Andi Land

We were in 7069 a year or so back. When I submitted my review to HalFacts with my room pics, I commented on how noisy it was and that I would not book that area again. We had the same issue as you did. It was awful.

I didn’t have it listed in my onboard account for my casino offer but was able to add it thru this link https://www.hollandamerica.com/en_US/deals/have-it-all/have-it-all-upgrade.html ETA: the link worked a few days ago. Now it says it’s having problems and to check back 🤦‍♀️

I can’t see my private fares or my casino offers. Neither of them are coming up for me anymore. I don’t know what changed.

We were also on this cruise and agree with what you’ve said. We stayed on for the second week and went to Mexico and that was a better experience.

The promenade deck is one of my favorite features of HAL. I like to go out and just walk at a leisurely pace with the breeze blowing all around. It’s lovely!

Thanks for this! We booked NCL for next August and we’ve never sailed them. The itinerary looks like a great one we haven’t found anywhere else (Iceland, Greenland that is RT Reykjavík). So, the fact you’ve sailed them twice recently gives me hope I’ve chosen wisely.

Probably. 😂

Way back in my younger days I worked at Jack in the Box. The number of people who’d come in and order a cheeseburger with no cheese was startlingly high. 😂

We didn’t need the boarding pass for week two when we did B2B in November.

The itineraries are now available to book. And yes, Bar Harbor has been removed from most itineraries but not all of them.

If it was sent to the old card you should be able to call the credit card issuer and have them send you a check for the credit. I’ve had to do that before.

By offering the Move Up option, it’s not necessarily a “dilution.” They have rooms that wouldn’t be used if left unsold. By selling the max capacity, they don’t dilute the product, they are making it what the expectations is for a fully loaded ship. We may not like it as passengers when it’s more full but more full does not equal dilution. Also, the Move Up option is in place to hopefully hook people into booking higher categories then they normally would. Say I normally book an ocean view but get a Move Up offer to a balcony and absolutely fall in love with balcony rooms that means that for my next tip I’m automatically going to look at pricing for the balcony to see how I can swing it. It’s a good business model for them. Hope you have a fantastic time in the Retreat. And please do come back and share with us your experience. I always like to know everyone’s take on these things.

I know you didn’t mention Holland America (not sure if you sail with them) but they have a really unique Alaska itinerary coming in 2024

I noticed the 2024 Voyage of the Vikings is on the Zuiderdam. So, my guess is Zuiderdam will do Canada New England. Hopefully they add a smaller ship to that area as well since it’s where I’d like to go in 2024.

It was broken when I was on in June and when I was on in November it worked one week and was broken the other week. Seems to be hit or miss.

Can you apply the non refundable deposit to the Irish cruise? If that cruise has a refundable deposit, can you cancel and rebook using the non refundable deposit?

Just as a side note, we had a heck of a time getting CC to load on Koningsdam using Safari. I had to switch to Chrome for the trip.

Enjoy the wonderful sunshine heading your way. I hope your cruise on the Koningsdam brings new adventures on a new class of ship.

I tested positive pre cruise in August. I wanted to book a replacement cruise in November and called and explained that. They processed my credit right away and applied it to the November cruise.

Thanks for posting this. I cancelled all my pre booked excursions and re booked them. Saved hundreds of dollars. Thanks again!

If you still feel crummy in a few days, test again. It took 2 days for mine to come back positive once I had symptoms. My case wasn’t too bad though. Hope you feel better soon.

Ha! Out of context my comment makes no sense. He was watching a movie about Grandpa so I was recommending another for when he was done 🤣🤣🤣

Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds’s is another good one when you’re done with Grandpa.

My gold card has spend $1000 get $300

Some of the 2024 Europe cruises on the Apex were showing up today. I didn’t see any others. I’m waiting for 2024 Mediterranean so I keep looking.