CruiseMark Posted February 3, 2023 #1 Share Posted February 3, 2023 How soon do HAL ships start decorating for Christmas? Will be on in late November and wondering if the decorations will be up or they wait until December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiserBruce Posted February 3, 2023 #2 Share Posted February 3, 2023 They start to show up in early December. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJSULIBRARIAN Posted February 3, 2023 #3 Share Posted February 3, 2023 I was on the Konigsdam this past Dec 10-17. I had expected the decorations to be up when I boarded. There were a few trees and wrapped packages here and there. I was disappointed but towards the end of the week more and more things appeared such as the gingerbread village. It may depend on the ship as so many things seem to these days. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare FlaMariner Posted February 3, 2023 #4 Share Posted February 3, 2023 We disembarked the Nieuw Statendam 12/3/22 and we did not see any Christmas decorations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROCRUISE Posted February 3, 2023 #5 Share Posted February 3, 2023 We were on the NS 12/10 - 17/22 and ship was completely decorated upon boarding with the exception of a "gingerbread" village that was put up on 12/12/22. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WannaSea Posted February 3, 2023 #6 Share Posted February 3, 2023 Boarded Eurodam 11/30 and the lobby village/train display was up. More added through the trip, quite festive by 12/10. Probably "other duties as assigned" when the elves can get to it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazey1 Posted February 3, 2023 #7 Share Posted February 3, 2023 Was on the Rotterdam from 11/20 until 11/30 and no Christmas decorations were displayed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasick Sailor Posted February 3, 2023 #8 Share Posted February 3, 2023 We were on Rotterdam Dec 11 thru Jan 25th. The decorations came out en masse on Dec 14th. The ginger bread village was already up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luv2cruisenz Posted February 4, 2023 #9 Share Posted February 4, 2023 When we were on the Volendam last year the Christmas gingerbread display went up first on 30 November and was added to over the following weeks. It was in the Attrium so it was quite large and fun and was often changed around and new characters added all the time. Christmas trees and decorations went up all around the ship soon after, along the bannisters etc. it was a wonderful display. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozcruizer Posted February 4, 2023 #10 Share Posted February 4, 2023 Probably depends on the ship. We were on the Westerdam and the gingerbread village went up around 4-5 December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Haljo1935 Posted February 4, 2023 #11 Share Posted February 4, 2023 17 hours ago, CruiseMark said: How soon do HAL ships start decorating for Christmas? Will be on in late November and wondering if the decorations will be up or they wait until December. Depends on the ship. We boarded 2 days after Thanksgiving Nov 26 2022 - there were no decorations when we got on, but they started on the 27th and each day more were added. We were on for 2 weeks and I would say by the time we got off on Dec 10 the ship was fully decorated. Every port both weeks were decorated - if you're going post Thanksgiving, you should definitely see decorations. Don't forget your cabin door - you can be a little festive, too. We did a couple things on our door and even the cabin stewards smiled!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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