A cruise offered by Holland America Line is known as Holland America Cruise. Holland America Line is a cruise line headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Originally an operator of passenger and cargo ships, Holland America Line is one of the top raked cruise lines in the world. Holland America Line is sometimes also referred to as Holland America Cruise Line.
Holland America Line was founded in 1873 as the Netherlands-America Steamship Company. Originally the company was operating passenger and cargo ships. The company operated regular trans-Atlantic service between the Netherlands and the United States, and later to the Dutch East Indies as well.
Holland America Line became Holland America Cruise Line in 1971. Abandoning its passenger transportation services, the company switched to running cruise ships full time. Since then, Holland America Line has become widely known cruise line in the world.
Holland America Cruise Line operates a wide variety of cruises to a wide number of destinations of the world. In 1980s, the company obtained government approval to operated Holland America Cruise to Antarctica. Holland America Cruise Line now operates cruises to all seven continents of Globe.
Holland America Cruise liner – ms Prinsendam, nicknamed as the Elegant Explorer, makes an annual “Grand World Voyage” that usually lasts more than 150 days. The Grand World Voyage – Holland America Cruise has grown extremely popular cruise due to exotic and rarely-visited ports featured in the cruise. The Grand World Voyage 2007 will be offered by two Holland America Cruise liners; ms Prinsendam and ms Amsterdam. ms Amsterdam is a five star Holland America cruise ship.
The fleet of Holland America Cruise Line thirteen cruise ships classified as S-Class (ms Statendam, ms Maasdam, ms Ryndam, ms Veendam), R-Class (ms Rotterdam, ms Volendam, ms Zaandam, ms Amsterdam), and Vista-Class (ms Zuiderdam, ms Oosterdam, ms Noordam, ms Westerdam). The Vista-Class Holland America Cruise ships were awarded the 2006 Green Planet Award for outstanding environmental standards.
Famous for Grand World Voyage Holland America Cruise, the Elegant Explorer – ms Prinsendam is one of the most celebrated cruise ship of Holland America Cruise fleet. The Signature-Class Holland America Cruise – ms Eurodam is said to under construction. It is expected to be operating in summer 2008.