Norwegian Dawn Review

Much better than we had expected!

Review for the Western Caribbean Cruise on Norwegian Dawn
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firstcarib
2-5 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Dec 2013

We were on the Dawn over Christmas, Tampa to WCaribbean. After reading all the pretty dismal reviews, including one from someone who had actually CANCELLED their Dawn cruise due to all this negativity, we were more than pleasantly surprised by most things we found on board.

Embarkation was not too bad at all, although I realse this was made much better by the fact that our cruise date did not include pick ups in Cozumel. However, it was made worse by a bizarre situation at the cruise checkin desks, where non US citizens such as us from UK( although we had obviously already been admitted into the US via strict border control, ESTAs granted etc etc) still had to have their passports re-entered into some computer by someone slowly using "one-finger" typing for each passenger. This led to long queues at his workstation, holding up every other passenger in every check in queue! Surely, if this is necessary, it would be better to have a check-in desk, or two, just for non-US passengers. This would allow the others to board more quickly. I am sure the US passengers would be very happy!

Our balcony cabin, 9192, was fine. Smallish, but lots of storage space. Bathroom tiny, separate wc behind a screen was miniscule! Looking at the size of some of the passengers, I can only imagine they were in large suites...no way would they get in the wc!

Cabin Review

Fine, a little cramped as cabins go( have been on other lines with larger cabins) but plenty of storage space. Bathroom tiny, wc minute. Large passengers would really struggle to get in here!Kept beautifully clean & tidy every day.Easy to get to rear of ship for spa, Venetian restaurant.

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