Norwegian Getaway Review
NCL Ship Getaway is not suitable for the cruise from Copenhagen to St. Petersbur
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We chose this NCL Getaway Ship cruise, 6/12/17 thru 6/21/17, Copenhagen, Warnemunde (Bering), Tallinn Estonia, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockhom, Copenhagen, as a vacation to celebrate our anniversary and a birthday. We also booked land excursions for touring Bering and St. Petersburg.
It turned out to be a bad choice.
We had a serious problem in the morning of the second day when the ship got close to Warnemunde. The sea channel leading to the pier is only 100 meters wide which is not much wider than this big ship. The captain determined that the sea current was too strong in the channel and decided to circled outside of the channel, eventually for a day and a half (no joke), in order to wait for the sea current to slow down. However there were other very large sea ferries sailing through the channel without problem. By the time when the ship was able to dock, it's too late (didn't have enough time) for the Berlin tour. Then it became even worse, because of the extra day wasted by circling out the sea channel, the captain had to skip Tallinn, Estonia, which is a storied medieval town that we really wanted to visited.
Cabin Review
Mid-Ship Balcony Stateroom
A good and comparable balcony stateroom. Looking down from the balcony, we saw the top of the life boats because the section, where our stateroom and the neighboring ones are located, is tapered and is not in line of the side of the ship.
Port Reviews
Rostock (Warnemunde)
Booked excursion for Berlin, but the ship docked late and left early.
Tallinn
The port was skipped over