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Norwegian Bliss Cruise Review to Panama Canal, Central America

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 4

Overall rating:

3.2 out of 5
Norwegian Bliss

15 Night Panama Canal: Mexico & Costa Rica (Los Angeles To Miami)

Sail date: November 19, 2023

Ship: Norwegian Bliss

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 12114

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 11 months ago

Review summary

Too many things to said! Most important is poor food quality, and some restaurants server are need improvement on their attitude and body language! They show you inpatient and don’t care!

Embarkation

3 out of 5
Too many people on board takes a while to get off the ship

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
Food quality needs improvement!

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Fitness

Entertainment

4 out of 5
Beatles experience show was great!

Service and Staff

3 out of 5
Restaurant server just ok, room steward was great!

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
Up to standards

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
It’s ok.

Ship tip

Do not need to upgrade to specialty dinning ! The regular dinning is ok , but overall the food quality still need improvement!

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Ports of call

San Pedro (Los Angeles), California

2 out of 5
The terminal was a mess!
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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

3 out of 5
Tender, been there before, just walk around the port area!
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Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

3 out of 5
Port ok. Been there no excursion
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Manzanillo, Mexico

3 out of 5
Ok, no excursions
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Acapulco, Mexico Did not visit port

This port was canceled, we book the cruise 3 month before never notified us!
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Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala

3 out of 5
It’s OK
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Panama City, Panama

3 out of 5
Ok, no excursion
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Panama Canal Transit

4 out of 5
A great experience!
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Cartagena, Colombia

3 out of 5
It’s ok
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Miami, Florida

3 out of 5
It’s ok
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Disembarkation

2 out of 5
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6 Comments

jeffykins     11 months ago

The homeless-camp situation in the Observation Lounge really needs to be addressed. Especially since so many folks bring their buffet plates down there and camp out for HOURS or literally all day.
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PaulzyJC     11 months ago

I can argue that my experience on the Bliss was very, very different only because we sailed at a significantly reduced capacity of 33% last January. There was no waiting in any dining rooms or venues. While I did reserve online, they didn't needed as a restaurant for mostly empty. Only two shows needed reservations - Jersey Boys and the burlesque show, which I missed by mistake ☹ The bartenders would even let us order drinks outside of our package, and even serve drinks on the pool deck. We even got to two extra free plays at laser tag. So your experience only proves why I'll never sell on a mega ship at full capacity. Sorry you had a bad experience.
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Gwbigdog     11 months ago

Thanks for sharing
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ewd0401     11 months ago

The Bliss is the least of my favorite NCL ships. Consistently bad service, terrible bar tenders who never smiled, and horrible food. Thank God for soup because that’s all I ate all week. Observation lounge area for Alaska was a joke because they allowed people to “camp out” so that no one else could see. Most ignorant crowd I ever sailed with was on this adventure.
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javawoody     11 months ago

Attitude and body language, this sounds very judgmental
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cruising2004     11 months ago

Sorry this cruise was not up to par.
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