Norwegian Star Review

Vacation of a Lifetime

Review for the Baltic Sea Cruise on Norwegian Star
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Dexie
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Jun 2014

Well, that is what the 5 of us were calling it. We embarked in Copenhagen after staying a couple of nights at the Ibsen's Hotel. Great little place and the five of us ended up participating in the Distortion Fest. It was wild and crazy and even us oldsters enjoyed ourselves early in the evening until moving on to The Old Town.

Embarkation was a breeze, we took a cab from the hotel. Sure felt sorry for those that took transit - train/bus. It appeared to be a really long walk to the new pier/terminal. On board we made ourselves familiar with the ship.

We dined a lot in the Versailles, but found it to be loud and noisy. One woman in our party was accidently hit on the head with a full tray. After the initial flurry from the Head Staff, there was no further concern on the part of Norwegian, it would have been nice for them to check in with her the next day as she did have a bump on the head. We made no fuss as the wait staff is pressured to hurry and move too fast to avoid these incidents.We switched and went to Aqua a couple of times and the pressure for speed was still there, we had a snarky wait person one night because she had been asked to serve us and it was passed her dinner time. We witnessed what seemed like a grading or marking process being done on the staff and once again a tray brushed the head of the same companion. Really if things were slowed down just a wee bit perhaps it would be less frantic for guests. But getting people through is necessary and we understood that. (I overheard one guest complain that dinner took too long for them.) We noticed that the food seemed hotter when eating at Aqua. My husband and I celebrated our anniversary on board and treated ourselves to a meal in Le Bistro. While the selection was nice, and the food was good, we again met up with a snarky attitude when we asked to change to a more intimate table for 2 instead of being stuck between 2 tables set for 4. As for the extra cost, while the intimacy and quiet were nice, we might not try it again for what we spent.

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Cabin 10520 is as pictured on the web site. It is a forward cabin. i did feel some motion at times but not enough to be a bother. We took a chance on a Guaranteed Balcony Cabin and were very satisfied. We enjoyed using the balcony on the nice days. Arriving in the ports and using the balcony is a lot of fun for us. We got some wonderful sunset pictures as well as the sunset is very late in the Baltics in June.

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