Veedam Montreal to Boston

[Limewood]

Just completed a week on the Holland America line Veendam, an old ship built in 1966 it was updated in 2012. The crew were fantastic, the ship was clean, the food very good and the daily stops even better. We had a suite with a large port hole, very comfy king bed, 3 seater settee, 2 chairs and a desk and good sized bathroom on main deck, very quiet it was.

On board it was USD for additional dinning restaurants and tours, the latter expensive when one can get same or similar ashore for about two thirds the price, booze too, ridiculous like US$18+ for a beer and glass of wine, no drink package was offered.

The best part were the cities and quaint towns visited daily, while we really enjoyed Montreal for 3 days before departure, our favourites were Quebec city, Charlottetown, Halifax and beautiful Bar Harbour, however, Sydney town was deserted. On arrival in Boston it just happened to be the Seafood Festival and the huge Lobsters went down well!, in fact while there met two Aussies in a waterfront restaurant, found out they lived in Cairns about 15min drive from our abode!.

The crazy part is Qantas had the best ship fare so booked it through them.

 

[OZDUCK]

View attachment 134146 Just completed a week on the Holland America line Veendam, an old ship built in 1966 it was updated in 2012. The crew were fantastic, the ship was clean, the food very good and the daily stops even better. We had a suite with a large port hole, very comfy king bed, 3 seater settee, 2 chairs and a desk and good sized bathroom on main deck, very quiet it was.

On board it was USD for additional dinning restaurants and tours, the latter expensive when one can get same or similar ashore for about two thirds the price, booze too, ridiculous like US$18+ for a beer and glass of wine, no drink package was offered.

The best part were the cities and quaint towns visited daily, while we really enjoyed Montreal for 3 days before departure, our favourites were Quebec city, Charlottetown, Halifax and beautiful Bar Harbour, however, Sydney town was deserted. On arrival in Boston it just happened to be the Seafood Festival and the huge Lobsters went down well!, in fact while there met two Aussies in a waterfront restaurant, found out they lived in Cairns about 15min drive from our abode!.

The crazy part is Qantas had the best ship fare so booked it through them.

That is a lovely part of Canada - we "trained" and drove however. Sydney was deserted when we went through it a couple of times. The closure of the coal mines seem to have really hit it hard. A quick look on Google shows that the population of Nova Scotia as a whole is decreasing over the last few years.

And just to bring back some memories for you a couple of photos of the Veendam at Quebec City - going upstream. (From the ferry) And another a week or so later at Charlottetown.

 

[Limewood]

They have big lobsters there I had small ones!.

 

[n7of9]

Thanks for this. I'll be cruising that part of the world mid-Oct and can't wait to see what that corner of the map looks like

 

[Pushka]

It’s a beautiful part of the world. I’d like to do a “Fall” Cruise.