My recent experience on the NCL Jade made me proud to be a "Norwegian!"

I was booked on the NCL Jade April 28th out of Venice to the Greek Isles. I have been to Venice before so I did not expect any difficulties. Our arrival from Minnesota into Venice was uneventful. Our first thanks to NCL happened at the airport. Our transfer to the Crowne Plaza took forever at the airport, but thanks to the person who was meeting the NCL Crew at Marco Polo airport we finally connected with the shuttle. I say thanks, because here we were in Italy with no language skills, and no phone, and feeling lost. Then I saw this man with a sign for NCL Crew to check in. This man meeting the crew made three phone calls and got the shuttle to pick us up. I'm only sorry that I did not get his name so he could be appropriately thanked. Right away I was very glad for NCL.

When we arrived at the Crowne Plaza at Quarto d'Altino we were very pleased with the staff and room and also because it was right next to the train station. It was a wonderful location for getting around. They also had free bicycles you could check out. They sold tickets for the train at the desk and gave great information for travel and train times, etc. The breakfast was also wonderful by any European standards...and the coffee was fantastic. The transfer to the ship was in a big new coach. There was plenty of room and it pulled right up to the luggage racks for our luggage to be directly loaded at the terminal. It was a very short walk and we were in to the terminal. Read more