1st time on a cruise and I liked it
Nieuw Statendam Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean
10 Night Mediterranean Mosaic (Rome Roundtrip)
Sail date: September 27, 2019
Ship: Nieuw Statendam
Cabin type: Balcony
Cabin number: 8199
Traveled as: Large Group
Reviewed: 5 years ago
Review summary
The ShipMate application needs some work and really made it very difficult for a group of us to coordinate. Notifications did not work on apple phones so we never knew when someone was trying to contact us. And we were traveling with a group of 17 people. There was no way to do a group communication. This made our trip extremely challenging and less rewarding as coordination was so difficult. I think with this feature it would have improved all of ours overall experience. Additionally, some of the onboard activities did not sync up. We would go to some like line dancing, and it was actually ballroom dancing. On some of our phones it showed ballroom dancing and on others it showed line dancing. It was dissapointing as we were celebrating a birthday and we thought we were going to be able to celebrate based on the things we had picked out and that did not happen.Embarkation
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The Retreat
The massage therapists were very talented. I would give them a 5 star, however, I did not like the high pressure sales pitch at the end. That was not why I came on a cruise.
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