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Thoughts on the MS Nordam

We have hunted and hoarded frequent flyer miles for three years (here's to double miles on AmEx!), and finally have enough for two First Class tickets to Europe. We decided to try some thing a little different than our normal "Backpacking" style in keeping with the first class flight, and are taking a Baltic cruise on Holland America.  If I must turn 30, I may as well do it in style!

Here's the itinerary...

>July 29   Delta 170 4:05pm Cincinnati, OH (CVG) to New York-Kennedy, NY (JFK) 6:09pm | 8:10pm Delta 106 JFK to Frankfurt, Germany (FRA) 10:15am 30 Jul 2004
>July 30   Train to Luebeck Germany    Baltic Hotel
>July 31 Train to Copenhagen Denmark | Chicken's Private Pension DeLuxe
>>C R U I S E
>Aug 1  Copenhagen, Denmark     5:00 pm 
>Aug 2  Cruising the Baltic Sea        
>Aug 3 Tallinn, Estonia  noon - 6:00 pm  
>Aug 4  St. Petersburg/Moscow  7:00 am     
>Aug 5  St. Petersburg/Moscow     6:00 pm 
>Aug 6  Helsinki, Finland  6:00 am - 6:00 pm  
>Aug 7  Stockholm, Sweden  7:30 am - 6:00 pm | Scenic cruising Stockholm Archipelago         
>Aug 8  Visby, Sweden  7:00 am - 1:00 pm  
>Aug 9  Warnemunde/Berlin, Germany  7:00 am - 10:00 pm  
>Aug 10  Scenic cruising Store Belt        
>Aug 11  Copenhagen, Denmark  7:00 am    
                  Fly to Paris  |   Grand Hotel Leveque 
>Aug 12 Paris
>Aug 14 Air France flight home