Fred Olsen Borealis: Full Cruise Ship Tour
This is the MS Borealis from Fred Olsen Cruise Lines: www.lifeinnorway.net/fred-ols...
I recently took a two-week trip on the Borealis from Liverpool to Northern Norway on a winter northern lights hunt and as you’ll see on my other video about the trip ( • Northern Lights Cruise... ), we succeeded!
I know many of you planning a Fred Olsen cruise are keen to find out more about the MS Borealis, to see if it's a good fit for you. That's the focus of this video.
Together with its sister ship the Bolette, the Borealis is relatively new to the Fred Olsen fleet but it’s not a new vessel. Far from it, in fact. Fred Olsen recently bought the ships from Holland America Line. Under its former name the Rotterdam, the Borealis had sailed for Holland America Line for 22 years. It took its maiden voyage at the end of 1997.
So how would it be sailing in 2023 on a ship built in the 90s? Come on board and I’ll show you around.
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‘Call a cabin a cabin’ love it. 😂🥰
Half-life 3 be lookin' good!
This is such a fantastic tour!! Thank you lots. 🙏🙏
You’re very welcome - I hope it’s useful in knowing a bit more about what to expect :)
This ship has everything you need. Lots of restaurants, lots of bars, a pool, cinema, lots of live entertainment and the food is amazing 👏 The staff are lovely and go out of their way to help you.
It sounds as if you had a great time! 🥳
@@lifeinnorway1It was fantastic.
Hello from Peter & Stevie who shared the cruise journey with you. A great video, Thanks.
Love fred Olsen cruises. Thank you for this.
You’re welcome! I have a couple more Fred Olsen videos on my channel too :)
Considering this very ship in September for a Norway trip. Thank you for this video
I was on her last may. Beautiful ship
So many memories for me. I worked an 8 month contract when it was The Rotterdam and had the opportunity of a world cruise. A truly wonderful ship. What I consider to be a ship and not the floating mega malls with thousands of passengers. I was also fortunate to enjoy most of the passenger spaces but the best place was the crew bar. Thanks for such a great video.
You’re very welcome, and what an amazing experience it sounds like you had! Thanks for watching 🙌
What a beautiful tour
A beautiful ship makes it easy to make a beautiful tour :)
Great video, thanks a lot.
A great video , best holiday I ever had & seeing the Northern Lights was amazing,thank you David for our talks & always keeping an eye open for me during the freezing sightseeing nights looking for the fantastic Northern Lights Thanks Annette Byrne
Hi Annette and thank you! It was a pleasure to meet you. I also made this other video about our hunt for the lights :) kzhead.info/sun/bJqedr6Ia51sfWw/bejne.html
Hi David, once again a very informative and well presented video 👍. Keep up the great work mate, cheers from a Sunny Liverpool 😀
Thank you for a lovely video.
Excellent video and so informative- well done!
Glad it was helpful! 🇳🇴
Looks more Glamorous than Ambience
I'm not sure I'd call it glamorous, but considering its age I thought it was really well looked after 👍
I've heard that Fred Olsen is primarily a British cruise line. As someone from the states, any opinion on how that would work out for me. Just got back from Scotland for 12 days, the heavy accent did get to me after a while. Sure they felt the same way! har har..
Well I’m British so I can’t really judge. The onboard experience is very British, so only you will know whether that’s for you or not.
What did you do for internet and cell data? Is a separate SIM acct needed?
I am a resident of Norway so I just used 5G when in port and close to land.
Looking at this ship but am a bit worried about how she rides the sea - previous ships i have been on is Azura and Ventura (115/6K tonnes) - Queen Mary 2 (150K tonnes) and Sky Princess (145K Tonnes). At ^!k Tonnes, this ship is much smaller - and i would hate to get seasick all holiday. Any View appreciated :)
It depends where you're going and when most of all. I just did a North Sea crossing in July and it was much, much calmer than in January and March. If you're concerned about movement, booking a cabin midship is a good idea.
I worked on this ship, sailing in the Mediterranean, across the Atlantic, The Eastern Seaboard of the United States and the Carribbean. Although smaller than some of the newer ships, it handles weather just as well. As crew though, occasionally we would make journeys without passengers when changing embarkation ports. For these journeys they would turn off the stabilisers to save on fuel. It was still a sturdy ship, even without the stabilisers.
Is this a cruise only for seniors?
No, although the passengers definitely skew older so it’s not the liveliest atmosphere. I talk more about the Fred Olsen passengers on this video: kzhead.info/sun/bJqedr6Ia51sfWw/bejne.html
You won't be turned away if you don't have grey hair 😄
Bro used to be a cargo ship in half-life and later became a real cruise ship
Don't think so...
Half life 4 confirmed?
No sure where you got that nonsense from. This ship was built new as a Cruise ship and named Rotterdam for Holland America. What is a Bro? Thought that was what kids of about 5 years of age called each other. Christ you cannot be an adult surely using the word bro?