Maasdam-a/c Problems-nav. Deck?

[dewhit6959]

On another cruise chat page, there was mention of problems with the air conditioning on the Navigation deck. An individual said that his cabin and others were uncomfortably warm on a Caribbean cruise. He further states that workers from the ship engineering dept. told him there had been problems with the ducting on that deck prior to this cruise. There were no other cabins available for him to move to and he and his wife were given five hundred dollars credit towards a future cruise.

Has anyone on this board had a.c. problems on this deck on this ship ?

[Cruising Illini]

Maasdam is still on the Canada-New England route until Oct. 30 so wouldn't have any problem with too warm -- must have been another of the "dam" ships. The Zuiderdam I believe is the only one in the Carib. currently.

[DFD1]

There have been several complaints here about the AC on the Zuiderdam. I've heard none about the AC on the Maasdam.

[dewhit6959]

Thank you for your posts. I am not sure of the date of the cruise that the individual experienced the a/c problems, but I gather from the lack of complaints posted that this must have been an isolated incident or possibly the cruiser was from a northern territory and not aclimated to the humidity and temps in the south. Thanks again !

[CaptData]

Hey Dew: I resemble that remark. ;) ;)

I love A/c on Caribeean cruises.

[montgomeryfamily]

Dewhit6959, before the drydock, when the Maasdam was was sailing in the Carribbean, we experienced ac problems when in a cat S stateroom on the Nav. deck. We were told by ship's engineering that the problem was caused by one of the ships air conditioning units which wasn't working effectively and that the problem was more severe in hot weather. (No mention was made of a ducting problem). We were also told that most of the other staterooms on the Nav. deck are serviced by a different air conditioning unit which was working and so those staterooms didn't experience any ac problems.

This issue/problem was discussed on the old boards but I don't believe any of those posts were brought over to the new boards. It was not just our Carribean sailing that was affected. Other Caribbean sailings that were sailing in the hotter summer months also had complaints. (We sailed during Aug.)

I had hoped that the problem with the ac problem would be repaired during the Massdam's dry dock. It would be interesting to find out when this person who experienced the problems sailed. Also, this reference to a ducting problem is new. Where did you find this issue discussed?

I would doubt that anyone would have a problem sailing on the Canada-New England route, as the weather is so much cooler there.

[gizmo]

From what I can recall there were A/C problems right after the dry docking, which may have been there before hand, but that part I don't remember.
Eventually they were corrected and I haven't read anything on A/C problems recently.

[JohnR49er]

The problems were still there on the October30 -November 9 sailing. Suites 16, 18, and 20 at least. Never fixed during the sailing and the suites got up to 85 degrees. Guess they never really fixed it.