Norwegian Star Review

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Wonderful Panama experience on the scrimp

Review for the Panama Canal & Central America Cruise on Norwegian Star
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mikewrit
2-5 Cruises • Age 80s

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Sail Date: Oct 2010
Cabin: Mid-Ship Oceanview Porthole Window

Panama Canal passage being high on our bucket list, we'd been contemplating a Panama cruise ever since doing the Baltic capitals on the Norwegian Sun last May. We soon settled on the Norwegian Pearl Atlantic-to-Pacific cruise in April 2011. Joined the roll call; set up for a couple of shore excursions; considered the best use of four mileage program airplane tickets; started debating packing options between my one-small-bag inclination and DW's kitchen-sink preference.

Then a number of factors changed at the same time that NCL put a few Star vacancies on a hot sale. On Sept 28, less than a week before sailing from San Pedro, we jumped ship to the Star's Pacific-to-Atlantic passage.

We said we'd take whatever cabin we could get. (We started cruising five years ago on the Star to Alaska and knew we could live with an inside cabin.) In the end we got a small room with a porthole down behind sickbay. Our close neighbors included the cute magician-juggler couple that does Extreme Las Vegas and the wonderful Diva Beverly Bishop from New York.

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Mid-Ship Oceanview Porthole Window

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For a fairly cheap room on a low deck it was fine. We had to kneel on the bed to watch out the porthole. The head occasionally had a foul odor, but the crew kept working on it. The engine noise was the worst part. Sometime it sounded as if a jet was taking off just outside. The sound of the waves rushing by just a few feet below the porthole actually was soothing after the first night. On the one stormy night, the waves washed over the porthole every few cycles, which was scary at first but finally kind of exciting.

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