- Launched
- May 2000
- Gross tonnage
- 61,396 GT
- Passengers
- 1,432 (double)
- Crew
- 615
- Length
- 237 m
- Home port
- San Diego (winter) / Vancouver (summer)
Zaandam entered service in May 2000 as the R-class sister to Volendam. She operates a San Diego-based Mexican Riviera and Panama Canal season in winter and Vancouver-based Alaska programmes in summer.
Zaandam is HAL's most consistently deployed West Coast ship after Koningsdam and the smallest ship in the current fleet after Volendam.
Her mid-size footprint gives her access to Alaska's smaller ports including Icy Strait Point, Sitka anchorage, and Wrangell.
Highlights
Alaska small-port access
Reaches Icy Strait Point, Sitka, and Wrangell — ports the Pinnacle class cannot.
Mexican Riviera winter
San Diego winter base for Mexican Riviera and Panama Canal.
R-class sister
1,432 guests — one of the smallest ships in mainstream premium cruising.
Same class
Sister ships
Also in Holland America Line
Other ships in the fleet
Launched 2021
Rotterdam
HAL's flagship — the seventh ship in the fleet to carry the name Rotterdam and the newest Pinnacle-class vessel.
Launched 2018
Nieuw Statendam
The second Pinnacle-class ship — Caribbean winters and Mediterranean summers on HAL's most globally deployed Pinnacle sister.
Launched 2016
Koningsdam
The first Pinnacle-class ship — HAL's Alaska and Mexican Riviera workhorse from the West Coast.
Launched 2010
Nieuw Amsterdam
The second Signature-class ship — Alaska summer and Caribbean winter on HAL's most balanced mid-size platform.
Launched 2008
Eurodam
The first Signature-class ship — mixed Caribbean, Northern Europe, and Panama Canal deployment.
Launched 2002
Zuiderdam
The first Vista-class ship — HAL's alternating Grand World Voyage flagship, mid-size and port-intensive.
Launched 2003
Oosterdam
The second Vista-class ship — Alaska summers and Australia-New Zealand winters, a genuinely dual-hemisphere platform.
Launched 2004
Westerdam
The third Vista-class ship — Asia spring and Alaska summer, HAL's Asia-Pacific specialist.
Launched 2006
Noordam
The fourth Vista-class ship — mixed Mediterranean, Caribbean, and South American deployment.
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Holland America Line
Premium-classic mid-size cruising — long itineraries, strong food-and-wine, and the deepest world-voyage programme in North American cruising.
Carnival Corporation & plc (parent group)
Carnival Corporation is the world's largest cruise operator by fleet and passenger volume, parent of nine cruise brands spanning contemporary to ultra-luxury — including Carnival, Princess, Holland America, Cunard, Costa, AIDA, Seabourn, and Britain's P&O Cruises.