Great Trip but disappointed.

Norwegian Escape Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 50

Overall rating:

3.6 out of 5
Norwegian Escape

7 Night Bahamas & Florida (New York Roundtrip)

Sail date: March 31, 2019

Ship: Norwegian Escape

Cabin type: Balcony

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

I love Norwegian Cruise line but i think the larger the ship, the quality of food and service decreases. We have been on 7 different ships and this ships quality of food was much lower then other ships. Since starting the "Free at Sea" and offering Speciality Dinning as one of the option, the quality of the Speciality Dinner restaurants has really going down. I doesn't even feel like a special treat to go to them. The seafood Speciality restaurant was extremely expensive and not worth it. If you want to go to this restaurant, you can use your speciality dinner credit but you have an additional charge on top of that and if you want lobster, you pay yet another charge. We will never go there again.

Embarkation

3 out of 5
My husband needed a wheel chair so we put in a holding area and our name was taken. It took us over 2 hours to get on the ship. One would think they would try to get the handicapped on first.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
This was the first of eights Norwegian cruses I went on that the food ok. We were disappointed.

Atrium Bar

4 out of 5

Loved this bar.

Bayamo by Ocean Blue

2 out of 5

For the money you pay for this restaurant, its not worth it.

Cagney's Steakhouse

3 out of 5

Overrated!

Teppanyaki

5 out of 5

I could eat there every night. Their filet was better then Cagney's.

Le Bistro

3 out of 5

Overrated!

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Thermal suite (fantastic)

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Loved Choir of Men. Didnt like After Midnight

Children's Programs

did not use

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
Staff were very attentive.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
very clean.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Cabin had alot of storage space.

Ship tip

Too many people.

Ports of call

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

Their island was cancelled. I was very disappointed because this was the only location i wanted to get off the ship for.

Nassau, Bahamas

2 out of 5
I am not a fan of Nassau. We have been there many time and i never feel very safe when walking around.

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
This could have ruined my entire vacation. People started gathering around 7:00am and by the time they started paging the first color, everyone started pushing and shoving in order to get off first. There needs to be a better system then the color tags because I watched several different colors trying to leave in the first group.
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1 Comment

Cruisers4Lyfe     5 months ago

Thanks for sharing

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