Saturday, August 15, 2009

Ship Highlights

This post is mostly pictures of the ship.

This is the Crow's Nest, on the very top deck. It had a great view out the front of the ship. At night there was dancing in here.

All over the ship were windows with art displays, statues, and art on the walls. The stairwells would have themes in them. One had different ship/sailing pictures, one had flowers and botanicals, and one had different Escher pictures. One section of the ship had Egyptian artifacts (well, replicas), and this section had Napoleonic things.

This is the outside part of the Lido deck, by the pool. We spent a lot of time here. just down the hall, where that guy in the white T-shirt is, is an entrance to the cafeteria area, with more seating.
Another picture of the Lido deck, from the same end. In the middle were the 2 hot tubs and the pool.
This is the Mandorian Lounge. There was a balcony, and seating on the lower level as well. This is where all the shows were, and infomation sessions too.
This is one of the lounges. There were many around. In the evening there would be a string quartet playing, or if there was a piano at different times of the day there would be someone playing, anything from classical music to jazz. The seats were usually pretty comfortable, with small tables scattered around.
This is the library. They had books you could check out for the week, and games in cabinets also. They had lounging chairs, a large table with felt on top for puzzles, some tables with large New York Times Crossowords under glass and you could check out a dry erase pen to do the puzzle. They also had larger tables around. It was a great area, and we used it a lot for meeting. It was right behind the coffee bar.

This is the Rotterdam Dining Room. It was in the back of the ship. There was assigned seating on this floor, which we used mostly. There were huge chandeliers in the middle, and it was open to the floor below which was more informal seating. There were windows on the sides and back, so you could see out while you ate. It was very beautiful.


This is from our kitchen tour. The kitchen areas are quite large, with multiple huge walk in fridge/freezers, tons of ranges, ovens etc. It was amazing.
This was what they called the Atrium, near the middle/front end of the boat. This large "organ" went up 3 stories with circular stairs around it. It was one of the first things you saw when you came on the ship.

The only thing we forgot to get pictures of was our room! It was larger than we thought, and was fine for us. Since we didn't have any windows, we usually relaxed on one of the other decks. We highly recommend Holland America! Let us know if you want to go on a cruise!

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