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Norwegian Epic Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 2
Helpful Votes: 37

Overall rating:

2.5 out of 5
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Norwegian Epic

7 Night Caribbean: Great Stirrup Cay & Dominican Republic (Port Canaveral Roundtrip)

Sail date: January 28, 2024

Ship: Norwegian Epic

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 9133

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 9 months ago

Review summary

We won't sail on the Epic ever again. This was our 2nd cruise on the Epic & we did not experience these issues in 2019.

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
Nothing outstanding...

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Spa was nice.

Entertainment

1 out of 5
Shows sold out or in venues too small for a ship with 4000+ passengers.

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
Staff was working hard (not enough of them?) and most very friendly & helpful.

Ship Quality

2 out of 5
VERY CROWDED, common areas not large enough to handle # of passengers.

Cabin / Stateroom

2 out of 5
Our cabin had a smell of urine & the floor in the toilet room was sticky. Ship shows lots of wear & tear.

Ship tip

Don't

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Ports of call

Great Stirrup Cay (Cruise Line Private Island), Bahamas Did not visit port

Couldn't tender in because of weather so another day at sea with 4000 unhappy people.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico

1 out of 5
Raining so we choose not to go on excursion. Later when rain stopped we got off & walked on the pier. Nothing to see or do there...blah.
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Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

2 out of 5
Limited time. 6am to 2pm but got a couple extra hours because they skipped Stirrup Cay. Then we got stuck in rain at the top of paradise point.
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Amber Cove (Puerto Plata), Dominican Republic

3 out of 5
'Wild truck' excursion... was just driving over undeveloped roads in the back of a dump truck. Beach was down (and up) 2 flights of stairs so not very accessible.
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Disembarkation

4 out of 5
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4 Comments

Gwbigdog     9 months ago

Oops sorry 😞 thanks
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javawoody     9 months ago

Another poor review of the Epic, I wonder what is going on?
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karlgrgurich     9 months ago

Sorry to hear of the things that did not go well
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bubbles60     9 months ago

Our experience recently is that most ships in the carribbean are overcrowded. I think it is that they count full capacity at 2 people per cabin, and many cabins have more than 2 people. This is an industry issue that should be addressed.
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