Holland America Line recently completed the addition of the line’s casual Italian restaurant Canaletto and transformed the Lido Terrace into an enclosed Wintergarden aboard ms Prinsendam. Named for the famous 18th-century Venetian artist, the award-winning Canaletto is located in the Wintergarden, which is adjacent to the Lido dining area. The restaurant serves classic Italian fare with […]
Good morning cruisers! It’s time to announce my upcoming cruise sailing this February, so let’s get to it! Itinerary On February 16th, I will be embarking on Holland America Line’s MS Eurodam. During that week, the Eurodam will be sailing a 7 night eastern Caribbean itinerary with calls in Grand Turk, San Juan, St. Thomas, […]
Holland America Line, a leader in premium cruising, has earned top honors with eight 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards from Porthole Cruise Magazine, one of the world’s leading consumer cruise travel publications. The awards include Best Alaska Itineraries, Best Shore Excursions and Best Private Island for Half Moon Cay, the line’s exclusive island in the Bahamas. […]
Carnival Corporation today announced it has reached an agreement for the construction of two new cruise ships – a 99,000-ton ship for Holland America Line and a 135,000-ton vessel for Carnival Cruise Lines. A memorandum of agreement has been signed with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri for the construction of a 2,660-passenger ship for Holland America Line […]
Due to the recent fatal attacks and protests at American embassies and military bases throughout the past week in the Middle East, many cruise lines have begun to alter their itineraries in the southern Meditarranean. Updated at 2:30pm on 9/15/12 [divider] Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth: The Queen Elizabth will now visit Rhodes, Greece on September 16th instead of its original call in Alexandria, […]
Yesterday, the Holland America Line ship, Volendam, responded to an emergency call from the Baranof Wind, a nearby sinking sightseeing boat. Around 11am local time, the local Coast Guard station received an emergency call from the Baranof Wind. The sightseeing boat had apparently collided with rocks just inside Glacier Bay and it was quickly taking on water. The Coast Guard then […]
Good afternoon everybody! I know you are all excited to know if you won one of 3 raffles from this past week. We had hundreds of entries, but there could only be 7 winners. All of these winners were chosen at random by this online random chooser to ensure a completely random choice. Well, I won’t keep you in […]
Welcome to the “Signature of Excellence” Raffle! The “Signature of Excellence” raffle is now closed. Thank you to all of you who have entered the raffle. The 3 winners will be chosen soon and they will be announced on Saturday, August 18th at noon EST. Thank you again and good luck! Prizes Each of […]
So are you ready for a third raffle to celebrate Mikey’s Cruise Blog’s 1st birthday? I hope your answer is yes, because tonight at midnight (August 15th) you can enter our latest raffle contest, the “Signature of Excellence” raffle with prizes generously donated by Holland America Line. On Wednesday, August 15th starting at 12:00am until August […]
You’re invited… Mikey’s Cruise Blog’s 1st Birthday Celebration will take place from August 14th to the 18th. There will be 3 exciting raffles from the 14th to the 17th all with amazing prizes that were generously donated by the following cruise lines… Make sure you stay tuned all this week for the announcement of the […]
Earlier yesterday, a gay charter cruise operated by RSVP Vacations on board Holland America Line’s ms. Nieuw Amsterdam was denied docking in Casbalanca, Morocco. Before arriving in Casbalcanca, the Nieuw Amsterdam received a message from the local port authority claiming that they would not be allowed to dock, even though they had previously acquired permission to do so. Local authorities cited that […]
Last week while I was at Cruise3Sixty, I had the chance to see 9 cruise ships in at Port Everglades. So every day I headed down to the John U. Lloyd Beach State Park to walk along the Port Everglades jetty to watch the cruise ships sail out of Port Everglades. I had the chance to take a […]