18 Night Cruise sailing from Amsterdam to Boston aboard Veendam.

Grandly proportioned and recently enhanced, the ms Veendam offers an onboard experience defined by spacious comfort and the latest Signature of Excellence features and amenities. Guests aboard the ms Veendam will not only enjoy elegant dining rooms, a $2 million art and antique collection, wide teak decks and spacious staterooms - many with private verandahs - but also new and exciting venues, stateroom options along with a complete update to all stateroom furnishings.

Highlights of this cruise:

Amsterdam
Cruise to Amsterdam with Holland America Line to see gabled houses crowd right up to the edges of the canals that lattice the city. The town has always been in tune with the water, from the first land reclamation projects in the 10th century through its gilded ascension in the 16th century on the backs of its trading ships to its identity today as a center of global commerce and innovation.

Dublin
City of literature, city of music, city of commerce. If you do not come to Dublin, Dublin will come to you, whether it's via William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, U2, or a pint of Guinness. Ah, but take a cruise to Dublin, won't you? Come for a visit to Dublin Castle, a photo along Ha'Penny Bridge, a stop at Trinity College to see the Book of Kells, or an outing to Grafton Street, a world capital of high-end shopping and people-watching. Maybe just come to take a walk in the park. It's almost impossible not to: Dublin has a greater percentage of green space than any other European capital.

Belfast
Discover The Murals, vividly painted on houses; exquisite Irish linens, and the bizarre landscape of the Giant's Causeway.

Reykjvaik
Iceland is being slowly torn in two. The country sits atop the mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates are pulling away from each other. The end result is that Iceland hisses, fizzes, and bursts with volcanic energy that powers the island nation and makes for a fantasia of attractions for cruise visitors. Reykjavik, the capital city, is noted for its abundant parks, brightly colored houses, and steaming thermal pools. And music. The city has an incredibly vibrant music scene, and Icelandic bands have had an outsize effect on the world music scene.

St Anthony
The scenic waters off St. Anthony are known as Iceberg Alley, offering the largest concentration of icebergs in Newfoundland and spectacular whale watching.

Bar Harbour
For much of the year, sunlight touches the United States first at Cadillac Mountain on the Maine Coast. From the granite-slabbed summit, light tiptoes down across the rest of Mount Desert Isle, Acadia National Park, the town of Bar Harbor and then the rest of the country. The raw coastal scenery attracted Hudson River School painters in the 1840s, and their art in turn lured visitors to the area. Lots of them. Before you know it, Bar Harbor was a haven for the East Coast glittering class and bejeweled with grand mansions and immaculate gardens. Cruise visitors can walk the streets of town, relax on the Village Green, or climb Cadillac Mountain. You'll see that the grandeur abides.

Boston
There is no better way to get a sense of the Revolutionary struggle that changed our nation's destiny than with a stroll along Boston's Freedom Trail. Along the way: Paul Revere House, Old North Church, the Old State House and Faneuil Hall, gathering place of the early revolutionaries. Farther afield: Lexington Green, where the minutemen and redcoats first skirmished, and bewitching Salem.