Thank you for your video. It was very informative and you never said how you like the taste of the pizza? We really wanna know your thoughts thanks again.🤔😊🛳️🦩⚓️
So, funny story, the ice and water machines were broken on our cruise in November. Good grief. We were not fans of this ship, as we felt the food and service were both subpar. (we are Celebrity snobs, I guess). Also, the casino and shops around were filled with smoke when Casino was open.
Yes, the smoke smell was pretty bad up around the Rolling Stone and Billboard Onboard areas most sea days... we even smelled it wafting back toward to BB King area sometimes too!!
I was just on this ship in January on the same itinerary but Bonaire was part of the itinerary. The food was excellent all around and the ship is beautiful. Especially enjoyed the Crows Nest. And guess what? I was in room 7037!! By any chance did you find a gray sock? lol.
D&J - do they do tea time every day or just sea days? Love me some HAL but it's been 5 years since I've been aboard. Princess casino offers are just too awesome!
Thankee! We keep talking about packing videos, but never get around to making them, ha ha... our backpacks are in our Amazon shop, and they're super big! They even work as underseat bags on most airplanes if you don't jam them full, ha ha... :P www.parodeejay.com/amazon
Hi, We've always been curious of the Rotterdam. Was there a buffet available to you when you boarded and as well as breakfast? Looking forward to this series. We've heard comments that the Blues club & Rolling stone club didn't have enough seating. Did you see that? Thank you
Yes, the buffet was available for all three daily meals, including boarding day lunch. The seating in all the music venues fills up FAST, especially the rock room... get there early, ha ha... :P
Yes, but we got some of the last remaining seats, probably because folks had drifted over to the Billboard Onboard set. We had strange sideways seats, perched on a bench, facing 90 degrees away from the stage, hah...
We are going on the Rotterdam to Norway in 5 months. My problem with this video is you give little to no description of the food. Since you covered several days in this video, and there is no nightly wrap up, all we get are 2 second still photos of the food with nothing else. I know HAL is know for their good food, and it looked good, but who knows....we have no follow up on it. I think if your going to do your videos like this over several days, maybe you should try and show a little more at dinner so people understand if you like the food.
Most of the menus we’ve eaten several times over on different ships, so we figured it’s okay to skip a single day’s MDR dinner recap in this video, but we do understand that not everyone may have watched our previous HAL vlogs. We included the nightly food wrap-up in every other part of this series, for the curious!! :P
Most days, we struggled to find activities that we wanted to do that weren't an upcharge. Fortunately, we got a lot of work catch-up done over the course of the cruise due to the lack of interesting activities!! :P
Great video… Thanks so much… Watched very very closely as we will be on the Konningsdam in January 2025 ... thinking that both ships are pretty similar… You have gotten us even more excited🚢
@@parodeejay thanks for responding… our konningsdam Cruz is not until January 1925… We will be heading to Hawaii… 18 day cruise and will be our longest... thanks for all you do❤️🚢❤️ heading to Celebrity beyond today… First time on an edge class ship for us… Looking very forward to that sailing… 10 nights!!
Looks like they're only keeping the BB King concept on the Pinnacle class, possibly. The other ships seem to be going for the "Rolling Stone Lounge" combined concept like we saw on Nieuw Amsterdam.
Hi Dee Marie. Do you like Moana? I watched it on RU-vid for the first time the other day. It's definately my new favourite. "How far i'll go" was definately written for me. Would love it if you could sing it next time you film a Karaoke.
@@Dee-of-ParoDeeJay Thank you Dee, I have finally found a travel company with carers that can take me to Curacoa fo 11 nghts. We might be able to meet one day.
The little "bonus" casino room is the no smoking casino. Breakfast at the NY Deli IS a great secret! The Dive In does have the best fries at sea. Have you tried their sauce? 😋
Hope they have that band show in the Oosterdam! It wasn't in the Nieuw Statendam last year. Ps. Probably you know but if not, you could ask your room steward to bring you ice every day.
No dinner summary?! 😭 haha... Island Magic is only on Rotterdam btw - They're onboard Rotterdam for the whole Caribbean season (saw them in November and agree they were amazing)!
Ooh we are looking at the 9 night Christmas cruise on the Rotterdam this year. We can’t decide though between this ship and Sun Princess, 7 night Western. Definitely prefer the Southern itinerary but have not cruised with either line. We usually cruise Disney and Royal. We have a young teen who loves the kid/teen clubs and we totally get these lines are not geared towards families/kids & teens, but I hear the holiday sailings should have plenty for them to do. We don’t need the rock climbing or zip lining, as long as there are other kids on board and the teen club is open, that’s great! Our kid is a bit of a foodie so I think he’d enjoy it. Looking forward to the rest of the series!
Most ships are built "across the pond" and do itineraries in places where 220v is the norm, so I suppose it's helpful to have multiple outlet options!! :D
Sea days look fun. I know you were doing other work, really appreciate your taking time to show us some of what's available on the Rotterdam. Holland America Line looks a good choice.
We had just eaten in the dining room every night onboard Nieuw Amsterdam, and the menus are the same, so we figured why not mix it up a bit and experience something different!! :P
