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Upgraded Oosterdam completes 300th sailing

Sailing from Venice to Barcelona, Holland America Line’s Oosterdam recently reached a milestone with its 300th cruise.

Anne Kalosh, Editor, Seatrade Cruise News & Senior Associate Editor, Seatrade Cruise Review

July 17, 2009

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The voyage followed extensive upgrades at Fincantieri’s Palermo shipyard which added new staterooms, dining options, public areas and a specialty wine bar to the 2003-built ship.

New are Canaletto, an Italian specialty restaurant, 34 staterooms, an Explorations Café in the Crow’s Nest, a larger Pinnacle Grill restaurant and a Pinnacle Bar with a focus on US Northwest wines.

An expanded and upgraded retail arcade includes the high-end jewelry shop, Merabella. A home theater-style screening room was installed for audiovisual presentations to small groups. And the ship gained an environmentally friendly ‘wet cleaning’ machine, to replace the dry cleaning process using perchloroethylene.

Further, Oosterdam implemented new enrichment programming in the form of Digital Workshops powered by Windows and led by Microsoft-trained teachers.

For the remainder of 2009, the ship will sail alternating 12-day Eastern and Western Mediterranean cruises between Venice and Barcelona, a 16-day Atlantic crossing, one 19-day Panama Canal voyage and six seven-day Mexico cruises round-trip from San Diego.

About the Author

Anne Kalosh

Editor, Seatrade Cruise News & Senior Associate Editor, Seatrade Cruise Review

Anne Kalosh covers global stories, reporting both breaking and in-depth news on cruising's significant people, places, ships and trends. A sought-after expert on cruising, she has moderated conferences around the world, including the high-profile State of the Industry panel at Seatrade Cruise Global. She created and led the acclaimed itinerary-planning case study for Seatrade's cruise master classes held at Cambridge and Oxford universities. She has been the cruise columnist for AFAR.com, and her freelance stories have appeared in a wide range of publications, from The New York Times to The Miami Herald.

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