Excellent activities onboard, food so so, no weight gain!

Norwegian Getaway Cruise Review to Caribbean - Southern

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Overall rating:

4.6 out of 5
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Norwegian Getaway

12 Night Southern Caribbean (New York Roundtrip)

Sail date: January 20, 2023

Ship: Norwegian Getaway

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 13296

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

Excellent live music and dancing opportunities. Food was okay. Service was great. Nice ship. However I came home with covid19 and many other folks onboard had covid19 or strep throat and stomach flu tooo!

Embarkation

4 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5
Cagney is excellent. Twice with a huge ribeye with cool sides not hot not timely. Moderno Brazilian we walked out no charge absolutely terrible. Le Bistro decent. La Cucina Italian was adequate. Shanghai noodles bar very good but smoke from casino and Texas hold ‘em tournament ruined the meal. Very noisy and Smokey. Savor resteraunt was decent and some meals better than the specialty restaurant. O Sheehan pub was fantastic for breakfast and lunch. Sadly they change chicken wings are now like baked and terrible but we gained no weight as the dancing was excellent and food mediocre. Only visiting buffet a few times as it was overflowing with overflowing cruisers. Plates piled with tons of food is a pretty big turnoff!

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5
Alvin the Cruise Director was everywhere and ran the best theme parties in Spice H20. Band Zenhitt with Amazing Marsha and 3 others from Jamaica 🇯🇲 were excellent with reggae and Motown and ABBA tribute! Dancing by pool and in atrium and in Bliss lounge too. Duo Latin band was great in sugarcane mojitos bar with dancing in front of the band and in hallway too. Wonderful. 3 different comedians but sadly same material in every show, they all said they had different acts but repeated everything so see em once and done. Rumors tribute band was great but venues too small. Burn the floor dancing show outstanding and dancers taught us too, plus bonus show in Tropicana dining room but food and service there was horrible. Daniela of activities staff was great and taught us dancing and a Zumba type class. Daniel in gym with wonderful stretch class daily at 7 am followed with abs class at 7:30 am. Enjoyed the rope course wishing we did it again. We did 20,000 steps dancing most days. Bravo to activities staff and live music. Most recent cruise prior in May on RCL adventure was boring with silent disco and nausea karaoke nightly. Ncl has the best activities available on the High Seas!

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Live bands excellent dancing opportunities excellent shows great including million dollar quartet and burn the floor.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Room steward was nice and efficient. Wait staff were decent. Bar service by pool excellent.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
Decent clean.

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Very nice and easy to navigate 2 floors up buffet.

Ship tip

Smiles are met with smiles!

Ports of call

New York, New York

5 out of 5
Easy peasy used Trinity reservations for park sleep cruise and cost $423.00 hotel and dedicated suv round trip

San Juan, Puerto Rico

3 out of 5
Short time just walking around.

Basseterre, St. Kitts

5 out of 5
Cab ride to sneaky Pete’s beach bar. Dickerson bay right by sandals resort. Marvelous!

Bridgetown, Barbados

5 out of 5
Cab to the Boatyard beach bar and snorkeling with sea turtles and ship wrecks. Wonderful get their early. Dancers from burn the floor were there toooo!

Castries, St. Lucia Did not visit port

Change port Ncl

St. John's, Antigua

5 out of 5
Carambola beach club and snorkeling from shore

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

5 out of 5
Catamaran and snorkeling buck island excellent

Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

3 out of 5
Cab to Puerto plata beach adequate

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
Easy peasy
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