A few of our friends and family have asked to see pictures of the suite we stayed in on Holland America's ship the Ryndam. Our cabin was on the 10th deck and we were room 004. We had an amazing time. Since having Caden, we tend to spend more time in our room than we would have otherwise. Staying in a suite made things a lot more easy and relaxing. We had a lot of space, extra services - including laundry and dry cleaning, a special breakfast just for suite guests, special parties, lunches, and other perks. If you are able to save a little more and splurge on a suite then do it. This was our second suite to stay in, first on Holland America. We stayed in a penthouse suite last year on Norwegian Cruise Lines and that was really nice too. We feel extremely spoiled when we stay in a suite. Cruise ship suites are special and so are the services, I highly recommend getting a suite if you can. If you are unable to get a suite then I recommend splurging on the laundry service. We used it almost daily and it was so nice to have most of our clothes clean when we returned from our vacation. It takes me 3-4 hours to do one load of laundry in Germany, so the laundry service was really worth it to me.
By the way, this year we were blessed with a free upgrade to the deluxe suite about a week before our cruise. We paid for a balcony cabin and they offered us the oppurtunity to upgrade for $349 per person. We decided we didn't have the extra money in our budget even though we
really wanted to do it. About a week before our trip I received an email to reprint our cruise tickets because our cabin had changed. When I went on Holland America's website I was ecstatic to see we were staying in a suite. Thank you Holland America and thank you
Cathy (our travel agent) for helping us have such a wonderful vacation.
Here are some pictures of our cabin and balcony.
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| King size bed |
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| Living room area |
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| Dressing area where we put Caden's bed at night |
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| Awesome balcony! |
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| Caden trying to escape to ride in the elevators |
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| Bathroom, not too big and not too small |
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| Jetted tub |
2 comments:
Wow! Very nice for a cruise ship! Hopefully we can take Ryan on a cruise eventually. I think he would like it. Glad to have your expertise on the subject too.:)
Emily, you guys would love it. It's such an easy and less stressful way to travel. A lot of cruise lines have babysitters available for kids under 3. If they are 3 and older there are kid activities they can do.
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