Rotterdam is the second largest city in the Netherlands . It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North sea mouth of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta , via the NEW MEUSE inland shipping channel, dug to connect to the Meuse first, but now to the Rhine instead.
The Hotel we stayed- A Marriott
During WW II, the German army invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940. Hitler had hoped to conquer the country in just one day, but his forces met unexpectedly fierce resistance. The Dutch army was forced to capitulate on 15 May 1940, following the bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May and the threat of bombing other Dutch cities.
The heart of Rotterdam was almost destroyed by the Luftwaffe.
The Market Hall is a residential and office building with a market hall underneath. The building was opened on October 1, 2014. Besides the large market hall, the complex houses 228 apartments, retail space 1,600 m2 and an underground 4-storey parking garage with a capacity of over 1200 cars.
Cube houses are a set of innovative houses based on the concept of “living as an urban roof”: high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level, since its main purpose is to optimise the space inside. The design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest. The central idea of the cube houses around the world is mainly optimizing the space, as a house, to a better distribution of the rooms inside
SS Rotterdam
The fifth SS Rotterdam, also known as “The Grande Dame”, is a former ocean liner and cruise ship , and has been a hotel ship since 2010. She was launched by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in a gala ceremony on 13 September 1958, and was completed the following summer.
The Rotterdam was the last great Dutch “ship of state”, employing the finest artisans from the Netherlands in her construction and fitting out process.
Her career spanned forty-one years. She sailed from 1959 until her final retirement in September 2000.
My wife, Judy, sailed her in 1978– a New-York to Bermuda cruise.
She was sold to WestCord Hotels, which also owns the Hotel New-York located in the former Holland America Line headquarters building, in proximity of the Cruise terminal.
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