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Agree with these recommendations. Will add doing one of the canal cruises at dusk/evening. You will definitely like the Anne Frank House.

Port - Amsterdam - absolutely best port for me. Ship - Getaway Room - Balcony mid-ship 8th or 9th floor

Thanks for the info. Great summary.

georgiacat how long was the tour part? Is there a regular scheduled times at each stop, especially downtown?

Martini Bar Staff and level of service Food in main dinning and specialty.

Well, we sailed Apex on May 14-25 British Isles - absolutely loved it! Stay in an infinite veranda to see what all the fuss was about these E class balconies. I for one liked it. We ate in main dinning room 7 nights of the 11 and can say the food quality and selection was very good. Ate the specialty dinning the other 4 nights and Fine Cut was best by far to us, the Raw on Five was just okay. Finally, Martini Bar was our favorite hang out. So I am in the cheerleader camp as well.

So it was not very large - little smaller than pillow case. However, my wife and myself were able to stuff about 3 days worth of clothes each in it. I felt it was worth it.

On a recent Apex cruise, it was $59 and ours came back next day.

I was looking for Delta but was told KLM (partner). Only once in KLM line did I notice the check-in screens at KLM counter would switch between KLM, Delta and someone else I can't remember. There was nothing really telling us to go there. My first time flying in/out of AMS in addition.

We walked off Apex at about 6:40 am, got our car rideshare right out of the front door of terminal and took about little over an hour to get to AMS. We were thru check-in and security and waiting for flight before 9 am. I will say AMS was a little confusing (we flew Delta) but finally found a nice KLM representative to explain everything to us.

On Apex today sail away at regular internet not upgrade 0.77 Mbs

Good to know. We plan on Uber from Airport to Hotel and then use GVB for getting around Amsterdam. Now will plan on the phone app for our 3 day pass.

Jim you indicated that you got a pass for the Amsterdam GVB bus/tram/subway. Can you tell me if you purchased the actual card pass or using the phone app pass? I have read that there were issues with the phone app not working great but I think that was when it was first rolled out.

Great pictures. Will definitely go here in couple weeks.

Okay I'm going to have to book another trip in Retreat just for the Chocolate Sphere now!!!!!

Also has anyone been to the St. Coleman Cathedral in Cobh? Worth the climb to the top of the hill 😁?

Jim thanks for the info on Spike Island. We have nothing planned for day 2 of the overnight in Cobh and good to know it is much cheaper booking directly. Do you get to go thru the old prison or just a few areas? Thanks Richard

Bummer 😒

Is this only available in Luminae?

Jim loved the story on Luke. We absolutely love Goldens!!! Our son Matt had a golden as his assistant dog. We swore that he was human. He loved Matt so much and we he died our whole family was truly devastated. Matt swore he never wanted another dog because nothing could replace Crockett. Fast forward 4 years later and we got a Lab (Duke). It took all of 10 minutes for Matt to fall in love with Duke. You should consider getting another one, they bring so much love and loyalty.

Thanks for the info. Followup, does the Amsterdam Travel Ticket work for getting from Rotterdam to Schiphol on the train? My cruise embarks in Amsterdam but disembarks in Rotterdam.

Definitely not good at 26% loss. Well hopefully back to normal soon. We were on a NCL cruise in December and went without any internet for probably 30 to 40% of the time during the cruise.

I know the train to Amsterdam Centraal Station is a separate ticket from the Amsterdam public transit (GVB). Is there a kiosk or machine to buy GVB multiday tickets at the airport?

Wow 249 Mbps would be awesome!!! Well you know the system is capable of high speed. But then they have to go and limit it 🤣

Looks like they are capping speed at 5 Mbps given likely hardly anyone online at 4:30. Considering I never got above 1 Mbps on Solstice pre-starlink, not bad overall.