Norwegian Gem Review

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Disappointing

Review for Canada & New England Cruise on Norwegian Gem
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Gina1239
2-5 Cruises • Age 60s

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Sail Date: Oct 2018
Cabin: Penthouse with Large Balcony

Embarkation and disembarkation went smoothly. Ship was a good size not to big. Cabin was large and roomy we paid for that. We found the food on this ship terrible like a restaurant that you would never go back to but instead we are stuck for 12 days. We did go to all the specialty dining restaurants and found Cagney's to be ok nothing special. I was also disappointed that here we were in the sea food capital for north America and not a lobster, crab, mussels, etc  to be found on this ship (lots of rubbery shrimp there idea of sea food ) If it was in something it was little bits and pieces in a flavorless soup. All the soups tasted the same. We tried to have corned beef and cabbage at O"Sheehan's what a disaster. The waiter did try to warn use though. The waiters and other service personal were great, but does not make up for bad food. Also we had a lot of food options because of our cabin choice penthouse. like breakfast in Modenro and lunch in Cagney's. Day after day my husband would order waffles soft mushy gummy waffles from the breakfast menu at Moderno and me cold eggs benedict. The first day I was excited to try the crab cake eggs benedict I never ordered that again. It was out of a can pressed crab meat that was very fishy not like crab should be. The risotto at Le Bistro was like glue. The only dissent meals we did have were at Orchid Garden but you put enough soy sauce and chili paste on food it helps. The buffet I will say for breakfast had plenty of omelet stations cooking eggs to order. On the first couple of days there were little croissants but never did I see them again. just the same food day in and day out. as the cruise went on it looked like the were running out of things and your choices became less and less. I will say that my husband and I hate to waste food a lot of the time we would share a meal, so those of you who say just don't eat it and order something different that is not the way we are I just would have liked the food we ordered to be good and I was not about to order some more bad food. Someone in this company needs to get a grip on the chefs and food prep on this ship. Never have I cruised where the food was just so bad. So $10,000.00 later very very DISAPPOINTING !

Did not do much of the entertainment and activities as we were visiting the towns we went to see.

Service was good although we did not use much of it as we are pretty self reliant.

Cabin Review

Penthouse with Large Balcony

Cabin SF

Cabin was good got a little noise from the engines when we were not cruising, like when the Caption was gunning it to the next stop.

Port Reviews

Bar Harbor

Bus went up let us out for 10 min and back down never stopped again.

Bar Harbor

Culinary Tour was great the bus ride through Acadia National Park not so great only stopped once in 3 hours for 10 min at the top Cadillac Mountain

Boston

best thing we did

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