Schiphol International Airport, Amsterdam, the Netherlands: The cruise has ended, we disembarked this morning ... very painless and quick. Now we wait to board a plane that takes off maybe 23 hours from now.
We didn’t fly out today, though many pax will, because the ‘good flight’ to our destination takes off too early to connect to directly from the ship. So we overnight in an airport Sheraton and try to regain our “land legs” before leaving tomorrow a.m.
This hotel room has to be twice the size of our cabin on the Nieuw Statendam. The ship cabin had a balcony which went entirely unused as the weather was too cold to be outside. The only balconies we’ve ever gotten any serious use of were the interior balconies aboard the Anthem and Oasis of the Seas in the warm Caribbean, where we ate breakfast on them daily, looking down on ‘Central Park.’
We had amazingly calm water during this cruise, only one day in 3 weeks found us in water rough enough to feel the ship movement. A definite plus. But we both had colds and “the miseries,” a definite minus. Honestly, not one of our best cruises.
