Norwegian Encore Cruise Reviews - Reviews

Will avoid large ships in the future despite great food and service. A few spoiled and rude guests really ruined the dining experienced on a few nights. No fault of the cruise line.

Great ship, great staff, excellent food, but the sailing and ports suck. They sail too far from shore, so you dont get to see much, and when you get into port you dont have enough time. Overall, it feels like you are trapped on a ship. But with good entertainment and food, it still makes it a fun cruise.

Great cruise but can use a few improvements with booking entertainment and dining on the ship

An amazing journey to Alaska and seeing the glaciers.

Was an amazing first experience. It was a bit crowded at times especially in the main public areas, but I have never had service and entertainment of such an amazing caliber before. I would absolutely recement it to others.

Great cruise from every aspect. Beautiful ship. The only negative is the internet and wifi service. Wifi not available in may part so the ship and not reliable. The app is not user friendly and confusing. Also, the 150 minutes (part of the Free at Sea pkg) is a tricky one because if you don't logout every time, it keep eating up your minutes.

Katie, with Dream Vacations, helped us plan an amazing cruise to Alaska in the timeframe we needed, with the exact itinerary we requested, and within our budget. Our trip was hassle free from start to finish and we felt confident that we were in great hands if we ran into any issues. Our family expected this to be a once in a lifetime trip, but now we can't wait to go back!

Heck of a first cruise. While I don’t have anything to compare it to, I definitely will be doing another.

Love NCL but they added so many additional charges for things. Felt like we were paying for things that we used to get a no charge. Also miss turn down service

Good service and excellent food and drinks Suggestions: Port of call in Victoria and Ketichen should be longer

Enjoyed cruise very much. Ship was clean and well maintained with plenty of amenities and things to do. Variety of food choices and restaurants, but food quality a little underwhelming. Every port has plenty of things to offer, but ship’s schedule is tight and provides little time to spend at each port, especially if doing excursion.

The cruise was great, but Ivan start feeling seek on Sunday June 18 the day of disembarking, he was tested Covid positive next day (June 19th), his wife Zhanna was tested positive on June 20th, our kids are still fine, which might be one of three possible reasons, thirst - they got luck, second they are young and do not have enough receptors to bind the virus, third - they did not attend activities which made their parents seek. Ivan and Zhanna attended three sessions of wine testing and one day of spa. If other passengers reported getting seek and were involved in the same activities, you might figure out the source of the infection and prevent it from happening to other guests.

All I can say is GO! Alaska is a wonderland, and Norwegian is a nice way to see it...if they would fine-tune a few things. Just eliminate Victoria, because there's not enough time in the two last ports. Don't use priority embarkation. It's a waste. Loved the food, drinks and entertainment.

The cruise ship overall was clean. Lacked in entertainment and didn't have much to do if the weather was bad. The app on the phone was terrible. Kept having to sign in multiple times and couldn't book anything but dining through the app. You had to book everything 1st day otherwise everything was booked. The dining room staff seemed very inexperienced and took forever. The ports of call were great but seemed very commercialized. If you go on this cruise, get away from the downtown portions and do excursions. Weather is a major factor both on and off the ship. We had a major excursion get cancelled because of weather. Overall it was great to see Alaska but the ship experience wasn't the best I've been on.

Overall, I had a great time on this cruise, other than the debarkation and the slow sit in restaurant service.

Enjoyed the itinerary. Pretty smooth ride. Great choice of food and entertainment.

Excellent cruise but the time in some port were very limited. I might suggest doing the one way cruise in lieu of the round trip.

A nice ship with a lot of decent food and activities. There was a lot of sea time. I wish I could have spent more time in ports. This cruise was about the destination and experiencing more of Alaska would have been preferred.

I would not take the Encore ship, because I like using hot tubs, and swimming in a nice, when the air is warm enough. I have seen a lot of hot tubs in my life time, but those hot tubs super small with luke warm water did not belong on a one billion dollar ship, impossible to enjoy when cramped together like sardines.

Any issues we had were minor compared to the overall amazing trip we had. My biggest piece of advice is do not do the horse drawn trolley in Victoria because it was the worst part of the trip. I would definitely cruise on Norwegian again. They are fast, efficient, and very helpful. Everything is clean and well kept. The food overall was good.