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Bermuda
Overview
Pastel shades of England
The sand can be a shocking pink, crunching underfoot as you take an early evening walk, talking about the day or not talking at all. The sand is perfect, too, for any impromptu excavation projects you undertake with your children.
Come to Bermuda to lie in the sun. Come to walk in a secluded cove, like Chaplin Bay. Come for a horse-drawn carriage ride along Hamilton's cobblestone streets. Come to explore Fort St. Catherine or Crystal Caves’ stalactites and stalagmites.
Enjoy a game of golf on one of the island’s many ocean-view courses and explore Hamilton's sherbet-colored shops and boutiques. In St. George’s, a UNESCO World Heritage Site steeped in 400 years of British colonial history, you can see what England looks like with a tan.
Bermuda shorts are business attire, cricket is the national sport and afternoon tea goes without saying. Our leisurely voyages give you time to enjoy it all.
Holland America Line’s summer Bermuda cruise vacations are perfect for families, offering convenient roundtrip sailings from New York, lots of active outdoor activities ashore and a ship that caters to kids and adults. Additionally, the ms Veendam is one of the few ships cruising to Bermuda that is able to navigate the harbor in Hamilton, enabling guests to step off the ship right in the center of town.
Featured Ports & Excursions
Brilliant to the Core
Close your eyes and you'd still know it's New York. Puffs of steam rise warm from the street, the aroma from pretzel-vendor carts floats through the air, and the echoes of taxi beeps career off the glass skins of office towers. Open your eyes and take in the textures of a capital of world finance, media, art, fashion, and pretty much everything else. It’s a Big Apple, too big, so cruise visitors have to take small bites. Maybe start with a museum – the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Guggenheim, or the American Museum of Natural History. Take a walk through Times Square or Central Park. Catch a Broadway show. Shop. Grab a pretzel from a street vendor. Close your eyes. Mmm.
Shore Excursion Highlights
Tickled Pink
The sand can be a shocking pink, crunching underfoot as you take an early evening walk. The sand is perfect, too, for any impromptu excavation projects you undertake with your children. Cruise to Bermuda to lie in the sun, walk in secluded Chaplin Bay, or take a horse-drawn carriage ride along Hamilton's cobblestone streets. Hamilton, Bermuda's capital and chief port, sits at the north end of Hamilton Harbor. Architecturally, the city has long been dominated by the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity. The church is a blend of the local (its limestone) and the British (its Gothic Revival design). As is Bermuda.
Shore Excursion Highlights
It's the oldest English town in the New World, and despite the obligatory concessions to modernity here and there, Saint George looks much as it did two centuries ago. The colonial mélange of colorful stone buildings, neatly bricked streets, heraldic signs, and British naval fortifications have earned the city designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. To get a taste of the old town, start your wanderings at Kings Square. Other highlights for cruise visitors include Fort St. Catharine, St. Peter's Church, and Tobacco Bay Beach. Be sure to try a local dish while you're about, like Bermuda Hop 'n' John.
Shore excursions are not available for this port.
Home City Motor Coach
Easy Come, Easy Go with Home City Motor Coach
Getting to your Holland America Line ship from the Northeast has never been easier. Simply meet us at the Home City Motor Coach departure point nearest your home city, and we’ll whisk you – in air-conditioned comfort – to the cruise terminal. You’ll enjoy prompt embarkation and a warm welcome aboard. At vacation’s end, your return home will be just as easy.
Home City Motor Coach service to New York is available from the following cities:
| Braintree, MA |
| Providence, RI |
| New London, CT |
| New Haven, CT |
| Bridgport, CT |
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| Rensselaer, NY |
| Catskill, NY |
| Kingston, NY |
| New Paltz, NY |
| Newburgh, NY |
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Protection Plans
Do You Offer A Cancellation Protection Plan?
A Small Price for Peace of Mind
Holland America's Cancellation Protection Plan (CPP) is designed to protect your vacation investment from loss-no matter what. And like other plans that protect things of great value, it's a small price to pay for peace of mind. Be it illness, family matters, unforeseen work events-anything, CPP is your assurance that your vacation can be cancelled before you leave for any reason for a refund. To add our Cancellation Protection Plan to your new or existing cruise booking, please call us at 1-877-932-4259.
Four reasons to choose the Holland America Line Cancellation Protection Plan:
- YOU CAN CANCEL BEFORE DEPARTURE FOR ANY REASON. Even if it's up to 24 hours before departure under our Standard Plan or right up to departure with our Platinum Plan. For any reason whatsoever, your reservation may be cancelled with ease.
- YOU GET MONEY BACK. Only Holland America Line refunds 80-90% of eligible amounts paid, regardless of your reason for canceling, as long as you cancel more than 24 hours prior to departure (right up to departure with the Platinum Plan).
- SAME PRICE FOR ALL AGES. We offer the same excellent protection for everyone, at the same cost.
- NO PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS. Our Standard and Platinum Plans do not contain pre-existing condition exclusions.
Our Standard and Premium plans at a glance
Unforeseen events do happen. When you book your next cruise, be sure to ask about our Cancellation Protection Plans for the utmost peace of mind.
CPP Standard Plan – Provided by Holland America Line
Our Standard Cancellation Protection Plan (CPP Standard Plan) will allow you, for any reason, to provide written cancellation up to 24 hours prior to the scheduled cruise or cruisetour departure and receive a refund equal to 80% of the eligible amounts paid.
In addition, Holland America Line (HAL) automatically assumes an additional $500 (USD) of liability for lost, damaged or delayed baggage of guests who purchase the CPP Standard Plan still subject, however, to the limitations in our baggage policies. For example, we do not cover losses while baggage is in the custody of airlines. Please review our Baggage Policy.
The CPP Standard Plan is not insurance, and is administered by Holland America Line Inc.; it provides no rights other than those explained above.
Our Platinum Cancellation Protection Plan enables you to supplement the benefits provided under the CPP Standard Plan with enhanced cancellation protection. CPP Platinum also provides insurance coverage for trip delays and interruptions, medical expenses and much more. In addition, CPP Platinum includes 24-hour worldwide emergency assistance services. CPP Platinum may not be available for purchase in some locations outside the U.S. and Canada
CPP Platinum
Our Platinum Cancellation Protection Plan enables you to supplement the benefits provided under the CPP Standard Plan with enhanced cancellation protection. CPP Platinum also provides insurance coverage for trip delays and interruptions, medical expenses and much more. In addition, CPP Platinum includes 24-hour worldwide emergency assistance services. CPP Platinum is comprised of the following:
SECTION I
Cancel for Any Reason Waiver
Provided by Holland America Line
You may cancel for any reason prior to the scheduled cruise/cruisetour departure and receive reimbursement equal to 90% of the eligible amounts paid to Holland America.
SECTION II
TRAVEL INSURANCE PROGRAM
Underwritten by Stonebridge Casualty Insurance Company
- Trip Interruption: Enables you to cancel or interrupt your cruise vacation for illness, injury or death to you, an immediate family member or a traveling companion, as well as certain other non-medical reasons affecting you or your traveling companion, and receive up to 150% of your cruise vacation cost.
- Trip Delay: If you miss the departure of your cruise due to carrier-caused delays or other specified reasons, you will be reimbursed up to $500 for additional accommodations, meals and “catch-up” transportation expenses.
- Baggage Protection: If your baggage or personal property is lost or damaged, you will be reimbursed up to $1,000. If your bags are delayed or misdirected by a common carrier for more than 24 hours, you will be reimbursed up to $500 for the purchase of necessary personal effects.
- Medical Expense Coverage: Should you become injured or sick during your vacation, you will be reimbursed up to $10,000 for medical expenses.
- Emergency Evacuation/Repatriation: In the event that serious illness or injury requires air or ground transportation to a specialized facility or to return home, you will be provided up to $50,000 in covered medical services and supplies (coordinated by our 24-hour assistance provider) to help ensure your safe transport. Repatriation coverage provides for shipment of remains in the event of death during the cruise vacation.
The Travel Insurance Program is underwritten by Stonebridge Casualty Insurance Company, an AEGON Company, Columbus, Ohio; NAIC #10952 (all states except as otherwise noted) under Policy/Certificate Form series TAHC5000. In CA, HI, NE, NH, PA, TN AND TX, Policy/Certificate Form series TAHC5100 and TAHC5200. In IL, IN, KS, LA, OR, OH, VT, WA AND WY, Policy Form #’s TAHC5100IPS and TAHC5200IPS. Certain coverages are under series TAHC6000 and TAHC7000.
SECTION III
WORLDWIDE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE SERVICES
Provided by On Call International
Provides 24-hour assistance services including: pre-cruise health, safety and weather information; assistance with travel changes; lost luggage assistance; emergency cash transfer assistance; emergency medical and dental assistance; lost travel document assistance; and emergency medical payment assistance.
IMPORTANT: This is a summary. Please refer to the CPP Platinum Plan Description for complete terms, conditions, and exclusions. Note that the benefits and services provided in CPP Platinum are available only to guests who enroll in and pay the appropriate program cost to Holland America Line. Please note that payment of the required cruise deposit does not automatically activate enrollment in CPP Platinum Protection. In order to activate enrollment, you must pay the appropriate program costs in addition to the required cruise deposit amount. The CPP Standard and CPP Platinum Plans are optional and must be purchased prior to the date on which cancellation fees begin to accrue. Payment for the plan is due at time of purchase and is non-refundable. The per person, per cruise costs for both plans are listed with the cruise fares.
CPP Platinum Protection was designed and is administered by BerkelyCareSM. IN CALIFORNIA: BerkelyCare is a service mark of Aon Direct Insurance Administrators, CA Insurance License #0795465. IN ALL OTHER STATES: BerkelyCareSM is a division of Affinity Insurance Services, Inc. in all states other than CA, except AIS Affinity Insurance Agency, Inc. in MN and OK and AIS Affinity Insurance Agency in NY
Review CPP Platinum Plan Description
updated 12/11
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