Holland America Line is partnering with Lindt to offer sweets to guests at various points during their cruise.
Under the partnership, guests will find Lindt Lindor milk chocolate truffles or sea salt milk chocolate truffles in their stateroom after returning from their once-a-cruise Gala Night activities.
Guests will also see Lindt chocolate desserts on their dinner menu, such as a tulip-shaped chocolate mousse cake in homage to the iconic Dutch flower, referring to Holland America Line’s founding in the Netherlands. The tulip-shaped cake is currently served on the Rotterdam on its Dutch Day dinner menu in the dining room and will be available fleetwide beginning in August.
Other desserts are available earlier this summer. Beginning in July, guests can order a Lindt sundae — vanilla ice cream served with a Lindt chocolate sauce. Another option is Lindt chocolate tulips. Both will be available one night per cruise in the dining room on the Dutch Day dinner menu.
Holland America will also serve a Lindt flourless chocolate cake made in partnership with Lindt’s master chocolatier, Ann Czaja. The cake will be on the dining room menu for cruises longer than seven days. It will also be featured during the line’s “Cake Me Away” program in the Lido market, a new onboard dessert program with more than 22 five-layer cakes in 16 flavors on display. The program occurs once on a seven-day cruise and may occur multiple times on longer sailings.
The partnership comes as HAL invests in its culinary offerings. The line launched a fresh-fish initiative last fall and in 2022 earned a certificate verifying it serves 100% of its fish on Alaska sailings from responsibly managed and sustainably-sourced Alaskan fisheries.
