Probably wouldn't cruise again for quite a while or with a ship with more than 1000 passengers

Item: Norwegian Epic
Rating: 2.7
Author: Beachside60

Norwegian Epic Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Beachside60

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 1 cruise (first)

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 12

Overall rating:

2.7 out of 5

7 Night Western Caribbean (Port Canaveral Roundtrip)

Sail date: January 13, 2018

Ship: Norwegian Epic

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

If this is an example of what cruising is like, I think i'll stick with my catamarans and small vessels for a while.

Embarkation

1 out of 5

Terrible long lines

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5

No seating most times long waits for restaurant unless plantinum

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Cavern club and Beatles revue awesome although not enough seating and lines at bar

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Doing best they could overworked

Ship Quality

4 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Ship tip

Don't unless your platinum or above

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Ports of call

Port Canaveral, Florida

2 out of 5

Nassau, Bahamas

2 out of 5

Falmouth, Jamaica

1 out of 5

credit card stolen and overcharged at Margaritaville

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George Town, Grand Cayman

3 out of 5

Excursion kind of expensive for 2 hrs at the white beach resort. Took us back 2.5 hrs early for return time

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Great Stirrup Cay (Cruise Line Private Island), Bahamas

2 out of 5

Island okay food good lots of chairs ......1.5 hrs wait to get on a boat to take us in ...Surprise Norwegian ...That you would have lots of people who wanted to go to your private island

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Disembarkation

4 out of 5

Okay because we left early and carried our suitcases 8 floors to get off as waiting for elevator was crazy!!! In fact 80% nof the time we took stairs as lines for elevators were nuts.

3 Comments

lucindancarl 6 years ago

I guess stick with Carnival then, we love NCL.

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lucindancarl 6 years ago

Cruising is not for everyone , ports that have to use tender boats usually take 2-4 hours to get everyone off their boat. (Your previous complaint) That is true for all cruise lines not just NCL, and the fact that EPIC holds four thousand plus I would expect some lines everywhere.

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willwork4cruz 6 years ago

Yes it was probably typical. There are lots of people on cruise ships. You can time some things to avoid some crowds like not dining at peak times or getting up early to get on one of the first tenders but you won't get away people. Cruising is not for everyone. Some love it, some don't. At least you tried it.

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