Spectacular Iceland and Norway Cruise

Aurora Cruise Review to Scandinavia

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 9
Helpful Votes: 164

Overall rating:

4.8 out of 5
Aurora

Norway

Sail date: August 02, 2024

Ship: Aurora

Cabin number: B147

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 3 months ago

Review summary

The cruise was amazing and it was filled with amazing food and beautiful ports and very friendly staff.

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Super Fast and easy

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
We went to the Medina restaurant most nights while onboard for lunch and dinner. The food was amazing. On most of the Black tie nights there was a lot of fish on the menu. When this happened we ate in the glass house or the beach house as both of these places served really nice food. Also in the buffet they had a range of foods to choose from for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Crystal Bar

5 out of 5

Really good service and very friendly staff

Champion's

3 out of 5

Very Busy and popular with events happening during the day and night.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5
We went to the Headliners shows which we really enjoyed all of there shows they put on during the cruise. We did have port presentations done by one of the excursion people. These were helpful to get to know a little more about the places your visiting especially if its your first time there.

Carmen's

5 out of 5

We went in here to watch two of the Headliners shows (Top of the charts and Up All Night). There was lots of seating and you could get up close to the dancers and singers.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
The staff were amazing. They couldn't do enough to help you with anything you might need help with. While we were having dinner in the Medina restaurant the other staff would come up to us and ask us about our day ashore and how we were. Our room steward was also really good he made sure we had everything we needed throughout the whole cruise. He also kept it really nice and clean. Also every night he would come into our room to put up my sofa bed then come in the next morning and set it back into a sofa again.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
The ship is well laid out and is very easy to navigate. The ship has character and isn't boring. During our cruise we saw lots of staff going around to make sure that the ship was very clean.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
The cabin was nice and spacious and we had lots of space to put all our clothes for our whole holiday and still had enough room for things which we brought ashore. The balcony was good we had lots of space on it. The TV in the room needs a bit of an upgrade as many of the shows are on multiple times during the cruise and sometimes even on again in the same day, also the TV is hard to navigate its channels. Hopefully they will upgrade the TV in the room in its next refit.

Ports of call

Greenock (Glasgow), Scotland

4 out of 5
We explored the city and the shops.

Grundafjordur

5 out of 5
Its a lovely little place, not much to do there. while we were there we walked towards the Kirkjufell Mountain to take some pictures we also walked along the coast and saw some Icelandic horses.

Reykjavik, Iceland

5 out of 5
We walked around the city and saw the church. While we were there we tried soup in a large bread roll, it was lovely.

Isafjordur, Iceland

3 out of 5
Not much there, would definitely recommend a shore excursion in this port.

Akureyri, Iceland

5 out of 5
We did an excursion to the Godafoss Waterfall, Mud baths and some natural rock formations. On our excursion we had lots of time at each place to explore and take pictures. The Godafoss Waterfall is amazing you can get quite close to it if you go down a little staircase as it takes you down to the bottom of the waterfall if you do this wear sensible shoes as there are lots of rocks which are hard to walk on. Also the Mud baths are so cool. The area surrounding the mud baths looks like something from another planet.

Honningsvag, Norway

5 out of 5
It's a nice place, plenty of tourist shops

Alta

5 out of 5
We went shopping

Tromso, Norway

5 out of 5
Went shopping

Leknes, Norway Did not visit port

We had rough sea so we were unable to tender but went to Trondheim instead but only small corner shops where open as it was a Sunday

Kristiansund, Norway

5 out of 5
The ship docked right next to a shopping center, its was a very large shopping center with a range of shops inside.

Alesund, Norway

5 out of 5
We did an excursion to Atlantic Sea Park it was amazing. You could get really close to the animals and even watch them being fed. During our time at the sea park we got to pick up starfish and feed the crabs. The animals are very well looked after and even have a huge area they live in.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Very quick disembarkation
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5 Comments

Gwbigdog     3 months ago

Thanks for sharing

AuntPinkie     3 months ago

Great itinerary. Appreciate your detailed feedback. Glad you enjoyed your cruise.

cruising2004     3 months ago

Thank you for your detailed review. Sounds like the entire family had a wonderful time!

javawoody     3 months ago

Appreciate the write up

HeavySeas     3 months ago

Awesome.....thanks for sharing your cruise experience and glad you enjoyed your cruise