Cruise news (ms Westerdam-tagged)
- Cruise Industry
HAL-Holland America opens bookings for 2025 Alaskan cruises
HAL-Holland America Line has now opened reservations for its 2025 Alaska season. With a remarkable 75 years of experience sailing in the region...
July 20, 2023 - Cruise Industry
HAL-Holland America Line unveils 2024-2025 Asia season
For HAL-Holland America's 2024-2025 Asia season, the line is set to explore the Far East with departures from Hong Kong, Yokohama (Tokyo), and...
June 9, 2023 - Cruise Industry
HAL-Holland America unveils 2024-2025 Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific cruises
In 2024-2025, HAL-Holland America Line is deployes 3 ships in the South pacific (Australia, New Zealand, and the islands). MS Westerdam will be...
May 30, 2023 - Cruise Industry
HAL-Holland America starts Alaska 2023 cruise season with MS Eurodam ship from Seattle
HAL-Holland America kicked off its 2023 Alaskan season on Monday, May 1st, with the arrival of ms Eurodam at the Port of Seattle (Washington USA...
May 2, 2023 - Cruise Industry
HAL-Holland America announces 2024-2025 USA & Canada West Coast cruises
HAL-Holland America Line has started accepting bookings for their 2024-2025 West Coast cruise season, which includes sailings from San Diego...
April 11, 2023 - Cruise Industry
HAL-Holland America shifting ship deployments to offer longer roundtrip cruises from American...
Customer feedback/the price of airfares led HAL-Holland America Line to shift its deployment strategy and offer longer roundtrips from American...
March 28, 2023 - Cruise Industry
Almaco finishes galley modernization on HAL's ship ms Westerdam (Singapore drydock 2023)
Almaco announced the company had finished a catering modernization project onboard ms Westerdam. The work had been delivered last month. MS...
March 16, 2023 - Cruise Industry
HAL-Holland America commemorates 150th Anniversary with extended Legendary Voyages
HAL-Holland America Line, globally recognized as an expert in longer voyages, will commemorate its 150th Anniversary in 2023 with extended Legendary...
March 8, 2023 - Cruise Industry
HAL-Holland America returns to Asia with MS Westerdam ship
HAL-Holland America is back with sailings in Asia with its ms Westerdam ship. In her first Asian visit since the 2020 shutdown, ms Westerdam was...
January 18, 2023 - Cruise Industry
HAL-Holland America debuting a new 28-day Arctic Circle itinerary
A new 28-day Arctic Circle itinerary leads the 2024 Alaska season sailings of HAL-Holland America Line. The voyage (on ms Westerdam out of Seattle...
January 4, 2023 - Cruise Industry
Holland America’s ship ms Westerdam restarts cruising in Japan
For the first time in 2 and a half years, cruising is resuming in Japan after on November 15th, the government announced that it had again opened up...
December 1, 2022 - Accidents
Grand Princess cruise ship bypasses Napier NZ in brewing coastal storm
One of the largest cruise ships deployed in New Zealand this summer bypassed Napier NZ on Friday, November 11, because of adverse weather on the east...
November 12, 2022 - Cruise Industry
MS Westerdam ship arrives in Sydney (Australia) on first cruise call for HAL-Holland America
HAL-Holland America’s ship ms Westerdam arrived in Sydney (NSW Australia) on November 7 and became HAL's first vessel to visit Sydney Harbour...
November 9, 2022 - Accidents
73-year-old woman medevaced from Holland America's ship ms Westerdam
A 73-year-old woman with symptoms of a mild cardiac infarction was medevaced from a HAL-Holland America cruise ship close to Port Angeles (Washington...
October 4, 2022 - Cruise Industry
Coral Princess is the first cruise ship in 30+ months to visit Kangaroo Island
Princess Cruises' Coral Princess became the first cruise ship in 30+ months to visit Kangaroo Island (Penneshaw, South Australia). The arrival of...
September 21, 2022