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We very much enjoyed dining in the Club Orange Dining room on NS this past January. It is a small dining room with great service from the same few waiters. We never waited for a table (good timing or luck). Mimosas and cappuccinos are available for breakfast at no additional cost. Breakfast and dinner in Club Orange was a relaxing dining experience with great food and service. We enjoyed it and it was a highlight of our cruise.

Thanks for sharing the great pictures. Your cabin looks beautiful. Glad you do not have any issues with noise in your cabin. We once got a good deal on a mini suite which was located under the pool deck. It was very loud with pool chairs being moved above us.

Thank you for your feedback. I think we will be happier with an oceanview cabin, so I will look at those. Are you on Deck 5 or 6? I noticed that deck 6 is under a lot of public areas, so those cabins might be less quiet? I am jeleous--enjoy the maiden voyage on the Sun!

Thanks for letting me know. They were a good value.

Thanks for the pricing breakdown. That helps to evaluate if plus makes sense. Can you still buy a coffee card for a limited number of coffees? That was a good deal for us.

Thanks for posting the video of a 2 person interior cabin. I wonder if you put the beds together if you would have enough room to walk around the outside of the bed to get into it? We were thinking of booking an interior cabin on Sun Princess, but now we are rethinking if we should pay more for an oceanview cabin with a little more room and hopefully a small couch?

We took a taxi and the fare was a little less than $30 plus tip. There was taxi stand at the airport and plenty of taxis available.

We thought all members of the Rock Room Band were great. Rachel Ward is a lead singer and keyboard player. Tommy from Atlanta sings and plays guitar and is a very good entertainer. We saw them both perform on NS in February of 2023 and we were happy to see them again as part of the Rock Room Band. The drummer from Puerto Rico is very good, both as a drummer and singer. There is another young man who sings and plays guitar who is very good (I don't remember his name, but he may have said he was from Nashville). Plus, the bass guitar player was good and also sings. We listened to 2 sets of the band's performances almost every night and really enjoyed their performances. They did not perform on our first day of the cruise which was Sunday. We listened to the BB Kings Blues Band twice. They are good, but we enjoyed listening to the Rock Room Band more than them. That is just our personal preference on type of music. Their lead male singer is very good. Unfortunately, he did not sing that many songs. One night we listened to the band perform for 30 minutes and then he finally came out and sang 2 songs. We did not care for the dueling pianos performances. They blasted the dueling piano performances so loud in the Rock Room area (when the Rock Room took a break) that we couldn't talk and had to find and request the sound engineer to turn the speakers off which he did. Have a great cruise!

Just off NS this past Sunday and we did not see any t-shirt sales on the ship.

Thanks for your replies and input. I agree that my friend's travel agent should know the current HAL protocols. However, I did look on HAL's website under frequently asked questions, masking guidelines, and it does state masks are required during Embarkation and Debarkation, on tenders and Holland America excursions and recommended masks be worn in the World Stage, etc. HAL should update their website in this regard.

Has anyone been required to wear a mask on any ships during Embarkation or Debarkation recently? Or have masks been required at any other times during a recent sailing? Any masks requirements on any islands that you have experienced, recently? A friend of mine was told by her travel agent today that HAL is requiring masks to be worn during Embarkation and Debarkation, during HAL Shore Excursions and masking is recommended in the world stage, etc. I am wondering if this is an old masking requirement and policy that the travel agent pulled up by mistake? I would appreciate any recent cruiser's experience, please. We would like to know what to expect on our upcoming cruise on Sunday. Thanks in advance.

I wish I could use the app.. to order food. Unfortunately, I am unable to download the app. on my old Samsung J7 cell phone. I tried through Google Play Store. I have no problem downloading and using any other app.

Thank you for sharing your recent experience listening to the Rock Room Band. I am sure we will still enjoy their performances, but it is too bad the vocalists were not as outstanding as we experienced on past NS sailings. Rachel Ward was the female vocalist when we sailed on NS in February. She was outstanding. The 2 guitar players who sang were also very good. One guitar player who sang was named Thomas and he also performed on our previous NS sailing just prior to covid putting a temporary stop to cruises. There was also a phenomenal female drummer who performed this past February. She was young and extremely talented.

Thanks for taking us along on your cruise. We are excited to be cruising again on the NS in January. Any feedback on the rock room band? Did you listen to any of their performances? That is our favorite music venue.

Thanks for the posts. I guess we may be listening to the BB King group more on our upcoming January sailing. On past sailings, the musicians and singers in the Rock Room Band were so wonderful, we watched and listened to 2 sets of the band's performances every night they performed.

Thank you very much for sharing your recent experience listening to the Rock Room Band. I hope the female vocalist improves or maybe there will be a new one in January. On the NS in February 2023, the band, including the female vocalist and all the band members who sang were phenomenal. Glad you had a great waiter from the bar.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will do so.

How do you get notifications of "free inside cabins", just need to pay taxes and port charges? We signed up on HAL's website for offers, but never got this promo. Thanks.

We are sailing on the NS on January 21st. This will be our 3rd sailing on this ship and it is our favorite of all the ships we have sailed on. Our favorite entertainment venue on the ship is listening to the Rock Room Band. Would appreciate any feedback on the current Rock band from those who have sailed recently on the NS. How is the rock band? How much longer will they be on the NS (if you know). We have had an outstanding group of singers and musicians on the 2 sailings we have been on so far. One outstanding singer and guitar player was Thomas from Atlanta. He was in the band on both our prior sailings and he is excellent. Thanks for any feedback from recent sailings. We are looking forward to another great rock band.

We have sailed on the Nieuw Statendam twice. It is our favorite ship that we have sailed so far. I did not have the Navigator App. It will not download on my phone. Both times, I did the on line check in and printed our luggage tags and boarding passes through the HAL website. No problem at all. For your second sailing, maybe customer service will help you print your docs. on the ship.

Thank you. I will request this from our travel agent.

Thank you. We did not receive a booking confirmation from HAL from our travel agent. We only received a booking confirmation from our travel agency. I will request one. Thanks.

How do you find your Booking Confirmation on the Holland Ametica website? We booked through a travel agent. Can I access it when I am logged in on HAL's website? I don't see it. We also purchased Club Orange. Thanks in advance.

We stayed on the main deck in an Oceanview forward cabin the end of Feb. on NS. I agree, it was a great location and very quiet. Hopefully, we will like being on Deck 7.

Thanks for the information. That is good news. We booked through a travel agent. Can I request a booking summary directly through Holland America? I would like to see if my AARP $50 obc now shows on the summary for my January cruise. My booking summary through the travel agent does not show the credit. Thanks.