Week before drydock

[Yodalicious]

We love the week that has 12/08 on the Eurodam, 12/8 is when the Eurodam goes to drydock. Do we risk a lack of service or "tired" service if we take the 12/1 cruise?

[cabinluvn]

Just got off the Noordam on its way to drydock. Everything was perfect. Most people didn't know it was going there at the end of the cruise.

 

 

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[RuthC]

I've been on two "last cruise before drydock". One was an extensive drydock, with major reconstruction of the ship.

Both cruises were fine. There was little, if any, indication that anything different was going to happen on turn-around day.

I would not hesitate to take a "last cruise ..." again.

[CruiserBruce]

We love the week that has 12/08 on the Eurodam, 12/8 is when the Eurodam goes to drydock. Do we risk a lack of service or "tired" service if we take the 12/1 cruise?

 

Service is provided by the crew, not really the ship. However, it is the ship that is going into drydock, and the ship that gets all the "facelift". Not the crew.

[jtl513]

We were on the Zuiderdam the last cruise before d-d, and except for a few needed minor repairs that I believe were being let slide until the d-d, nothing was different from other cruises.

[Typhoon1]

You shouldn't see any difference. It's after the dry dock the crew has worked hard to get the ship back in service.

 

They may be a little overworked.

[JamesEM]

I agree with Typhoon1 100%, DW and I were on a ship with a many new crew and lots of work that needed to be done.

[beirne]

Trust me on this one: you would rather be on the last cruise 'before', than the first one 'after'. Many ships still have workmen on board, having cut too close the required amount of work to be achieved during a typical 2 week dry dock. Some ships have even had to cancel the first scheduled cruise following dry dock.

[sail7seas]

We have seen them remove some furniture that needed reupholstery from public areas. We saw some areas where carpet was take up but it was minor and not really disruptive. Crew was fine and service was 'as always'. :)

 

I would not go out of my way to avoid last cruise before dry dock.

[Krazy Kruizers]

We have been on cruises right before the ship went into dry dock.

There wasn't any difference in service.

We did observe that some furniture was moved from one of the lounges.

We have been on cruises while work was done and it didn't bother us. Last summer, they reupholstered the sofa in our cabin -- took 4 days as it was done in sections.