Norwegian Epic Review

4.5 / 5.0
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Good Food and Entertainment but crowded with cramped rooms

Review for the Eastern Caribbean Cruise on Norwegian Epic
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10+ Cruises • Age 70s

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Sail Date: Jan 2012
Cabin: Family Balcony

My wife and I are in our early 60's and have cruised 11 times on various cruise lines with all size ships. We had finished a 7 day cruise on the Royal Caribbean Allure just before we our 7 day Eastern caribbean cruise on the NCL Epic. Both ships are big! The Epic feels crowded and cramped all of the time from the top deck to the corridors while the Allure is big but does not feel like there are 5000 people on it. It's public areas are airy and open except possibly for the buffet. The Epic wave-designed rooms seemed like a good idea until you are in one. The rooms are so narrow you cannot pass one another easily. The Epic's design of the separate toilet and separate showers with only frosted glass walls and a curtain to divide them from the rest of the room is a very poor design idea. You have zero privacy. It prevents you from having other passengers over to visit while you finish getting ready. In contrast, the Allure has a conventional private bathroom design and the balcony room is wide enough to even have a small coffee table.

Wait times for Epic's elevators were almost always long with many giving up and choosing to take the stairs. The Epic simply does not seem to have enough elevators to handle the people and not nearly as many elevators as the Allure.

The Epic has a good portion of its sundeck taken up with the ultra plush HAVEN area with its own pool and restaurant. That leaves only about 3/4's of the deck for the other 3000 plus people and there are only two pools with signs saying a max of 75 in each pool (plus a very small pool in the adult area) while the Allure has 6 pools.

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Family Balcony

Cabin B3

13157 is a balcony cabin -very narrow inside

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