Mark.Hunacek@... wrote:
> SUMMARY. As I said, this was a good cruise but not a great
> one. Since HAL considers itself a premium line, it should, I think,
> stand out from the others, and I'm not sure it did. A premium cruise
> ship, for example, should hand out water bottles to people heading off
> to the private island without then billing them two and a half dollars
> per bottle. A premium line should not have the cruise director tell
> passengers that when filling out the comment card, "excellent" means
> the same thing as "met expectations"; this kind of grade-grubbing is a
> bit off-putting. All in all, I would certainly travel with HAL again,
> but I wouldn't necessarily seek out a Holland America cruise over
> others.
Thanks for writing this review, because I enjoyed reading every word of it.
Becca |