Nice ship but...
Norwegian Breakaway Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern
14 Night Southern Caribbean (New York Roundtrip)
Sail date: January 15, 2017
Ship: Norwegian Breakaway
Cabin type: Balcony
Cabin number: 11762
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 7 years ago
Review summary
The Breakaway is a very large and very stable ship. The food in the main complimentary dinning rooms was very good. And the cabin and overall service aboard the ship was very good. Excellent staff and overall professionalism.
The bad - Well for me the worst thing was the cigarette smoke. There was only one adult outdoor pool area (which would become very crowded at times) and the system was that smokers owned one side of it and claimed one of the two bars. And non-smokers had the other side. In reality cigarette smoke does not care about side of an open area and would swirl around in the wind to make it impossible to get away from. So be OK with constant poisoning if you want to use the pool area. Also the ship itself had various smoking areas both inside and outside that created an overall smokey atmosphere in many parts of the ship. The casino in the central atrium is a smoking area with obvious consequences. If you are a smoker then this is the ship for you.
The other bad - This is a huge ship, however the entire front of the ship is taken up with the "Haven" (First class area off limits to everyone else) and the SPA (very expensive and off limits unless you pay). So the effect is that you are on a huge ship with thousands of people but limited to a much smaller area than on other ships I have been on.
I had a good time, but would look for a different ship in the future as I am a non-smoker and like a little more space.
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Ports of call
Tortola, British Virgin Islands
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