King Seaways
Operated by DFDS Seaways
King Seaways
Operated by DFDS Seaways
Operated by DFDS Seaways on the Amsterdam (Ijmuiden) Newcastle route
With room for over 1,500 passengers and 600 cars, the King Seaways comprises a wide range of quality onboard facilities including comfortable cabins, bars, restaurants, cinemas, shopping and much more.
Onboard you’ll find comfortable cabins to suit every taste. Whether you’re looking for a value for money cabin or something extra special, you’ll awake refreshed after a great night's sleep. All cabins feature comfortable beds, en suite showers, bedding, towels and wardrobe space.
Enjoy a delicious meal and delightful company onboard the King Seaways. With a number of restaurants to choose from there's something to suit every taste. The 7 Seas Buffet serves over 80 dishes each night while the Blue Riband restaurant offers delicious à la carte dining options in a relaxed and contemporary atmosphere. A trip to the Explorer's Steakhouse for a steak cooked just how you like it by the expert chefs. Enjoy a coffee or freshly baked delicacy in the relaxed, modern surroundings of the Bake n’ Coffee Café and the Latitude Café. The relaxed atmosphere of the Cafés is perfect in which to enjoy your favourite hot drink or a light meal. If you fancy a drink onboard then you’ll be pleased to know that there are numerous venues to choose from. If it’s a comfortable setting and pleasant atmosphere that you’re after then head to the Navigators Bar which serves an excellent selection of drinks and quality beers with live music in the evening. The Compass Bar located close to the restaurants is a lounge bar that’s ideal place if you want to relax and enjoy yourself in comfortable surroundings. Pleasant background music is played, and the bar serves an excellent range of wine, beer, cocktails and spirits. If you like music, sports, a few drinks and a friendly atmosphere, the Sports Bar is the place to be or for great views, the top-deck Neptune Sky Bar is a superb place to begin your journey with friends or family, as your ship sails out of port. Enjoy the maritime atmosphere with a beer or long drink in your hand.
Shopping at sea is one of the great pleasures of travelling onboard the King Seaways. The Sea Shop features a range of alcohol, chocolate, perfume, cosmetics, toys and fashion wear.
Watch the latest blockbusters in the onboard cinema, enjoy a flutter or two in the casino and try your luck at blackjack or on theroulette wheel. There’s also a Wildlife Watching Experience where you can learn about the wildlife of the North Sea as you sail across it. Led by the leading wildlife charity ORCA, the wildlife experience is fun for both kids and adults.
The ‘Kidz' Club is a safe and enjoyable play area for children. With a range of activities available, children will be entertained for hours when sailing on the King Seaways. For older children there's a games room with video games, and a cinema too.
The King Seaways is wheel chair friendly with lifts to all decks (except deck 5). There's also a choice of specially adapted disabled cabins including 4 Outside (sea view) and 2 inside. Special arrangements cannot be made on the day you travel for requirements that are not requested beforehand so if you have have any special requests then please notify us before booking.
Please Note: Whilst we have taken great care in making our King Seaways guide as accurate as possible, onboard facilities, services and entertainment may vary depending on the date and time of year that you travel, facilities mentioned may change without notification and ferry companies reserve the right to operate vessels other than those mentioned at time of booking without prior notification.
out of 5
73% of our customers recommended this ship
"Dfds "
100% ok
"15 Hours at Sea"
It was great 15 Hours, from Newcastle to Amsterdam, lot of fun and entertainment
"Good and some potential"
Good voyage despite a bit of a rough sea on the way back. I would have liked only a soup in the evening, but that was not possible, only a full dinner. Also there was not the chance to only get an uncooked breakfast with different breads, only a cooked breakfast or only croissants and muffins. The full breakfast was quite a steep price. Still I liked the voyage and would do it again.
"NEVER use DFDS Ferries "
I travel often to and from both the UK and Ireland to the Continent. I just took a DFDS Ferry from Newcastle to Amsterdam. This Ferry company engages in Fraud and Misrepresentation. I am, by profession, a Barrister. So, I well know the legal concepts of Fraud and Misrepresentation. I specifically requested that I pay for a plate of chips "French Fries". I was charged Euro 32. For a late of French Fries. When I tried to explain this to a uniformed ship officer, he was arrogant and adversarial. He told me I winever receive a credit for this over charge. I will take DFDS Ferries to court. I strongly recommend that you choose any other Ferry company to travel to or from the UK and the Continent.
"Amsterdam Newcastle "
Comfortable bed. Either 3 course meal or buffet but nothing in between, not ideal for a family of 4. Not enough seating away from cafe/restaurants where you have to buy food/drinks. Cabin bathroom was tiny and not terribly clean.
"Enjoyable"
As always the trip was comfortable and the staff were all pleasant and helpful.
"Great service till departure...Very poor"
Staff were great till we had to disembark .. Ignored and laughed at by a Polish waiter Miamo
"Our Experience "
Tired when we boarded we headed to our cabin. The carpet under one of the beds hadn’t been vacuumed, crisps still there from previous occupant. Noisy from next door, you can hear every word. My partner had several bites on right wrist, elbows and neck. Maybe from flea bites? Anyway we reported it and staff were very pleads. We don’t eat breakfast, so declined the complimentary breakfast offered. We will come back as we are heading back to Europe in the summer f so I hoping for a better room next time.
"First timer "
Loved every minute of my trip to holland and back and will be booking again next year. First off the punctuality of the staff to border control right down to staff on the boat was First class. The only thing I would complain about was the cost of the food at dinner time. Not so much the 40+ pounds per person that it costs but to charge over 3+ 20 pound to eat is a bit ridiculous in my opinion. Had the breakfast tho and the variety is excellent. But sort the cost of the meals as for the 4 of us it would've cost over 150 pound.
"Excellent from start to finish"
So much nicer and more environmentally friendly than flying! Lovely cabin, hot shower, comfortable bed and I was even upgraded to an outside cabin. The staff were super-friendly, the breakfast was excellent and travelling with my bike was stress-free. I'll be travelling with DFDS again!
"Convenient "
The whole process was very easy. I was surprised that my 12 year old daughter was considered an adult in the restaurant! Well sign posted at both ports, in and out.
"DFDS and Direct Ferries"
Well I didnt travel on the ferry as Iwas invited to Wembley ti be presented with my England Cap Id waited 50 yrs for! I tried to change dates but they wanted over £300 and I couldnt cancel either so list over £400 because I wanted to attend this once in a lifetime event. They werent interested. I wont be booking my delayed trip through either if these companies
"Fab facilities"
The facilities were fab and the staff were nice. Economy class on the return journey was a bit rough. We were warned noise may occur, but didn’t realise quite how much as we were out in a corridor with very rowdy school trip kids so probably wouldn’t travel economy again. Getting into ijmuiden port was brilliant and super quick, but getting off the ship in England was very very slow and we are unsure why as they weren’t doing searches. We got off the ship/through passport control 90 minutes after expected
"Weekend away "
Whole weekend was brilliant wasn't happy with direct ferries I only book 7-9 October when we got back to the ship Saturday afternoon we were told that we weren't due back till Monday possible my fault not checking dates had to pay to come back all our luggage was still our room were not going to let us back on to get it
"Recommended Ferry Trip"
The attitude of the staff has impressed me. Even though the sea was rough due to the weather I felt save and in competent hands. Furthermore the quality of food I came to enjoy has been very recent and tasteful. The facilities have been clean and functionality and did provide a high level of functionality.
"Good ship trip but the wrong cabin choose. "
Every thing was fine but my cabin in deck 5 was wrong choose, without ear plugs is sleeping there not possible cause of the noise of the ship machine in deep frequencies.
"Dobrá komunikace "
Vše proběhlo v pořádku a přehledně
"Mixed Bag"
All in all, much enjoyed my crossing to Newcastle with you. However (!), I was for quite awhile locked out of my cabin, which really should never have happened. It was eventually sorted out, and it gave me the chance to talk with one of your helpful staff, but it did rather detract from the overall experience. Still . . . look forward to my next trip by ferry, I love the adventure aspect, even when something goes wrong.
"Very slow disembarkation "
Generally a very good trip. Facilities on board are fine. But arriving in UK is very slow to disembark and then a very slow queue for passport control.
"Getting to Ijmuiden"
You really need to improve your facilities and systems for transporting foot passengers to Ijmuiden from central Amsterdam. It is not acceptable to have people queuing by the side of the road for a coach, in what is in effect a building site, with no shelter from the elements. You need to lease a reception centre. In terms of the system, you had not properly calculated the number of foot passengers and hence the number of coast seats you would require. The driver of the one coach who turned up at the appropriate time seemed to be phoning frantically to organise more coaches to come because he could see he could not carry all the passengers queuing. In fact we had to wait, standing for over one hour until two more coaches arrived to transport us. In the meantime we had the worry that the ship would sail without us. There was no DFDS representative there to inform us what was happening; we only found out what was happening by phoning direct or direct messaging you on Twitter.
"Rocky ride"
Great entertainment, lovely clean ship and helpful staff
"Wery satisfied"
All was perfect. I travelled by King from Amsterdam and by Princess Back from Newcastle yesterday. Below: yes and 8
"A disapointing experience"
The crossingsand almost everything to do with them were good. They were on time, the accommodation was comfortable the food was excellent however on the way home we made a small purchase in the shop. The first attempt to pay was successful as far as the card reader was concerned but not on the terminal of the assistant. Cutting a long story short we had four attempts to make the payment and subsequently discovered that we were charged twice. Trying to get redress in the shop was hard and took over an hour when we were offered a refund on our card. There was no apology what so ever. The refund arrived back on our card some 5 days afterwards. As I said very disapointing.
"Room cleanliness "
Absolutely disgusting smell in room and nobody wanted to help ended up sleeping in car on board ferry
"Very poor "
Had to climb across the car to get in and out, car at the other end of the ship to my cabin exited the car,had to go up 2 floors then walk full length of the ship then go down 4 floors just to get to the cabin. Ship full of drunks. Had to reverse all the cars just to get off, absolute shambles.
"Ferry trip to Netherlands"
Cabins comfortable. Staff helpful. Book your evening meal time in advance as on day you will be left with really early or very late and nothing in between. Delayed on way back due IT issues. Water bottles distributed whilst we were delayed boarding.
"relaxed tour by ferry"
It is great to travel by ferry to the UK. Easy to access and on board is everything you need.
"Travel "
Very helpful
"Better management of pets is required"
Many people doing a trip like this on a boat, do it to be able to bring their pets. Therefore I expected the handling of pets to be much more organised as well as friendly (for the pets and the owners). The cabins accepting pets are too few, when you could use normal cabins and simply clean them better afterwards (you do charge 40EUR for extra cleaning after all!). As well the pet area for toilet and paws stretching is utterly disgusting. Either you organise it better, extend it or just clean it more often as the smell was unbearable. The food at the dinner buffet was not great and way too expensive for the quality. The breakfast was much better, food and price-wise. The cabin was good, clean and comfortable.
"Over night on a ferry"
Our first experience on an over night ferry and we enjoyed it. It was fun in its own way, as it is different to the Tunnel of course. We found it actually quite restful, enjoyed the meals, experiencing both the Buffet and the A la carte - recommend the a la carte as a more pleasant meal experience. We had a window cabin, marked for the disabled, which we are not, but it was very comfortable and spacious, with a good warm shower. The queues to get off the ferry were not so pleasant- took ages to get off and on our way.....were
"Another great journey"
They are not a cruise line,they are a ferry company and they are excellent.
"Great Voyage."
First time I've travelled this way on an overnight ferry. Absolutely loved it, we were over for a football match. It helps when the weather was so nice I suppose, so we spent the first part of our journey on the the deck. Having a few beers in the sun. Later on we ended up in the night club lounge where there was live music and a DJ. Food was good also, we tried the buffet on our journey back. The cabins were clean and had comfortable beds, and the ship throughout was clean , with all staff and crew very friendly. We travelled on Wednesday evening and came back from Amsterdam Friday evening arriving back in Newcastle on the Saturday morning. We booked pretty late so prices were more expensive than would have been if booked well in advance. So plenty of good deals. Definitely using DFDS again and another short break back to the Netherlands.
"Confused "
Trip itself was perfectly fine however staff members were "rude/ unpolite" without simple "hello, thanks, yourwelcome" I'm more concerned regards taking orders and working there in general. Some customers service training might help the issue resolve. Otherwise ship was clean, organised, punctual. Amazing bonus as live music! Excellent! Thanks for experience!
"accommodation standard"
Since 15 years I am traveling with my family of 4 on the King Seaways several times a year. This is the first time we were allocated our cabin right in the bottom of the ship on deck 2 ( cabin 272 and returning 262). Our car was parked on higher decks( 6 and returning on deck 4). Especially cabin 272 was showing signs of neglect. The plughole int he sink was very rusty and the shower was rusty too. There was a big rusty patch above the sink. We did not feel comfortable to have a shower or let alone a wash. We acknowledge maintaining a big ship like the King Seaways is not easy but considering that we paid over £1,000 for a return ticket I think we should have been offered another cabin, especially on our return trip on the 9th August where the ship was not fully booked. When I enquired about changing the cabin I was told by your customer service staff at the information desk that this is only possiblse if I upgrade for a fee of Euro 50. Taking Covid and fuel price increase into consideration I think the value for money we received was very poor. For £1000 I would expect at least an up to date, well maintained cabin that is not below the car deck.I would also expect to be offered a change of cabin free of charge especially when the ship was not fully booked, which was the case on our retrun trip to the UK. Not a good experience fo me and my family
"Travelling with dog"