Disapointing

Nieuw Amsterdam Cruise Review to Caribbean

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 4

Overall rating:

2 out of 5
Nieuw Amsterdam

14 Night Western/Eastern Caribbean (Ft. Lauderdale Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 01, 2015

Ship: Nieuw Amsterdam

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 7028

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 9 years ago

Review summary

Customer service (with a few notable exceptions) was terrible.  The carpet in the Lido deck was threadbare under the chair legs.  The Eastern initerary was lackluster.  Western ports were interesting as was Half Moon Bay.  But the service was constitent.... Disappointing.

I would still recommend Holand America... (Baltics and Alaska Cruises were wonderful). But I would not recommend Nieuw Amsterdam.

 

 

 

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
Food was fine ... service on Lido - Terrible

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

Arnold and Aryin ( who we found on the last day) were outstanding as were our cabin stewards (Punu and Ray)

Ship Quality

1 out of 5
Needs updates

Ship tip

Skip the western leg. And don't do like we did and settle for poor service in the Lido deck.

Ports of call

George Town, Grand Cayman

3 out of 5

Key West, Florida

5 out of 5
Take the time to tour

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

3 out of 5

Grand Turk Island

3 out of 5

San Juan, Puerto Rico

5 out of 5
Be sure to tour old town

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

3 out of 5

Half Moon Cay, Bahamas (Private Island)

5 out of 5
Reserve a clamshell
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1 Comment

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise with us.