, CA and see a lot of entertainment. The Zuiderdam cast, especially the 2nd night called "under the boardwalk" was the best I've ever seen, Joel Mason and James Ceilen were also super outstanding. Edge-the juggeler was good to, but we dont feel he should've been the whole show, since he didn't compare to the rest of the performers. Dane Butcher our cruise director was excellent as well.
We kind of got hooked on Bingo there spending 80-100 bucks on it. When you play for a free cruise or the snowball at the end valued at 5,400.00 for one game was too hard to pass up, losing when we only needed one or two numbers was tough. but it was fun.
Friday night, I played in a game show called whats my line, where 5 panelist had to guess what my line of work was, they werent able to figure it out. This was in the vista lounge.
When we first entered our stateroom, there was a bottle of french champagne from the captain for our honeymoon. Thursday night we were invited to a honeymoon party with a lot of other couples who were renewing their vows and other honeymooners as well as the captain and hotel manager.
The one and only part of the whole cruise that we felt that was unsatisfactory was the shorter stay in Tortola because of tropical storm Jeanne. We had the baths tour booked, so by leaving tortola early, we never saw tortola because our tour of virgin gorda was 4 hours. I would've cancelled the baths if I had earlier warning. The next two ports were cancelled-St. Thomas and San Juan- we went to St. Maartin instead, but I felt we couldve had time for another port-maybe a half day, instead of spending 2 days going real slow back to Florida. This was the only part I felt they could've done better on.
The ship is beutifull, the service was excellent, the food was great, the entertainment was very outstanding and we really, really enjoyed ourselves. I just got back having 200 pictures printed from my digital camera.
I would definitley recommend this ship again and again, as long as it's not hurricane season.
This was my wife and I's first cruise, actually it was our honeymoon. We stayed in cabin 7110 with our own balcony. The service was absolutely outstanding for us. Our cabin steward was also lucky who I felt must of been spying on us to see when we exited the room, because it was immaculate when we came back. The chocolates on the pillows was a nice touch.
We were on the 6:15pm sitting in the lower vista dining room. Our head waiter (gus) seemed too quiet, but seemed to smile a lot, and always called me sir. Newman was the assist. waiter who I feel should be promoted, he was outstanding, then Walter our wine steward, was outsanding as well. All three of them, we became good friends with them. Walter liked to make roses with napkins and do magic tricks at our table as he sold us wine. We didn't really see our maitre'd to much, but that didn't matter much to us.
The Lido deck, we made quite a few friends as well that all remembered our names, or at least tried there hardest too. I think we gained so many friendships there because my wife is a fillipina, and a good majority of the crew was also fillipino.
We thought the entertainment was better then we have ever seen anywhere. We live at the border of Hollywood, CA and see a lot of entertainment. The Zuiderdam cast, especially the 2nd night called "under the boardwalk" was the best I've ever seen, Joel Mason and James Ceilen were also super outstanding. Edge-the juggeler was good to, but we dont feel he should've been the whole show, since he didn't compare to the rest of the performers. Dane Butcher our cruise director was excellent as well.
We kind of got hooked on Bingo there spending 80-100 bucks on it. When you play for a free cruise or the snowball at the end valued at 5,400.00 for one game was too hard to pass up, losing when we only needed one or two numbers was tough. but it was fun.
Friday night, I played in a game show called whats my line, where 5 panelist had to guess what my line of work was, they werent able to figure it out. This was in the vista lounge.
When we first entered our stateroom, there was a bottle of french champagne from the captain for our honeymoon. Thursday night we were invited to a honeymoon party with a lot of other couples who were renewing their vows and other honeymooners as well as the captain and hotel manager.
The one and only part of the whole cruise that we felt that was unsatisfactory was the shorter stay in Tortola because of tropical storm Jeanne. We had the baths tour booked, so by leaving tortola early, we never saw tortola because our tour of virgin gorda was 4 hours. I would've cancelled the baths if I had earlier warning. The next two ports were cancelled-St. Thomas and San Juan- we went to St. Maartin instead, but I felt we couldve had time for another port-maybe a half day, instead of spending 2 days going real slow back to Florida. This was the only part I felt they could've done better on.
The ship is beutifull, the service was excellent, the food was great, the entertainment was very outstanding and we really, really enjoyed ourselves. I just got back having 200 pictures printed from my digital camera.
I would definitley recommend this ship again and again, as long as it's not hurricane season.