MANHATTAN restaurant onboard NIEUW AMSTERDAM

The NIEUW AMSTERDAM is named after the city of New York, Nieuw Amsterdam being the original name given by Henry Hudson when the first Dutch settlers moved into Manhattan Island.

So decorative motifs can be found aboard the new Holland America cruise ship including the main restaurant apptly named MANHATTAN restaurant. 

Photographs taken onboard the NIEUW AMSTERDAM on her inaugural call in Lisbon, 28 October 2010.

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NIEUW AMSTERDAM art onboard

It is a must on board the newest NIEUW AMSTERDAM: to see the paintings displayed on the forward stairway showing Holland America ships past and present in the best of Stephen Card style.
One of the more interesting is partly reproduced in this post, showing the full ship in black hull in the 1950s. Also of notice is the Rotterdam Lloyd's flagship WILLEM RUYS on the foreground...

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Stephen Card artwork on the NIEUW AMSTERDAM

As usual with all new Hoilland America cruise ships, the artist Stephen J. Card, of Bermuda, has contributed with several magnificent paintings and line drawings to the newest NIEUW AMSTERDAM.

The originals are much better than the pictures reproduced here just for the record: from top to bottom, the passenger steamer ZUIDERKRUIS, the cargo liners DRECHTDIJK (1923-1940), BLOMMERSDYK (1916) and ARKELDYK (1946-1966).

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THE NIEUW AMSTERDAM in Lisbon

The latest addition to the fleet of Holland America, the fourth NIEUW AMSTERDAM paid her first visit to Lisbon on 28 October 2010 at the end of her maiden season in European waters while starting the first transatlantic crossing, from Lisbon to Port Everglades.

I had the great pleasure of  paying a visit to the new Dutch cruise ship and I enjoyed it very much.

A sister ship to the EURODAM and the last of Holland America Vista-class newbuildings, the NIEUW AMSTERDAM of 2010 is the third ship of this illustrious name that I am able to see. I still have very fond memories of the NIEUW AMSTERDAM of 1938 on her final visit to Lisbon in September 1973 on a positional transtlantic cruise from and to Port Everglades in order to be drydocked in Lisbon by Lisnave. Then in 1983 the French-built NIEUW AMSTERDAM was one of the first ships I featured in my magazine REVISTA DE MARINHA with a full article.  

Having paid a similar visit a few weeks ago to the very similar Cunard QUEEN ELIZABETH, whose dull interiores did nothing to impress me, it was very revigorating to have been on the NIEUW AMSTERDAM. Although both ships share the same original hull basis, the interiors are quite different, and the Holland ship is much much better than the last Italian Queen of Cunard.
On the HAL ship a contemporary interior was created with a most pleasant result. There is beauty everywhere onboard the NIEUW AMSTERDAM. So nice to realize that in 2010 it is still possible to be "Good to be on a well run ship".

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