Westerdam Reviews

Cruise and land tour were great overall. Just one star lost for lack of vegetarian food options Especially on the ship. Otherwise well planned and executed land tour that added on the cruise made for a great trip.

Excellent food and attentive friendly staff

Great ship although a little dated in some areas. Lots of activities to suit people with a wide scope of interests and hobbies. The stewards looking after us and our cabins were excellent as were all the staff in the restaurants, bars and buffet restaurants and entertainment staff. My only criticism would be that in ports requiring tenders to enter, this process was very disorganised. We only got to disembark around 12. 30 and spoiled our plans for the day.

Excellent food and drink and very friendly staff

The ship was older, but still very well appointed. The service overall was of an excellent standard. We chose the "Have It All' package, which gave us onboard credit and saved paying for beverages individually; meaning we had no account to pay at the end of the cruise. We were in an SY Suite, which was more of an extended balcony cabin, but a good size and perfectly adequate for all our needs. The itinerary and excursions were well planned and organised. Entertainment on board was of a very good standard. The highlights were the classical duo, the 'regional soloist' - guitarist and singer and the crew shows which were organised over the Christmas holiday period. The food was superb. The speciality restaurants were a la cart standard, but the main dining room was also excellent as were the choices in the 'Lido Market' buffet - although it could get busy and crowded at times.

Interesting itinerary Staff are very helpful and polite Ship clean, needs improvement so in for dry doc now Few extra choices in breakfast will be a good idea

Ports of call were good

Food brilliant ,crew fantastic. Inability to land us on Koh Samui ridiculous. Ship full of leaks and needs a refit. Looking dated and tired. Would have given 5 stars but for the above.

We had a great time with a good itinerary. We enjoyed most of the trips. Although organisation for disembarking at various ports was often slow & disorganised. It’s a shame most of the stops were commercial ports, so you could not easily access the town on your own. The food was of a high standard, particularly the sit down evening meals. Having to be served at the so called buffet, meant a lot of queuing in the Lido. Also this often led to waste, as servings were large, even when small were requested. Only the Crows Nest served coffee, needed some other outlets (other than eating areas). Parts of the boat were very cold, especially at beginning of cruise. The crew were very friendly & did a good job. The ship’s own dance group were exceptional, with very professional singing, dancing & choreography. ‘

Overall, a very pleasant experience. All depends on demographics of passengers. Did two cruises , completely different experience on each cruise. One very quiet, next one relatively lively . Multiple nationalities on both as it was a trip mainly to JAPAN. . All crew could not do enough to help, never seen so much cleaning on a ship. Dancers and singers excellent, but individual acts in the theatre left something to be desired, and certainly not a party ship. On the CRUISES we did, certainly an older age group. But then that includes us. 😂 Ships tours left a bit to be desired. Would we use HOLLAND AMERICA again and would we go on the same ship again? Pretty sure we would. .