Excellent itinerary, long lines for dinner check in every night. Very pleasant crew staff. Not our favorite cruise ship in the NCL line.

Norwegian Dawn Cruise Review to Caribbean

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 2
Helpful Votes: 55

Overall rating:

4 out of 5
Norwegian Dawn

11 Night Caribbean (Tampa Roundtrip)

Sail date: January 17, 2018

Ship: Norwegian Dawn

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 8157

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

The cruise was good, 11 days gives plenty of time to relax. The port itenary for this cruise could not have been better.

Embarkation

2 out of 5
The Tampa check in was not the most streamlined process. Have experienced much smoother check in at other ports also much larger cruise ships Lots of chit chat amongst check in staff while passengers standing in line. Seemed to be disorganized

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
Food was very good, lot of choices, great serving staff. Most nights we had to wait to get seated, but did get a glass of sparkling wine in the Bliss Lounge while waiting for about 20 minutes. The art work in the Venitian dining room was way out of taste for the theme of the dining room which was elegant. No one including the staff had any positive comments about the art workr which absolutely did not match the theme of the beautiful dining room design. Words can not describe how out of character the art decor was.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Loved the trivia games, hot tubs were great. Enjoyed the evening entertainment.

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Excellent entertainment

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
Good service. Everyone was very friendly.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
The layout of the ship was fair but not enough seating in Atrium, or anywhere else

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Under Bliss lounge not too bad noise but would be worse if passengers were of a younger generation. Cabin clean and spacious but would have preferred not to have a fold up bed on side wall also spare bed underneath. Have not experienced this on previous cruises.

Ship tip

Watch out for all the Jazzies/ mobility scooters and wheel chairs

Ports of call

Tampa, Florida

1 out of 5
A little confusing to get to even GPS had problems. Due to road construction.

Key West, Florida

4 out of 5
Nice lots to see and do

Oranjestad, Aruba

4 out of 5
Nice beaches. Nice shopping

Willemstad, Curacao

5 out of 5
Excellent port, lots to see and do, did an excursion very good .Did Hato caves and city tour really good.

Kralendijk, Bonaire

5 out of 5
Nice port, shopping was a little less than other ports. Did a beach / hotel excursion nice facility very clean with beautiful pool and beach. Lot of loungers and chairs available.,

Ocho Rios, Jamaica

5 out of 5
Good port. Very friendly people. Did Dunn’s River Falls and beach excursion which was outstanding. Our tour guide, Shamara was as nice and friendly as can be.

George Town, Grand Cayman

5 out of 5
Went snorkeling close to docking pier at Eden Rock. great location for snorkeling and diving.

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
Was way smoother than the embarkation process.
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5 Comments

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise with us.

roses32    6 years ago

Port itenary was excellent

ljh180    6 years ago

PandCruisers, roses said it could NOT have been better.

PandCcruisers    6 years ago

What was wrong with the port itinerary?

IkeDeb    6 years ago

Great, so glad to see that you had a great cruise 😋

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