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Old January 23rd, 2007, 01:39 AM posted to rec.travel.cruises
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Default HAL Maasdam Review (back to back cruises)


Muster - C
Earsplitting and uncomfortable.
Also the announcements were SO loud that it hurt my ears.


Not as much as a dunk in the ocean would have hurt your ears, idiot.
IT'S LOUD SO YOU CAN HEAR IT WHEREVER YOU ARE!


Food Dining Service B

I liked the food.



We got our breakfast delivered to the room a couple of times, but
there really wasn't any good place to eat it (the table wasn't big
enough), and they didn't come and get the tray in any kind of timely
manner.


God forbid you could put it outside your door instead of waiting for the
staff to collect it........


I loved the traditional dining on the first cruise - we had excellent
table mates. It wasn't so good on the second cruise because two of
our four table mates did not come to the dining room for 10 days in a
row.


I don't blame them. They probably had earache from the incessant whining
coming from across the table.


We ate at the Pinnacle Grill once - the food was good and there was a
LOT of it - much more than we could eat. We got it as part of the
tour package - otherwise I don't think it would have been worth $30
each.


So the food was good and there was plenty of it..... But it wasn't worth a
measly $30.00?



I never ate at the hamburger place by the Lido pool.


That's where you'd find ME then.


Bob went on the kitchen tour. Afterwards he went to a demonstration
by the chef of the Pinnacle grill, where they demonstrated salmon with
lemon glaze and rosemary crumbs and three-grain pilaf with olives.
They gave everyone the recipes. He enjoyed that.


Must have gone alone then.




There are two nice pools - one outside which I used once, and one in
the middle of the Lido Deck. They had the water in the Lido Pool even
though it was a little rough and I was surprised that someone wasn't
hurt the way the water was splashing around in the pool.


Yeah - that water can really hurt.