Norwegian Epic Review

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The Epic Studio Adventure

Review for the Western Mediterranean Cruise on Norwegian Epic
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chatty01
First Time Cruiser • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Jul 2013

The Eve of my cruise arrived and I knew it would be a busy day. I had it all planned: Alarm set for 8am. Beauty salon 9.30am. Lunch with Dad at noon. Cat to Cattery 2pm. ASDA's for last minute shop 3pm. Birthday tea with girl friends home by 6pm. Re-check suit case weight and ensure lists done by 8pm. Bed by 9pm and get some sleep. Set alarm for 1am,1 hour before airport pick up at 2am. Instead Lunch over ran, cat late to Cattery, tea over ran. went out to club with Dad, then my Brother rang at 11pm and call lasted an hour. No sleep for me and lift turned up late OMG!

Due at Manchester airport 5am, got there at 4am and had to hang around until check in opened at 5am on my own, I was not chuffed and very tired. This was not the greatest start to my Epic adventure, but once in the line for check in I got talking with a few people and the time went quite quickly.

Then the disaster started! it came my turn to check in, my case went on the scales and my worst nightmare occurred. "Sorry your case is over weight Madame, by 4kg. It must be your toiletries or all the shoes you ladies like to wear" snigger. "We give you 22kg allowance! is that not enough? Before I could answer or ask if I could swap my toiletries into my hand luggage, he had slapped a sticker on my passport, handed me a piece of paper and told me to go to the excess baggage counter. It cost me £48 for my suntan lotions, beauty products and medical supplies ouch!Through passport control was a doddle, into Boots for Pro-plus and then onto the VIP lounge for breakfast and relaxation. Booked this in advance and well worth the money. English breakfast, a pot of tea and then lazy boy recliner.

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Love the studio concept, cabins are large enough to walk around one side of bed. Choose a cabin close to Lounge which was good and bad. Good because its was next door and I could get a coffee or snacks during the night. Bad because you could hear everyone saying goodbye at the door or noise from down stairs if the door wasn't closed properly. Need notice on where over bed light switch is and how to turn off light on phone. How do you get porters to take towels? by end of week I had 4 large & 6 small towel in shelf unit! Need more coat hangers, us ladies like to hang clothes up.

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