Seeing double in HMC!

[eroller]

Enjoying a fantastic cruise onboard NIEUW STATENDAM so far.  Really impressed with the ship and cuisine especially.  A big improvement from my last HAL cruise almost 10 years ago.  

 

Woke up this morning to our mirror image, as sister ship KONINGSDAM is anchored next to us.  Tendering was very smooth in the large island tenders and HMC did not feel crowded even with the two newest and largest ships in the HAL anchored together.  

[keeponcruising]

Nice pictures, thank you.

 

[eroller]

Off she goes.  Bon Voyage to KONINGSDAM. 

 

Very fun horn exchange between NS and K-Dam.  

[Krazy Kruizers]

Great pictures.

 

Thank you for sharing them.

[crossingfan]

As usual your photos are beautiful!  

Can't wait to see and hear more

Rick

[fatcat04]

Such lovely pictures.

I had actually wondered how crowded the island would seem with 2 big ships. I have only ever been there with one HAL ship. But now looking, sometimes 2 big Carnival ships are there together and that is over 7000 people. Eek.

[doone]

Great pictures, thanks for sharing.  We are on the next sailing of the Koningsdam and cannot wait.  We are looking at the Nieuw Statendam for our next cruise, very excited......especially sitting here in New England with temps around 24 degrees.  

[ski ww]

Thanks for sharing the great pictures.

[CM1984]

Would love to have heard the horn exchange!  Thanks for sharing!

[rafinmd]

Were there enough of the shore based tenders to serve both ships or did the regular tender boats need to get involved?

 

Roy

[puppycanducruise]

Lovely.

Thanks for sharing.

[CruiserBruce]

2 hours ago, rafinmd said:

Were there enough of the shore based tenders to serve both ships or did the regular tender boats need to get involved?

 

Roy

I am sure they used ship's tenders. Unless there has been a recent increase in island based tenders, there aren't enough at HMC to handle both ships.

[eroller]

No ship’s tenders were used for either ship.  It was the large land based tenders only.  I noticed even the “glass bottom

boat” was being used as a tender.