December 19 - Luggage Day

As one of the perks of booking the cruise early, we get to have as much luggage as we want sent FedEx to the ship (and back home at the end of the cruise). As you can see we have four boxes and four suitcases. Hopefully this will be enough for four months. Only two plus weeks left.

Sammie is not going, but she does not know that yet. Tinkerbell could care less.

Dinners on Board

Dinners on Board

Will try to post pictures of the Gala Events

Itinerary

The Ship and Itinerary

The Amsterdam is the third ship to bear the name of the Dutch capital in Holland America Line’s over 140-year history. Built at the Fincantieri shipyard in Marghera, Italy, she is the line's Pacific flagship and is a sister ship to the ms Rotterdam. The Amsterdam features a multi-million dollar art collection. This includes the Planeto Astrolabium, a commissioned signature sculpture soaring in a three-story atrium.

Ship’s Registry: Netherlands

Passenger Capacity: 1,380

Crew Members: 615

Gross Tonnage: 62,735

Length: 780 feet

Beam: 105.8 feet

Maximum speed: 22.5 knots

Fuel consumption: 140 tons

(39,500 gallons) of fuel per day at 21 knots speed

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Itinerary

January 5 – Fort Lauderdale, Florida

January 6-8 – at sea

January 9 – Santa Marta, Colombia

January 10 – San Blas Islands, Panama

January 11 – Cruising Panama Canal

January 12 – Crossing the Equator

January 13 – Manta, Ecuador

January 14 – 21 at sea

January 22 – Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands

January 23 – at sea

January 24-25 – Papeete, Tahiti

January 26– Bora Bora, French Polynesia

January 27 – at sea

January 28 – Rarotonga, Cook Islands

January 29 – at sea

January 30 – Alofi, Niue

January 31 – Cross International Dateline

February 2 – Nuku Alofa, Kingdom of Tonga

February 3 - 4 – at sea

February 5 - 6 – Auckland, New Zealand

February 7 – Waitaingi , New Zealand

February 8 – 9 - at sea

February 10 - 11 – Sydney, Australia

February 12 – at sea

February 13 – Melbourne, Australia

February 14 – at sea

February 15-16 – Adelaide, Australia

February 17 – 18 - at sea

February 19 - Albany, Australia

February 20 - at sea

February 21 – 22 - Perth (Fremantle), Australia

February 23 - Geraldton, Australia

February 24 – 25 - at sea

February 26- 27 – Benoa, Bali, Indonesia

February 28 - at sea

March 1 – Semarang, Java, Indonesia

March 2 – Tanjung Priok, Jakarta

March 3 – Crossing the Equator

March 4 - 5– Singapore

March 6 – Pt. Klang/Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

March 7 – Penang, Malaysia

March 8 – Phuket, Thailand

March 9 – at sea

March 10 - 11 – Thilawa (Rangoon), Myanmar

March 12 – 14 – at sea

March 15 – Colombo, Sri Lanka

March 16 – at sea

March 17 – Cochin, India

March 18 – at sea

March 19- 20 – Mumbai, India

March 21 - 22– at sea

March 23 - 24 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

March 25 – at sea

March 26 – Muscat, Oman

March 27 – at sea

March 28 – Salalah, Oman

March 29 – April 1– at sea

April 2 – Safaga, Egypt

April 3 – Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt

April 4 – Aqaba (Petra), Jordan

April 5 – at sea

April 6 - Cruising Suez Canal

April 7 – Alexandria (Cairo), Egypt

April 8 – at sea

April 9 - Kusadasi (Ephesus), Turkey

April 10 – 11 - Piraeus (Athens), Greece

April 12 - Katakolon, Greece

April 13 - at sea

April 14 - Naples, Italy

April 15 - Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

April 16 - at sea

April 17 - Cartagena, Spain

April 18 - Málaga, Spain

April 19 - Cádiz, Spain

April 20 – 21 - at sea

April 22 - Ponta Delgada, Azores

April 23 - Horta, Azores

April 24 – 29 - at sea

April 30 - Fort Lauderdale, Florida

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