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Norwegian Gem Cruise Review to Europe - Eastern Mediterranean

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 42

Overall rating:

2.5 out of 5
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Norwegian Gem

10 Night Greek Isles: Santorini Mykonos & Croatia (Trieste Roundtrip)

Sail date: August 04, 2023

Ship: Norwegian Gem

Cabin number: 10006

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

I was very disappointed with what was offered per your advertisements and your sales agents selling me this expensive vacation. I paid for both rooms 10006 and 10002. I was very unhappy with the Concierge Service and Butler Service. They were basically nonexistent. Although they did send me a small tray of small bites every night, I guess to appease me? Nashira Forbes was the worst concierge I have ever dealt with and I have traveled a lot. Her condescending attitude was the worst, unless of course you were one of her favorites. She did not listen to our concerns, her directions were not clear or precise and she did not go out of her way in any possible act to try and remedy the situation or try and make our Honeymoon Trip better in any possible way.

Embarkation

1 out of 5
terrible, timing was always wrong and made it difficult to go on several of my prepaid for tours, actually missed 2 of them.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
The Buffet was not good, but the remainder of the restaurants we ate at were very good and the staff at the restaurants were always kind and did their best to make sure you had what you wanted and needed

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
We did Bingo and a few game shows. The Golf driving range only had a putter and a left handed club to use, bad equipment

Entertainment

3 out of 5
Ice Bucket band was the best show on the ship and I would go listen to them where ever they were performing, poolside or a lounge

Children's Programs

No children traveling with me

Service and Staff

2 out of 5
My Room Steward was Excellent *****, Lido! My Concierge Nashira Forbes and Butler Jose were the worst and don't deserve a star at all.

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
Yes, for the most part

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Ship tip

Dont and if you do do not upgrade your cabin to include 24 hour Concierge and Butler service, the only thing they did was send us snacks every evening with their compliments. I just wish they had done their jobs!

Ports of call

TRIESTE (VENICE), ITALY

1 out of 5
We had to spend more than 4 hours that day traveling. We had to pay extra to take the train back to Tieste, because the complimentary bus they offered to us would have only allowed us 4 hours in Venice as the last bus was leaving for port at 3;30 pm, when they didn't even get us to Venice until almost 10:30 am. We missed a paid for tour because the buses were not at the port on time and my Concierge Nashira Forbes did not get me on the first bus out, as she had promised, because of the timing of our tour and the travel time by bus.

Koper, Slovenia Did not visit port

Was not on our destination cruise

Hvar, Croatia

3 out of 5
We went to the beach

Kotor, Montenegro

3 out of 5
Loved it, went on a small tour and then to the beach.

Corfu, Greece

3 out of 5
We had a mix up with our tour guide but eventually we got to the beach. This was another mistake that Nashira Forbes made when we asked her help in getting to a beach.

Santorini, Greece

1 out of 5

Mykonos, Greece

3 out of 5
the port was crowded and the traffic was crazy! We did a cooking class in the morning and visited a beach in the afternoon,

Zadar, Croatia Did not visit port

wasn't on our itinerary

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
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7 Comments

AimeeRuthN    1 year ago

Wow. So when you love something, you only give it 3 stars?? You say you loved Montenegro but then only 3 out of 5 stars??

AuntPinkie    1 year ago

Appreciate your detailed feedback. Sorry your honeymoon wasn’t all you hoped.

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

javawoody    1 year ago

Interesting????

Need2CruiseSoon    1 year ago

The admins of this app really need to monitor some of these reviews. Leaving a review on ports they haven’t even cruise to yet? Day 3 of their current cruise it hasn’t even finished. Hard to believe this nonsense lol.

Carnivalfoodie    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

cruising2004    1 year ago

Sorry you were disappointed with your cruise. Thanks for sharing your experience.