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RNB “woke up” in Alaska; Eurodam Cruise brief review, 06/11/22

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Hi y’all. RNB hear. Me and the Misses just finished another wonderful cruise on the beautiful and elegant Eurodam, 7 day Alaska out of Seattle. Also currently on Eurodam completing our b2b.

 

Here goes. Embarkation a breeze. Only took 10 minutes to go through checkin and board ship. Our double wide balcony cabin was spacious and prime location, next to elevators with direct and quick access to Lido Restaurants and MDR. Overall the cruise was great except there was two duds. One, no calving at glacier. Our neighbors in the cabin next to me asked me what does calving sound like for which I replied, MOO! 😀 Then they was few whale sighting from ship. I guess since the weather has been cold in Alaska the whales decided to stay in Maui.

 

Toured Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau in the rain. Amazed how much ice has melted since our first trip there in 1990.

Sitka was beautiful with a sunny day. On our shuttle bus drive to town the driver pointed out a landmark along the way, a McDonalds Restaurant on the right side of the road. Then he said if things didn’t work well at McDonalds there was a hospital across from the restaurant. And if things did not work well in the hospital, there was a funeral home next to the hospital. I replies, “I guess the funeral home director was thinking outside the box”. 😳

 

Ketchican was another sunny day. I did one of those one of those tours for no charge. The 15 minute free shuttle to Walmart from downtown. It served it purpose. I can’t eat peanuts that are served at the bars on board so I bought a box of Goldfish to snack on while consuming my favorite beverages.

 

Icy Straits was ok. Someone asked me how would I rate the zip line ride in Icy Straits. I said I rated it a three underwear ride😲

 

As a I mentioned in another thread things are missing on the ship due to delays of delivery of goods via containers at the ports.

 

Now for my final thoughts on “woke up” title. I know my CC name is somewhat controversial so the following story may also be but actually did not know until after the true event when I googled it.  Hear it goes. Me and the misses were walking around downtown Sitka when we ran into a couple who we got to know on this cruise. The other couple began to talk about eskimos in Alaska when a local walked by us and heard our conversations. The person interrupted us said the we should not use the work Eskimo but refer to them by their tribal name, such as Intuit. For which I replied, “What do you call Eskimo Pies”? The person continued to walk away with no reply. Well, little did I know that name was changed after 100 years of use a couple of years ago. So I guess I woke up to something new. The times they are a changing.

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29 minutes ago, SilvertoGold said:

Nicely done post.   In 5 cruises there in May-June we saw calving at Margerie only twice and Johns Hopkins once.  In Canada we don't call Eskimo Pies anything, we just eat them.

 

I hope you plan to write more 🙂

Yes, you reminded me on something I forgot.

 

We had a Mariner Society party on this cruise with only 12 passengers plus officers including Captain and Hotel Manager. Not many frequent cruisers. Many first time Alaska cruisers and many first time cruisers!

 

The Hotel Manager has an interesting hobby; participated in over 600 marathons and ran in the summer 100 miles in Death Valley. Also he was training the Captain to run marathons.

 

So we were invited to have a photo with the Captain and HM. The Misses declined but I opted in. Before the taking of the photo I told the offficers that you could use this photo as bulletin board material. Here would be a picture of two men who exercised daily and a man who cruised and ate too much daily 😀

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1 hour ago, RedneckBob said:

 

 

 The person interrupted us said the we should not use the work Eskimo but refer to them by their tribal name, such as Intuit. 

Just a friendly correction...the term to use is Inuit (no middle "t").

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3 hours ago, RedneckBob said:

Now for my final thoughts on “woke up” title. I know my CC name is somewhat controversial so the following story may also be but actually did not know until after the true event when I googled it.  Hear it goes. Me and the misses were walking around downtown Sitka when we ran into a couple who we got to know on this cruise. The other couple began to talk about eskimos in Alaska when a local walked by us and heard our conversations. The person interrupted us said the we should not use the work Eskimo but refer to them by their tribal name, such as Intuit. For which I replied, “What do you call Eskimo Pies”? The person continued to walk away with no reply. Well, little did I know that name was changed after 100 years of use a couple of years ago. So I guess I woke up to something new. The times they are a changing.

Have you considered rebranding your CC name?

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1 hour ago, aliaschief said:

Always enjoy your reviews. Thanks.

Thank you. Last sailed with you from Montreal to Ft Lauderdale some +15 years ago. I remember the cruise because one day in the daily problem it described our journey; that we would be passing just east in the Atlantic Ocean North & South Dakota! I forgot to bring my mini Humbell telescope so I could view Mt. Rushmore as we passed by 😀

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3 hours ago, RedneckBob said:

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The Hotel Manager has an interesting hobby; participated in over 600 marathons and ran in the summer 100 miles in Death Valley. Also he was training the Captain to run marathons.

 

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HAL Hotel GM Gijsbertus "Bert" van Mackelenberg (in the pic with former HAL captain Pieter Bos on the right) is a running machine, preferably in an "eco challenge run" like the one he did in the Jordanian desert. You'll often see him running above and around the Lido pool in the middle of the day wearing sweats for training purposes. Bert runs a very tight ship in the hotel dept. 😉 

HAL Hotel Director Bert van Mackelenberg.jpg

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1 hour ago, Copper10-8 said:

 

HAL Hotel GM Gijsbertus "Bert" van Mackelenberg (in the pic with former HAL captain Pieter Bos on the right) is a running machine, preferably in an "eco challenge run" like the one he did in the Jordanian desert. You'll often see him running above and around the Lido pool in the middle of the day wearing sweats for training purposes. Bert runs a very tight ship in the hotel dept. 😉 

HAL Hotel Director Bert van Mackelenberg.jpg

Captain Bos what a gem. Took us on the Veendam to South America and Antarctica. Enjoyed an evening at the Captain’s dinner table with him. A great Master of the ship.

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Hi y’all, RNB back from his back 2 back cruise on the Eurodam.

 

Great cruise and shoutout to all staff and crew especially all managers and staff at the Speciality Dining venues where me and the misses dined ten times in 14 days; excellent staff and food. But there were side effects dining there so many times; weight gain. How much weight did I gain.

 

On the last day of the cruise HAL placed weight scales to weigh the luggage next to the elevators. I decided to get on the scale to weigh myself and it did not give me my weight but a message that said, “ Excess Baggage”. 😳

 

I decided to go to the bow of the ship for whale watching. I had gained so much weight that when the whale jumped out of the water, the whale had a camera taking  a picture of me 😀.

 

Glad to be home in Florida after Delta cancelled my non stop to Florida, rebooked on Southwest and my three bags of luggage failed to arrive. I never knew that luggage was like a family that stick together when it gets loss. 😲

 

Thats all for now. I am RNB and I tell it like I see it.

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1 hour ago, canadianbear said:

Always enjoy your posts!  Hope your luggage arrives. 

Our luggage arrived the next afternoon. Southwest was very lucky. I had planned to sue SW Airlines to pay for another cruise back to Alaska so I could replace the lost t shirts I had brought on this cruise 😀

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On 6/19/2022 at 1:38 PM, SilvertoGold said:

HM Burt and who was the Captain?

 

Great to hear that the Eurodam had the Mariner Party.  The Koningsdam held it very graciously each week on our 4 Alaska cruises in May but the Zuiderdam didn't in June. 

 

Looking forward to more!

There were two Captains, first was Dutch named Captain Jutter for 12 days and the 2nd Captain name was Captain Bolton. Captain Jutter for a fill in for two weeks.

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50 minutes ago, RedneckBob said:

There were two Captains, first was Dutch named Captain Jutter for 12 days and the 2nd Captain name was Captain Bolton. Captain Jutter for a fill in for two weeks.

Thanks.  Glad you had a good cruise. Aren't 2 weeks so much better than one? :)

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On 6/19/2022 at 8:23 PM, *Miss G* said:

 

It’s been that way since the 1970’s.

Name was changed in 2021.

 

https://abc7.com/eskimo-pie-new-name-edys-products-brands-that-have-changed-offensive-names-with-racist/6945191/

 

https://www.myrecipes.com/news/eskimo-pie-name-change

 

 

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