A Look Inside Stateroom 11001 on Holland America’s Koningsdam Cruise Ship

by Janis on July 25, 2016

Our ocean-view stateroom #11001 was one of the highlights of our July 3rd 7-Day Viking Sagas cruise on Holland America’s ms Koningsdam.

We had booked an inside cabin, but took advantage of a last-minute special paid upgrade offer to ocean-view stateroom 11001 on Deck 11 of the ms Koningsdam. You can see the window of our cabin at the front of the ship in the photo above. (Look at the highest deck with windows — note the four center windows — it is the second from the left.) This stateroom is just one deck below the Crow’s Nest.

The staterooms on Holland America’s ms Koningsdam have contemporary, sleek decor. The door markers give a clue to what the style is like inside.

This is the first look as you walk into ocean-view stateroom 11001, with one exception: we closed the window curtains to take the photo. This is an important distinction because our favorite highlight of this room is the view from the window.

Since stateroom 11001 is located on the front of the ship, it offers a fantastic view from window. In the photo above, the ms Koningsdam is still in Amsterdam at the cruise terminal prior to sail away.

This view was particularly enjoyable as our ship sailed through Norway’s scenic fjords.

The sofa is small, but we appreciated the separate overhead storage cabinets for our life jackets. (Being here meant they would be easy to locate in an emergency, and they didn’t take up storage room in the regular closet space.)

We loved the placement of the desk and its three sizable drawers. The drawers were the perfect place to store makeup and hair appliances.

This desk was a functional work desk; note all of the plugs. And, the desk’s placement away from the bed and sofa made for a spacious walkway in our cabin. One of us could be using the desk without the other bumping the other to pass by.

You can also see the flat screen interactive television in the photo above, which also saved space, along with the built-in brochure rack below it.

The light-colored wood cabinets hid a refrigerator /minibar. (There was a little extra space to add your own bottle of water, if you choose to do so.)

The cabinet above the refrigerator hid the in-room safe and an additional storage shelf.

We appreciated the three deep drawers below the refrigerator, which held a significant amount of clothes.

Stateroom 11001 contained two full-length closets with shelves to fold up or use, depending on your needs. One of those closets contains a full-length mirror, plus the robes.

Overall, the bathroom is small but the glassed-in shower is spacious with an adjustable shower head.

The bathroom mirror provided good lighting. The only drawback of this bathroom is that there is very little storage space.

Kudos to Holland America for adding bedside plug-ins and USB ports in all of the staterooms on the ms Koningsdam. Now, if you use your smartphone as an alarm clock like we do, it can be charging by your bedside along with your tablet or e-reader.

Have you sailed on Holland America’s ms Koningsdam? Do you have a favorite stateroom? Please share in comments below.

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