Dissappointedmin island stays. Cut short and made no sense.

Norwegian Getaway Cruise Review to Caribbean - Eastern

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 14

Overall rating:

3.7 out of 5
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Norwegian Getaway

12 Night Bermuda & Turks & Caicos (New York Roundtrip)

Sail date: December 21, 2023

Ship: Norwegian Getaway

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 14852

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 10 months ago

Review summary

After sailing NCL now several times will be re-evaluating this experience and probably choosing elsewhere, unless they can modify their schedules and improve rooms.

Embarkation

3 out of 5
Way too long a process.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
Food and dining was perfect

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
Very average at best. But we were not necessarily looking to that many. Would have liked other options like informative lectures (other than sales lectures for items on board), also other activities, ie. Bridge tournaments, golf nets or simulators, etc,

Entertainment

3 out of 5
Would like more general shows, The ones we did attend were wonderful, "millionaire quartet was great, comedy was average at best and no real theater shows as has been on other ships.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

2 out of 5
Way to small no storage space this room was designated as 4 person family room with no drawer space 3 shelves and a extremely small balcony. Compared to other ships was undersized

Ports of call

New York, New York

1 out of 5
All stays were ridiculous. get in way too early (nothing really open) then leave early like 12 or 2 PM. Stupid times. I have cruised over 30 times and never had a ship leave before 5. Really want to visit and do things at a port and to have 4 to 5 hours AT BEST in the early morning only is a waste. EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED. Other ships at same time and same ports stayed later no reason we have leave by 12 to 1 PM or even 2. We were always the first to leave every port. STUPID. They even shortened 2 ports from the advertised times stating due to WHALES. What a crook of BS. Other ships stayed.

Royal Naval Dockyard, West End, Bermuda

1 out of 5
Why go here in the winter . BORING

San Juan, Puerto Rico

5 out of 5

Philipsburg, St. Maarten

5 out of 5
Again way to short a visit

St. John's, Antigua

5 out of 5
Way to short a visit

Basseterre, St. Kitts

5 out of 5

Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas

1 out of 5
This was the worst . In a 7AM leave by 12.00 . No stores even open till 9#0 to 10:00, As for going to beaches not enough time. Even excursions stated this was not goos.

Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic

5 out of 5
too shorta visit

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
We were promised early first off Yellow tags m (6:30-7:00)yet the bags were 2 hours late
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9 Comments

TheBigSalad     10 months ago

Thanks for your review.

1960cruiser     10 months ago

You cruised over 30 times, yet you don't bother to read port schedules, and now somehow it's the cruise lines fault.

bubbles60     10 months ago

We like NCL and the Getaway. I agree with you that lecturers would be great. We have enjoyed them on other cruise lines. Ncl does do a great job in Europe. They maximize port time and have fewer sea days.

Gwbigdog     10 months ago

Thanks for sharing

javawoody     10 months ago

I have noticed NCL port times have been shortened

DessertSteaks     10 months ago

Thanks for sharing

Ruby13     10 months ago

Thank you for sharing your cruise

cruising2004     10 months ago

Sorry you were disappointed however, if you have cruised over 30 times then you should know stuff happens.

JimOhio     10 months ago

Thanks for sharing. Regarding port times, I checked your scheduled itinerary online. Bermuda was 6-1/2 hours. All others were from 7 to 13 hours which doesn't sound short to me. Why did the cruise line shorten the actual port times or didn't you check what they really were and wanted longer?

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