last Alaska cruise of the season
Westerdam Cruise Review to Alaska - Inside Passage
7 Night Alaskan Explorer With Glacier Bay (Seattle Roundtrip)
Sail date: September 19, 2015
Ship: Westerdam
Cabin type: Balcony
Cabin number: 7023
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 9 years ago
Review summary
Overall this was ok; we'd done Alaska inside passage before, but with a different cruise line, and Holland America definitely got you on and off the ship faster than Carnival did. Perhaps it was because it was the last cruise of the season and staff were tired, but we never did have room service get an order completely right, and we were charged for things from the mini bar that the previous people who'd had our room opened and then put back in the fridge. There was an elastic hair tie in the shower with a bunch of hair in it from the previous people, as well as a message left on the phone for them, so I definitely felt like there could have been more attention to detail to things like that. As far as seeing the inside passage itself, we did most of that at night so didn't get to see what we knew was amazing scenery... There wasn't a naturalist on board as with our Carnival cruise, so I'm not sure if we missed seeing wildlife or not.
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