Great food, great shows, less than great service

Norwegian Epic Cruise Review to Europe - Western Mediterranean

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 43

Overall rating:

3.6 out of 5
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Norwegian Epic

7 Night Western Mediterranean (Barcelona Roundtrip)

Sail date: September 15, 2019

Ship: Norwegian Epic

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

We had a great time on our cruise. The entertainment and food were amazing! We will definitely cruise with Norwegian again.

Embarkation

4 out of 5
Embarkation was good, check in was swift the life boat/safety drill was unorganized

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Food and drink, overall, was excellent, especially in the specialty restaurants. The service was very good in these (specialty) restaurants, but I witnessed arguing among staff and poor staff attitude in the buffet dinning area. There were even staff members complaining aloud and staring at their cell phones.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
I did not take part in many of the activities on board, but did notice that a couple of the kids pools were shut down all week.

Entertainment

5 out of 5
The entertainment on board was amazing!

Service and Staff

2 out of 5
The staff at the service desk were very helpful, however, the service provided by many of the other staff members was very unsatisfactory! Some examples include; having a reservation in a specialty restaurant and being told that we would be seated IF they had any remaining seating available, matradees seating us without ever saying a word (no welcome, etc.), and bartenders joking and playing with each (for several minutes) other while patrons were waiting to be served (there was even an instance when another bartender came up and apologized for his coworkers). The service at the pool bar was terrible.

Ship Quality

2 out of 5
The ship was fairly clean, but we had just come from a cruise on Costa (a much smaller cruise line), and their ship was very clean.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
We actually tried an interior cabin for the first time (in our 5 cruises) and we were pleasantly surprised with the amount of room that we had.

Ship tip

Be prepared for a lack of genuine customer service, or even good service, but the entertainment and food are very good!

Ports of call

Naples, Italy

3 out of 5
Naples is very dirty. There is trash everywhere, but there is also a lot of history there. Our tour was very informative, very good.

Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

5 out of 5
Rome was amazing. What a fun place!

Livorno (Florence & Pisa), Italy

3 out of 5
We went to Pisa and saw the leaning tower. It was pretty cool.

Cannes, France

4 out of 5
Cannes is beautiful! There is really not too much to do, but the scenery is amazing.

Palma De Mallorca, Balearic Islands

4 out of 5
We only went sight seeing on our own, but it was fun.

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
We actually had to disembark from Palma, in order to catch am early flight, but our disembaration was very easy.
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