Norwegian Epic Review

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Cruise around the Canary Islands on a very big ship

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tobymontydog
6-10 Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Apr 2017
Cabin: Mid-Ship Balcony

We went on the cruise from 14 April to 23 April (9 days) around to the Canaries, stopping off at Tangiers, Grand Canary, Lanzarote, and Malaga. This was not our first cruise using Norwegian and we have cruised on several different ships belonging to different companies before. There were six in our party, three married couples. The ship is amazing, huge, taking nearly 4,000 passengers. There are plenty of facilities on board and very good entertainers and very good restaurants. However the swimming pools are disappointing for adults as there is only a small plunge pool in the adult only area and two small pools for everyone to use that are only about four feet deep so not suitable for swimming. There is a very good water slide complex which is used widely by mainly children but some adults were brave enough to try it. Another downside of a big ship is that there are so many people sitting around the pool area and quite a lot of people put towels on their sun beds and walk off so there are very few places to sit around the pool. Of course there is a quiet area but that is on a higher deck without any access to the bar or other facilities. The whole ship is made up of bars and restaurants with only a few sitting areas separate from the bars. The entertainment is in the atrium, such as competitions and demonstrations with only a small sitting area unless you looked over the balcony from the upper floor (bar area).

Our biggest gripe about this ship is the staterooms. We all had a stateroom with a balcony. There is a very odd arrangement with the toilet and bathroom being separate with a glass surrounding so although it is opaque, you have very little privacy as you can see the shape through the glass door which is a sliding door. The hand washbasin is in the room and is very small; there is no hand wash basin in the toilet. Some of the staterooms have the bed near balcony doors, making it difficult for you to exit the balcony doors without negotiating the bed while others had the bed right next to the toilet only separated by a sliding curtain near the main entrance door. The cabins are so narrow that there is only an 18inch walking area between the bed and the wardrobes or sink area therefor you cannot pass each other without moving to one end of the room. The beds are comfortable but curved to fit the room and the space. We had a double bed which was 6 foot in the middle, with the curved areas on the edge of the bed being only 5foot, so we had our feet hanging out of the bed all night! One of our passengers was 6’4” so found the bed very uncomfortable. There are lifts only at each end of the ship, but on the plan of the ship it shows a lift in the middle but this is for crew use only.

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Mid-Ship Balcony

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Our biggest gripe about this ship is the staterooms. We all had a stateroom with a balcony. There is a very odd arrangement with the toilet and bathroom being separate with a glass surrounding so although it is opaque, you have very little privacy as you can see the shape through the glass door which is a sliding door. The hand washbasin is in the room and is very small; there is no hand wash basin in the toilet. Some of the staterooms have the bed near balcony doors, making it difficult for you to exit the balcony doors without negotiating the bed while others had the bed right next to the toilet only separated by a sliding curtain near the main entrance door. The cabins are so narrow that there is only an 18inch walking area between the bed and the wardrobes or sink area therefor you cannot pass each other without moving to one end of the room. The beds are comfortable but curved to fit the room and the space. We had a double bed which was 6 foot in the middle, with the curved areas on the edge of the bed being only 5foot, so we had our feet hanging out of the bed all night! One of our passengers was 6’4” so found the bed very uncomfortable.

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