The Maasdam:

Our cabin was 065.  At first I was worried about the location---very last room at the back of the ship on the 10th floor with a bar and smoking area next to our room and it was also below part of the Lido deck, so I anticipated lots of chairs being moved around overhead, but it really wasn't bad.  We heard chairs being moved around for 5 or 10 minutes in the morning.  We also liked that we were right by the elevator and stairs and only one floor down from the Lido Restaurant.  We also liked being so close to the Seaview pool.  It was called a verandah suite, but was pretty much like the VD verandah we had on the Eurodam (although our actual verandah on the Maasdam verandah suite was smaller then the verandah on the VD verandah on the Eurodam).  At least we didn't have the verandahs on the Maasdam that opened up onto a shared deck.  I didn't even know they had such a configuration when I made our reservations.  The room was small but adequate.  We liked the coffee table -sturdy and easy to adjust.  The couch was a good size.  Our queen bed was comfy.  We had heard complaints that some people on board had low water pressure, but our water pressure was great.  Our room attendant was very efficient, even left us fruit and towel animals every day.

 The lounger couldn't be straightened because it was up against the verandah wall.  There was also a small round table.

 This was looking to the left from our verandah.  I decided we actually had a good room in that ours and our neighbors' verandahs didn't have the Lido overhang above it.  We had unobstructed views of the beautiful sunsets from our verandah. 

 This is the bar/smoking area to the right of our room.  It looks like there was actually a storage area right next to our room.  We never heard anything from that area and the smoke never made it to our verandah. 

"Our" pool

The Lido restaurant---

 We had read that the pizza kitchen had closed and were afraid we wouldn't be able to get our pizza fix for 11 whole nights, but the Lido had a couple of choices of pizzas most nights--

The desserts on this ship were the best we've ever had on a cruise before, too--

The first couple of days we familiarized ourselves with the ship.  I always enjoy checking out the public areas and decor.
Random hallway--

The library.

I think this was at the bar, Mix.

We discovered that you could even order chicken wings, potatoe skins, and other appetizers (all free) here from about 11am-2pm---but we were never around then.

Some of the glass artwork.

The piano bar.

 The balcony of the Showroom at the Sea.

The only time we saw the work out room.

 I would have liked to have tried to play some tennis here!  The other side had a basketball court which was used quite a bit.  We were on the cruise during Spring Break, so there were a fair amount of kids on board.

 more decor---

 Seating for the culinary/movie theatre room.

Deck 7 hallway to nowhere.  Took us a few days to learn to avoid this deadend. I guess the kitchen was back there so we couldn't go from one end of the ship to the other on level 7.  Was a little inconvenient since the main level of the Showroom at Sea was on level 7.

 The Crows nest where we did go from time to time (good happy hour specials).

Casino which we only saw when cutting through it.

 more decor.

 
We had never been on a ship this small and were a bit worried that lines would be long and spaces would be crowded, but it turned out to be really nice----5 minutes to walk anywhere on the ship, ran across people we met at dinner many times throughout the cruise, probably because there were fewer people.   This ship also had the best food and entertainment of any ship we had been on before! Instead of 2000 passengers like on the last 3 HAL cruises we took, there were only 1265.   Instead of 86,700 tonnage, it was 55,800.  The only thing missing on this ship was the extra cabins for more people.