Old Prisendam just passed us in Greenland

[Cruise NH]

Noon Greenland time. Prince Christian Sound.

[Essiesmom]

Sailing as Amera for Phoenix-Reisen.  EM

[aliaschief]

Sure do miss the Elegant Explorer. Thanks for sharing.

[cruisemom42]

Beautiful photo!

 

How's Greenland? Where are you / have you stopped?  Looks like the weather is very nice.

 

[RetiredMustang]

Beaten to the boards!  Here is a similar shot I took.

 

 

 

Dave

[Cruise NH]

Forgot to say, we’re on the Zuiderdam Voyage of the Vikings.

 

great weather today, chilly of course but the sun came out after the fog lifted.  We’ve had good weather at ports but very foggy at sea.

[Banditswife]

Both are beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing.

[St Pete Cruiser]

Phoenix Riesen seems to take very good care of their ships. I hope our Prinsendam is still doing well. She is 35 now.

[kazu]

Thanks for the wonderful pics.  I sure miss that little ship 😔 

[kazu]

1 minute ago, St Pete Cruiser said:

Phoenix Riesen seems to take very good care of their ships. I hope our Prinsendam is still doing well. She is 35 now.

 

they sunk something like 40 million euros into her refurbishment and maintenance IIRC.  She was a well made ship - they don’t make them like her anymore.

[whogo]

Great photos, thanks. Phoenix Reisen celebrates its 50 anniversary soon, they seem to be successful with smaller, older ships. As I remember they spent €20,000,000 redoing the Prinsendam with new engines and all. The German TV series Verrückt nach Meer followed guests and crew on Phoenix Reisen cruises, I watched every episode, including some filmed on the former Prinsendam.

 

Amera and the other Phoenix Reisen ships sail some great itineraries. Would love to try one, Mrs. whogo is not interested in the least. Amera leaves for a round the world in 143 days cruise, eastbound, on December 21: https://www.phoenixreisen.com/einmal-um-die-ganze-welt-mit-ms-amera-in-143-tagen-36-3077337-1.html?source=overview&searchIdCruiseDate=3077338

 

Artania does a westbound circumnavigation in 143 days starting December 23:  https://www.phoenixreisen.com/die-grosse-weltumrundung-mit-ms-artania-in-143-tagen-36-3077312-1.html?source=overview&searchIdCruiseDate=3077313

 

Amadea circumnavigates South America and Africa from Europe. With wrap around decks on all their ships, and visiting smaller, less touristy ports, they are the kind of ships Holland America old timers miss, not that the Holland America old timers would sail on another line, much less a German one.

[cruisemom42]

22 minutes ago, kazu said:

 

they sunk something like 40 million euros into her refurbishment and maintenance IIRC.  She was a well made ship - they don’t make them like her anymore.

 

She's such a pretty, neat ship. Not like today's lumbering giants.

[Mosaic]

She is a quality build because she was the most expensive cruise ship ever built at that time.

[Destiny0315]

40 minutes ago, cruisemom42 said:

 

She's such a pretty, neat ship. Not like today's lumbering giants.

Agreed! A WHATEVER of the Seas RCCL ship in the same spot would have blocked the natural beauty in the background of the photos with waterslides etc...!

Edited July 31, 2023 by Destiny0315

[portofrome]

A very beautiful and elegant ship!

[OlsSalt]

I see the price now is $666 per person per day for the same Neptune suite that we got on a very last minute up sell on the old Prinsedam for a wonderful Mediterranean- Black Sea cruise - one of the larger named-suites on the upper deck by the Crows Nest lounge. Thanks forever to kazu, who recommended grabbing it about 24 hours before our departure.

 

Now called the Chopin Suite, was the Amundsen Suite.  Prisendam was not cheap back then. but it certainly was not $1200 a day per Neptune Suite.  

 

Yes, she did excellent itineraries with very special flexibility to add extras when called for. Clunky in her interior design at that point due to add-on and reconfigurations, so it would be interesting to see what the recent make-over accomplished to correct some of her as-built deficiencies.