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We chose this cruise because it had as one of it's shore excursions "Copper Canyon" This was our 4th Holland America cruise.
The Ryndam is 11 years old and in some areas the ship is in need of repairs. Unlike the review you published in May, our experience was mostly positive.
The air conditioning is very uneven---our cabin would not cool as much as we liked and several areas were too cold. The heater heating the pool was out of kilter and the pool went to 100 degrees. The Hot tubs heaters were not working at all the entire 10 days.
The entertainment was fine although the main lounge is very uncomfortable.(If you arrived less tha 30 minutes before a show, you couldn't find a seat that afforded you a good view os stage.)
The food was fine although no food is available from after dinner until 11 o'clock. (Princess cruise line has food available after dinner so you can snack)
We found the crew to be very helpful and the Captain even got up at 4:30 AM to wish us a good trip to Copper Canyon. He stayed up until 11 PM to geet
us when we returned. In 35 cruises we never had a Captain do thisWe prefer Princess because we like their Dining any time policy and the food buffet available after regular dining hours. Their entertainment is also more consistant.
We would however, give Holland America a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10.
Thought you might like a review from someone who, until June 5, 2005, had not been on a ship for over 35 years. In 1969, I--along with a husband and a baby--crossed the Atlantic on the QE2 and then crossed back on the France in 1970. Those were the days of bunks in staterooms, different passenger classes, rampant seasickness, and bribes to the longshoremen upon disembarkation.
I was prepared to hate the ship but to enjoy the Alaskan scenery. I'm happy to report that I loved the ship as well as the scenery. My husband felt the same way. ("Baby" did not accompany us this time.)
First, the standard stateroom was like a hotel room with a very comfy queen-size bed, a sofa, a table and chair, plasma TV with DVD, and good closet space. The bathroom had a shower in a very high bathtub-one had to be nimble to get in. The room, in fact the whole ship, was spotless. Only complaint-there was nowhere to store our 5 pieces of luggage, so we had to keep them on the sofa.
Second, third, and fourth-there were no classes, no seasickness (I was
amazed at the smoothness of the ship's motion), and no bribes.We did not participate very much in the ship's culture, having bad memories of shuffleboard in the past. Instead, we spent most of the time in the Crow's Nest-a delightful public space with a panoramic view at the front of the ship. Because we had been assigned to a late seating and our stomachs were 3 hours ahead of Alaska time, we ate all of our meals in the Lido-a gourmet cafeteria with waiter service. Only complaint there was that they didn't serve enough seafood. I was looking forward to that in Alaska. In the Lido, we always tried to sit at the last table in the back of the restaurant, because it had wrap-around windows and the best view.
We also enjoyed the Explorer's Lounge, which is the library. Good selection of books and DVDs, plus Swedish-style lounge chairs. This is also the location of the expresso bar. HAL now charges for gourmet coffee-about half the price of Starbucks.
The Ryndam is said to be a smaller ship, but it seemed uncrowded. There was never a wait in the Lido. Embarkation and disembarkation were easy. At Sitka, we were tendered to shore, and that also went very quickly.
The staff, mostly from the Philippines and Indonesia, were very gracious and sweet.
My husband and I have had our minds changed about cruising and would take the same cruise all over again in a heartbeat. What a difference from the past!
It never ceases to amaze me how passenger reactions vary. Another review (same month) of Ryndam was for all practical purposes negative, and to that I strenuously object.
We are experienced cruisers, and this 14 day (RT Vancouver BC/Seward) voyage was delightful in virtually all respects.
Especially noteworthy is the major improvement made in Rotterdam Dining Room fare, associated with the Signature program and other ship upgrades. The meals are simply outstanding, rivaling those on so-called luxury lines. The menus are highly creative, and execution is nearly flawless. Service is outstanding, top to bottom. How anyone could complain about Ryndam dining room fare is beyond my comprehension.
We had second/second shift dinner seating, which we highly recommend since it's extremely leisurely and staff is under no pressure to clear for the next shift.
While we mostly dined in the Dining Room, we sampled the Lido buffet enough to be able to rate it above average. Interestingly, we were about the only guests to use the (very) small lido deck for meals in nice weather (we had lots of nice weather).
We were pleasantly surprised by the changes incorporated in the Explorations Cafe (library/internet center). We
had anticipated an emphasis on the tech side, but the print library was extensive with excellent range of selections available. The space is very inviting and nicely distributes people.Our accomodation was a roomy basic Outside cabin, and it was freshly decorated and impeccably maintained. Our Stewards were unobtrusive and efficient.
The only negative on the trip concerned the cabin toilet. Ryndam seems to have a continuing problem in some cabins with the vacuum toilets. After several days of problems, the courteous Guest Relations Manager assisted in getting to the bottom of the problem, so to speak. The problem was corrected, we were given a credit, and moved to another cabin for the second half of the trip. We experienced no further difficulty.
While we prefer smaller ships (smaller than Ryndam, which means there aren't many!), Ryndam is a comfortable ship with lots of private places. The Prom Deck is great, kudos to HAL for preserving this maritime tradition.
On a 0 to 10 scale, we'd give Ryndam a 9.5
By the end of the first evening my wife and I were very disappointed at the decline in everything we had experienced since boarding. We had decided we would probably try another shipping line in future. The probably soon became absolute certainty and you will soon understand why. Virtually everything which once gave Holland America an edge over other cruise lines, has deteriorated to the extent that nothing is really special anymore. Ice sculptures are limited to one in the Dining Room on formal evenings. It used to be one or two every night and at least two in the Lido cafeteria. The beautiful large floral displays at the elevators are no more. No Ice Sculpting or melon carving demonstrations, no Salmon Barbecue, juice etc. only at breakfast. The Chocolate Extravaganza was replaced by a Dessert Extravaganza, a very poor substitute and the list goes on. The standard of cleanliness has deteriorated to a disgusting extent and we always had to look around to find a reasonably clean chair to sit on in the Lido Cafeteria. Almost all of the seats had filthy stains all over them.
Despite the above and what follows,
the Captain always ended his announcements by referring to "the beautiful and elegant ship." What a crock that was. The first evening our toilet broke down and this was the forerunner for 12 days of continuing problems which usually took from a very poor best of 2 hours to over six hours for someone to arrive just to check that there really was a problem.On two occasions we had filthy brown feces laden water swilling around our bathroom floor. A third occurrence was avoided when I realised that the overflow problem was due to instructions received from a steward sent to check that the toilet really was not working. There was almost no vacuum so he demonstrated a "fix" by rapidly pumping the knob four or five times which, at that time and a couple of others, did work. However when it did not work the water kept filling the pan and eventually overflowed. Fortunately the third time, I held the seat partially up and discovered how this procedure was causing the overflow and stopped just in time.
It soon became obvious that the "plumbers" were totally incompetent when repairs lasted only a few hours. This carried on and our frustration kept mounting. After a few days we requested another stateroom but were told that nothing was available. I queried the competence of the "plumbers" and asked for an engineer. I might as well have talked to the wall.
We both have health problems and the stress was becoming too much for us so we asked to leave the ship at Sitka with Holland America to arrange and pay for our trip home. This was met with an immediate sharply spoken outright refusal.
In desperation I decided to make two signs. One to hang on my chest and the other on my back then parade around the ship.
I told the Guest Relations Manager of my intentions and that I would go ashore at Sitka to purchase the material, which I did. I also advised her that the signs would read :-
,HAS YOUR TOILET, LIKE MINE, BROKEN DOWN AT LEAST ONCE EVERY DAY? CONTACT CABIN C328 Suddenly all the things which had been impossible were now possible. Another stateroom was available, two bona fide engineers plus "plumbers" miraculously appeared to fix the toilet. While working on the signs I was disturbed numerous times with engineers and/or "plumbers" who were in and out of the stateroom. The offer of another stateroom was turned down since I foolishly assumed that with engineers on the job our problems would soon be over so why go to the trouble of packing up and moving. That turned out to be a huge mistake, incompetence reigned supreme. The efforts of four or five of the best available workers, like other efforts, lasted only a few hours.
Within two hours of mentioning the stained chair seats, newly reupholstered seats were being installed in the Lido cafeteria chairs.
An insulting offer of $250 each on board credit was made and rejected. Another offer was made to return our fare if we left the ship at Sitka and found and paid our own way home. Since we had no wish to be abandoned in a foreign country with no idea of the cost of transportation and accommodation this offer was also turned down.
These miracles occurred before the signs were even finished.
.After leaving Sitka I walked around with the signs for about half an hour before being accosted by the Hotel Manager and another officer.
The upshot of this was that we were offered the return of the full fare on condition that we left the ship at Juneau and paid our own way home. This was countered with us asking for a full refund of fare plus out of pocket expenses for travel to and from the ship. This would only be accepted by Holland America Line if we left the ship at Juneau and paid our own way home. If I did not accept that offer I would have to sign a letter stating that I would stop my disruptive actions blah, blah, blah and if I did not sign that we would be thrown off the ship in Juneau.
I had not caused any trouble. Not one person was inconvenienced in any way. Nobody even had to step aside since I got out of everyone's way and some people enjoyed taking photographs, so I refused to sign anything. I was then told that I must leave the ship. I had no intention of leaving the ship but when my wife heard about this she was terrified and started packing.
At this stage, having previously refused to speak with the Captain, the Hotel Manager and "Corporate" in Seattle in a conference call, I was asked to meet with the Captain and the Guest Relations Manager and refused. After some consideration I thought it may be advisable to accede to the request so I told the Guest Relations Manager that I would meet with her and the Captain.
As I expected the meeting was a complete waste of time and, when I got fed up being interrupted by the Captain, I said there was no point in continuing, the meeting was over. The threats were repeated and I told him that, although my wife was terrified and would leave voluntarily, I would have to be forcibly removed from the ship. There was an inference that I was a complete fool and I should think of our state of health and what would happen if I should have a heart attack.
Since there was no effort to negotiate anything it became obvious that the meeting was merely a useless effort to bully, terrorize and intimidate me.
I was really worried that my wife would have an episode of irregular heartbeats and, to calm her down I promised that I would not use the signs again. My intention was really to use the signs again on the last leg to Vancouver when the threats would be pointless.
While speaking to a woman in the Lido cafeteria she told me there were numerous toilet problems on the Verandah Deck. She also told me about the cruise review websites where I could reach the world instead of just 1200 passengers with the signs so I was able to keep the promise to my wife.
There were also problems on the Lido Deck. The men's toilet at the pool on the Lido deck was out of order every time I tried to use it and the shower to rinse off before entering the pools was also out of order. See pictures. Why were the pools open when there was a notice posted that one of the rules for using the pools was to shower before entering? The women's toilet was usually out of order when my wife tried to use it. With both male and female toilets inoperative this made me wonder how many people would urinate in the pools rather than go searching for a toilet which worked and what the increase in the e coli bacteria count would be with no showering before entering the pools. Rather than take a huge gamble on the competence of the staff to keep the pools safe I decided to forego the pleasures of the pool and hot tubs.
The toilet problems were widespread. At various times my wife had problems with those outside the Vermeer Lounge and outside the Piano Bar.
The escalators between decks 5 and 6 were never working properly. Occasionally I could use the down escalator but never once was I able to use the up side which is of course the most needed..
I think that all these problems are due to lack of scheduled maintenance. This is a dangerous policy which can cause a domino effect resulting in dangerous breakdowns and/or in a flood of breakdowns which can swamp even competent staff. I think this is the reason for six hour waits.
The signs are obvious. A proper maintenance schedule requires attention to detail. This is obviously sadly lacking. A good example is the elevator indicator lights. Many of the external up/down indicator arrow lights were dead. Similarly many of the call button indicator lights were dead and you had to look around at the other doors to see if your call had registered and of course the filthy seats in the Lido cafeteria. See pictures
Worst of all was disastrous advice given by unqualified staff which twice resulted in the filth on our bathroom floor.
With so many visible problems we worried about what we could not see.
There is a serious lack in both quantity and quality of maintenance staff.
The quantity is obviously lacking when it can take over six hours to have someone just look at a problem. The incompetence is obvious when, until the twelfth day, no repair lasted more than a few hours. Also a review by J Higgins mentions a "punch list" of 300 items to be fixed throughout the ship on his voyage. I would love to know what the "punch list" was on our trip. The evidence that our toilet had recently been giving trouble was still there when we boarded and that cabin should not have been in use until the toilet was properly repaired. When you read through other reviews it appears that our problems were much less than others. Just looking back to October 2004 there are numerous reviews with complaints regarding sewage problems. These range from "like living for a week in a sewer in a major city" to "for periods up to five hours, no toilets at all, in cabins or public areas, were working. I cannot understand why HAL allows this ship to sail at all with the health hazard it presents. Is it any wonder that there have been two outbreaks of Norwalk virus on this vessel.
In a letter I received from HAL corporate in Seattle they had the gall to claim, and I quote, "Holland America is a leader in the implementation of state-of-the-art sanitation programs. We have stringent procedures and standards in place to ensure the health and safety of our passengers and crew." What a crock of "sanitation material" that is and an outright insult to any one with an IQ over 1.
It's a pity that they don't have any competent staff to carry out the implementation of their state-of-the-art programs."
I will welcome any email to firstname.lastname@example.com regarding problems with the Ryndam, particularly those concerning sewage problems.
I went on the Ryndam on May 5, 2005, from San Diego to Vancouver. This was my 23rd cruise and 4th with Holland America.
The Ryndam is a very nice ship and is in great shape for its age. The carpets are new everywhere including the cabins. I really like the Ryndam size. It's small, but doesn't feel that small. You have lots of places to stand and look out from the front to the back. It's perfect for Alaska for viewing the Scenery. I loved how you could go on the bow of the ship. It's really fun to go out on the bow when the ship is at sea. I always find Holland America crew to be the nicest. The crew always has a smile and always seems eager to help you.
Cabins We were up graded from an inside cabin to outside cabin. The cabins are very big compared to Princess cabins. You have a bath tub in your bathroom though, I would find it hard for older passengers to get in and out of it. The cabins were kept up very nice. One of the improvements that
Holland America put in the cabins were new beds. They are very confutable. I think it was the sleep therapy beds. Also, you now have new plasma TV's and DVD's in your cabin. You can check out movies from the library for a $3 charge. Or bring your own that's what I did. It was very nice having a dvd in the cabin.There was a safe in each room but I was not happy how it operated. Usually on a cruise I like to lock my wallet, credit cards, and all valuables in the safe. But to open and close this safe, you had to use a credit card. There was no charge to use the safe, but it read the code on your credit card to work. So it meant you had to carry a credit card around or leave it in your cabin. Food Food in the Lido restaurant: breakfast was regular cafeteria style. They had an Eggs to order service, omelet station, precooked waffles, french toast, and pancakes. The food basically was the same every day. Lunch in my opinion was just fair. They had a nice salad bar and you could get fresh stir fry or pasta. But the buffet line items were tasteless and they did not have much of anything. Not much variety. You did have a choice of turkey or ham sandwich that never changed. Holland America has really gone down hill for food. You use to be to have a ton of choices to make your own sandwich. You can get ice cream but they don't have the good waffle cones anymore and the scoops you get are small. The deserts use to be very big and the last time I was on the Ryndam they had different cakes that you could get. Its not like that anymore. The food was ok, they need more sections.
One thing that I always ate at was the taco bar. You could make your own taco with what ever you wanted on it. You could get a hamburgers and hot dogs but was not that good. The hamburgers were already made and they just heated it up for a min. The taco bar is a must.
In the dinning room I thought the service was great. The food is still pretty good, but they have made the portions a lot smaller since I was on it two years ago. Again, they need more things on the menu.
You could eat dinner in the buffet, but it was only open to 7:30 pm and they had the same things what you would get in the main dinning room. They really need to kept this open to at least to 10pm and again need more items.
Room Service was ok. It use to be a lot better. Though, it was still pretty good for a late night snack.
At 11pm was the late night buffet. Again, they need more to choose from.
The food was ok, its was a lot better two years ago. I think Princess food is better and has a lot more sections.
Before Holland America changed, you were able to get free Espresso, Caffe Latte and Cappuccino with big cookies. Now at the Java Cafe you have to pay for it. It doesn't cost much but its the principle behind it.
The passengers age is older. Mostly from 40-80. I did see a dozen passengers my age. I rather be on a ship with older people rather than young passengers like on Carnival and Royal Caribbean that just want to party and get drunk.
I really liked how you could play basketball and tennis, shuffle board and a few other things. The only bad thing was they always took in the basket balls and tennis balls after 6pm. So if you did not got to the entertainment show, you did not have much to do after 6pm. Everything closes so early including food. The activities were very limited compared to other ships we have been on. The ship was completely dead at night.
With this new change for Holland America, the only big improvement that I see is the TVs and dvds. The food I thought got worse along with the portions. You now have to pay for your Espresso, Caffe Latte. And you don't have people bringing you free drinks on the life boat deck that you use to see. Their is a lot of things that use to be free now you have to pay for. Holland America sure has change since last I sailed with them two years ago. We did have good service beside our cabin attendant not making are room until after 1pm, but now you have to tip $10 a day. Holland America is charging more for their cruises because for the new so called look, The good thing is the beds and TVs, the rest you now have to pay for. I enjoyed myself on this cruise, though I don't think I will take Holland America on a 7 day cruise. I rather go on Princess or celebrity. I really don't think Holland America is a premium line anymore. I really see a big change since the last time I was on Holland America like nicking and dimming. If only I could take Holland America ships with Princess food and Royal Caribbean entertainment. I was not impressed with the signature upgrades. I don't think its wroth paying so much more.
Mexican Riviera / Sea of Cortez-Copper Canyon
Embarkation from San Diego, fast and easy.Size of the ship a positive,but as with most cruise ships rest rooms at a minimum.The first thing we did was contact the head waiter - we had been assigned second sitting with early sitting a standby.The ship was completely booked and no chance of an early sitting. The floor show for second sitting was after the dinner at 10:15PM. As we are not late goers, we skipped eating ccompletely in the Dining Room and ate all meals on the Lido.We could see no reason to pay an additional $20.00 per night per person to eat in the Pinnacle Room.
Food in the Lido restaurant:breakfast, regular cafeteria style. They had an Eggs to order service, omelet station, precooked waffles,french toast,and pancakes. The food basically was the same every day.Lunch - same set-up as breakfast. Not much variety. Dinner - a selection of 4 to 5 different entrees each evening, which they served to you at your table.The appetizers, salads, deserts etc were the same every evening.Food was acceptable but not on a par with other cruises we have taken.
Our outside
room was roomy and clean, and excellent service by our attendent.Although basically a very senior citizen cruise the canned music played would appeal to a much younger group. They had during their refit pushed the gymnasium out forward and from the observatory instead of seeing the bow of the ship you looked at an ugly green roof.Although the Veermer Theatre was small and unconfortable the entertainment was some of the best we seen on cruises.Ports of Call:Puerto Vallarta - always fun. Mazatlan, our first visit to the city and found it interesting and a step above most of the Mexican cities.Copper Canyon excursion - very BIG mistake.We were told to be ready to go ashore at 4:00 AM.We arose at 2:30
AM, bkfst at 3AM, didn't depart until about 5AM.Two hour bus ride to the train - very comfortable bus and police escort.Six hour train trip on very old train but that was to be expected. Scenery spectacular along the way.Arrived at destination, 45 minutes for lunch, very poor and confusing,a 15 minute ride by school bus to another hotel with an overlook for a very small portion of the Canyon, a steep walk to another view, a total of 45 minutes to see the Canyon, and then the reverse of our trip. It is advertised as greater than our Grand Canyon but from what we could see, there is NO com parison.The train was about an hour late in their return and we got back to the ship about 1AM. A waste of #349.00 each. They served box lunches - no comment.
Loreto - charming little city, one main street, about 3 blocks long, but nothing much to do.La Paz - beauthful city.Cabo - the best of the bunch.Sea very rough on return from Cabo to San Diego. Easy disembarkation once it was your turn.Would rate the trip just fair.
My husband and I have just returned from a lovely 14 day Back-to-back cruise from Vancouver to Seward and back on the HAL Ryndam. The weather was actually hot enough to sunburn in Sitka, Haines and Skagway. Boy were the fish were biting! We have a 60 lb. Halibut, a King Salmon, some Silver and Pink Salmon being Fed Ex'd to us! Our freezer will be filled to the brim! The Ryndam is a lovely Ship! HAL has yet to disappoint us with the decor or cleanliness of any "Dam" ship we have sailed. The Ryndam was in good condition, but is in need of the 3 week dry dock to remedy the small stuff a ship needs repaired or replaced every 5 or so years. The Ryndam will be dry docked at the end of Sept. 04 for 3 weeks, at which time I would hope they repair minor things like the crack in the sink and the light fixture missing a light direction cover. The towels on the Navigation deck the second week were replaced with upgraded all white cotton towels, a nice large size, which fit around
my ample size nicely:) The mattresses were still the older ones, I'd think that would be rectified after dry dock hopefully.The crew again was the icing on the cake. I was so relieved to find that the crew is as friendly and accommodating as ever, maybe even more so than we've experienced before! We were pleased to see that the crew seems to have adjusted well to the changes now, and I didn't hear any real complaints about it and we did talk to staff members quite a bit, they are so friendly in general. One thing that came up is that the staff is "stuck" for the 3 weeks when the Ryndam goes into drydock. The good news is they are in drydock in Victoria, B.C. which is fairly affordable and is as beautiful and hospitable a place one could hope to find. The bad news is it's unpaid which is difficult and presents a hardship for many staff.
Our experience at the Pinnacle was generally good during our 3 visits. We had one "pretty good" meal in the Pinnacle, one "really good" meal, and then one "spectacular" meal! We had dinner there the night they allowed the Chef to do a vintners menu and deviate from the regular menu, it was absolutely fabulous food! The Chef of the Pinnacle is obviously very talented and really shined when allowed to offer an alternative menu.
The food was pretty good in the main dining room. We had mixed feelings about the new dinner times. We loved our first week at a table for 2 at 5:45, our waiters Jaye and Lucky were fantastic. The second week there was no availability in the early sittings so we requested 8:00, and had a table of 8. While we enjoyed the company, it was often 10:15 before we left the dining room and we had Much slower service at the bigger table. Neither the waiter or his assistant asked my name, nor did they introduce themselves, but they did keep my ice tea full and were very accommodating. The dining times on the Ryndam were 5:45, 6:15, 8:00 and 8:30 for the Alaska itinerary.
Our room stewards both weeks were just wonderful, Suaji and Agus. Both were wonderfully efficient and very friendly, we were very lucky to have gotten 2 stewards of that fine calibur:)
Room service has been changed a bit for the good! A new breakfast menu has been developed that has delivery options for 15 minute increments, and ours was delivered promptly by a very lovely member of the wait staff whose name I regretfully did not get as I am usually not at my finest before coffee. Each morning our breakfast was delivered really piping hot, as each plate had a bottom metal platter to keep the plate warm!
Overall we had a phenomenal trip to Alaska and highly recommend the trip, especially back to back. In Seward, HAL this year provided a free shuttle into Seward and free tickets to the Sealife Center that day. It was a wonderful and unexpected touch, making for a great day in Seward!
I totally recommend the Ryndam to others, the Capt. Jan Smit and the Hotel Manager Theo Haanen are to be congratulated for having a tip top staff!
This is our third seven-day cruise to Alaska, in the past ten years, always out of Vancouver and always on Holland America, but a different ship each time (other ships were the ms Noordam and the ms Statendam).
THE BUS RIDE TO THE SHIP AND CHECK-IN - We flew into Vancouver several days early to spend a couple of days, on Vancouver Island, to visiting Victoria and especially Butchart Gardens, before the cruise. On the day of the cruise, we return to the mainland by ferry, drove to the Vancouver International Airport, returned the rental car, and with the help of the airport information personnel located the area where we met the friendly HAL representative. The bus ride to the ship was uncomfortable (hot and stuffy), as the air conditioner was not working; plus the driver failed to get any description of the numerous city sites that we passed. On the other two HAL Vancouver bus rides, the drivers were most informative. Once at the HAL check-in location, long lines of passengers greeted us; then I spotted a very short line for suite passengers. However, this line was bogged down as the
single HAL representative was trying to help a non-suite passenger who had birth certificate problems. The other lines moved much quickly and it was a mistake to select this line.OUR CABIN - Once aboard we went directly to our outside stateroom - a deluxe verandah suite (category S) as we were offered by HAL to upgraded from verandah suite (A) if we would pay only half of the price difference. It was a good choice. The most oblivious difference was the stateroom size was doubled including the verandah. We had learned the advantage of having a verandah several years ago; HAL had upgraded and introduced us to a verandah suite (A or B) from a regular large stateroom (category C or D). Since we are early risers, we love to watch the ship pull into a harbor and watch all of the docking activities. Several of new advantages of having the suite was we were offered the free services of the Neptune Lounge which is located on the same deck as our stateroom (the Navigation Deck) and the Lounge is not a bar but instead provides a close location for early morning breakfast including hot coffee and tea and fruit juices, various snacks all day including High Tea, the services of the Front Desk and Shore Tour offices, etc. In addition, there was a special dining room for breakfast and lunch called the Queen's Room on the Upper Promenade Deck and a special cocktail meeting with the ship's captain, etc. Many years ago, we had learned to avoid staterooms on and below the Promenade Decks as the joggers could be heard overhead and the other passengers standing at the rail unintentionally blocked the views out our stateroom window.
DINING - Overall the food was good and tasteful and the menu was varied. For breakfast, we ate several times in our room using the verandah, or in the Queen's Room if it was a day at sea. If we had an early morning shore tour, then we ate in the Lido restaurant. We never made it to the Rotterdam Room (the main dining room) for breakfast or lunch. The dinner service in the Rotterdam was good but the service in the Pinnacle Room was outstanding. This latter room is a new smaller dining room but the food and service again was outstanding; there is an extra small service charge.
TIPPING - HAL has always stated a no tipping policy but we always felt that we should tip dependent upon the service. As usual the service was good and we tipped the stateroom attendant, the Neptune Lounge hostess, the dining room waiters, and the cocktail servers. In fact, I had to argue with the stateroom attendance to take the tip. HAL has recently changed their no tipping policy to add a ten-dollar charge per person per day to the stateroom statement and the ship then distributes this charge to all of their ship employees.
SHORE TOURS - The shore tours were all interesting and good and different as this is our third cruise to the same Alaskan cities. This time we booked all of our shore tours months ahead of the sailing over the Internet and avoided the last minute rush to the shipboard Shore Tour office and its long lines, etc. The first day that we were aboard, we received all of our tour tickets. The ports that we visited were Ketchikan, Sitka, Juneau, and Haines (Skagway) with a sailing into Hubbart Glacier Bay to see the iceberg calving. In addition, we saw eagles, whales, sea otters, sea lions, etc., on this cruise. In addition, we had wonderful weather - no rain and comfortable daytime temperatures (50-to-60 degrees) and the time of the year was mid-May.
SECURITY - HAL issues you a ship identification card which you must use whenever leaving the ship and upon returning to the ship, you must present this card along with your driver's license, passport, or some other form of government-issued ID. This latter procedure slows down getting back aboard the ship at each port. At several ports, we saw US Coast Guard ships sailing around our ship whenever we were entering of leaving a port.
BUS RIDE TO THE AIRPORT AND THE AIRLINES - Our final port was Seward and the HAL-proved bus took us to the Anchorage airport. This driver was very informative. The airline was Alaska Airlines originally from Los Angeles to Vancouver (non-stop) and the return was two flights from Anchorage to Seattle and Seattle to Los Angeles.
This was our third trip to Mexico with Holland America Line in the last five years... and it was the best.
It featured ports in Baja California unique to HAL: Santa Rosalia and Loreto. Both small towns on the Gulf of California with a rich history.
This was our first trip on the Ryndam and it is a fine ship. Although just recovering from a trip with many passengers and crew being ill, the ship had been throulgy sanitized and there wss no outbreak this trip.
The crew was very friendly.. one server in the Lido Cafe greeted us each breakfast by singing, "Oh What a Beautfiul Morning" Sometimes the passengers joined in!
HAL is noted as being a senior citizens line...(I'm one of them) but on this trip there were more children than on the other HAL trips I had taken.
One thing I could do without. The constant photographs being taken by the ship's photographer d the promotion of sale items aboard from jewelry to watches. You got a flier under your door practically every morning with "Big Discounts Today Only." Yeah!
The ship has a link to a satellite and you can
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One option would be to use a different board (I got a teensy 3.0 which probably is up to the job), but it means I need to look for an alternate source for the display. It may be possible to use just the display from the board I have, but that would likely make this a one-off, since the costs would start to get prohibitive. If anyone runs across a backlit LCD module with driver (color or b/w) with ~1.4"x2.5" display area, and a maximum module width of 2.8", let me know (there are lots of them on ebay, but every one I've looked at has a circuit board that is too wide to fit in the devo7 case. It is possible some have a ribbon cable and can be detached from the circuit board, but you can't really tell from the pics. The ideal would probbaly be to source the module used in the devo10, but I have no idea where to find one. |
Nov 19, 2012, 02:45 PM | |
Lcd quest is tiresome, I was lucky enough to find one for my WK-1001 to er9x that use this board and have the same lcd driver but without ribbon cable as the one in the Flysky th9x. http://www.befr.ebay.be/itm/New-ATME...item20c41de46d
I think the lcd in walkera products are custom made, I couldn't find any information on the ones that come in the WK-2801 and 2602-03( maybe not searching at the right place) and finally after much time just gave it up. Could you give more information to what type of lcd you're searching (parallel, serial...) ? I found one 128x64 with back light almost same viewing area as you and width of 70mm (+/-2.8"), but I think the length of 93mm would be to much for the devo 7 These two are ST7920 based, but the length of the display area on the second one is a little more than what you are searching. http://www.befr.ebay.be/itm/12864-12...item335c76857e http://www.befr.ebay.be/itm/1PCS-128...item564efa4adc |
Nov 19, 2012, 04:36 PM | |
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Here you have one of them. It fits just exact on height 4.8 cm, and is a little small on width so it fits fine on the hole of the walkera Devo 7 transmitter. You need to cut the transparent plastic to use the touch capabilities. There are other screens of 2.8'' but all of them have 5.0 cm of height and don't fit in the hole of the transmitter. This is the only one with 4,8 cm and a big colour touch screen. It has a connector that can be soldered, and without PCB to have more space and be capable to be at place without to retire the lateral buttons of the transmitter.
I have not readed the datasheet but it seems to work with a parallel interface of 16 bits, I think should be better with 8 bits to use less GPIOs on the microcontroller, and it works with 2.8 Volts. http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-5-TFT-Colo...item2eb2aafe78 Here you have some of 2.8''. They fit fine on the width but they measure 5,0 cm on height and don't fit on the hole, you need to cut the transmitter case to fit them. http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-8-TFT-LCD-...item27ca756c29 http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-8-TFT-Colo...item2eb8410efe http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-8-Touch-TF...item256e57e8b4 |
Nov 20, 2012, 01:42 AM | |
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I got my Hubsan x4 today. I immediately opened up the Tx, and grabbed some captures.
The protocol looks pretty straight-forward: 1) The Tx waits for a signal from the model before binding 2) The datapackets are 16 bytes 3) data appears to be 8-bit, unencrypted 4) the last byte is a checksum of the packet 5) the tx transmits 4 packets on the 1st channel, then 1 packet on the 2nd, the repeats 6) packets are sent every 10msec 7) data is only transferred from the Rx to the Tx during binding (handshake) I'll start a new thread with more details as I spend some time actually analyzing the protocol. |
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Obviously all depends on what you want to do. Here you have another more items but with connectors.
2.8''. I think it doesn't fit on the hole and place of the Devo 7 transmitter. The PCB probably is too much larger and will have problem with the space for the buttons. And the height of the screen is a little bigger than the hole in the transmitter. http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-8-inch-320...item2a24ef5472 2.4''. I think that this fits without problem. The hole is bigger than the screen. http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-4-inch-TFT...item4608fa2f68 2.2''. It also fits. http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-2inch-320x...item3a75199a37 I can't imagine how to change the screen without soldering. ¿? If you change the main board by replacing with a generic main board, you will need to connect to it the potentiometers, switches and the new screen, etc. When I talk about the hole you need see that the transmitter has a plastic frame with five screws, that you can remove by forcing a little to extract it and you get a bigger hole than the original for the original screen, and allows you to place there a touch screen. I hope it will be usefull for you. |
Nov 20, 2012, 10:34 PM | ||
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One note though: It doesn't look like you'll be able to use the V911 module for this. the V911 module does not connect the LNA to the antenna, so it is likely that you cannot receive signals, and the Hubsan requires bi-directional communication for binding. So that leaves the XL7105-SY module (~1.3mW, no PA/LNA) or the Aliexpress/ebay module (16dBm PA/LNA=???). I have all 3 modules so I'll test them all. I'm not sure how the ebay module is wired, and whether I need to configure the GPIO to control the LNA or not. That said, it may be possible to live without the bidi communication. It doesn't appear that the Tx uses any of the info sent back by the Rx, so we may be able to get by without it, though it would likely mean that binding won't be as reliable. |
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Peter Jackson's spectacular finale to the Lord of the Rings film trilogy seals up J.R.R. Tolkien's mythic stories with banner performances by a cast that has become like family to fans who have faithfully followed the series. Jackson's decision to leave Saruman (Christopher Lee) on the cutting room floor, to be seen only on the DVD, haunts the movie as to the whereabouts of Lee's agile villain, but the film's opening flashback sequence reveals Smeagol's (Andy Serkis) former hobbit aspect before he became Gollum. The Lord of the Rings movies are the anti-Harry Potter of fantasy films that separate the men from the boys and, in so doing, unite hobbits, dwarves, men and women alike. All hail to the King.
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 vs X10
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The X10 stands at 119 x 63 x 13 mm, and the X8 at 99 x 54 x 15mm, making the X10 slightly bulkier. And heavier at 135g compared to the X8s 104g. The X10 has a Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon 1 GHz processor, and the X8 has a 600 MHz processor. The internal memory of the X10 stands at 1GB with a microSD slot expandable to 16GB, meanwhile, the X8 to up 16GB.
The X10 has a 12.1 megapixel camera to the X8s 3.2 megapixel, both devices share similar support for data connectivity- EDGE, GRPS, HSDPA and Wi-Fi.
The X8 and the X10 are both decent smartphones catered to different markets, however we wouldnt recommend one over the other. The X10 is a top of the line smartphone, with better hardware, and a more expensive device compared to the X8. The X8 is a toned down version with similar software, decent hardware and a lower pricing.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 (projected RM 1,040)
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The Xperia X8 was recently launched in Singapore, and was known as the Shakira. The device is loaded with Android 1.6 (Donut), 3.0 inch with 320 x 480 pixels, TFT capacitive touchscreen with a 16M colours. The X8 stands at 99 x 54 x 15mm and is a slim candybar, with HSDPA connectivity, Wi-Fi, and GPS.
The 3.2 megapixel shoots 2048x1536 pixels. The phone supports multimedia function, YouTube or browsing the web. The X8 also has EDGE, GRPS, HSDPA and Wi-Fi.
The X8 is slated for Q3 availability, and will be available Euro 259 (projected RM 1,040).
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The Xperia X10 is set to be Sony Ericsson first Android device- it is loaded with Android 1.6. The X10 has a monster 4-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen with 65K colours. The flagship weighs in about 135g, and theres Wi-Fi and HSDPA for Internet connectivity.
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On the Food Network television show The Great Food Truck Race, seven mobile kitchens competed for a $50,000 grand prize in a six-city elimination race. In Los Angeles, people forgo fancy restaurants for $5 plates of Korean-Latino fast-fusion food. Even Oprah Winfrey is talking about the fast and fancy rise of the modern food truck.
Mobile food vendors have seen a reinvention and a renaissance the last few years. Mobile restaurateurs are now the height of culinary chic. They're cropping up in every city, oftentimes guerrilla-style at first, but eventually winning over the local foodies, authorities, and critics – though not necessarily in that order.
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Food trucks serve anything that's good. Owners let their imaginations and personal tastes guide, as much as their budgets will allow. There are traditional trucks, like New York's "Sainted Arepa Lady," local/seasonal/artisanal trucks, like Seattle's Skillet, and one-item specialty trucks, like Koo's Sweet Rice Pancake cart from Los Angeles. The most fascinating trend of all is probably the fusion food truck.
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Blackton Rovers is in need of money. Owner, Austin Whitworth, sells his star centre forward – local football hero Jack Metherell – to a rival club on the eve of a crucial match that could see Rovers relegated to the 2nd Division. Will honest Jack do Austin's bidding when asked to throw the match? Or will he put his professional honour above loyalty to his old club?
From the halcyon days of professional football where players were working class heroes and people were supposed to 'know their place' comes Harold Brighouse's spirited comedy that combines broad northern humour with the passion, pride, prejudice and principles of two football families.
Northern Broadsides make a welcome return to Liverpool for the third time this year following Medea and The Canterbury Tales.
A Northern Broadsides production directed by Barrie Rutter.
A fascinating pre show discussion about football then and now Wed 22 Sep at 6.15pm Come and share your stories and learn about what football was like in 'the good old days' with The Game director Barrie Rutter, cast member Roy North and football historian Dr Rogan Taylor from the University of Liverpool. Bring your photos and mementos (available to ticket holders only.)
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Cornfox & Bros. and publisher FDG Entertainment's Oceanhorn has been an anomaly in the rise of free-to-play games on the App Store: it's one of the few attempts at making a grand-scale game on iOS and priced at an $8.99 cost that few others have dared to try. The game's launch saw it rocket to #1 in the paid app charts and in the top 10 of the top grossing apps, bolstered not just by its App Store Editor's Choice but by a pre-release hype cycle that's rarely seen for mobile games.
Oceanhorn's price risk has paid off: the game recouped its production cost in less than a week, seemingly showing that the kind of games with high production values and premium price points can succeed on the App Store. Thomas Kern, Executive Producer of Oceanhorn at FDG Entertainment, spoke to me about the game's success at its price point.
148Apps: Why launch at $8.99, and that price point specifically? $6.99 has been a more typical "high" price for games on the App Store, and $9.99 is a more "round" number – so why $8.99? Was launching at a premium price point the plan all throughout development?
Thomas Kern (TK): We're not setting prices on trends or from a psychological "round number" point of view. The launch price is related to the production cost and quality of the game. We got lots of emails and feedback about the price and it was all positive. People felt it was the right price and the game has done tremendously well at $8.99. We're very happy about the success of the game.
148Apps: Was there ever any thought to making the game free-to-play, or incorporating a hybrid model like what Infinity Blade uses?
TK:The plan for this game was always to go the traditional premium route, something players are used to from game consoles or handhelds. Oceanhorn is a loving tribute to games we enjoyed in our childhood and we see it as a fan-service to offer the full experience without additional costs.
148Apps: The game was bolstered by Apple's featuring of Oceanhorn as an Editor's Choice – do you feel like the game would have done as well without this?
TK: When we launched the game it immediately shot up the charts, before Apple even featured it. It was great to see that Apple agreed with many happy users that this game is a milestone in iOS gaming so they featured it very prominently and supported the game's launch the best way they could. It seems Apple really appreciates efforts like this, after all, Oceanhorn's development time was over 2 years!
148Apps: What about the long-term prospects of the game? Can the game continue to succeed at $8.99?
TK: It does! We see very healthy sales and we've recouped the investment in less than a week. For us and the development team, the game is already a great success.
There is no sale to be expected, Oceanhorn will stay at $8.99 but we'll add more content to it in 2014 so the value will become even better.
148Apps: Do you think that other games can succeed at high price points? Do you believe that Oceanhorn changed anything with the market?
TK: We've been contacted by many people in the industry and they've been surprised about the success despite the high price point. Especially because the production cost was recouped really quickly. Oceanhorn definitely proves that premium games are not dead and it's a viable business. We can't beat some insanely successful Free2Play game revenues, but that was not our plan. Healthy revenues don't require a position in Top 10 Grossing.
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Well, only for the Jerez test in December but nevertheless it is a sign that FIA is seriously considering bringing them back.
Slick tyres were expected to return for 2008 season but the plans were ditched without much explanation. This test will be aimed at collecting the data before the possible 2009 return of slick tyres.
Statement from Bridgestone:
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- Posted by Johanna on July 29, 2007 at 4:40 pm
- Category: Comic News
Several of the big announcements coming out of San Diego this year were about licensed comic book versions of properties from other media.
DC, for example, is launching a World of Warcraft series (based on "the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)") written by legend Walt Simonson and published through their WildStorm imprint.
According to ICv2, the game has more than 9 million subscribers worldwide. That's a lot of potential comic readers. But that brings to mind the key question that must be asked in response to these kinds of announcements:
What plans does the publisher have to promote this comic series to the existing fanbase of whatever they've licensed and outside the traditional direct market?
I've been asking that question in response to these press releases, although I have yet to get a response, mostly due to timing. When asked about WOW marketing plans, DC very politely said that they were busy at the convention and would have to get back to me next week, which is very fair and more than I expected. (I'll keep an eye on that and let you know what happens.)
DC has also announced a hardcover Heroes graphic novel reprinting the webcomics based on the TV show. In that case, the answer to my question is obvious — DC has a long history of getting their books into bookstores. It will be interesting, though, to see if they're able to promote it in TV Guide or similar locations.
Boom! Studios, meanwhile, is putting out a graphic novel and comics based on the Godfather movies. When I asked them the same question, their new marketing director's answer was "come to our panel at the con". I reminded him that not everyone was attending the San Diego show, and his only answer was "too bad". I asked for an update afterwards, but given that brush-off, I'm not expecting one. Perhaps I'm misinterpreting a quick answer sent off during convention rush.
Last, Dark Horse announced a new Indiana Jones comic series. I'm afraid to even ask them about their plans, since they should have the experience with big-name properties to do this right, but history doesn't bear it out, given their out-of-stock problems in the past.


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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hatteras Networks, the global leader in Mid-Band Ethernet solutions for enterprise access and next-generation mobile backhaul, and Calix, the largest communications equipment supplier focused solely on access solutions for broadband service delivery, today announced their partnership, joint solution, and the certification of Hatteras Networks' products in the Calix Compatible Solution Assurance Program.
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�We are excited about partnering with a well established player like Calix and becoming a certified member of their Calix Compatible Solution Assurance Program. Our partnership is in direct response to our customers' requests,� said Vijay Raman, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Hatteras Networks. �Partnering with other access vendors for compatibility is especially important to our customers' efforts to win Federal stimulus grants.�
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Thesis abstract: | Recent advances in object-oriented modelling allow to tackle the simulation and the computer-aided control system design of industrial plants in a unified framework. Traditionally there is a structural wasting of time and resources and also a potential error generation when planning and designing all the project stages separately. The inefficiency is mainly due to the fact that the environments of the plant feasibility study, the detailed simulation, the control system design, the model-based requirement analysis, the hardware-in-the-loop validation of the control system, and the operator training interface are frequently incompatible each other. This Ph.D. work aims at providing an integrated approach to resolving the problem, based on the Modelica language. There are three main key aspects to analyze. On the modeling side, suitable methodologies must be formulated in order to support flexible levels of detail and create reuse-oriented models. On the tools side, the development of the open-source OpenModelica compiler opens potentially important opportunities, due to its open architecture, suitable to produce a simulation code tailored for different activities. Last, but not least, the developed methodologies and functionalities are demonstrated on some applications. |


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