Holland America Revives Beloved Farewell Dinner Tradition Across All Ships
If you're sailing Holland America in 2026, check with your ship or travel advisor on whether the Until We Sail Again dinner has returned yet, since rollout dates across the fleet's 11 ships haven't been released. Some ships may already be hosting it on the last sea night while others are still waiting. Keep an eye out for the menu items — beef wellington, baked Alaska, and pistachio chocolate cheesecake — as a sign it's back on your sailing.
Holland America is leaning hard into nostalgia here, and the specifics back that up — French onion soup, beef wellington, baked Alaska, the captain working the room on the last night. My read is this is a low-cost, high-goodwill move: bring back a familiar ritual with locally sourced ingredients and let repeat cruisers feel seen. The catch is the fleet-wide rollout across all 11 ships has no announced timeline, so passengers booked now can't count on it showing up on their specific sailing. Compare it to Disney's Pirate Night or Carnival's 80s Rock-and-Glow parties — signature events other lines built their identity around — and Holland America is betting its history is the stronger draw. If I were sailing this year, I'd ask my travel advisor directly whether my ship has the dinner back before I got my hopes up for the pistachio cheesecake.