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Norwegian Breakaway Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

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Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 12

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Norwegian Breakaway

7 Night Bahamas & Florida (New York Roundtrip)

Sail date: October 25, 2015

Ship: Norwegian Breakaway

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 5230

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 9 years ago

Review summary

The ship was clean and nice.  However, I found it to be too large.  It took a bit to navigate.  I liked the bar outside on deck 8 and the adults only section aft deck 16.  I don't think the ship needs 6 specialty restaurants that charge an additional fee.  It seemed these restaurants didn't fill up which would cause a wait in the dining room some nights.  The pool area is not very large so there was no BBQ near the pool which I have experienced on many other cruises.  However, there were plenty of deck lounge chairs so no fighting over chairs (Yay!).  I am not a smoker, but I thought the smoking "box" on deck 15 was ridiculous.  Plus it smelled really bad and has no fans to help ventilate the smoke.  The food was excellent especially the beef dishes.  But no lobster unless you went to a specialty restaurant and paid extra on top of the additional fee to dine there--Lobster in Le Bistro was $19.95 plus another $9.95--so $30 for lobster????  Also felt like the ship nickled and dimed the passengers for everything.  Like the games at O'Sheen's Irish Bar--they were expensive to play.  O'Sheen's is a nice Irish pub but they don't serve Guinness--WHAT?????  The atrium was too loud--I went for a chef demonstration and could not hear the chef.  The dining rooms were loud too--Savor, Taste and Manhattan. 

The Rock of Ages show was AMAZING!  However, the theater seats are incredibly uncomfortable.  Please fix the seats. 

I would have loved to attend some of the parties on board at night, but they all start at 10:30 p.m.  Can't you start them a bit earlier like 9:30 p.m.? 

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
The food was excellent!

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5
I really enjoyed The Rock of Ages show! It was phenomenal! However, the seats in the theater are extremely uncomfortable.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
Very clean, but didn't like the layout and all the specialty restaurants.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Loved the lay out of the cabin. There was so many storage spaces.

Ship tip

Make sure to check out the lunch buffets in the Brazilian and Cagney's specialty restaurant area. They have them on sea days. I only made it to the German buffet and it was very delicious.

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6 Comments

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise.

beckys72852313    9 years ago

if you have UDP there's no upcharge for the higher priced dishes. my bro had 32 oz steak at cagneys and no extra charge.

lucsamska    9 years ago

Brooklyn Lager in the Uptown Bar

ama123    9 years ago

Stella, new castle, bud, bud light, corona, think they had sam adams. there were some more, those are the ones I can remember seeing.

louisaredman    9 years ago

seriously, no Guinness? what beers did they serve?

ama123    9 years ago

Couldn't agree more with the ( lack of) Guinness comment!

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