Norwegian Star Review

Absolutely loved these ports; what a wonderful trip!

Review for the Baltic Sea Cruise on Norwegian Star
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6-10 Cruises • Age 50s

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Sail Date: Aug 2015
Cabin: Balcony

Saturday 1 August

This is a very long day by day review detailing our 9N Baltics cruise. We’d arrived in Copenhagen a few days earlier, which is well worthwhile as it’s a beautiful place with plenty to see. We stayed at the Hotel Bethel, right at Nyhavn a lovely location. We took the easy way out and hopped in a taxi for the short ride from the hotel, at a cost of 130DKK. Boarding this cruise was our quickest yet, we were onboard by 11.30am, having lunch at 12 and in our room at 1pm. Our luggage was a bit more problematic, the first bag didn’t arrive til nearly 5pm with a note on to say that ‘contraband’ (ie our 2 bottles of wine) had been removed. We could either pay $15/bottle ‘corkage’ to get the wine back, or collect it on the last day (we paid, as it’s still cheaper than their prices and we didn’t want the weight in our luggage to fly home). Note that their documentation said we'd have to pay $25 per bottle, but they actually only charged us $15 each.

Our balcony room is lovely and the bathroom is the best we’ve ever had - shower screen not curtain, and sliding door for toilet. Only 2 power points, so definitely bring power boards. Hairdryer provided was good, although heavy. We wandered into a bar not long after boarding to see that the sports channel was actually showing the Manly NRL (Australian rugby league) match live…must have been a very quiet period in the rest of world sports for it to get an airing! Later that afternoon hubby also got to see a repeat of the Cronulla match on the TV channel in our room. Mandatory life boat drill was the fastest we have ever experienced, started on time and all over in 10 mins. If all cruise lines would manage that I’m sure attendance rates would be much better. Dinner in the Versailles restaurant was lovely and welcome show was OK, they can only improve from here (#firstworldcruisingproblems).

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