Dates of Veendam dry dock?

[herb]

also looking forward to reading about all the new updates on the Veendam since we're planning on booking a Bermuda cruise for 2010.

 

Especially want to hear about that new pool area that's replacing the aft pool.

[HALFans]

Jim & Ruth,

 

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to occupy yourselves taking pictures to satisfy all of us CC people about the new changes to the Veendam. ;)

 

Your mission objectives to date are to photograph the following areas:

 

1) New Aft Veranda Staterooms on Navigation deck

2) New Lounge Pool (Retreat) area on Lido deck

3) Lanai Staterooms on Lower Promenade deck

4) Glass wall around the Sky deck

 

This thread will self destruct in 10 postings due to the following message:

 

(Since you can't do the puffing thing in the Ocean Bar anymore, I found the Starboard side of the Crow's Nest to be an acceptable alternative. There was a small group of regulars and the bar staff was pretty attentive. Best of luck!)

[RuthC]

Your mission objectives to date are to photograph the following areas:

 

1) New Aft Veranda Staterooms on Navigation deck

2) New Lounge Pool (Retreat) area on Lido deck

3) Lanai Staterooms on Lower Promenade deck

4) Glass wall around the Sky deck

5) The "Mix" area which replaces the Piano and Casino Bars.

[HALFans]

Good one RuthC!!!

 

Your mission objectives to date are to photograph the following areas:

 

1) New Aft Veranda Staterooms on Navigation deck

2) New Lounge Pool (Retreat) area on Lido deck

3) Lanai Staterooms on Lower Promenade deck

4) Glass wall around the Sky deck

5) The "Mix" area which replaces the Piano and Casino Bars.

[Loves to dance]

OK MAY 1 st

 

Jim It has been a long day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I think that the April 1st was wishful thinking on your part... Better to depart in 4 days than a month and 4 days! :D But were you packed yet?!?

 

I too will be eagerly awaiting your pictures... Thanks, and have a wonderful trip!

 

Corie

[HALFans]

Ruth & Jim,

Not sure if you saw this... are you up for a little 'espionage' for interested CC'ers who want to know?

 

Jim & Ruth,

 

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to occupy yourselves taking pictures to satisfy all of us CC people about the new changes to the Veendam. ;)

 

Your mission objectives to date are to photograph the following areas:

 

1) New Aft Veranda Staterooms on Navigation deck

2) New Lounge Pool (Retreat) area on Lido deck

3) Lanai Staterooms on Lower Promenade deck

4) Glass wall around the Sky deck

5) The "Mix" area which replaces the Piano and Casino Bars.

 

This thread will self destruct in 10 postings due to the following message:

 

(Since you can't do the puffing thing in the Ocean Bar anymore, I found the Starboard side of the Crow's Nest to be an acceptable alternative. There was a small group of regulars and the bar staff was pretty attentive. Best of luck!)

 

(Added RuthC's suggested 'Spy Spot' :D)

[Copper10-8]

Some interesting pics from the HAL blog on Veendam's drydock. After leaving Tampa, she arrived at the Grand Bahama shipyard in Freeport, the Bahamas last Saturday, 28 MAR 09. She will be there for 35 days as the first of five ships to undergo some pretty extensive "Signature of Excellence - part 2" modifications.

 

Deck 6 - holes being cut for the new Lanai cabins

 

Deck 9 aft - Bulkheads being cut away

 

Her new stern section

 

Her new "Duck tail"

 

One of her new bridge wings - to improve vision after the addition of the new Spa cabins on Deck 9

[mudscraper]

Thanks for the photos John.

They sure don`t waste any time.

 

 

Rich

[Copper10-8]

Some more cool pics of Veendam having entered drydock in the Bahamas - from the HAL blog

 

 

 

 

 

[Pupsweet]

Thanks Copper for the GREAT pictures!

[Copper10-8]

Thanks Pupsweet:) (they're from the HAL blog)

Veendam's revised itinerary (no Mexican ports) - HAL press release today:

Veendam May 1, 2009, Itinerary Update

April 29, 2009, 4:00 p.m. PDT

The Veendam’s May 1, 2009, cruise will be slightly different from the published itinerary. Holland America Line, along with all other major cruise lines, feels obliged to follow the guidance of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommending that we avoid calls in Mexico for the time being. Based on geography, we are pleased to be able to add Scenic Cruising of Golfo Dulce; Corinto, Nicaragua; and Puerto Quetzal, Guatamala. Below please find the revised itinerary.

 

DateDay Destination Arrive Depart

05/01 Fri Fort Lauderdale, FL 17:00

05/02 Sat At Sea (Caribbean Sea)

05/03 Sun At Sea

05/04 Mon Cartagena, Colombia 08:00 14:00

05/05 Tue Transit Panama Canal 05:00 19:00

05/06 Wed Scenic Cruising Golfo Dulce

05/07 Thu Puerto Caldera, Costa Rica 06:00 17:00

05/08 Fri Corinto, Nicaragua 08:00 17:00

05/09 Sat Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala 08:00 17:00

05/10 Sun At Sea (Pacific Ocean)

05/11 Mon At Sea

05/12 Tue At Sea

05/13 Wed At Sea

05/14 Thu San Diego, CA, USA 06:00 14:00

05/15 Fri At Sea

05/16 Sat At Sea

05/17 Sun Vancouver, British Columbia 12:00

 

A full selection of shore excursions will be available in new ports and can be booked on board with the Shore Excursion Desk. Port taxes for missed ports and new ports will be adjusted and communicated to guests on board. Any refund of taxes and shore tours booked in advance will be provided as a shipboard credit.

[bvocruise]

My wife and I will be on this ship tomorrow and are looking forward to seeing it. This is our first HAL cruise so we will not be able to compare it to the way it was before. I hope the work is done and the ships is not a construction zone the 13 days we are on it :).