Day five on this 9-day southern Caribbean cruise found us visting one happy island — Aruba — bright and early, with Rotterdam docking in Oranjestad just after 7am. The “all clear” to head ashore came a little before 8, which meant the shore day parade of beach bags and fellow…
Day four brought us to our first port of call on this 9-day segment of my 21 straight days on Rotterdam. If you’re just joining — this is the second half of a back-to-back. A whole lot has already been covered in the previous 12-day cruise, and instead of rehashing…
Day three of this 9-day Southern Caribbean adventure was spent at sea as we make our way toward our first port of call, Willemstad, Curaçao. If you’ve been following along since the Day 1 of this 21-day Rotterdam marathon, you already know the previous 12-day segment was filled with warm…
Here we go again! Day 2 of this cruise — and Day 14 of my full 21-day Rotterdam voyage — was spent at sea as we make our way toward our first port of call on this segment, Willemstad, Curaçao, where we’re scheduled to arrive Monday right at noon. If…
Time to kick off round two — the continuation of this adventure, but now as an entirely new cruise: a 9-day Southern Caribbean sailing on Holland America Line’s Rotterdam. For this journey, I booked two completely separate reservations: one for the 12-day segment that just wrapped up this morning, and…
Today marks the final day of this 12-day segment of my latest adventure aboard Holland America Line’s Rotterdam. While most passengers are packing up and getting ready to disembark tomorrow morning in Fort Lauderdale, I’m doing the exact opposite — I’m staying put, although I will be changing rooms. Once…
Day 11 already — how did that happen? We’ve covered a lot of ocean since boarding Rotterdam last week: Half Moon Cay, Grand Turk, St. Maarten, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, Barbados, Pointe-à-Pitre, and last night’s late-night stay in San Juan. With all that port hopping, the schedule finally slows down…
Day 10 already and it's hard to believe we’re wrapping up the final port of this 12-day Caribbean run on Holland America’s Rotterdam. We’ve hit some incredible spots over the past week and a half: Half Moon Cay, St. Maarten, St. Lucia, Tobago, Barbados, Guadeloupe… and now we’ve arrived at…
Day 9 already, and this cruise is flying by. So far on this 12-day Rotterdam sailing, we’ve checked off Half Moon Cay, St. Maarten, St. Lucia, Scarborough (Tobago), and Bridgetown (Barbados). Today brought us somewhere completely new for me: Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. This is our second-to-last port before San Juan, and…
Today is Day 8 of this 12-day Caribbean cruise on Rotterdam, and we’re spending it in Bridgetown, Barbados. We’re docked at the Port of Bridgetown Cruise Terminal, which is both a major cruise hub and a working freight yard. This is one of the larger cruise ports in the Caribbean…
