Over rated and over charged
Noordam Cruise Review to South Pacific - Australia
14 Night New Zealand & Australia (Auckland To Sydney)
Sail date: February 14, 2017
Ship: Noordam
Cabin type: Balcony
Cabin number: 8132
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Review summary
The buffet dinning area - most of the meat items were over cooked and dry as a bone- people came early to get good seats and stayed long after eating making it difficult to enjoy dinning. Many food items (left-over) are served the next day in a different fashion. There was no mention of Alcohol limited to bring on board in either your info or Holland America's info until we were in Auckland so several bottles were removed from our luggage and returned at the end of the cruise. The was a 15% surcharge on all drinks purchased on board, $4.00 for a bottle of water (crazy)!!! Not piping most of the announcements into the staterooms made it hard to keep current. Visa for Australia was to be $35.00 on board purchase there was an additional $16.70 fee for New Zealand??? Several ports we had to pay for transportation to the city center. Holland America has to step up to the plate. I have been on many river and ocean cruises where you can bring alcohol on board and they save free beer and wine at all meals and water is always free!! Thanks but no more on this cruise line!!!
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Ports of call
Port Chalmers (Dunedin), New Zealand
1 Comment
Gwbigdog 2 years ago