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NCL let us down in Africa and Madagascar

Review for a Africa Cruise on Norwegian Dawn

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RogersCruising
First Time Cruiser • Age 50s

We've used Norwegian for all our cruises and after this one we hit the Platinum level Latitudes. We've experienced some amazing things cruising with NCL, but this cruise has been awful. Only two redeeming things we've had in 12 days. The first was a dinner at their new Mexican restaurant Los Lobos Cantina. The food was excellent, the service was exceptional. We also always book the Mandara Spa ...
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Sail Date: February 2024

Traveled with disabled person


Most disapointing cruise ever

Review for a Africa Cruise on Norwegian Dawn

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Tommy.mo
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

We booked the cruise 9 month in advace with great ports in mosambik and madagaskar. A few month later mosambik was canceld and the intresting ports in madagaskar where changed into boring ports. Then where a big pricedrop. Norwegian ignored our complaints. Altough the where about 50 cabins empty, no possibility to get an upgrade. The water and coffee on board tasted terrible and although ...
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Sail Date: February 2024


Organised chaos

Review for a Africa Cruise on Norwegian Dawn

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Norwegian Dawn review
6-10 Cruises • Age 60s

Chose this cruise because of the itinerary ie. South Africa and Namibia. From day 1 the writing was on the wall. I will start with the good points and there aren’t many. Food-In general this was very good. Good quality and good selection. Food in Aqua and the Venetian was as good if not better than we have had on other cruises. Staff-In line with all other cruise lines stewards, waiters, bar ...
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Sail Date: February 2024


Worst cruise ever

Review for a Africa Cruise on Norwegian Dawn

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Tpastuch
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

We chose this cruise for it’s itinerary, even though Mozambique was removed late last year, and an interesting Madagascar port was replaced by two stops in the north of the island which at best could be described as terrible! The South Africa stops were great, Nosy Be and Antsinerara below average due to the Shore Excursion team not explaining the shocking travel arrangements on both, we did not ...
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Sail Date: February 2024


Worst ever cruise - NCL turned our dream vacation into a nightmare!

Review for a Africa Cruise on Norwegian Dawn

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Tamoo
10+ Cruises • Age 60s

I had always wanted to return to South Africa since living there as a child. For our retirement we planned a dream vacation that began in Cape Town, picked up the NCL Dawn for a 12 night cruise and should have culminated in a 4 day stay in Mauritius, but as a result of the authorities suspecting a cholera outbreak on board we missed out on our Mauritius stay. I have cruised for over 40 years ...
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Sail Date: February 2024

Cabin Type: Oceanview Picture Window


Highly disappointed.

Review for a Africa Cruise on Norwegian Dawn

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Chikatilo
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

We chose NCL and this ship because of the itinerary and we wanted to explore more of South Africa. Embarkation was smooth. Collected cruise cards on the ship- all very convenient. The food in the garden buffet- quite basic and a very scant choice at breakfast. The food in the compimrntary Venetian restaurant was hit and miss. The first time, very small portions. Bread wasn’t offered, ...
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Sail Date: February 2024


Avoid! Terrible

Review for a Africa Cruise on Norwegian Dawn

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C. Lee24
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

I Chose this cruise for the itinerary: 12 Days: From Cape Town. Port Elizabeth, Durban and Luderitz Embarkation: Chaos. My time was 1pm. After 2 hours standing in a non-air conditioning warehouse, people in my line discovered the next line (2 pm) was boarding ahead of us. At this point it was a free for all as hundreds of people surged forward, disregarding the lines and pushed towards the ...
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Sail Date: February 2024

Cabin Type: Mid-Ship Inside


South-Africa with the NCL Dawn, good but with sloppiness

Review for a Africa Cruise on Norwegian Dawn

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ciffie0409
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

This was the second time on the Norwegian Dawn. First time was not a long time ago, in July 2023, cruise to the UK/Ireland and Scotland. The worst cruise ever! But as we were so dissatisfied of this cruise, we received money back and a voucher of 25% for next cruise. As this cruise to SouthAfrica is very expensive, it was a great moment to use the money and voucher. And fortunately, the flights ...
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Sail Date: February 2024

Cabin Type: Family Suite


A great world cruise

Review for a World Cruise Cruise on Seabourn Sojourn

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Gwtr
10+ Cruises • Age 80s

Let’s start with a disclaimer. We are strong Seabourn advocates. We have sailed on Seabourn for years and have spent more than 500 nights aboard Seabourn Ships. That being said, this review will be honest and we will share with you the good and fair on our trip. You will notice we did not use the word “bad”. The reason for us not using this word, is that we have had no bad experiences on this ...
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Sail Date: April 2023

Cabin Type: Veranda Suite

Traveled with disabled person


I am no container and don’t want to be treated like one.

Review for a Trans-Ocean Cruise on MSC Sinfonia

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At7Seas
10+ Cruises • Age 50s

I spent six weeks travelling through South Africa and decided to return to Europe by cruise. In spring 2023 there were exactly five ships doing this. Costa, Aida, Phoenix and two MSC vessels. Costa visited on the world cruise and no cabin was available. Aida did a fast track through the Atlantic Ocean and mainly visited ports in Europe, in my opinion no attractive itinerary. Phoenix did extensive ...
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Sail Date: March 2023

Cabin Type: Junior Ocean View


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