{"id":61333,"date":"2021-12-24T11:21:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/ms-zuiderdam\/zuiderdam-resumes-service-from-port-of-san-diego\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:46:46","slug":"zuiderdam-resumes-service-from-port-of-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/whats-new\/zuiderdam-resumes-service-from-port-of-san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuiderdam Resumes Service from Port of San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an exciting week for Holland America Line as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/en_US\/cruise-ships\/ms-zuiderdam\/4.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zuiderdam<\/a> returned to service from Port of San Diego and became the cruise line&#8217;s sixth ship back in service. <\/p>\n<p>Zuiderdam\u2019s crew celebrated the return in holiday spirit with sleighbells ringing and Santa and his elves on hand to open embarkation and welcome guests back on board. Zuiderdam joins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/en_US\/cruise-ships\/ms-koningsdam\/1.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Koningsdam<\/a>, which resumed service in San Diego Oct. 10. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ZUDM_Ribbon_1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ZUDM_Ribbon_1000.jpg\" alt=\"zuiderdam ribbon cutting\" width=\"1000\" height=\"641\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142676\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSan Diego is an important homeport for us, and we are excited to have two ships back in full-time operation here with the restart of Zuiderdam today,\u201d said Gus Antorcha, president of Holland America Line. &#8220;We are proud to be part of the San Diego community, which has continued to show us tremendous support throughout our restart. There\u2019s no better way to kick off Zuiderdam\u2019s season than with a holiday cruise full of joyful guests and our grateful crew who are happy to have them back on board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zuiderdam\u2019s first cruise is a 10-day \u201cMexico and Sea of Cortez\u201d that will be followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/en_US\/cruise-destinations\/panama-canal.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Panama Canal<\/a> departures and a grand 35-day South Pacific sojourn and Pacific cruise. Koningsdam sails a series of seven-day cruises to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/en_US\/cruise-destinations\/pacific-coast.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Coast<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/en_US\/cruise-destinations\/mexico.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a> and two longer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/en_US\/cruise-destinations\/hawaii-tahiti.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii<\/a> voyages that run through April 3, 2022. Eurodam and Nieuw Amsterdam each make one call at San Diego in spring 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week on Dec. 19, while remaining alongside at San Diego\u2019s B-Street Cruise Terminal, Zuiderdam took part in the San Diego Bay Parade of Lights with an illuminated \u201cHo Ho Ho\u201d on the ship&#8217;s side to show community support. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Zuiderdam-HO-HO-HO-1000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Zuiderdam-HO-HO-HO-1000.jpg\" alt=\"zuiderdam ho ho ho\" width=\"1000\" height=\"628\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142677\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t wait to welcome you on board and hope to SEA you soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been an exciting week for Holland America Line as Zuiderdam returned to service from Port of San Diego and became the cruise line&#8217;s sixth ship back in service. Zuiderdam\u2019s crew celebrated the return in holiday spirit with sleighbells ringing and Santa and his elves on hand to open embarkation and welcome guests back on board. Zuiderdam joins Koningsdam, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1876,"featured_media":61334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40],"tags":[4204,4189],"class_list":["post-61333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry","category-whats-new","tag-cruise-booking","tag-health-wellbeing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67932,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61333\/revisions\/67932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}