Halloween evening was fun with both passengers and casino staff in costumes. Love the Wall Street pizza at the New York Deli for lunch or dinner. Only ate once in the main dining room, ate most dinners in the Lido or skipped dinners because we had too much for lunch:-) We ate at New York Pizza for breakfast every morning, had a delicious lunch in the Pinnacle Grill on one of the at sea days, and ate several times at the Canaletto and once at the Tamarind - both always good. The first day at Sail Away a bar steward at the Sea View Bar area remembered me from a Nieuw Amsterdam cruise last year and gave me a big hug. As 4* Mariners we were invited to a free wine tasting and have done this before.Ĭrew was wonderful as always. The casino was great the first two nights and then took a downward turn until the last day when I recouped some of my losses. Love the free cruises and casino free play we receive from the casino. Looking forward to our Nieuw Statendam cruise in December. We are 4* Mariners and this was our 75th cruise overall (18 on Holland America). Colon was no big loss to us based on previous visits. For that reason we also did not get to cruise in Gatun Lake - we went through the locks to the lake but turned around and immediately went back through them. not to dock in Colon for the safety of the passengers. Due to political unrest in Panama, the Captain was told by the Panama Tourism Dept. Liked the new ones better - faster and they are different from the old ones. We went throught the new Panama Canal locks this time so have been through both old and new. DH and I had a wonderful 12-day cruise on the Rotterdam (our 5th on that ship).

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