Norwegian Star Review
Meh! Norwegian Star is too old.
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Our cruise was from Oct 13-27, 2013. We departed Miami 3 hours late. The reason we were given was because of trouble getting on "stores". Instead of going down the east coat of Mexico/West Coat of Cuba as advertised before hand, we went down the East Coast of Cuba. No big deal, just a deviation we weren't informed of.
Cabin: We had a mini-suite and the cabin size was just ok. The toilet smelled like urine from the first day. Not sure why, but I think it's because of the vacuum design. The light went out in the shower which was quickly fixed but the slow drain in the sink took two attempts to fix. The closet design was really poor. Two doors open to the hanger area, with two useless, flip-up shelves. To the left were shelves for non-hanging clothes but there was NO LIGHT in the closet which made it impossible to find things without the use of a flashlight. It was mere luck I brought this flashlight along that hung from the clothes pole: http://tinyurl.com/3xnkvhl otherwise, I'd had to pull the clothes out to see what they were. The bed was two twins pushed together to make a queen size. There was a huge lump in the middle where they came together and another huge lump in the middle of my rock-hard side. The pillows smelled like dirty clothes/sweat and I don't think my cabin steward changed the bed during the two week cruise. The couch/futon was rock hard and would not stay in the couch position when two of us sat on it. It wanted to slide out into futon mode. The balcony furniture was adequate although the small table wobbled and was sketchy for holding a drink. The balcony railing was missing a bolt holding the wood rail to the metal post. Rust was pervasive in the balcony area. The refrigerator was stocked stuff we didn't use so we moved them on the shelf above the refrigerator. When we moved them we noticed the red wine bottle had been emptied, the screw top screwed back down and replaced in the refrigerator. We pointed this out to our cabin steward but are waiting to see if they try to charge us for that, so be advised this can happen to you too. On the day before debarkation, we pulled our suitcases from under the bed to find:
1. A used ladies razor.
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Cabin: We had a mini-suite and the cabin size was just ok. The toilet smelled like urine from the first day. Not sure why, but I think it's because of the vacuum design. The light went out in the shower which was quickly fixed but the slow drain in the sink took two attempts to fix. The closet design was really poor. Two doors open to the hanger area, with two useless, flip-up shelves. To the left were shelves for non-hanging clothes but there was NO LIGHT in the closet which made it impossible to find things without the use of a flashlight. It was mere luck I brought this flashlight along that hung from the clothes pole: http://tinyurl.com/3xnkvhl otherwise, I'd had to pull the clothes out to see what they were. The bed was two twins pushed together to make a queen size. There was a huge lump in the middle where they came together and another huge lump in the middle of my rock-hard side. The pillows smelled like dirty clothes/sweat and I don't think my cabin steward changed the bed during the two week cruise. The couch/futon was rock hard and would not stay in the couch position when two of us sat on it. It wanted to slide out into futon mode. The balcony furniture was adequate although the small table wobbled and was sketchy for holding a drink. The balcony railing was missing a bolt holding the wood rail to the metal post. Rust was pervasive in the balcony area. The refrigerator was stocked stuff we didn't use so we moved them on the shelf above the refrigerator. When we moved them we noticed the red wine bottle had been emptied, the screw top screwed back down and replaced in the refrigerator. We pointed this out to our cabin steward but are waiting to see if they try to charge us for that, so be advised this can happen to you too. On the day before debarkation, we pulled our suitcases from under the bed to find:1. A used ladies razor.2. A woman's pony tail tie.3. Enough dust/dirt that you couldn't see what color the carpet is.It would be nice if they would vacuum under the beds between cruises. This was incredibly disgusting and goes along with the non-changing of the linen for two weeks and sweatty smelling pillows.