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Don't stay in rooms 3392-3382 or the same rooms on the other side of the ship. These rooms are under the kitchen and are very, very noisy at all hours of the night.

The old piano bars were always full and very entertaining. HAL fired all of the older experienced piano bar entertainers and opened up the room on many ships. Many of the old piano bar entertainers would play for hours until late at night taking very few breaks. You may be correct. Given the size of the room on the newer ships perhaps two piano bar entertainers is necessary.

It is not the number of piano players. It is the ability of the piano players to get the passengers involved. A single piano player works better in a smaller venue.

I am just off the Zaandam 4 weeks cruise. I consider myself an expert in the ice cream served on the Zaandam. At the end of the Lido buffet toward the middle elevators port side they have ice cream at lunch and dinner. Also cookies and other deserts. They also had a soft serve machine at that location. Usually only one choice of soft serve. But, they had multiple choices of ice cream. They occasionally have a sorbet. One day they had an ice cream social at the Lido pool area around 2 pm. No ice cream at the late night opening of the Lido. Hope that helps.

There has been a price increase in parking to $20 per day. I believe it was $15 before. Just FYI

I received the same offer, but nowhere in mine does it say free stateroom. The heading of the email said free which I guess is referring to free casino play. Nothing too exciting in this offer.

We never received e-mails from HAL, only found the offers by searching all cruises under our log-in. I am referring to the $200 deals or free stateroom. Those deals appear to be gone. On Carnival we do get constant e-mails.

Our casino offers have pretty much dried up. We did receive one for Alaska in late August 7 day $99 with a $25K slot tournament. Glad we took full advantage of the "free" cruises while they lasted and still have a couple more on the books.

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You are not alone. Many of us who were getting those $200 casino rates are not any longer. As the ship fill up there is less incentive for HAL to offer free staterooms. I suspect there will still be offers when they need bodies to fill a ship. Those who gamble more and accumulate more points will continue to get offers.

Thank you for posting this. We are doing the 7/26 and 8/2 on the Statendam out of Coppenhagen this summer.

Would you mind posting these offers or the booking code.

Are the Alaska and Europe offers free stateroom or just discounted prices?

It looks like all of the deals except the regular % off discount have vanished for us. Not sure if they will return. We will have to wait and watch the search board on HAL website.

Good to hear it is not just us who don't get the emails. Funny that when we speak with a casino rep or our PCC they say the email was sent and give us the date it was sent. But, they can not or will not send a copy of this email.

I look under Find a Cruise. No filter. I need to search all 49 or so pages. You may not be getting the casino $200 deals and no search will find them. These deals come and go, so you would need to check frequently if you are getting them.

If there is I have not found one. The only other way would be if HAL sent you are email with the reduced prices. This does not usually happen.

By some glitch in the system we don't receive the e-mails. We have tried multiple times to get this corrected. However when we search cruises on HAL site signed in under my wife's name (she is the gambler) the deals show up. They will mostly show up as a $200 fare. When you do a mock booking it will show up which level of stateroom is free. You will pay $200 pp plus port charges at time of booking and you will receive $200 pp onboard credit. The onboard credit will not show up when doing the mock booking. This is how it works for us. We then call the casino reservation number and book the cruise through them.

We never receive emails, but noticed about 20 free stateroom or $200 deals while searching the HAL website. I was told today that another list is coming out tomorrow Dec 20th and yet another list on Dec 29th. For us they are free inside staterooms most over the next few months.

70 cruises and never bed bugs. It is possible the bed bugs traveled with you onto the ship, perhaps from a hotel.

Hope you have a great time on the Statendam and Longboat Key!

We are boarding the Statendam Nov 19th if you still going to be onboard.

Were you just on the Volendam Oct 8-22 cruise out of Trieste Italy. I can't say I remember you from the ship, but I do remember the profile.

A list would be nice. I don't seem to find any by searching.

We are sailing next week on Volendam and then November 19th-Dec 3rd on the Statendam.