Thread: 8/25/07 Prinsendam Celtic Kingdoms

Bob and I booked this one today!!!
This is our favorite HAL ship and we got our favorite room!

'Board X' had a poster today suggesting she was to be sold:thumbsdow....
I sure hope not .

Anyone interested in Celtic Kingdoms?? We always love company!!!

you already booked?

I was just on the HAL website and I couldn't find prices for the HAL 2007 Europe cruises I'm interested in. Are only certain sailings on certain ships open for booking right now?

Anyhow, congrats! I'll be visiting the same part of the world as you in 2007 as well! I can't wait!

JstDucky-
I think Prinsendam came out first as they have had it's 2007 schedules published since early January.

I hope the others will follow shortly!
Which one are you thinking of?

ahhh, I didn't realize that! thanks for that info. I was wondering why only certain itineraries were currently open for booking.

I need to wait and see what the RCI schedule and Princess schedule and prices are like so that I can compare, but I've got 2 HAL itineraries in the running:

1) 10-day Gems of the Baltic on the Veendam departing Copenhagen on July 3rd.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Tallinn, Estonia
St. Petersburg, Russia
St. Petersburg, Russia
Helsinki, Finland
Stockholm, Sweden
Visby, Sweden
Warnemunde, Germany
Arhus, Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark

2) 10-Day Scandinavian Capitals on the Veendam departing Copenhagen on July 13th.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Tallinn, Estonia
St. Petersburg, Russia
St. Petersburg, Russia
Helsinki, Finland
Stockholm, Sweden
Arhus, Denmark
Oslo, Norway
Copenhagen, Denmark

I am assuming that since your cruise is Celtic Kingdoms you've got stops in Ireland? Definitely a place that I'd love to visit one day!

JstDucky-
This cruise is really port intensive with 11 ports including Leith (Edinburgh), Peterhead (Aberdeen), Shetland Islands, Isle of Skye(Scotland), Belfast, Isle of Man, Liverpool, Waterford, Milford Haven(Wales), Guernsey and Dover.
It really is a nice and unique itinerary, and will give us a nice taste of Scotland, Ireland and the UK.

We are doing a similar cruise to this NEXT year, in July. Some of our ports are different, but it is the same idea.
Amsterdam (the port, not the ship), Newcastle, Leith (Edinburgh), Invergordon, Barrow-in-Furness, Belfast, Liverpool, Dublin, and then rest is like yours: Waterford, Milford Haven, Guernsey and Dover.

I would have liked to have seen the Islands you will be visiting, but I am happy that we will get a chance to see Hadrians's wall, and either the English Lake Country or Lockerbie, Scotland (or both?).

If anyone was thinking they would like to join Sher on this cruise, but have to put it off to next year, you can now think about joining me!

Originally Posted by MCcruiser

We are doing a similar cruise to this NEXT year, in July. Some of our ports are different, but it is the same idea.
Amsterdam (the port, not the ship), Newcastle, Leith (Edinburgh), Invergordon, Barrow-in-Furness, Belfast, Liverpool, Dublin, and then rest is like yours: Waterford, Milford Haven, Guernsey and Dover.

I would have liked to have seen the Islands you will be visiting, but I am happy that we will get a chance to see Hadrians's wall, and either the English Lake Country or Lockerbie, Scotland (or both?).

If anyone was thinking they would like to join Sher on this cruise, but have to put it off to next year, you can now think about joining me!

Mindy- We ended up cancelling this cruise on the Prinsendam because of the price and Bob's illnesses. I can't wait to hear what you think of your wonderful itinerary, someday (soon I hope) we will be able to do that itinerary!!

Hello all I am new to This Site .

We have booked the Prinsendam for the Celtic Kingdoms July 3 2008 .
Anyone else on this date ?

Cheers from Canada
Gord and Carmen

Originally Posted by Ottawa-Guy

Hello all I am new to This Site .

We have booked the Prinsendam for the Celtic Kingdoms July 3 2008 .
Anyone else on this date ?

Cheers from Canada
Gord and Carmen

Welcome to our friendly cruise community, Gord & Carmen

May I suggest a couple of places to visit here?

We would love for you to go here--> Introduce Yourself! and start a new thread of introduction for yourself.

I see that you have started a roll call for this cruise!

Go here for more good stuff--> (Welcome, New Members!)Welcome, New Members!

Enjoy our forum and make yourself at home.

Ottawa-Guy, I am on that cruise! But I think we already met on Cruise Critic. I have not posted there much, first because I spend a lot of time on this board, and second because we were getting ready for our last cruise, around the Black Sea.

I promise to be much more attentive on this board. Thanks for finding us
Mindy