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Norwegian Jade Cruise Review to Europe - Eastern Mediterranean

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 16

Overall rating:

2.2 out of 5
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Norwegian Jade

9 Night Eastern Mediterranean (Athens Roundtrip)

Sail date: March 30, 2023

Ship: Norwegian Jade

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 10112

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

Worst cruise of my life and was supposed to be the cruise of a life time. Very disappointing

Embarkation

1 out of 5
Could have been more organized and explained better

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
Food was ok in dining room, specialty dining was ok… buffets were best. Drink package dint include bottled water and they wouldn’t give a can of soda to take to room. Horrible and not worth the money.

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
Looked forward to doing the spa and they doubled the prices… not worth it! They have made it not even worth cruising any longer. Shows were mediocre at best.

Entertainment

1 out of 5
Shows were Mediocre at best

Service and Staff

3 out of 5
Staff was professional

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
Ship was clean and laid out well

Cabin / Stateroom

1 out of 5
For the price… should have been a larger balcony. It was kept clean but don’t understand why no turn down service? All the joy of cruising towel animals, candies on pillows, etc) are gone. Not cabin stewards fault… ships fault.

Ship tip

Pick another cruise line.. Norwegian nickel and dimes everything.

Ports of call

Piraeus (Athens), Greece

1 out of 5

Volos, Greece

1 out of 5
Waste of time

Istanbul, Turkey

5 out of 5
Favorite city in the world but this was my 11th time there

Kusadasi (Ephesus), Turkey

5 out of 5
Again been several times before

Rhodes, Greece

3 out of 5
Cute, quaint island

HERAKLION, CRETE, GREECE

2 out of 5
I heard Crete is amazing, our port was not. Very disappointed

Mykonos, Greece

4 out of 5
Beautiful but disappointing that we were not able to rent cars and explore more of the island

Santorini, Greece

5 out of 5
Amazing and beautiful

Disembarkation

1 out of 5
Horrible-had to wait for everyone transferring to the hotel
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8 Comments

cruisevacayers    1 year ago

I'm glad you liked most of the excursions. We're they organized? We are booked on her in November.

javawoody    1 year ago

Wonderful itinerary,too bad you were disappointed

mercruisessolo    1 year ago

A lot of this seems to be complaints about things you didn’t research ahead of time. It was announced that they are reducing cabin service to once per day months ago, the service charges and what’s included in the drink package is easily found online and clearly identified in the fine print if you do appropriate research.

kpm3261    1 year ago

All cruise lines have cut back on everything not just Norwegian

AuntPinkie    1 year ago

Appreciate your feedback. Sorry this cruise was so very disappointing.

cruising2004    1 year ago

So sorry you were disappointed with your cruise. Hopefully any future cruises will be more satisfactory.

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Oops sorry 😞 thanks

michelleb1127    1 year ago

Sorry you didn't enjoy. We enjoyed our trip on the Jade this past October. Unfortunately, all the major mainstream cruise lines are reducing service to the cabin to once a day and making other cutbacks due to the debt they took on during the shutdown.