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In Montreal two days ago, we did not have to exit the ship at all on the turn around day. This is on Zaandam. We booked as two booking numbers but our key cards showed the dates for both cruises. We were told to combine the number of days for the two cruises (10) on our Canadian customs forms on day one. We were given in-transit cards for by-passing the lines to get back in the ship if we went off. My DH and I stayed on and enjoyed the quiet time. Our onboard statements rolled over and show everything. On day one of the second cruise, our OBC for that cruise showed up on our statement. We had a balance due at the end of the first cruise, but it rolled over.

Sister ship, Zaandam, has one of each, total, and both are located at the desk (in an ocean view). Nothing at all near the bed. No USB either. We just asked and we’re given a power strip by our room steward.

Deleted. Decided better not to whine.

My sister had a chosen H on deck 3 forward and also had hers moved to a different H toward the aft. Not an upgrade and no reason was given.

Saw this article this morning…. ”Three large cruise ships have already been commissioned…”https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/07/cabinet-is-looking-into-placing-refugees-on-cruise-ships-at-sea/ Not sure if any HAL ships would be involved but it seems like the government of the Netherlands thinks housing refugees on cruise ships is working out for them.

We did that excursion and I remember the tour host telling us what the limit is. I believe it’s 1 liter per person duty free. Reality was no one asked. You will need to surrender it when your reboard the ship and it will be delivered to your cabin the night before disembarkation. There were two excursions for tequila tasting. We did one that was put on by a coop the first time in November 2021. That one didn’t include any food and so after tasting we were a little tipsy. There was a restaurant on the premises and so we bought lunch. There was plenty of time allowed to do that and the food was very good and reasonably priced. We did the one that goes to the “factory” in March 2022. The factory one was more educational and entertaining. It included a nice buffet lunch and entertainment of dancers, tortilla making and a dancing horse. Both excursions were well done and the tequila was good. We bought one liter of tequila plus a sampler pack of the flavored tequilas each time.

We are sailing round trip Seattle with a brief stop at Victoria as the only Canada port. Victoria is at the tail end of a seven day cruise. I have installed the app. Is there anything more I need to do before boarding the ship?

I asked for and received a larger portion of the tempura shrimp as my main. I think they gave me 5. It was wonderful.

We had 7147 on Zuiderdam for the Mexico Sea of Cortez in April and it was very nIce. The cabin seemed to be the same size as any other verandah cabin, but the balcony is nice and deep. I’d estimate the balcony was about half covered. We did have a few days where it was too sunny for me. Sorry, we didn’t take any photos of the cabin. We’ve done aft-facing balconies several times on Celebrity for Alaska and loved them.

Just tried a google search and it is easy to find out if you know the hotel or lodge names. Just look for the amenities. Years ago, we did a Princess land and sea tour, the lodge we stayed at a had an RV park associated with it. It had coin-op laundry in a separate building adjacent to the RV area.