Oosterdam Cruise Reviews - Reviews

A totally wonderful trip. The only negative was the late flights home. The ship is beautifully designed, the meals in the dining room were fine, every member of the staff was a pleasure to deal with. Highly recommended!!

Great experience. When the staff cares and is kind, the experience is so much better and this staff was unreal.

For my first open water cruise it was great. I like the fact that you can see a lot of different places without having to unpack and repack and if you're tired of shore you can just sit back and relax. well worth it for me.

Really enjoyed this cruise only 2 sea days and more ports.

Great cruise for the price, good food, great ports, good activities, limited child activities

This cruise exceeded our expectations in every way. Outstanding ports of call.

This crusie gave me the opportunity to learn where we would like to go and visit longer.

We were looking for a cruise from Rome to Athens and this was good for our needs.

This cruise was a perfect sampling of the ports visited. We did all port days on our own, so cannot speak to the cruise line excursions. However, you will save money doing the tours on your own for the same experience. All the ports felt safer and more comfortable than expected for our first visit to Europe. We have cruised Carnival in the past, and were pleasantly surprised by this Holland America cruise. Service and food was excellent, the cruise director (Erin) was fantastic and engaging. Definitely different from the Carnival experience in some ways, but NOT and older crowd. We had many families, kids, and 20 somethings on this cruise so the diversity of the demographic was a very pleasant surprise! We would do it again!

I wanted and expected to love it but the ship was just so dated. Then to have the experiences with the Caneletto and Guest Services made it unpleasant. I pre-booked several other cruises because HAL has great itineraries, but I plan on canceling them at this time.

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The staff was wonderful & Excursions were great. Accomodation was comfortable and the food was good. I would definitely cruise again with Holland America.

Return the money ship was old food was lousy entertainment was worse

While I have been on many cruises in my youth, this was the first time for my husband and adult children. They were apprehensive if they would enjoy it, worrying that it would be cheesy or cheap, but everyone loved the experience. The food and hospitality were top notch. We loved the unique port options as well. A great experience we hope to do again!

there was no sail away party. And no live music during the day. I found that unusual. Always had that on other ships.

Peaceful, sumptuous. Professional, attentive crew, friendly officers, accessible help for anything. Felt safe and valued.

If you enjoy "sea days" then a transatlantic cruise is definitely for you. This cruise also offered many outstanding ports of call. I would strongly recommend this cruise to anyone wanting to visit the Mediterranean.

Good cruise, staff was excellent . Cabin needs updating, met our needs.

It is the "trip of a Lifetime" for anyone who wants to cruise to Antarctica.

Start to the trip was damp. 14 inches of rain in Ft Lauderdale and near gale force winds from the east caused water incursion into our deck 4 balcony on port side. Cabin attendants and water clean up crew were there vacuuming and with fans till late at night. How attentive. That event bonded us to our cabin attendants Ham and Bong from Bali. We got to know them well and enjoyed interfacing. They were perfect. We were sad about our Panama City shore excursion cancellation - protests by locals made it too dangerous. And Puerto Chacabuco was cancelled due to San Antonio authorities delaying our departure 8 hours due to high winds. The rest of our port visits were asesome. None of them did we get rained on except in the Falklands. Walked to the museum in Aruba, hung out on our balcony through the Panama canal - our cruise director Ed narrated with a truly informative talk as he did for each port and also when we viewed the glaciers later...superlative CD. We had a beer portside in Panama, walked the beach and wandered through a museum dedicated to indigenous folks in Ecuador, parited onboard for Orange night and the equator passing, took a Viator excursion in Lima to see downtown and grab lunch at Peru Gourmet plus drive by huacas and visit Love park, our HAL small boat tour off Pisco to the Ballestras to see penguins and sea lions was great, a walk to the mall in Coquimbo wa oksay, as was our pier boardwalk in San Antonio. Puerto Montt hotel Ibis was welcoming with local Flugel beer, the Chilean fjords and Brujo glacier - where our captain did a donut for full viewing - were breathtaking. Punta Arenas had Austral beer at a basement pub in the old Braun mansion - much welcomed after a long stroll to Braun cemeteary, and then the 6 glaciers near Ushuaia were otherworldly. Ushuaia was just a step into the town, but braved the cold and rain after a long tender ride into Stanley to have a scone in the Falklands at West Store. Shopping in Montevideo was fun using my Spanglish, and Buenos Aires HAL excursion was perfect with a bus to Recoleta cemetery and Casa Rosada and Tortoni cafe plus La Boca. Food on the ship is good. The 8 bottle Cellar 1 wine package at $260 was passable. The service we received was best on the seas (and we have been on 30 or so ocean cruises). We did have to use the medical facilities for a non life threatening event and were extremely pleased with the service and moderate price.