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Item: Rotterdam Retired
Rating: 3.3
Author: heekyoon

Rotterdam Retired Cruise Review to Panama Canal, Central America

heekyoon

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 43

Overall rating:

3.3 out of 5

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16 Night Panama Canal (Ft. Lauderdale To San Diego)

Sail date: January 23, 2020

Ship: Rotterdam Retired

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 1835

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 4 years ago

Review summary

passengers are mostly seniors. cafeteria was not busy most of the time. dinner took somewhat long. Lido restaurant was good( tried 2 times), good crews, poor entertainment (we seen the same BBC film four times), talks on Mexico was excellent, however panama canal talk was not good, should be there more lectures besides videos. we tipped more than $100 to crews, seems they expect it, good or bad???

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

not applicable

Entertainment

3 out of 5

not much entertainment, somewhat disappointed

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

most of them are very good

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

old ship, small, but conveniet to move around

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

large, clean, windows, but old tv set.

Ports of call

Ft. Lauderdale (Port Everglades), Florida

4 out of 5

Willemstad, Curacao

3 out of 5

not much to do, small downtown area

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Oranjestad, Aruba

4 out of 5

good place for beach

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Panama Canal Transit

4 out of 5

good spots in the ship to see the canal and operation

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Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica

1 out of 5

Puerto Corinto, Nicaragua

1 out of 5

Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala

2 out of 5

not much to see antigua city tour,

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Huatulco, Mexico

2 out of 5

no interesting excursions

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Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

2 out of 5

tequilla place: so so

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San Diego, California

3 out of 5

Disembarkation

4 out of 5

4 Comments

Gwbigdog 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise.

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cruisereckoning 4 years ago

Holland America definitely is more of an older crowd so we fit right in. Not a lot of night life which is fine with us. We are getting back on the Oosterdam Saturday and looking forward to it. We also did our Panama Canal cruise on the Oosterdam and really enjoyed it.

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Miemsje 4 years ago

Sorry that you have had this experience. For me, the MS Rotterdam is the best ship of HAL fleet.

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CruzeFan 4 years ago

Thanks for the review. We have cruised with Holland America twice and were not impressed based on the good things we had heard. There was nothing terrible, but we found the food, service and definitely entertainment and activities below what we have experienced on Carnival and Royal Caribbean. We would consider HAL again only if we could not find a similar itinerary on another line.

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