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Norwegian Getaway Cruise Review to Europe - Northern Europe

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Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 39

Overall rating:

4.5 out of 5
Norwegian Getaway

9 Night Scandinavia Russia & Baltic (Copenhagen Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 22, 2019

Ship: Norwegian Getaway

Cabin type: Oceanview

Traveled as: Family (young children)

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Norwegian Get away is big new ship (expected 4500 passengers or more) but well organized, not much chaos as I imagined. Clean nice ships but everything is in OK to good (food, service, staffs....) NOT SUPER GREAT but NOT BAD as all like other reviews. Personally I think the food is too salty, not enough entertainments (shows or activities) so for the price of the cruise, overall I have OK to good experience, not super fantastic but nothing for me to complain, except the waiting time in the morning when we waiting to get out in St. Peterburgs port, it was long and no one announce anything that make us nervous and worry about our tour. Also when the ship docked at Rostock, we had no idea because we thought it would dock at Warnumende as our original itinenarry when we booked the cruise. No really a big deal but we wish the captain or cruise director doing a better job to make sure we are not confusing or well prepared.

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
food is very salty for my taste. Didn't try specialty restaurants but buffets and regular dining restaurants has variety of choice, good in general but nothing special or excellent.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Not much things going around. It is just ok but nothing special.

Entertainment

3 out of 5
Not much shows to enjoy for 9 days cruise. Few shows needed to pay to see. Except Burn the floor is a great group of entertaining dancers. Funky Duo is a great couple that we enjoyed most of her songs and her voice.

Children's Programs

5 out of 5
Our kids love Splash Academy.

Service and Staff

4 out of 5
Staffs are nice but I can tell they just try to do their jobs, not much of excitement or happy.

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
Nice new ship and clean, great design in room storage that we can well organized our stuffs.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
small room but bed is comfort and clean. well organized storage shelves.

Ship tip

No self laundry machine on board. Food is salty.

Ports of call

Copenhagen, Denmark

5 out of 5
Nice city, worth a visit.

Rostock (Berlin), Germany

5 out of 5
Norwegian ship didn't announce ship docks at Rostock instead of Warnemunde as original itinerary .

Helsinki, Finland

5 out of 5

St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

5 out of 5
slow disembarked process, unfriendly Russian staffs for immigration check point. Beautiful city

Tallinn, Estonia

5 out of 5

Nynashamn (Stockholm), Sweden

4 out of 5

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
not really organized, didn't announce anything for a long time in St. Pettersburg port, make people confusing and worrying.
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1 Comment

Shh813    5 years ago

Next time ask for your food with no salt. After one night you should have and then the rest of the week would have been fine. Your own fault.

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