Carribbean cruise with Norweigian Gem
Norwegian Gem Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern
10 Night Eastern Caribbean (New York Roundtrip)
Sail date: October 20, 2015
Ship: Norwegian Gem
Cabin type: Oceanview
Cabin number: 5600
Traveled as: Singles/Friends
Reviewed: 9 years ago
Review summary
I have been on the Gem six times and lately the food is going downhill. Now in order to get dishes that were previously included like lobster tails and escargot yoy have to go to a speciality restaurant and pay $20 to $30 extra per person and even then the food is not great plus even in the specialty restaurant some dishes have an extra charge. In addition it's bad enough that Norwegian raised the tips (service charge) twice in one year and you still have to pay an addional gratuity of 18 percent in the speciality restaurants. This is like double tipping because when you are eating in a speciality restaurant you are also tipping in the dining room where you are not eating. The excursions are very overpriced. They even discontinued a simple dish at the pasta station like spaghetti and meat sauce. Why? They should also have trays in the buffet like some other cruise lines have
Ship experiences
Food and Dining
Onboard Activities
Entertainment
Service and Staff
Ship Quality
Cabin / Stateroom
Ship tip
The soups in the Buffet were terrible. Please improve on them. Please include spaghetti and meat sauce at the pasta station like you used to have on all my other cruises on the Gem. Please include Chinese dishes in the Buffet
Ports of call
Tortola, British Virgin Islands
2 Comments
glomarrone 9 years ago
Sorry to read that the quality of the food onboard is going downhill. I understand that some ships are eliminating complimentary lobster dinners in the MDR. How sad... To charge extra for Spaghetti and meat sauce is going too far. I have a feeling that you maybe bookiNg on a different ship for your next cruise. Why were you unhappy with Tortola?