Well as a huge fan of the Jade and loyal NCL cruiser I can not argue with a lot of the recent negative reviews. My travel group came with an open mind but we feel very let down by NCL. They have obviously cut back on many things however, there short sighted savings will actually cost them more as loyal customers go elsewhere. The buffet has very little choice with the same dishes repeated many ...
This was my first cruise ever. We had a girls trip with 13 ladies. I was not part of the reservation process so I can't comment on that. My impression of the ship overall is tired. They say it's been "refurbished" but that's not true. We had a balcony cabin on level 11. The bathrooms have wood panel walls, wall mounted ashtrays in the toilet room and only 1 electrical outlet with 2 plugs for ...
The worst cruise experience I (and several strangers on multiple ships) have ever had. Absolutely horrid cruise line which lost countless customers.
There are several things that went wrong on my recent trip on Jade. Our bed was not made and we did not receive fresh towels when our room was open. Even at slow bars, we could not get service half the time. Bartenders did not know how to make ...
Destinations offered and time that fit with my husbands work schedule. We have usually sailed with Royal but it was not available for our schedule. We had no idea that a cruise could be so bad.
The food was horrible. We started ordering based on what we thought would disappoint us the least. Left our steak on our plate the first three times then stopped ordering all beef.
Everything was ...
To say this cruise was a disappointment would be an understatement! We came on Norwegian for our Honeymoon and I have never regretted a vacation more. I’ll try and make this as short as possible. Day 1 after everyone was on board they canceled 2 of our ports and an entire country off our itinerary, which was 1 of 2 countries we cared about going to. Unfortunately, we found this out at 11pm in a ...
This cruise was just awful. This was our ninth cruise overall and second Norwegian cruise. We left the ship after day four (of a 9 day cruise) and will never step foot on a Norwegian ship again.
It started bad with an itinerary change conveniently after the ability to get a refund. We lost all of the Black Sea ports with the war in Ukraine given as the reason. The war had been going on for 9 ...
We booked this cruise years ago because of Ukraine and the Black Sea, understandably, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria was dropped, but we hoped for the best at Greek Isles.
Our group spent 2-3 extra days at Athens prior to boarding, and started off with an extensive 2-day land tour with with no less than an archeologist, MariaElena Christopoulou. Daughter made all arrangements for tours and ...
We chose this cruise for the itinerary— had booked it in 2020, but it was cancelled, so we were very excited to finally go. Had a concierge level room. 11610 with a tub. To keep this short- here are pictures of the tub water (see below). No adjustments, no apologies. Told to contact Guest Services in Miami- got a crappy form letter saying how wonderful NCL is!! We have been on 18 cruises on ...
Following our experience on a Norwegian Jade cruise to South Africa and Namibia in January 2023, we can’t recommend NCL. Food was mediocre, apart from the speciality restaurants. There were few enrichment or other on-board activities and there seemed an expectation that sunning ourselves, listening to the over-amplified entertainers, taking dips in the rather small swimming pools or availing ...
we had to choose this cruise because ncl kept canceling our other choices, e.g. Hawaii, and we had to do 2 b2b because ncl said regarding our FCC, "use it or lose it". we usually pick ncl because of the broadway musicals and the thermal suites on the new ships.
thermal suite used to cost $199 for 2 wks and $299 for a mo. the suite on the jade now costs $436 for 3 wks. and the jade suite ...