Norwegian Spirit Review
A good way to enjoy a tasting menu of Mediterranean Europe.
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The Spirit is an older ship but she still sails a true course. It's smaller than the enormities that have come out to sea recently, but I do think that her smaller size is actually a plus. The cruise is long and there are few toddler's on board, but there is sufficient to keep them happy (i.e., not getting in everyone else's way). Great ports of call and if you approach this cruise as a floating hotel so that you don't have to unpack multiple times it won't be a let down.
Some negatives
1. Embarkation - if you stay in Venice the walk from the people mover to the boarding spot it long and it is hot and if you have someone with even a slight difficulty in getting about, it is borderline torturous - a complementary shuttle would be so obvious
Cabin Review
Balcony
Supposedly for 3 - but not at all feasible. The third is a fold out chair - like the ones in some hospital rooms and no one is going to be in a good mood sleeping 12 days on that!
The queen bed had two mattresses put together - so forget cuddling, cause you'll sink into the mid space. Walls are not sound insulated (but the balcony glass doors are?) so I hope our fervent wishes for our noisy neighbours to be laid low with diarrhea came true, cause I don't think they left the cabin for a couple of days and things quietened down a bit.
Water out of the faucet in the bathroom ran yellow, brown and black more than a few times.
Angle of the toilet seat - whoever designed it, perhaps sits on the commode with their legs crossed, but for the rest of humanity it's a geometrically ridiculous set up.
Port Reviews
Toulon
not worth the effort of docking there - should have just spent another day at sea
Venice
Best way to see Venice