Norwegian Jade Review

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Nov 2nd Eastern Med Cruise on the Jade

Review for the Eastern Mediterranean Cruise on Norwegian Jade
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jbojo
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Nov 2013
Traveled with children

We recently returned from our 10 Day Eastern Med cruise. This was only our 2nd cruise with NCL but decided to use them again because we had such a great time on the Star during a 14 day Panama Canal Cruise. Another factor was the FreeStyle concept which I enjoy, when on vacation why dress up for dinner on specified nights. Did that a couple of times and that was enough. We were 2 families with our grand kids 11 and 14.

Ports visited were, Kakatalon, Athens, Ismir, Istanbul and Naples. We decided on our own Port Excursions and did that because we wanted a smaller more personalized tour. The tours were the same as what NCL provides and the costs much less. For all 5 port stops we were extremely happy with the tours we arranged. If anyone wants to know who we used e-ail me and I will provide the Tour company names. Not going to review each stop because we did not use NCL for them.

For Dining we used a variety of the options available onboard from their buffet, Main Dining, room service and specialty restaurants. Food was good and we didn't have any major complaints. Specialty restaurants used were Teppanyaki's which is always good because of show that you get with it and the food is good, Jasmine Garden which was Asian, this was ok and finally Moderno's which is Brazillian Barbeque. This is like a 9 course meat dish and we were only able to get through about 4 of them. Couldn't get through dessert but they offered to have it delivered to our stateroom but we declined. Nice touch though.

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Cabin 14000We decided to splurge here because there were 6 of us and we wanted to be together. The suite had 3 bedrooms each with its own bathroom and balcony. It also included a private balcony with hot tub and sauna along with a upper sun deck with a hammock and extra lounge chairs. The living room was huge as well and included an 8 place dinning table for meals and also a 8 place table on the patio if you wanted to have lunch outdoors. This suite is on 2 levels and is about 4200 sqft.

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