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Norwegian Epic Cruise Review

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 34

Overall rating:

4.6 out of 5
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Norwegian Epic

7 Night Western Mediterranean (Barcelona Roundtrip)

Sail date: April 17, 2022

Ship: Norwegian Epic

Cabin type: Suite

Cabin number: 11090

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 2 years ago

Review summary

Here are my thoughts in the excursions and places we visited

Embarkation

1 out of 5
The embarkation day was a disaster, NCL in check in gives a time to embark, mine was at 12:30, we were there at 11:45 and we noticed a big line, a double line that surrounded all the port area and the instructions were to do the line, so it didn’t matter if you did the check in online you had to do the big line, the process took about 4!!!! Hours!!! Once inside the port you have to wait tooo another time so at the end it was almost 5 when we went on the ship…

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
The buffet area is clean and well attended, to be sincere I didn’t like everything , but overall it was ok

Le Bistro

5 out of 5

Excellent service and wonderful food, even for someone like me that doesn’t know a lot ahout french food

Cagney's Steakhouse

4 out of 5

The food is great but the wait to be seated was almost an hour, but worth the wait

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
We didn’t go to a lot of the activities to be fair, the temperature was cold for outside activities but they were open for the public

Entertainment

4 out of 5
The Epic Beatles are really good and they have a sensational show, there’s a duo that we saw once and the lady singer have a wonderful voice, the other shows we didn’t saw them because there was an additional charge for those

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
The staff is superb , very helpful and courteous

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Very clean room , the shower design is different but I think that it makes more room the fact that they are apart the shower from the toilet

Ship tip

If I could turn back time😃, I wouldn’t have taken the internet on the ship, it’s slow and it kept loading and loading and that makes you loose the minutes, it’s not worth it. We took the Hop on Hop off in Rome, it’s a great a opportunity to go to important stops but be advised there’s always a big line to take them so try to be on time for their stops.

Ports of call

NAPLES (POMPEII), ITALY

5 out of 5
We did the excursion of Sorrento-Amalfi and is a long drive but with beautiful scenes, there’s a stop at a cameo factory that for me was more of a point for sales, I could have preferred more time in Amalfi( only half an hour) than that stop

Palma De Mallorca, Balearic Islands

5 out of 5
We did the wine excursion and it was great to taste and learn about wines also we saw part of their historical sites, very beautiful and clean

Cannes, France

5 out of 5
We did the Monaco- Nice excursion and I’m glad we did it! Nice is beautiful and easy to walk and Monaco has beautiful and narrow streets full of little stores, great places

Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

4 out of 5
There’s so much to see in Rome, but once you’re there the six hours that remain from the bus drive to Rome, won’t be enough but you make the most of it, I was a little surprised by how dirty and full of graffiti is the city

Livorno (Florence & Pisa), Italy

5 out of 5
I found Pisa to be beautiful and easy to walk and loved Florence

Ajaccio, Corsica

5 out of 5
Beautiful place, so peaceful

Barcelona, Spain

5 out of 5

Traveler Photos

Amalfi Balcony cabin The lamp View from the ship Ajaccio Dimner at Le Bistro Epic Beatles at the Cavern Club Monaco
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5 Comments

IzzyW    2 years ago

Thank you for the review. We were on the Epic on the 20th for the 7 days out of Rome. No lines at 11.30am. We were on the ship in 20 minutes (we had our negative testresult with us as this was asked by NCL). We heard a lot of people complaining about the check-in at Barcelona...

Schlinger    2 years ago

Glad you see you were able to see a show. The internet was a catastrophe indeed, as was the app.

Dumfy75    2 years ago

Thanks and glad you enjoyed your cruise! I got on the same day as you (cabin very close to you!) and only did the 3 day this time but loved it. Sorry your embarkation was a nightmare, ours wasn’t too bad but it obviously got a lot worse as the day went on 😒

javawoody    2 years ago

Appreciate the sharing of your experience

Gwbigdog    2 years ago

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