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Item: Norwegian Getaway
Rating: 3.5
Author: lrm4505

Norwegian Getaway Cruise Review to Transatlantic

lrm4505

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 7

Overall rating:

3.5 out of 5

19 Night Transatlantic Westbound (Copenhagen To New Orleans)

Sail date: October 20, 2019

Ship: Norwegian Getaway

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 12818

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Never will take this ship again. Very poorly run and they can’t handle the amount of passengers for this cruise.

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Very fast

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Dining rooms was hard to get in until after 7:30 pm. Anytime dining is only good if you like to wait for a sit down dinner.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Ship doesn’t have proper space after taking so much for special spaces. Special restaurant and the Heven.

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

4 out of 5

Ship Quality

1 out of 5

Poor design ship

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Very small, hard to walk around the bed.

Ship tip

Find a different ship

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Ports of call

Copenhagen, Denmark

5 out of 5

Rotterdam, Netherlands

5 out of 5

Southampton (London), England

5 out of 5

Le Havre (Paris), France

5 out of 5

Portland (Weymouth), England, UK

5 out of 5

Cobh (Cork), Ireland

5 out of 5

Ponta Delgada, Azores Did not visit port

Harbor master took a small ship in to port in out time slot. Winds pickup I the next hour and we could not get in.

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Royal Naval Dockyard, West End, Bermuda

5 out of 5

Great Stirrup Cay (Cruise Line Private Island), Bahamas

3 out of 5

Needs a dock. It took the tender 3 hours to get everyone in. Our time was cut big time because of it.

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Miami, Florida

1 out of 5

It was a wasted day. By the time you get though customs you don’t have time to do anything. Should have stayed longer at port. 1:30 pm all on board was not to have any fun at this port.

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New Orleans, Louisiana

3 out of 5

Disembarkation

3 out of 5

Hurry up and wait like most of the cruise.

4 Comments

yk07us 5 years ago

We were on the same cruise and I agree with most of your points. The European ports were excellent, we took excursions in all of them and each was great. No London or Paris of course. We went to Rouen, Salisbury and Stonehenge and Bath instead. I still can't understsnd the whole Miami debacle. We went through border control at 9 am as we had an excursion, very promptly. Why we had to try to leave the port at 2 pm if it's NCL's home port and we were the only ship in town? Why not give us the whole day in Miami?Something was missing in preparation and arrangements. 4000 people had to board the ship at the same time through a single exit. It was a huge mess. The weather and waves didn't bother us at all. It was our second time on the Getaway, we enjoyed our previous cruise on her much more. And, this was our 3d TA cruise and it can't compare to 2 earlier cruises with Celebrity and Princess. We like NCL and have cruised mostly with them but the quality is not what it used to be, very little excitement.

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daviddaut 5 years ago

I was on this ship 1 year ago. We had our best cruise out of the eight we have taken so far. I am sorry you had a bad experience.

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daddydoug11 5 years ago

The ONLY problem we had on this ship in January 2018, were the "drink runners" at pool area...they never came over to us, even while waiving $10 bills in the air. The last sea day is when they decided they were ready for us...because all their "regulars" weren't around. We told them sorry, your ship has sailed, we needed you 6 days ago. We went and got our drinks like we did all week.

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SueJeremy 5 years ago

I’ve been on this ship twice and my experience was the complete opposite. I would give it another try if I were you.

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