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Holland America Line
ABOVE: The ms Rotterdam arrives in Rotterdam, Netherlands after a cruise to Scandinavia. INSET BELOW: Eurodam heads for Europe in 2010, and Prinsendam shows the flag in Istanbul.
The purple squares on HAL's regularly-updated sailing schedule provide an overview of European cruises in the current and coming seasons. Cruise line's Web site:Cruise review:ms Rotterdam: Scandinavian cruise
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Holland America Line
transported some 850,000 immigrants to the United States in its heyday as a
Dutch transatlantic steamship company. Service between Rotterdam and New York
ended in 1971, and today HAL is an American-owned "premium cruise line" with 14
ships that serve more than 600,000 guests per year. (A fifteenth ship, Nieuw
Amsterdam, will enter service in July, 2010.)
In 2009, Holland America is offering several dozen cruises of
varying lengths on five different ships
in Northern and Southern Europe, with repositioning cruises at the beginning and
end of the season. In 2010, HAL will increase its European capacity and offer a
number of roundtrip cruises from London and Rotterdam to better serve passengers
in the UK and Western Europe.
