To many people

Norwegian Escape Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Reviews: 2
Helpful Votes: 28

Overall rating:

3.1 out of 5
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Norwegian Escape

7 Night Caribbean: Great Stirrup Cay & Dominican Republic (Port Canaveral Roundtrip)

Sail date: March 04, 2023

Ship: Norwegian Escape

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 12720

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

I think you get my meaning with my other comments. Mass of humanity—-To to many people, waiting on everything, have to show up hours before anything starts to just to get standing room only, staff over worked and frustrated—-if this is cruising post COVID I for one will wait along time to ever book a cruise again.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Easy not frustrating

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
To many people on boat. Staff couldn’t keep up. You can tell the staff was overworked/frustrated and couldn’t do anything to change the dynamic.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Good choices

Entertainment

3 out of 5
The band that did the Fleetwood Mac rumors show did a great job!1

Service and Staff

1 out of 5
Not the staff’s fault to many people they couldn’t keep up.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Very good. Stewart was friendly and attentive

Ship tip

I’ve taken 4 cruises pre covid and I really enjoyed them. This one was frustrating and aggravating. I was more stressed on the boat than when I was off of it. Mass of humanity, staff couldn’t keep up with volume…everything and I mean everything was a Hartley—-long lines—-wait times. To many people—-this was not fun and relaxing like I knew on other cruises.

Ports of call

Port Canaveral, Florida

5 out of 5

Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

4 out of 5

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

3 out of 5

Tortola, British Virgin Islands

3 out of 5
These islands are really all the same if you don’t do an excursion——shopping! I don’t shop….

Great Stirrup Cay (Cruise Line Private Island), Bahamas

3 out of 5
Again mass of humanity—-had hassle to get a chair—-food and drink lines—wait…that was knew word besides some choice words I used—-vacation should be relaxing and stress free—-if you have to stress out about getting a chair…drink…food..towels..etc it’s not a vacation.

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
Was supposed to get priority—-cruise member even when I told them we had priority off boat put us in’ normal’ line—-getting on boat much better
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