Norwegian Jade Review

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Norwegian Jade July 12 2014 Ultimate Mediterranean Cruise

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PaulB
10+ Cruises • Age 2020s

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Sail Date: Jul 2014

I am just back from one of the best vacations of my life. This doesn’t mean that the cruise was without hiccups but I figured out long ago that people have as good of a time as they decide to and if you want to focus on the negative you can. I was with my wife, our 19 year old, my brother his wife and their 13 and 16 year old boys. There were around 700 US Citizens on, 600 from the UK, 500 from Canada. There were folks from everywhere which was great. The final World cup game was on and there were many Germans and a few Argentinians watching. That was nice. The weather was great the entire time. I was afraid of temps in the high 90s or even 100s but it was mid and high 870s most of the time.

Flew from Boston to Venice on Wednesday the 9th, arriving the next day Thursday the 10th. Saw family and Venice the 10th and 11th.

Embarkation July 12th. A total complete unmitigated disaster by all accounts. What normally takes less than an hour was a three + hour totally unorganized ordeal. They apologized at the show the first day and at the Cruise Critic meetup on sea day 1 but they really not only dropped the ball but then seemed to kick folks as the bent over to pick it up. I actually missed all of this by a bizarre accident and circumstance but it seemed to put the most of the passengers in a really foul mood which lasted till we got to Athens. All I can say is get there earlier than they tell you. Folks who were there at 11:15 were on board by 1. Folks who got there at 12:15 got on board at 4 and there were still passengers getting onboard at sailing time and we were late.

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It was fine. Beware the teen club can look in and see the end of your balcony. It was worth that to not have an overhang so you get sun.

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