Europe - Western Mediterranean Cruise Reviews

Overall the ship was great but the food was really disappointing. I ended up eating hot dogs for lunch almost every day that we were on board. Skipped breakfast almost every single day. Worst food we've had ever on RC cruises but otherwise the ship was great. Ports were must sees!

Pace yourself. While a 12 day excursion, visiting 10 ports looks great, you can quickly become tired. We paid for only 3 excursions. They were all very good but I also enjoyed my time with my significant other to explore the the ports on our own. Unless you are addicted to the Internet, avoid the high ship charges and check in the various ports or buy a coffee somewhere in the port for free access. If you like to walk and explore ports on your own, you can still have a wonderful experience.

Great Cruise! Entertainment is NOT family friendly in the Epic Theater! Otherwise we enjoyed the cruise. Ports were generally amazing and we had great experiences at most. We are sailing Epic again in the Spring, really hoping for entertainment changes, though we doubt it will happen. Much more to do on this ship than go to the Epic Theater.

Easy on and easy off! The only problem that I had was trying to convince the cruise staff that I did not need to arrive at the Rome airport 2+ hours in advance for my TrenItalia train to Florence!

Overall, the cruise was excellent, very friendly & helpful staff! Love the Solarium option! However Having cruised quite often we are disappointed that the Dining room food quality & selection has dropped off considerably!! Obviously this is due to to the constant staff promoting the select expensive restaurant options at the dining room entrance... annoying! If this is the marketing plan, It will affect my decision re cruises in future!!!

Wonderful cruise. Enjoyed the massage in the spa. Food was great. Enjoyed the excursions we booked. Need better entertainment at night. Embarkation and disembarkation was great. No hassle at all.

Great cruise EXCEPT for room placement i.e. very first room in front of ship and traveling companions placed on opposite side of ship. And we booked over a year before the cruise. Somehow our rooms were changed from the time we booked to when we sailed.

This was an outstanding cruise! The staff were outstanding in every way. I appreciated their eagerness to serve and make our vacation a top priority in enjoyment.

This is our first Celebrity cruise experience and I must say it was a wonderful one. We had cruised 7x w other cruise lines and was able to compare the difference and we’re pretty happy we tried Celebrity this time. We are looking forward to doing Celebrity in the future

Fantastic itinerary! The shows and entertainment are terrible (excluding the Cirq show). NCL really needs to refresh their shows and entertainment on this ship. Oddly, the cruise director and staff were barely visible throughout the cruise. Go early and stay late to enjoy Barcelona!

Fair food, fair design of the ship, room is not very clean

Just be prepared to walk a lot including on the ship as it is huge. This ship is very stable and didn’t hear of anyone getting seasick. Our cabin was great and service everywhere was excellent. We loved the thermal spa and would use that service again on another Norwegian Cruise. One set of elevators doesn’t have a 5th floor access button??🤨

Best cruise ever, love the smaller ship. Very friendly and helpful crew, great ports of call. Delicious food, great entertainment.

The company has gotten to big and customer service is down . They don't seem to know what is going on all the time. It seems that you have to do things a few times for them to get it right.

we just felt a little like step children being in the small majority that got on the ship in Rome. It just seemed like the Barcelona people were more important. Not sure why but we just got that feeling. No fan fair when we got on. Then we had 5000 new people get on mid sail?? Just seemed weird to us.....

This was our first time cruising on the Epic and while we found the ship beautiful we learned that a bigger ship is just not to our liking. The breakfast buffet was a nightmare of people and a disorganized layout of food. I wound up walking around it several times before I found everything I wanted and even returning again the next day didn't make the experience any easier. We learned that at the Irish O'Sheehans we could get seated quickly and the small menu fit our tastes for what we wanted in breakfast fare without all the mass of people. The service was fast and we could pretty much order what we wanted, prepared how we wanted...as long as the food item was on the menu I could order it. We also tried breakfast at the Taste restaurant and found it better than the throngs of people at the buffet.

A terrific time! Very busy everyday - not enough time in some of the ports but a great excuse to go back! Attentive staff, clean and easy to find your way around. Just plan to take the stairs rather than wait for the elevators before/after shows. Plenty of room for everyone but the buffet is busy before everyone leaves for excursions. Good entertainment on board - especially Cirque and the Dueling Pianos! Great dinners - and a perfectly comfortable mini suite. Looking forward to my next cruise already!

This is the third cruise for us. All of which have been on Norwegian, so even though I ding them on food, I keep going back to them. For me, the best meal was breakfast, whether at the Garden Cafe buffet or at O'Sheehans (sp?). Booking excursions at every port can be exhausting if the meeting time is 8AM or earlier as you tend to stay up late at night and then need to get up early to have breakfast and meet the tour. I was glad we made our own plans in Cannes and didn't plan an organized excursion in Mallorca. The day at sea was very relaxing. One thing we didn't know was that we began our trip at Cicitavecchia but others started from Barcellona. So when we got to Barcelona, some folks got off the boat and new cruisers got on. This isn't problematic except that there seemed to be more competition for restaurant and show reservations, which is why I said to show up even if the show is fully reserved.

My family and I had a great time on the ship and the ports that we visited. Very helpful and attentive staff on board the Norwegian Epic, good food and something for everyone to do.

I never been to Europe before and this was a great day for us to explore.