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We ran into the same problem Sea Tac - Vancouver. HAL was sold out, (although friends who took it said it had lots of empty seats), and we had to take Quick Shuttle service which left a couple of hours before the HAL trip. That lady driver didn't know where her pickup stops were and we toured most of Seattle while she kept assuring us and a couple on Royal Caribbean that we would get to our ships in plenty of time because she, "had a schedule". Yeah, maybe she did, but it sure wasn't the same one the company published. We arrived at the far diagonal end of Canada Place and after clearing Canadian Emigration and U.S. emigration and hiking half a mile to the HAL embarkation desks, they rushed us on board to finish processing the paperwork. (Maybe having a suite helped). They literally were hauling the gangway as we cleared ship Security. The return trip was on a HAL but which was much better but it also parked at the far distant end of Sea-Tac airport and it was a long hike with luggage to get to airline check in. Maybe flying to Vancouver is a better way to go.

Mine give me a business card at our first meeting and I carry it around and try to review it to pronounce their names correctly before meeting them each coming and going.

We certainly had room for you last week. Waiter said we had 660 passengers and over 800 crew on board. On a 2000 passenger ship, there was plenty of room everywhere and service was exemplary.

Just got off the Nieuw Amsterdam in Vancouver last Sunday, May 8 and HAL scheduled free covid tests in B B Kings the day before for those who were flying out of Vancouver. Passengers crossing the border by land, i.e. the shuttle to SEA-TAC didn't need one.

Agree. Why don't they return one of the parked ships to service and use it or the Volendam to operate scheduled cruises. They have screwed us around for three years and cancelled cruise after cruise after cruise all for good reasons but it has really wrecked havoc with any kind of planning and HAL takes forever to refund the money they've had the use of for two years. We're finished with them for a while.