After just lately finishing a two-week dry dock within the Bahamas, Holland America Line’s Zaandam departed Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, on its 27-day “Amazon Explorer” Legendary Voyage with a number of upgrades to public areas all through the ship. The brand new enhancements embody expansions to the ship’s library and exercise areas, upgrades to the Greenhouse Spa & Salon, Picture Gallery and Picture Studio, in addition to refurbishments to the Neptune Lounge.
Refreshed Greenhouse Spa & Salon, Updates to Health Middle
Zaandam’s Greenhouse Spa & Salon obtained important updates through the ship’s dry dock. The thermal suite was utterly rebuilt to incorporate a brand new infrared sauna, Caldarium steam room and experiential rain bathe. The spa’s rest lounge now has a brand new beverage counter and new lounge seating. Within the salon, visitors will see new, customized manicure stations, state-of-the-art pedicure thrones, in addition to new salon chairs and shampoo wash basins. Work was additionally accomplished through the dry dock making the spa and salon areas extra accessible for visitors with disabilities.
The Health Middle obtained a brand new customized storage space, new bogs, and modernized finishes all through the world.
Renovated Library and Up to date Exercise Areas
Zaandam’s Library underwent a facelift. The area was utterly refurbished with a brand new, trendy design and has an up to date ebook assortment for visitors to borrow throughout their cruise. A number of exercise areas on board additionally obtained enhancements. Explorations Café was remodeled right into a multi-use area, together with new puzzle and video games tables. A brand new Artwork Studio was added on board, offering visitors with a devoted area to let their inventive juices stream. The Artwork Studio will host Zaandam’s artwork & craft programming, together with water coloring, portray, origami, crochet and plenty of different distinctive lessons.
Enhanced Methods to Seize Priceless Recollections
Zaandam’s dry dock included important enhancements to the ship’s Picture Studio and Picture Gallery. A brand new Signature Studio was added, permitting visitors to have customized, personal picture periods and personal picture viewings. The Picture Gallery was totally refurbished with new picture show areas the place visitors can view conventional prints, in addition to a high-tech facial recognition digital picture system. Visitors can now log into their account and see their photographs digitally, which is able to seem via facial recognition expertise.
Elevated Expertise within the Neptune Lounge
Zaandam’s Neptune Lounge, a personal area for Neptune and Pinnacle suite visitors, obtained new flooring in elements of the lounge, updates to the meals catering space, a refreshed concierge desk with upgraded seating, and bigger tv for higher viewing.
Following the completion of the dry dock, Zaandam will spend the subsequent few months exploring the Amazon, crusing via the Panama Canal and visiting Mexico earlier than heading north for Holland America’s Alaska season.
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About Holland America Line [a division of Carnival Corporation and plc (NYSE: CCL and CUK)]
Holland America Line has been exploring the world for 150 years with expertly crafted itineraries, extraordinary service and real connections to locations. Providing a super perfectly-sized ship expertise, its fleet visits almost 400 ports in 114 international locations world wide and has shared the fun of Alaska for 75 years — longer than every other cruise line. Holland America Line’s 11 vessels characteristic a various vary of enriching actions and facilities targeted on vacation spot immersion and personalised journey.
Visitors take pleasure in one of the best leisure at sea every night and eating venues that includes unique dishes by world-famous cooks. A brand new world contemporary fish program brings greater than 80 kinds of contemporary fish on board, sourced and served domestically in areas world wide.
