Baltic without St.Petersburg

Rotterdam Cruise Review

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 24

Overall rating:

4.6 out of 5
Rotterdam

14 Night Jewels Of The Baltic (Amsterdam Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 08, 2022

Ship: Rotterdam

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 7184

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

Great ship, great cruise. St.Petersburg, Talinn and Helsinki were skipped due to Russian/Ukraine war. German ports not value adding. Great crew !

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Quick and easy in Amsterdam. Only 1100 guests on this sailing, so plenty of space and attention on this cruise from HAL employees....

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Specialty restaurants serve wunderfull food ! Canaletto and Pinnacle great as always ! Lido restaurant buffet has enough choice.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Lot's to do if you didn't go ashore or on a sea day. Daily program on the navigator app and on paper delivered to your room...

Entertainment

5 out of 5
BB Kings blues club and the Rock and Roll stage were our favourites. Great performance from both bands ! Every evening was a party.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Great staff ! Joy & Nanang deserve special attention, wunderfull and superfriendly waiters in the Lido restaurant ! Also the crew at the New York Pizza are great and make the experience complete !

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Brand new ship, well cleaned and beautifall art in the gangways.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Clean cabin, unrestricted view, nice balcony with 2 relax chairs and small table, heating/cooling control in room, refrigerator, small safe, enough closet space for clothing, suitcases will fit under bed. Perfect !

Ports of call

Visby, Sweden

4 out of 5
Visby is a small surprise ! Easy to walk to the old town from port, only 1 km. Pretty little old town, beautiful small streets, almost no cars. A walking tour on your own is easy to do, the old city walls make it cozy. Lots of small shops, shops open after 10am...nice botanic garden, some old churches and some churches not in a visitable condition. Only coffee restaurant we could find was closeby the port. We enjoyed Visby !

Stockholm, Sweden

5 out of 5

Kristiansand, Norway

5 out of 5

Arhus, Denmark

4 out of 5

Cruise Stockholm Archipelago

5 out of 5

Kiel, Germany

3 out of 5

Oslo, Norway

5 out of 5

Amsterdam, Netherlands

5 out of 5

Warnemunde (Berlin), Germany

3 out of 5

Copenhagen, Denmark

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
If you need bag assistence you have to wait for your call, if you don't need assistance and you can handle your bags yourself you can go off ship anytime you like. Easy embarkation process.

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