cruiseaholic78

Welcome to Rotterdam safe travels.

I wish all of you a safe flight/return trip home and hope the lucky ones staying on have a great cruise. We enjoyed meeting some of you and who knows maybe we will meet again on another cruise. Feeling unashamedly totally smug that we only have a thirty minute drive home as we usually have long flights and jet lag pre cruise. Rosalyn

They will be honoring remembrance day at 20:00 at the Lido deck.

For those in Rotterdam on 4th May, this is remembrance day in The Netherlands where 2 minutes silence is held from 20:00.I wonder if they will do this on the ship? 5th May is the celebration of liberation day.

Sorry afraid not but as vegetarian food was also mentioned that is why I posted our C.O. menu. I would like to add that they are very good in the C.O.at adapting your choices and will always get me a crisp if it is shown on the MDR menu but not on the C.O. menu.

Is this better.

I am sorry but it is for me so not sure what to do about this. I just clicked and its now yellow. Can you see it.?

This is an example of our (dressy) menu tonight in C.O., there are vegetarian offers however they are not Indian.

It was all in the attachment and to be honest who wants to do a cruise less than 13 days!😁

If it is a Pinnacle ship I would advise asking if Club Orange is available, you pay $15 per day and get to chose your own cabin in the veranda class. If it is not a Pinnacle ship the price difference is not usually worth it (for me) and I would do as others suggest and pay for a cabin of your choice. I always like to choose my own cabin and location. https://www.hollandamerica.com/content/dam/hal/inventory-assets/activity-types/dining/club-orange/Club_Orange_Benefits.pdf

What he meant was a “hard boiled egg” I thought it was funny but might be my twisted sense of humour.

Two thoughts for today if I may. Yesterday we sat in our bus waiting for our tour to begin when a discussion ensued between a couple with a “service dog” in a stroller and our driver. This took thirty minutes and we are not sure what exactly happened but in the end they got off our bus and got on a different one. Possibly with a dog lover! Heard at breakfast today ”Sir how would you like your eggs? I would like them hard! Sometimes it might be useful to learn a few English words before boarding 😀

If your hotel is near the cruise terminal you could leave your luggage there and walk to the very end where Hotel New York is situated, you can then spend some time watching the world go by. The reason for the timing slots is probably due to the total **** *** at the last boarding on 21 st April, the lines for dropping off luggage were ginormous and many were complaining.Everyone had a 12:00 boarding time so it looks like they are trying this time round to do it better.

When getting your Vietnam visa make sure you use the official site and not one that you pay to do it for you. https://evisa.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn/trang-chu-ttdt

We are able to stream Netflix, we have the premium padkage.