Live from Nieuw Statendam 14 day Canary Island Allure April 21 - May 5, 2024

[Overhead Fred]

View from the Pico dos Barcelos viewpoint in Funchal -

 

[VMax1700]

I will do the 'housekeeping' of menus etc later, but we had a great day touring part of Tenerife arranged by @sailingdutchy Tony .  We had a great day, a fine lunch and wonderful conversation.  The guide whom Tony picked was absolutely top class. We visited Icod de los vinos and Garachico along the north coast. Our guide selected various plates for our lunch which we all shared, including bean soup, grilled cheese with sauces, berenjenas con miel ( deep fried sliced egg plant drizzled in local palm honey), and goat stew with canarias potatoes.

The onboard entertainment tonight was a Flamenco group, who gave an above average, though unatmospheric, performance.  Flamenco is not local to las Canarias but the tourists expect it!

We have a late sailaway tonight at 11pm for the short trip to Gran Canaria.

[VMax1700]

Nieuw Statendam moored at the terminal in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.  The terminal building was spotlessly clean and bright.  Security was within the terminal building and there was a shop selling alcohol after the security check.  There was no further check when boarding the ship. 

 

And here is the location of the docked NSDM relative to the city.

 

Edited April 26 by VMax1700

[VMax1700]

Today's menus

 

MDR Dinner

 

 

 

Lido Lunch

 

 

Lido Dinner

 

 

Lido Late Snack

 

[VMax1700]

Today's Daily

 

 

 

 

[VMax1700]

Oops I nearly forgot the menu pdf files

 

north_europe_dr_menu_05_reformat.pdf

 

m7-day7-_lido_lunch_north_europe.pdf

 

m7-day7-_lido_dinner_north_europe.pdf

 

day_7_lido_late_snack.pdf

[oakridger]

8 hours ago, 0106 said:

If I have an error on my bill (which I check every morning) I use the “Let Us Know” feature on the Navigator app to have it corrected

 

Thanks for the reminder to use the App instead of waiting in the dang Guest Services line!!  

 

~Nancy

[cavecreekguy]

Thanks so much for your posts. I'm boarding Nieuw Statendam May 5 and have been curious about recent menus and activities.

[cruiseaholic78]

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 😀

[colin v]

3 hours ago, cruiseaholic78 said:

”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 😀

Not sure I understand?  Which of those is not English?

[cruiseaholic78]

What he meant was a “hard boiled egg”

I thought it was funny but might be my twisted sense of humour.

Edited April 27 by cruiseaholic78

[VMax1700]

2 hours ago, colin v said:

Not sure I understand?  Which of those is not English?

 

8 minutes ago, cruiseaholic78 said:

What he meant was a “hard boiled egg”

I thought it was funny but might be my twisted sense of humour.

Yes, agree. English language can be so open to misinterpretation.  E.g. what is the opposite of 'easy'? Well it is 'difficult' or 'hard'.  So, what is the opposite of ' egg over easy'?  Is it 'egg over hard' (which is the way DW asks for them)?  Eggs 'hard' could be fried or boiled.  

However if I had to order eggs in Dutch, I would probably end up a vegan.🙄

[VMax1700]

Saturday 7th April, King's Day, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

 

Here are today's menus....

 

MDR Dinner

 

 

 

Lido Lunch

 

 

Lido Dinner

 

 

Lido Late Snack

 

[VMax1700]

Here are the menus in pdf format

 

dutchdinner_insert_menu_2024_v.2.pdf

 

m4-day4-_lido_lunch_north_europe.pdf

 

dutch_theme_dinner.pdf

 

day_4_lido_late_snack.pdf

 

 

[VMax1700]

[VMax1700]

Location of ship in Las Palmas,

Also in port today are AIDA Cosma and MSC Virtuoso

 

[VMax1700]

Here is today's Daily

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[cavecreekguy]

12 minutes ago, VMax1700 said:

Here is today's Daily

 

 

I have fond memories of the "pub crawl" events that were discontinued years ago. I hope the "bar hop" is similar.

[albingirl]

45 minutes ago, VMax1700 said:

Location of ship in Las Palmas,

Also in port today are AIDA Cosma and MSC Virtuoso

 

Beautiful beaches there. 

[SDARCH]

Turns out we have good friends from Belfast on this cruise. 

[VMax1700]

2 hours ago, SDARCH said:

Turns out we have good friends from Belfast on this cruise. 

I am originally from Belfast!  But long time ago.

[VMax1700]

Chocolates on the bed tonight!  Our room steward Dedi said they were a special gift from the King 🤣🤣

[VMax1700]

Staff in Lido all dressed up for Kings day/Orange night...

 

 

 

[VMax1700]

King's day decoration

 

Edited April 27 by VMax1700

[VMax1700]

Viewers of Port Evergades Sailaways will understand the significance of this feeling of Deja vu!  MSC Virtuoso was docked at the adjacent pier when out of the corner of my eye I spotted a familiar sight.........white trucks! There were similar trucks yesterday in Teneriffe.