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Across the myriad of venues, from a casual bite poolside to a formal five-course affair, the crew of Holland America Line knows, as few do, how to orchestrate a truly memorable dining experience.

The Elegant Main Dining Room

  • Luxurious two-tiered Dining Room,*graced with fine art and antiques

  • Sophisticated details including Rosenthal china and crisp white table linens

  • Five-course menus with offerings from classic French cuisine to vegetarian and low-carbohydrate options

  • Menus are created dialing and seldom repeated

  • Choice of four dinner sittings*

  • Romantic formal nights, a traditional cruise favorite

The Pinnacle Grill Experience

  • Intimate, reservations-only dining featuring sterling silver beef and fresh seafood

  • Luxurious appointments including Bvlgari china, Riedel stemware, and Frette linens

  • Extensive wine list featuring many selections rated "Excellent" by Wine Spectator

Other Delightful Ways to Dine

  • Fresh, cooked-to-order specialties in the enhanced Lido Restaurant for breakfast and lunch

  • Made-to-order dinner entrees and tableside waiter service in the Lido for dinner

  • Complimentary in-room dining

  • The Terrace Grill on deck, where swimsuits are suitable attire

  • Explorations Café featuring pastries and espresso drinks

  • Daily Afternoon Tea service, elevated to Royal Dutch High Tea once per cruise

  • Late-night snacks, chocolate dessert extravaganza

A Master Staff and Crew

  • Menu design under the direction of Master Chef Rudi Sodamin

  • Executive chefs inducted into the prestigious Confrerie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs, an international food and wine society

  • Two expert servers per table in the main Dining Room

Signature Touches

  • Signature cocktails featuring fresh, hand-shaken innovations, and classic favorites

  • Hand-dipped chocolates in the Explorer's Lounge

  • Ice cream bar featuring complimentary treats

  • Complimentary hot hors d'oeuvres during cocktail hour

Each evening is a celebration of fine food and wine on board, a feast for the eyes, the palate, and the soul.

 

Every day aboard a Holland America ship brings a wealth of activities and enrichment programs, along with the freedom to partake in as many or as few as you please.

Relax and Recharge

  • Newly expanded Greenhouse Spa & Salon:

Asian-inspired treatment rooms, including couple's massage rooms, offering an impressive menu of luxurious treatments.

 

Dry-float suite with massage option.

 

Thermal suites with hydrotherapy pool, steam, and aromatic room, heated ceramic lounges and in-suite showers.

 

New relaxation area facing the sea.

 

The latest exotic skin, body, and hair treatments.

 

  • Jacuzzi, hot tub, sauna, steam room

  • Two large outdoor pools, one with sliding glass roof

  • Lifestyle Fitness Center with yoga, Pilates, spinning and new exercise and weight-training equipment

  • Basketball and volleyball courts*

  • Golf simulator and golf swing analysis*

  • Luxury duty-free shopping

Alive At Night

  • Best onboard entertainment- Onboard Services Magazine

  • Lavish Las Vegas-style production shows

  • Talented vocalists, illusionists, comedians, and variety acts

  • Casino gaming, movies, Piano Bar

  • Crow's Nest Nightclub & Late-Night Disco

Personal Growth

  • Culinary Arts Center with state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen for gourmet presentations, tasting events, and intimate cooking classes

  • Explorations Café, powered by The New York Times, offering a coffeehouse atmosphere for discovery: over 2,000 books, music listening stations, Internet, puzzles, and more

  • Explorations Speaker Series featuring experts on topics such as history, culture, and cuisine of ports of call

  • Best Shore Excursions Porthole Cruise Magazine Readers' Choice Awards

  • 24-hour e-mail and Internet access

* Golf, basketball, and volleyball facilities vary by ship.

Western Europe Highlights

  • Sweeping overview itineraries showcasing the great capitals of Europe

  • NEW! The port of Tripoli, Libya; rich with ancient culture

  • Unique calls on Palamos, Spain; Leixoes, Portugal; Santorini, Greece

  • Excursions to Europe's great art and architectural wonders: Gaudi and Picasso in Barcelona, the Louvre in Paris

Eastern & Western Mediterranean

  • Romantic exploration of classic coastlines and ports such as Venice, Barcelona, and Monte Carlo aboard our flagship ms Rotterdam

  • Aboard the new ms Noordam: inaugural sailings through the Mediterranean on roundtrip cruises from Rome

  • Unique 16-day cruises aboard the ms Prinsendam calling on classic Ottoman ports

  • Extensive tour options to Pisa, Florence, Capri, Ephesus, and Olympia

  • Popular Black Sea explorations in the spring and fall

  • Scenic cruising of the Bosporus Strait and the Dardanelles

Seamless. That's how guests describe the experience of traveling through Europe with Holland America Line. Indeed, life aboard each of our magnificent five-star ships perfectly mirrors the pace, style, and luxury of European life ashore.

Five Distinctive Ships

  • The brilliant debut of the ms Noordam, our newest Vista-class ship, where the latest contemporary amenities combine with classic ocean liner elegance

  • Our twin flagships, the ms Rotterdam and ms Amsterdam, offering an elite measure of comfort and service on board

  • The intimate ms Prinsendam, whose sleek draft allows her to cruise Europe 's canals and locks into smaller ports

  • The five-star ms Maasdam, sailing leisurely and luxurious Transatlantic routes

A Deeper Experience

  • Explorations Speaker Series to illuminate the art, culture, history, and cuisine of the areas you visit

  • Exclusive one-of-a-kind Medallion Shore Excursion designed to offer unique access not otherwise available

  • Signature Collection, an exclusive new touring option that lets you reserve a private car, driver, and English-speaking guide in advance

  • Culinary Arts Center , an onboard program offering a state-of-the-art demonstration kitchen for gourmet cooking classes, demonstrations, and tasting events

Europe 's Best Value

  • Best Overall Cruise Value (13 consecutive years) - World Ocean & Cruise Liner Society

  • Cruise fare paid in U.S. dollars enables you to avoid costly exchange rates and negative currency fluctuation

  • Entertainment, cuisine, accommodations, and enrichment programs included

  • Unpack once and relax (in air-conditioned comfort, an amenity not available in many European Hotels)

  • Itineraries designed to allow extra-long days in port to discover Europe 's great art and architecture, historic monuments, and shopping

  • Fewer hassles: no need to waste valuable daytime hours traveling by train, plane or bus. We sail at night!

  • Accessibility: Most of Europe 's major cities were built on oceans and rivers, putting many of the Continent's most important cultural sites and cities within easy reach

Combining Cruises

For those with true explorers' hearts, the extended voyages of the ms Prinsendam are designed to be linked, one to the next, with little or no port repetition, for a truly comprehensive experience of Europe.

 

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