Day 6 aboard Holland America Line's ms Noordam has come and gone and there are four days left to this incredible journey through the Southern Caribbean. After spending a day at sea, we arrived in the first of the Dutch “ABC Islands” - Bonaire. The “A” stands for Aruba which…
The only thing better than a day at sea... is... well, there is so such thing! Day 5 onboard Holland America Line's ms Noordam saw us spending a leisure day cruising the Caribbean sea en route to our next port-of-call, Bonaire – a small Dutch island off the coast of…
I gained four pounds. You may be saying to yourself, “oh poor you, what do you expect being on a cruise?” Well, if you do the math, that comes out to a pound per day. Being that this is a ten-day cruise, I'm going to come off the ship ten...…
As I stood in the bacon line this morning I wasn't prepared for what would happen just seconds after several pieces of the crispy pig and a scoop of scrambled egg substitute would be presented to me. Taking three steps to my left where I would pick up a bagel…
One of the hardest things to do when it comes to writing these daily reports from a ship is not finding subjects to write about, but actually getting them online. Here on Holland America Line's ms Noordam, the satellite Internet connection is giving me worse heartburn than an extra spicy…
It's time once again to hop onboard a Holland America Line ship and head out on another adventure, this time to the southern Caribbean on the 2006-built ms Noordam. Over the next ten days, I'll be visiting the line's private island, Half Moon Cay, Grand Turk, Samana in the Dominican…
Fresh back from his 7-day Caribbean Cruise on Holland America Line's ms Eurodam, Joe Palko checks in with some of the highlights of his last three days onboard the "Mighty E." Day 4: Georgetown, Grand Cayman "Thursday Eurodam arrived in Georgetown, Grand Cayman. We booked the Atlantis Submarine excursion so we had…
Joe Palko is back with some updates from onboard the Holland America Line cruise ship, ms Eurodam. He's on a 7-day Caribbean cruise out of Port Everglades (Fort Lauderdale, FL) with stops in Half Moon Cay, Montego Bay, Grand Cayman, and Key West. [caption id="attachment_11187" align="aligncenter" width="1080"] Off in the distance,…
It didn't come as much of a surprise to me when I was looking over my website stats and saw that the most popular series of cruise reviews was for my time spent on the inaugural sailing of Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas out of Bayonne, NJ. [caption id="attachment_7504"…
One of my favorite cruise ships in the Holland America Line fleet is the ms Eurodam, or the "Mighty E" as she is known to her loyal followers. The Eurodam is a Signature-class ship, launched in 2008, and is the 80th ship in the history of the Holland America Line.…
