NCL Gem Cruise to Canada
Norwegian Gem Cruise Review to Canada, New England, New York
6 Night Canada & New England (New York Roundtrip)
Sail date: May 29, 2016
Ship: Norwegian Gem
Cabin type: Inside
Cabin number: 4501
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 8 years ago
Review summary
We really like the Gem and sailing out of NYC is always a thrill. As is sailing to Canada. Everything was good except for one thing. Our room was terrible. On every cruise we've taken I've always taken the time to decide what room we want making sure there are only cabins around and below and above our cabin. This was the first time I took guaranteed and let them decide on the room. Every night we could hear noises that would prevent us from sleeping. We mentioned it a couple times and nothing was done. Otherwise it was a good cruise even with all the fog.
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Good casino.
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4 Comments
jleslie48 8 years ago
Guaranteed cabin, or guaranteed category ? I've never heard of the former. How can you guarantee a cabin unless you book it ?
its a pricing policy (at a pretty significant discount) whereby you are guaranteed a cabin in a particular category, but you won't find out what room you are in until you arrive. The idea is the cruise ship will continue to let people pick out what stateroom they want (I pick exactly the room I want, aka, away from the elevators, or not too far from a staircase, etc,) and folks continue to do that, and the cruise ship knows to shut down that category when there are only xxx rooms left whereby xxx is the number of rooms they have sold under the "guaranteed cabin" sales. This way the cruise ship can maximize selling the cabins at the higher "pick your room" price but still offer a lower price for those that don't care where their stateroom is. the downside is the rooms that are left for last (even within a category,) are last for a reason.