Warning! Greenland visitors might want to bring netting to protect your face and head from bugs. They weren't biting badly but they did want to get in your eyes and noses.
That is bad. So sorry to hear about your bad experience, our butler complained because we weren't using him enough. Have to love that attitude. I hope you complained to Oceania.
Our butler Francis was great in 2022 on the Miami to Venice cruise. He was very good at fulfilling our requests, even last minute. We had a Holland America cruise last month and the service was OK, but nowhere near as good as that Oceania cruise.
I have been on three different cruise lines since the pandemic and all have slipped. Cutting corners and pinching pennies. But I find this everywhere, air travel, land resorts. I will still be cruising with Oceania, because of the three lines, they had the best post-Corona cruises.
We were on the Voyage of the Vikings on the Zuiderdam and we did have to tender in Reykjavik. First time ever tendering on an overnight. I understood why the NCL ship was parked because their cruise was starting from there. Holland America being too cheap? Or didn't apply for a berth soon enough?
So will Holland get a new ship? There was scuttlebutt on the VOV that the new Holland ship was currently being built in the Finisterra shipyards. I doubt the story myself.
One more thing, which two ships left in the Holland fleet are most likely to be sold to another line? Westerdam? Zuiderdam? Another ship?
No explanation for the deleted stops. The tender ride to Reykjavik is because bigger boats took all the docks. Might just be scuttlebutt on the Iceland change.