Amsterdam 7/8/19 Sailing

[cruisingrob21]

We will be sailing on the Amsterdam on a 7 day Alaskan voyage next Monday.  I will be attempting to provide daily blog updates, take photos, and answer questions any of you may have.  Please post here or on my blog.  

 

https://cruisingrobsblog.blogspot.com/search/label/ms amsterdam

 

[FlorenceItaly]

Excited to follow along as we will be on the Amsterdam later this year.  Have a fabulous cruise!

[erewhon]

Have a great cruise.

Will follow your blog.

[cruises42]

Looking forward to your review. we'll be sailing on her at the end of August.

[jimbri]

Have a great cruise.  Looking forward to your review.

[kazu]

Thanks for the link.

 

Have a great cruise 🙂 

[Krazy Kruizers]

Looking forward to your Live reports and pictures.

 

Have a great cruise.

[ski ww]

Thanks for the link, looking forward to your blog.

[Moriah]

Oh, wonderful!  I'll be doing two weeks in Alaska on Amsterdam next month so will eagerly "eat up" your report. Enjoy every minute and thanks in advance for bringing us along!

[cruisingrob21]

We are sitting on the plane getting ready to head to the Amsterdam, but not without a few stops on the way.  First stop will be a 24 tour in Portland to visit friends and enjoy the city of Roses.  On Saturday we will drive to the eastside suburbs of Seattle to spend 2 more days visiting friends and places we used to frequent when we lived there.  Finally on Monday I'll drop my wife and kids off at the terminal while I return the rental car and then our official voyage on the Amsterdam will begin!

[Moriah]

Safe travels! Looking forward to following your Alaska adventures. 

[archerniak]

I will be following along as my daughter and father are going to be on your cruise as well.  This will be my father's first cruise ever.  My daughter has cruised before, but for both it will be first time to Alaska.  Unfortunately my daughter is currently has some mobility issues - a fx ankle with a couple of screws resulting in no weight bearing - but she'll have her knee scooter with her - so if you see a 30 something with a knee scooter and her grandfather - you tell her mom will be checking out your blog to travel along.

[Mamascott]

I'll be in this cruise as well! I'll be with my mom and my 3 youngest kids. 10 year old boy/girl twins and my 14yo daughter.  It's our 4th time to Alaska, and 3rd time on the Amsterdam. We did 14 days last September and my kids were the only ones in the ship. I hope there are more this time. 😂

[BuddyBee]

Hope you have a wonderful time. Looking forward to your posts. We will be on the Amsterdam in September. If you happen to be in an oceanview stateroom would you please let us know the location of the electric outlets? My husband uses a CPAP machine so the location of the outlets is a big concern. I've also read there is a usb outlet/slot by the bed.  Could you confirm that? Thanks in advance.

[Cruise_More_Often]

Stop by the Front Desk and rent an extension cord for the CPAP machine if you need one.

[Moriah]

5 hours ago, Mamascott said:

I'll be in this cruise as well! I'll be with my mom and my 3 youngest kids. 10 year old boy/girl twins and my 14yo daughter.  It's our 4th time to Alaska, and 3rd time on the Amsterdam. We did 14 days last September and my kids were the only ones in the ship. I hope there are more this time. 😂

 

What a wonderful way to spend time as a family.  It's rare for children to be on the "longer" cruises (longer than one week), so there may not be many this time either, but hopefully they won't be the ONLY ones.  In September most kids are in school.  This time it's August so there will be at least a few I reckon. At least they have each other! 🙂

Edited July 8, 2019 by Moriah

[Moriah]

4 hours ago, BuddyBee said:

Hope you have a wonderful time. Looking forward to your posts. We will be on the Amsterdam in September. If you happen to be in an oceanview stateroom would you please let us know the location of the electric outlets? My husband uses a CPAP machine so the location of the outlets is a big concern. I've also read there is a usb outlet/slot by the bed.  Could you confirm that? Thanks in advance.

 

I was on Amsterdam last summer in an OV cabin, and the only outlet was on the desk. Actually there are two, side by side, on the desk, and one is a European (two round holes) outlet, and one is North American. There is no USB port anywhere in the cabin - Amsterdam is an older ship.  You may have been reading about one of the very new ships. You can get a European adapter head, which will make it possible for you to have the machine and also a device to charge or whatever else at the same time. 

Edited July 8, 2019 by Moriah

[cruisingrob21]

Well after a day in Portland and 2 in Seattle, we boarded the Amsterdam today and she's in very good condition.  I'll be writing more detailed reviews over the next day or two, but I'll clarify that, at least in our cabin, either HAL or the previous cruiser left a multi-outlet.  And I can also say that HAL still provides a tote on the Amsterdam.  I'm here to answer any other questions.

[cruisingrob21]

Photos I forgot to attach.

[highland cruiser]

Thank you for the pictures. Looking forward to your reports as we are on in September.

 

[Krazy Kruizers]

Keep up your reports and pictures.

 

Aren't there any lounge chairs on the Promenade deck anymore?

[Moriah]

13 hours ago, cruisingrob21 said:

Photos I forgot to attach.

 

 

 

Loved the photo of the Promenade Deck.  It features highly in my excited imaginings of my cruise on Amsterdam next month. And this tote bag looks a little different than what I've gotten before. Thanks SO much for this thread. Keep enjoying every second!

[lindaler]

If it was the first day, the chairs may have been put up for the muster drill. The blue bag looks nice, and different from the ones I have gotten before. I will be on the Amsterdam the end of the month. 

 

Have fun and I'm looking forward to following your trip. 

Edited July 9, 2019 by lindaler
correction

[Cruise_More_Often]

If you can make the picture cruisingrob21 took of the lower promenade larger, you will see someone sitting in a lounge chair. There were plenty of available chairs when we were on Amsterdam in early June, especially since it was so cold not many people used them. Some of the favorites were on the aft of the lower promenade deck, out of the wind and in partial sun.

 

 

 

[cruisingrob21]

Chairs are still on promenade...working on the write up while we are in Ketchikan.  It's a beautiful day here...it's taken us 3 Alaska cruises to get good weather in Ketchikan.