If you are from the warmer areas of the earth, you may like your cabin with temperatures in the high 80's ore 90's. Also, if you have taken a cruise in the past on Commodore Lines or on some other cut-rate cruise-line, you will love the MS Noordam. If you just moved from a third world or old soviet block country, you will feel at home. I take that back Russians wouldn't stand for the cabins because they are too much like prison!

If you purchase Liquor or Cigarettes off-shore, go quick to the front desk to verify your purchases because when you sail away, or when you get home, you can't fix the problems without a great big hassle! It may not be the fault of Holland America but their policy of not delivering goods directly to your cabin and holding them to the night before you pull into Tampa.