Ocean Discovery – Rotterdam (Amsterdam), Nordfjordeid & Alesund

About this cruise

This is the kind of cruise where you actually have time to go back to a port highlight you missed the first time. 28 nights from Dover on May 12, 2028, visiting Rotterdam, Nordfjordeid and Ålesund, with additional stops along the British Isles & Western France. The itinerary clusters several port calls together. Fast-paced for a few days, then the sea days hit and you can catch your breath. The route threads through 4 countries along the British Isles & Western France coast: Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom and Ireland. You get around 9 hours in each port, which is enough for an excursion, lunch, and some wandering around on your own. When you're not ashore, Nieuw Statendam has 12 restaurants on board, which means you could eat somewhere different nearly every night. Longer sailings have a different energy. People relax into it, stop rushing, and start actually talking to each other. A May departure catches that sweet window of warm-enough weather before the summer rush. Hard to ask for much more than that, honestly.