Holland America's ms Koningsdam Alaska 2025 Review | Holland America Line
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Staff writer Richard Simms gives his take of the seven-night Alaska cruise on Holland America Line's ms Koningsdam from Vancouver, BC to Southeast Alaska.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
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| 0:14.9 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:17.1 | Staff writer Richard Sims just returned from a trip to Alaska on Holland America Lions, |
| 0:22.4 | Koningsdam, his first trip to Alaska. |
| 0:25.1 | Was it your first to Vancouver as well? |
| 0:27.1 | This was a lot of first. |
| 0:28.1 | Okay. |
| 0:28.4 | My first time to Vancouver, it was my first time on a Holland America ship. |
| 0:32.6 | It was my first time to Alaska. |
| 0:36.0 | It was, yeah, it was all kinds of firsts. Let's get some pre-crued's |
| 0:39.9 | thoughts here. What made you want to take this seven-nighter? Was this like a bucket list for you? |
| 0:44.1 | Yeah, basically, I've been wanting to go to Alaska for a couple of years. I had a trip planned |
| 0:49.0 | three or four years ago with my sister and, let's just say, family dynamics did not work in our favor, so that |
| 0:55.9 | one fell apart. Then I had another one planned, and COVID hit, so that one fell apart. I really had |
| 1:01.9 | gotten to the point where I was sort of resigned to the fact that I wasn't going to get to Alaska |
| 1:06.0 | before all of the glaciers melt when my next-door neighbor, who I had, you know, I usually travel by myself. |
| 1:12.9 | I don't really like traveling with other people much, but she and I had gone on a trip about |
| 1:17.4 | a year ago on the getaway and had a really great time. So she suggested this. And yeah, it just |
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