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Norwegian Jade Cruise Review to Europe - Eastern Mediterranean

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Review: 1
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Overall rating:

3.6 out of 5
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Norwegian Jade

9 Night Eastern Mediterranean (Athens Roundtrip)

Sail date: April 17, 2023

Ship: Norwegian Jade

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 10552

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

Cruise started poorly with no record of shuttle reservations for two separate bookings, very rude NCL rep at airport. Guest service staff condescending and not helpful. Room steward? Hit and miss. Food complimentary main dining and garden cafe ; Service. excellent! Selections: repetitive and uninspired. Itinerary was Excellent Ship was clean but I would not recommend

Embarkation

3 out of 5
Not very organized

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
Mediocre at best. The main dining room staff and garden cafe chef staff were wonderful, but the offerings were repetitive. For the first 2/3 of the cruise vegetables limited to asparagus, carrots, onions, peppers zucchini and corn on the cob. The reuben sandwiches had no corned beef, sauerkraut was always dry.

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
fitness centre didn’t have much in the line of pilates equipment

Entertainment

3 out of 5
The main performances Elements and Country show were excellent. The rest of the venues and performances were okay.

Children's Programs

No kids

Service and Staff

3 out of 5
Room steward was the worst in 20 years of cruising. the guest service staff aloof and condescending. Failure of NCL to provide shuttle service purchased for 5 of us being told at the airport there was no record of anyone coming from Air France booked by cruise line! Never Again! Basically inferred we lied, had to prove taxi receipt.

Ship Quality

4 out of 5
Very clean

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
sofabed touched main bed, never made up, basically room was wall to wall bed, not suitable for 3.

Ship tip

Choose another ship or cruise line.

Ports of call

Piraeus (Athens), Greece

4 out of 5

Ashdod, Israel

5 out of 5

HAIFA (JERUSALEM), ISRAEL

5 out of 5

Limassol, Cyprus

4 out of 5

Rhodes, Greece

4 out of 5

Kusadasi (Ephesus), Turkey

5 out of 5

Istanbul, Turkey

5 out of 5

Mykonos, Greece

3 out of 5

Disembarkation

4 out of 5
self serve went well
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3 Comments

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

michelleb1127    1 year ago

Sorry, you didn't have a good experience. We had the best steward ever back in October on the Jade but there have been staff reductions since then. We used a private transfer service.

cruisevacayers    1 year ago

Sorry to hear about poor food and service, and the other troubles. How were those excursions to far off lands? Organized or not? We are scheduled to on her in November.

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