My positives of the cruise,
Galley food is amazing, having free soda machines are great. Pizza and ice cream was really good.
Cabin, bed SUCKS. The floor was more comfortable, I slept in the hammock on the balcony.
Shower is the best on any cruises I have been on.
No annoying announcements on the loud speakers all the time.
Negatives
Despite the advertisements, you HAVE to ...
I am a long-time cruiser with NCL, have sailed exclusively with NCL during these past 10+ years and a Latitude Platinum member. My experience has been generally positive until this recent booking on the Encore 3/3/24 to the East Caribbean.
The overall cruise was ok. The ship showed its age, nothing to write home about. The staff were not engaging and not many around. You can sit for hours ...
We decided to try a large ship for the first time cruise. We did a river cruise some years ago and enjoyed it, but NCL truly messed up. 2 days prior to departure, NCL informs us one of our trips was canceled and the were going to hold onto the money, rather than crediting it back to my credit card. Had to speak to them for an hour to get the refund.
Some weeks prior to leaving, our ...
8TH CRUISEWITH NCL, 25TH CRUISE IN TOTAL
EMBARKATION: Time scheduled but easy enough went well and took about 1 hour in total
DEBARKATION: Not so good, you choose a time and color tag, they called our color, they herded us out of the ship through the main dining room. They actually put chairs up and had us weave through the middle like a maze. very poorly done. took about 1 hour not bad ...
It's been at least 10 ten years since we took a cruise. we just happen to be in fla. And decided to drive to miami and take a cruise, the weather hadn't been good in jan/feb. and don't get me started on the non spa. i guess those tired moms don't deserve a little break. the worst rub down i've ever had, along with the up, up, up sell to possible other treatments that you didn't need. there ...
As a veteran Cruiser (Over 30 cruises) I have become pretty comfortable with cruising. There aren't a lot of surprises.
This is one though.
The first thing I noticed that this was going badly was when we could not make any reservations for dinners. Unlike every other ship there is no specific dining room that you go to for dinner. Instead there are about 6 individual restaurants that ...
Shows this cruise because it fit my schedule and the price was reasonable. However, the food at the Monet dining room. Very good food I give the food at the Monet dining room along with the service five stars.
The ship does show its age it’s got rusted out parts on the ship, we can see holes nothing would make it see worthy.
The reason why I will never go on Carnival again is because they ...
We chose this cruise because of the itinerary and length of cruise. I had been on a Carnival ship years ago and had a great experience. This cruise started off with a dirty stateroom that clearly had not been vacuumed. Crumbs and fingernails all over the floor and the desk area was sticky and dirty, as was the opening around the window. In addition, we had a non-functioning remote control and they ...
We chose this cruise to sail with family. That was really the only good point. We are gold members and it's either our 7 or 8th cruise. Never able to get a deck chair. The entire ship is beat up and dated. The food was horribly disappointing. The entertainment was so very limited and just not up to carnivals usual standards. We paid for the Italian restaurant and the service was phenomenal. The ...
We went a weekend and we really had a good time because in the end it's a vacation but inside the cruise very bad service the food was fatal too many people to such an extent that there were endless queues I would never repeat. You had high expectations and I left very disappointed it's really my experience I made the mistake of not checking the comments first and for me the worst thing was that ...