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Norwegian Jade Cruise Review to North America

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Contributor Level: Deck Hand

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 59

Overall rating:

5 out of 5

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Transatlantic

Sail date: April 30, 2017

Ship: Norwegian Jade

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 9046

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 7 years ago

Review summary

Loved trip itself but changes to staterooms while upgrading rooms are not very good. Less storage and more useless space. No place to sit with good lighting to apply makeup-- must have been redesigned by a man. But enjoyed bathroom setup.

Seating in buffet inadequate and the ship allows people to sit and play cards and games( taking up many tables) during peak meal hours. went to the main dining room meals after several days of milling around looking for seating without success.

Good entertainment.

Casino seemed like an afterthought to the layout of the ship.

People at the main desk not very knowledgeable or maybe just not willing to help.Only ship I have ever been on that did not have postcard stamps and so I was told to ask a local onshore to mail the cards for me. This is unacceptable.

Also thought ship should have supplied maps of the towns where we were stopping like every other cruise I have ever been on, The lack of maps seemed to me like a petty attempt by the cruise line to get back at customers that did not schedule shore excursions.

Cruise director's staff was wonderful as was our cabin steward Marvin.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Onboard Activities

5 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Need a place to sit with good lighting to apply makeup' Also some sort of small table would be nice so we could have had room service delivered and had a place to set the food other than the bed. New TV armoire setup is useless-- can't use the desk part at all and storage part is basically useless. Should have made the little stool into a small hamper since the seat was removable. Replace safe as buttons were so worn that it took 3 or 4 tries at pushing the buttons to get them to work.

Ship tip

Garden cafe has limited seating so try to use sit down dining room especially at breakfast and lunch.

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Ports of call

Tampa, Florida

3 out of 5

1 Comment

LobsterPot 7 years ago

I wasn't crazy on the monopolising of buffet tables for cards, reading, tablets, etc either. I've seen it on other TAs and assumed it was an 'old folks' thing. We often found ourselves going to the outdoor tables at the stern of the ship. Hadn't sailed the Jade before so not sure what if any changes had taken place within the cabins. We were in 3 over the 21 day trip and all had adequate storage, etc. We were actually delighted to not receive the Diamonds International, DelSol nonsense at the transatlantic ports of call. We saw folks buying postcards, didn't even know they still made them... ðð

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