Europe - Northern Europe Cruise Reviews

Overall, a very good cruise. The ports could have been better and they need to bring the quality of the food, especially at the buffet, to what it used to be pre-Covid.

Please be advised that if you travel on this ship after the autumn equinox, there is the potential of weather disrupting your travels. If there is a hurricane in the Caribbean, those winds and rains will travel up through Ireland the following week. The first three ports of our trip were canceled. a little disappointing but safety first .

Viking sets oioothe standard for every key area from embarkation to debarkation. Staff, cleanliness, leader involvement - - all Outstanding. Particularly noteworthy was seeing the Ship’s General Manager and Officers routinely with their “ troops “. There every day to provide well wishes when we left fore excursions, and there again to welcome everyone back aboard., Too many superlatives to list. Best cruise line we have ever sailed in last 20 plus years.

Beautiful cruise. Enjoyed ourselves. Would I cruise with MSC again probably not! Would I cruise from another country, probably not. Foreigners are very rude!

My compliments to the Captain and crew for avoiding a hurricane. This meant we missed 3 ports of call. Norwegian refunded our missed excursion costs and port costs as they had to. In exchange they offered a measly $50 non refundable on board credit per person and a 10% discount on a future cruise. One guest I spoke with said he doesn't get out of bed for 10%. Another cruiser said he had missed a port on an Iceland cruise and got 50% off a future cruise. Public relations wise this led many people I spoke with, even loyal Norwegian cruisers to say they will be considering other cruise lines for their future cruises. Although no one can do anything about the weather, it was like corporate did not care about trying to do any damage control for public relations. We only ended up with one tender port in Dublin and it was a disaster trying to get back on the ship, Excursions left late and arrived back around the same time. There were about 1000 people trying to get on tenders to return to the ship. we were in line about 1 hour. It was like no one in operations spoke with the excursion people. Very disappointing experience as the tender blamed the passengers for waiting to come late at the same time. The only problem with that brilliant idea was the people in line were coming back from excursions. Very Poor Job!

We missed the most important ports we were interested to visit in Ireland and instead spent 5 days at sea! We made a big mistake to book this cruise too far in advance-NCL dropped the price several times, but they did not adjust/reimbursed us.

Enjoyed the cruise in spite of the line issues. Needed more time in ports. Need to use professional tenders instead of the super life boats. Could have easily made the Dublin port with professional tenders. I have tendered with much worse waves.

Overall very disappointing and dissatisfied, unfortunately we booked two cruises back to back with NCL, but never after this, all they care is to get your money but not service back, especially the ports letting people out was ridiculously waiting for hours, didn’t open all line’s possible, officers standing and looking at crowd, I had a surgery two months ago, I almost passed out, they just don’t care, not enough personnel for guest services and one person for internet issues for 4000 guests, wasted one day and half to try to solve a problem with the internet, totally ridiculous and disappointing

Great itinerary - horrible management, especially of queues-getting on/off ship and at restaurants even with reservations We are seasoned cruisers (10+) and our fourth (and last) with NCL.

This was a very enjoyable cruise. There were issues with Storm Agnes hitting Ireland and making us miss those ports, and there was definitely a lot of flu and/or Covid spreading on the ship. No matter - we had a great time and would do it again. Be prepared, protect yourself, and there's no reason why anyone can't enjoy a great cruise like this.

Would not sail on the Getaway again . Lack of communication with ships personal on organization on port calls especially tender ports. Lots of sick people on about third day out.

The only thing "luxury" was the price of the excursions which did not have any electronic communication between the guide and us so one had to be close to the guide to hear the commentary. There were even jewelry sales in the lobby like the large cruise ships. Port talks by the cruise director or outside experts were never done.

The UNESCO World Heritage site of Geiranger was definitely the highlight of this cruise. We had very little rain while we were in port or cruising the fjords. The good weather made this good cruise a great cruise.

My cruise trip with Rotterdam was a great experience. The services, food and entertainment events were all great.

It was possibly the best itinerary we've experienced, and the nicest ship we've been on. It was very clean.

It was a nice way to see Iceland, experience Norway and check Amsterdam and Bruges off your list.

Nice area but not liking ship design in future will look for other ships

The high points of the cruise would be the service and a couple specialty restaurants. The Surfside buffet and grill was very bland. The grill was better but fries were always cold. Our cabin Steward was a gem. Most crew members were very helpful. I doubt that I will cruise Norwegian again simply due to food quality and ship design. The prima is beautiful, but in my opinion, not practical for the cruise we went on. If it had just been the ship, I'd give it another go

My evaluation of the ports is based upon our Oceania booked excursions, which were from so-so to terrible.

The Norwegian fjords have been on our to-do list for a while and this was by far the best cruise we've ever been on. The only downside was the excessive exhaust from the Anthem of the Seas.