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- 2013 Early Booking Amenities
- Featured Ports & Excursions
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Grand World Voyages
An intimate ship, an epic journey
There's no gentle easing into spectacle. You sail right for Cartagena, Colombia, whose walled old town is a walker's haven, a weathered pastel cornucopia, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. So it will go on all the segments of the cruise.
Years in the planning, our 2013 Grand World Voyage features the most sought-after sights and experiences the world has to offer.
Visit monuments to human genius -- the Panama Canal, Easter Island statuary, the nested shells of the Sydney Opera House. Explore wonders we can only appreciate – the jungled alps of French Polynesia, the fizzing cauldrons of Rotorua, the Gothic cliffs of Phuket.
This is travel as liturgy: Day after day, World Heritage Sites will unfold before you. You'll visit places that seem torn from the pages of travelers' legends: Pitcairn Island, Ujung Padang, Nosy Be, Fortaleza. You'll overnight in the capitals of the world, like Sydney, Hong Kong, and Singapore. When it's all done, we'll take you back to Fort Lauderdale. The pier will be the same. Will you?
Your ship, the ms Amsterdam, recalls the classic era of ocean travel. It offers industry-leading amenities and activities, yet carries fewer guests to preserve a sophisticated ambiance.
2013 Early Booking Amenities
ms Amsterdam 115-Day Grand World Voyage Early Booking Amenities
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Exciting Early Booking Amenities are available exclusively for our guests who book the 2013 Grand World Voyage aboard the ms Amsterdam sailing on Jan. 5, 2013. These consist of a series of valuable amenities for our guests who book by May 31, 2012 in select categories of staterooms and suites as detailed below. |
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Penthouse Suite & Deluxe Verandah Suites (Categories PS - BC):
- Per Person Shipboard Credit
- Penthouse Verandah Suite: $2,000
- Deluxe Verandah Suite: $1,000
- Verandah Suite: $750
- Complimentary laundry, pressing and dry cleaning throughout your cruise (PS-SB only)
- Complimentary in-suite bottled water and (PS-SB only)
- Prepaid Hotel Service Charges (Approximate $1,250 per person value)
- Complimentary Shore Excursion from the Collections of Holland America Line
- Unlimited Luggage Delivery Service
- To/From Fort Lauderdale (Only applicable to US and Canadian residents). Residents of all other countries will receive a $200 per person shipboard credit
- In-suite liquor set-up (4 bottles)
- "Welcome Onboard" bottle of Champagne
Large Ocean-view Staterooms (Categories C-F):
- $500 per person Shipboard Credit
- 2 pieces per person Luggage Delivery Service
- To/From Ft. Lauderdale (Only applicable to US and Canadian residents). Residents of all other countries will receive a $125 per person shipboard credit
- Prepaid Hotel Service Charges (Approximate $1,250 per person value)
- "Welcome Onboard" bottle of Champagne
Exciting Early Booking Amenities are available for our guests who book a 33+ day segment of the 2013 Grand World Voyage aboard the ms Amsterdam. These consist of a valuable shipboard credit for our guests who book by May 31, 2012 in select categories of staterooms and suites as detailed below.
Penthouse Verandah, Deluxe Verandah & Verandah Suites (Categories PS-BC):
- Receive a $500 per person shipboard credit
Large Ocean-view Staterooms (Categories C-F):
- Receive a $300 per person shipboard credit
Exciting Early Booking Amenities are also available for our guests who book a segment up to 32 days in length of the 2013 World Voyage by May 31, 2012.
Penthouse Verandah, Deluxe Verandah & Verandah Suites (Categories PS-BC):
- Receive a $250 per person shipboard credit
Large Ocean-view Staterooms (Categories C-F):
- Receive a $175 per person shipboard credit
View or print a PDF of the 2013 Grand Voyages early booking amenities.
All amenity amounts shown are in USD.
For additional savings, guests who pay in full by May 31, 2012 will save 3%. Call for details.
Featured Ports & Excursions
Irresistible Mad Energy
This is Hong Kong – have you rested? City-state, deep-water harbor, darling of empires, engine of global finance, shopper's paradise, cinematic trend-setter, world's most vertical city. Whew. Cruise to Hong Kong with Holland America Line and join the parade into one of the city's countless markets. Watch the hardworking world of Aberdeen's junks and sampans. Rise above it all on the tram ride to the top of Victoria Peak. Hong Kong is where ancient herbal remedies mix with designer fashions, Buddhist monks mingle with businessmen, and Chinese traditions meet modern international capitalism.
Shore Excursion Highlights
Explore the City Further
Your cruise from Hong Kong will allow you to spend a few days before or (if you are disembarking) after to explore this city more fully. To learn more about hotel packages that will extend your cruise vacation, please contact your travel professional or Holland America Line.
To the End of the Earth
The southern finial of the South American continent is as fractured as frost crystals, but the inlets, bays, and passages around the Strait of Magellan are home to a million wonders. Punta Arenas is the threshold to them all. From here, cruise visitors can venture to the high scarps of Torres del Paine National Park, the penguin colony at Seno Otway, or the Martian volcanic topography of Pali Aike National Park. Punta Arenas worth lingering in, as well. Visit the tree-lined Plaza de Armas square or walk 10 minutes farther to the top of La Cruz Hill. The city of 150,000 people lies at your feet. 850 miles farther south Antarctica begins.
Shore Excursion Highlights
Gothic Cliffs in the Andaman Sea
Beach after beach bejewels Phuket's fractal coastline. And what isn't beach is mainly mountainous jungle, town, or gothic cliff face. The Thai island sits on the Andaman side of the Malay Peninsula. To swim in its cerulean waters is to risk reordering your life's priorities, with equanimity bumped to the top of your to-do list. Cruise visitors can take in the beaches along western Phuket, visit Phang Nga Bay and James Bond Island; plug into the energy of Patong town; or the feel calm of Phra Taew National Park. Prom Thep Cape, at the southern tip of the island, is the place to watch the sun drop into the Andaman Sea.
Shore Excursion Highlights
- Panoramic Phuket: Temples, mosques, markets, and beaches.
- Phang Nga Bay: See the pocked cliffs of James Bond Island, a village on stilts, and the cave temple Wat Tham Suwan Kuha.
- Thai Cooking Class: First, the market. Second, the cashew nut factory. Third, learn how to cook it all up.
Land of Lonely Sentinels
We craft monuments to our deities from materials close at hand. On Easter Island the monuments were moai, giant sculptures of ancestors, and the material was almost always tuff, solidified volcanic ash. Craftsmen worked the quarry at Rano Raraku, a volcanic crater at the center of the island and teams of islanders would transport the sculptures to locations all around the island using a method that is still a mystery. After centuries of neglect, the moai are today protected in Rapa Nui National Park, which is honored as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cruise visitors can climb up to the craters at Rano Raraku or Rano Kau or drive along the coast. You'll see moai everywhere.
Shore Excursion Highlights
The Glory of Gaudi
Barcelona effuses the ancient, the modernist, and the Gaudi. Legend has it the city was founded by Hercules 400 years before the founding of Rome. Whatever the truth, the city today is a global capital of commerce, fashion, culture, and sunshine (the city gets about 300 days of it a year). Cruise visitors should start with a walk down Las Ramblas, the glorious tree-shaded thoroughfare at the heart of the city. Claim a patch of sand on one of the city beaches. But, most of all, see what visionary architect Antoni Gaudi wrought. Seven of his creations have been honored as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including La Sagrada Familia, the Park Guell, and Casa Mila.
Shore Excursion Highlights
Explore the City Further
Your cruise from Barcelona will allow you to spend a few days before or (if you are disembarking) after to explore this city more fully. To learn more about hotel packages that will extend your cruise vacation, please contact your travel professional or Holland America Line.
"Look on My Works ye Mighty and Despair!"
The ancient Egyptians built a mighty city along the Upper Nile dedicated to the god Amon-Ra. Today, Luxor is an archaeological wunderkammer. The Karnak and Luxor temple complexes are copses of stone columns, monuments, and obelisks. The Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens are sprawling tomb complexes sculpted from the land on the west bank of the Nile. The Ramsesseum is a the mortuary temple of Ramses the Great. There is on the sands of the complex a great granite head, the likeness of Ramses. If it triggers a memory for cruise visitors, it may be because the shattered visage inspired some of the great lines of English poetry in Percy Shelley's sonnet "Ozymandias."
Shore Excursion Highlights
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro resists all adjectives. Even if you get that absolute vista from the top of Corcovado Mountain, you'll still thirst for more – for the taste of an acai berry drink, the pulse of samba, and the feel of the Atlantic on your toes. Drink deeply, you have such a journey before you. A cruise to Rio de Janeiro with Holland America Line brings you the stunning setting and joyous lust for life make Rio a cidade maravilhosa, "marvelous city." Ipanema, Copacabana, samba - the words alone conjure Brazilian paradise. Learn more.
Tour Highlights
Explore the City Further
Your cruise from Rio de Janeiro will allow you to spend a few days before or (if you are disembarking) after to explore this city more fully. To learn more about hotel packages that will extend your cruise vacation, please contact your travel professional or Holland America Line.
Here There Be Dragons
The largest varanus komodoensis measured more than 10 feet long and weighed 366 pounds. Komodo dragons, as they're popularly known, hunt in packs, produce a toxin that sends their prey into shock, and are generally terrifying. Found only on Komodo Island, one of more than 17,000 Indonesian islands, they are protected in Komodo National Park. UNESCO has declared the park a World Heritage site for its beauty and the evolutionary singularity of its resident lizards. The island as a whole is characterized by dry savannah, rugged hills, blue waters, and beaches composed of white sand, with one pink exception.
Shore Excursion Highlights
Jai Ho!
Start with either of two Mumbais. First is the ancient religious India you see at Elephanta Island. Lying about 6 miles south of Mumbai, the hilly island contains a network of caves that Hindu and Buddhist artisans have sculpted over the last 1,500 years into monuments to their faiths. Second is the British colonial India manifest in the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus. The railway station is the busiest in India and its architecture a mixture of high Victorian gothic and Indian palace. Both the caves and the railway are UNESCO World Heritage Sites; the city itself is merely the pulsing economic and cultural dynamo of the world's most populous country. Cruise visitors can start anywhere – perhaps with a delicious bhelpuri and a walk along Marine Drive – then jump in.
Shore Excursion Highlights
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
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