Enjoyable 21nights and over 5000 miles. Great crew. We are in our 70s and enjoyed the more senior mix of guests. Garden cafe disappointing except breakfast.

Item: Norwegian Dawn
Rating: 4
Author: FranTod

Norwegian Dawn Cruise Review to Caribbean

FranTod

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 16

Overall rating:

4 out of 5

11 Night Caribbean (Tampa Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 07, 2018

Ship: Norwegian Dawn

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 11686

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

Great crew. Great drink and specialty meal packages. Nice sized ship even for our back to back 21 nights. Ask for foam bed topper.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Main dining rooms very good, specialty restaurants very good to excellent, buffet breakk fast good, lunch and dinner not so much.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

So smokey from adjoining cigar bar that was unable to stay and enjoy entertainment.

Entertainment

4 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Absolutely the best ever after 9 NCL cruises

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Spacious and clean minisuite but very noisy from gym above. .Stay away from areas below cafeteria and gym

Ship tip

Staley away from most aft mini suites above gym or cafeteria.

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Ports of call

Tampa, Florida

4 out of 5

Key West, Florida

5 out of 5

Willemstad, Curacao

4 out of 5

Oranjestad, Aruba

4 out of 5

Ocho Rios, Jamaica

2 out of 5

High pressure in port. Ugly disembarked location

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George Town, Grand Cayman

4 out of 5

Disembarkation

3 out of 5

Confusing and slow but not sure fix is possible with so few customs agents

4 Comments

Gwbigdog 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing your cruise with us.

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FranTod 6 years ago

You can request it when you make a reservation, but we did that and it hadn’t been done when we arrived at the room. Just mentioned it to the steward and he came in with in a little while and installed it. I wouldn’t wait any time at all after you find out it is not there before asking as I’m sure they have a limited number

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studleybride 6 years ago

Do you just ask the room steward for the foam topper? Is there a huge fee? We went last year and the bed was not that comfortable! We are going again in August

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IkeDeb 6 years ago

Sounds great, wow 21 days.😋😋

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