News & Announcements

March 21, 2011 -- Holland America Line, working together with the U.S. National Park Service, have produced a series of 16 podcasts designed to provide unique, in-depth insight into Glacier Bay National Park. The podcasts are available for guests aboard HAL ships, and for download.

MIAMI, March 11, 2011 -- Carnival Corporation & plc today announced Q1 2011 earnings and lowered expectations for full year 2011 earnings, in advance of Cruise Shipping Miami next week.

SEATTLE, March 2, 2011 -- Holland America Line has now launched the new Stateroom Direct Access program across the fleet that allows guests immediate to go straight to their stateroom upon embarkat

SEATTLE, Feb. 28, 2011 -- Holland America Line's MS Nieuw Amsterdam, was voted 2011 Ship of the Year by members of the World Ocean & Cruise Liner Society.

Feb. 14, 2011 -- Rudi Sodamin, was honored this month as Best Cruise Line Chef by Porthole Cruise Magazine in its February 2011 issue. The award recognizes Sodamin's dedication, innovative approach and unique contributions to the culinary arts at sea. Sodamin serves as Holland America Line's Culinary Consultant and has been a driving force behind the line's ongoing dining enhancements.

SEATTLE, Feb. 20, 2009 -- With the addition of ten new full-transit cruises through the Panama Canal, Holland America Line is offering an unprecedented 45 Panama Canal sailings in 2009, on nine different ships departing from five separate ports.

SEATTLE, Dec. 18, 2008 -- Holland America Line announced today it will more than double its previously-announced Bermuda cruises in 2010 from 11 to 24 beginning on April 25, 2010.

SEATTLE, Dec. 12, 2008 -- Looking at novel ways to encourage a commitment to cruising during the coming year, Holland America Line today unveiled what it calls a "Vacation Stimulus Plan."

June 29, 2008 - Want to enjoy the sun deck from your own private plush lounger, tented to protect you from the sun and provide privacy? Holland America Line thinks some people do, and has introduced private cabanas on its latest ship, the m.s. Eurodam.

MARGHERA, Italy, June 16, 2008 -- Today Holland America Line officially accepted delivery of its newest ship, ms Eurodam, in the formal handover ceremony near Venice, Italy.

SEATTLE, May 28, 2008 -- Holland America Line is expanding its onboard cultural program in Alaska with Native Travel Guides on Glacier Bay-bound ships.

SEATTLE, May 16, 2008 -- Holland America Line will showcase more than 70 chefs and culinary experts this year. With cooking seminars in the line's state-of-the-art demonstration kitchens, the Culinary Arts Center program is an engaging and popular onboard activity.

SEATTLE, May 12, 2008 -- Holland America Line will debut three new Quebec ports in its summer 2009 season. The exotic ports of Gaspe, Baie-Comeau and Sept-iles will be featured on cruises aboard the new Eurodam and the intimate Maasdam.

SEATTLE, May 7, 2008 -- HAL's new ms Eurodam will offer guests their own private outdoor haven: cabanas on the Observation and Lido decks.

SEATTLE, April 29, 2008 -- HAL and the Port of Seattle have announced Ship to Shelter, an innovative community-giving program that will donate goods from cruise ships to people in need. This will provide valuable goods including weekly donations of individual-sized toiletries, as well as periodic supplies of towels, linens, dishes, cookware, silverware, televisions and mattresses.

SEATTLE, April 29, 2008 -- With the promotion of Wayne Byers to SVP of HR at Carnival Corp, Holland America Line today announced two key promotions within its organization.

SEATTLE, April 28, 2008 -- HAL today announced their 2009 deployment, which overall exhibits and increasing emphasis on more exotic destinations. In addition to twenty maiden ports and the introduction of the new Eurodam (primarily sailing in Europe), Oosterdam will shift from Mexico to South America and Antarctica.

SEATTLE, April 23, 2008 -- Holland America Line continues to expand its European with a 2009 season that includes 166 ports of call, of which 16 are first-time calls, on 70 itineraries during a season that extends from March through November. Destinations range from the Arctic Circle to the shores of Northern Africa.

LOS ANGELES, April 23, 2008 -- Grammy-nominated pop instrumentalist Dave Koz's 2008 tour will include the Kennedy Center's National Symphony Orchestra Pops concert in Washington, DC, as well as the fourth annual "Dave Koz & Friends" theme cruise, this year aboard Holland America Line's Westerdam.

SEATTLE, April 17, 2008 -- Holland America Line is presenting a series of 27 Europe Collectors' Voyages to cater to guests who want an extended European vacation, in a way that helps them make the most of their dollar in the face of current exchange rates.

SEATTLE, April 16, 2008 -- For guests on any of Holland America's four distinct 2009 Grand Voyages, which range from 50 to 117 days, these extended voyages will include special enhancements -- if the guest books by May 31, 2008.

SEATTLE, April 15, 2008 -- This month, Holland America Line marks 135 years of operation, marking more than a century of evolution for the once cargo and passenger line to the modern cruise company it is today.

MIAMI -- April 8, 2008 -- Starting April 20, guests booking cruises on Carnival, Costa, Princess, Holland America Line, Cunard and Seabourn will pay an increased fuel surcharge.

March 31, 2008 -- Carnival Corp. will refund retroactively-applied fuel surcharges for bookings made prior to November 7, 2007 on Carnival, Holland America Line, Princess, Costa, Cunard and Seabourn.