really fun cruise with great ports
Norwegian Jade Cruise Review to Europe - Eastern Mediterranean
Greek Isles & Turkey from Venice
Sail date: July 02, 2011
Ship: Norwegian Jade
Cabin type: Balcony
Traveled as: Family (young children)
Reviewed: 12 years ago
Review summary
this is a very nice ship. very clean. great ports, with croatia, turkey and greece. excellent staff. however, everything on the ship was really, really expensive. also, everyone tried to upsell everything on the ship. also, there is a "cover charge" or forced gratuity charged at the end of the cruise. this amount is 24 dollars a day per person. 12 goes to staff and 12 goes to housekeeping. i don't know about you, but i think 48 dollars per day per room (4 person occupancy) is way, way too high. basically, ncl is forcing us to directly pay their employees. this is simply unfair. also, never actually told us this, so it came as a big suprise.Ship experiences
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Pros: ship, food, people, staff
Cons: expensive, upsell everything, nickel and dimed me to death