Worse cruise ever

Item: Norwegian Gem
Rating: 2
Author: cparker183

Norwegian Gem Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

cparker183

Contributor Level: Deck Hand

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 12

Overall rating:

2 out of 5

Verified Review

7 Night Bahamas & Florida (New York Roundtrip)

Sail date: May 13, 2017

Ship: Norwegian Gem

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 5522

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

This was the worse cruise I have ever taken. The service was poor in the state room, as well as the dining room. We waited over a hour for dinner to be served. I have young children and to dress them for a nice dinner and wait so long that I had to take them to the buffet to eat because they were so hungry. I am totally disappointed in Royal Caribbean. This is not my first cruise on this cruise line, or even this ship. The service had gone down so much. Carnival would have been a better choice. I have always thought Royal Caribbean to be a step up, but not anymore.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Children's Programs

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

1 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Steward need to step up their game not as accommodatin

Ports of call

New York, New York

5 out of 5

Port Canaveral, Florida

5 out of 5

Great Stirrup Cay (Cruise Line Private Island), Bahamas

3 out of 5

Nassau, Bahamas

5 out of 5

7 Comments

JusMe 7 years ago

If you are on Cruiseline.com, they "Verify" that the people were on the ship and cabin # that the review is headlined. They know that Mr. Smith was in cabin 1234 on the 2-2-17 cruise on the ship that the review is posted under. This is all verified with the cruise line and travel agent to get the official "Verified" green ribbon in the heading of the review.

There are things that you do not get on Ship Mate that you get on Cruiseline.com.

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Kathy717 7 years ago

esm is right, there is no mention of NCL. and they mentioned RCCL not once but twice. There is no cruises on the profile. Probably just posted in the wrong thread.

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esm54687 7 years ago

JusMe: actually just the opposite.... there is nothing that "verifies" they were on NCL.... the review complaints are generic (no mention of the name of the dining room that gave poor service to identify the Gem), they have NO cruise history to say they were on the Gem, they do NOT reference NCL by name in the review, they spell out TWICE a cruise line that doesn't even begin with a "N".. . if anything, the OP was confused and accidentally posted in the Gem thread

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JusMe 7 years ago

The review was "Verified" as NCL(that they were on the NCL Gem and in that cabin) ...... so they were on NCL, they are just confused a bit.

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esm54687 7 years ago

lol..... and it's not like spell check changed it from RCCL to NCL.... they spelled Royal Caribbean out not once but TWICE.

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bitterman 7 years ago

Exactly!

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Luvs2Travel214 7 years ago

I'm a lil confused. The post is under Norwegian Gem, but were you on Royal Caribbean?

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