Norwegian Jewel Review

Worst vacation ever.

Review for the Bahamas Cruise on Norwegian Jewel
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tredsaw12
2-5 Cruises • Age 40s

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Sail Date: Mar 2012
Cabin: Inside
Traveled with children

First of all, I'm a cigar smoker, and it states on their site, "you can smoke in the Cigar Bar or designated smoking lounge". Well, there is no smoking lounge and the Cigar Bar has been moved outside so if it's cold and/or windy, there's literally no place on the ship to enjoy a cigar in comfort.

Next, my 3 year old son played with the kids in the Kids Clubhouse on-board day care for 2 days and halfway through the trip he comes down with a raging fever, sinus congestion and Croup cough which lasted until a week after the trip was over.

Then, I spend a couple hours walking around Grand Bahama Island and the next day my face was covered with a disgusting red rash similar to poison ivy. This rash got considerably worse every day until the trip was over and on the same day we disembarked I checked in to my local emergency room where I live and they immediately took me in and gave me a prednisone shot and instructed me to take prednisone pills every day for 7 days. My face was so swelled up I had to wear a hat and sunglasses the last 2 days of the trip just to avoid embarrassment, (I have pictures if you don't believe me), and the itch was worse than any poison ivy I've ever had. I don't know what caused it but I'm sure I'm not the only one as I did nothing out of the ordinary. What really upset me was that the ship's doctor could have gave me a prednisone shot/pills on board and maybe the 2nd half of my vacation wouldn't have been ruined, but after speaking with her, she said to just buy some Benadryl in the gift shop and that will help. Well, let me tell you, that did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! And if that wasn't bad enough, I caught my son's sickness and it lasted the same 10 days.

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