Explorer2020

I will be on the Koningsdam next week for an Alaska cruise. I generally don’t book a HAL guarantee …though when I booked this cruise I wanted an aft veranda suite and the only option was an aft (VS) guarantee. Got my cabin assignment this week and was “upgraded” to a VQ spa suite on deck 10. Hardly an upgrade..other end of the ship with a regular veranda view - and a small veranda at that. To call the spa suites an upgrade from the aft class seems ridiculous- I suspect these levels were the brain child of a marketing person who wanted to oversell aft suites and needed a classification higher to mitigate the oversell issues. Anyway, it will be fine, but I’ll never do that again. I have cruised many times with HAL so should have known better.