Eeeeeshhh!!! What a trip!

Norwegian Breakaway Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 31

Overall rating:

2 out of 5
Norwegian Breakaway

7 Night Bahamas & Florida (New York Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 06, 2016

Ship: Norwegian Breakaway

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 10222

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

My 2nd cruise ever - NO comparison to the first, which was absolutely wonderful. NJ schools out, so the ship was overrun with kids.  I understand families vacation together, but my gosh, these kids were UNRULY and RUDE, nearly knocking over people (some elderly) in their path.  Although Norwegian listed lots to do on their daily activity sheets, they were not very interesting or enticing.  Many of the activities of interest to most were located in the Atrium, which was wayyyyy too small to seat everyone.  By the 3rd day, we caught on that we had to ge there at least 2 hours early in order to get a seat.  Food in buffet was consistently salty.  Not much menu changes in other restaurants.  Not too many varied stores to shop in.  Boat seemed crowded wherever you went. Jungle Fantasy dinner was our only highlight.  Still HIGHLY disappointed that stop at private island was eliminated due to Hurricane Matthew but nothing was offered in return.  Stayed an extra few hours in Nassau, but not enough time to do anything.   Kept trying to find something great about this trip, but just couldn't!!!

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
Nothing that blew me away. Extra for lobster EVERY night in main dining room? Although we had an unlimited beverage package, we were not provided with any type of mug/cup to refill soda or water. If not at a restaurant, had to go to a bar each time get soda - WTH?????

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
VERY disappointing. Not very interesting options. Movies shown at 11:45 at night in crowded and noisy Atrium

Entertainment

3 out of 5
Jungle Fantasy dinner was great! Burn the Floor was disappointing. Jazz club was very good, but people did bring their children (at midnight!)

Children's Programs

N/A

Service and Staff

3 out of 5
Many of the crew was not friendly at all, but the ones who were were great. Stateroom steward (Imee) was AWESOME!

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
Bathrooms outside of highly traveled locations (which seemed to be everywhere!) were disgusting. We opted to return to our stateroom every time to use the restroom.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Bathroom shower nice and big, but step to enter bathroom itself was WAY too high. Balcony small but nice. Only two channels of programming, which repeated same show episodes and movies for entire 7 days

Ports of call

New York, New York

3 out of 5

Port Canaveral, Florida

3 out of 5

Nassau, Bahamas

3 out of 5
Excursion price to pay to go to beach. Local/nearby shopping not too varied - mostly jewelry and knock-off designer bags along with many souvenir shops

Great Stirrup Cay (Cruise Line Private Island), Bahamas

1 out of 5
Destination cancelled and not replaced with another port
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1 Comment

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise.

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