Had a great time!

Item: Norwegian Jewel
Rating: 4
Author: Steenabear

Norwegian Jewel Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Steenabear

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 34

Overall rating:

4 out of 5

Verified Review

7 Night Western Caribbean (New Orleans Roundtrip)

Sail date: January 19, 2014

Ship: Norwegian Jewel

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 4549

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 10 years ago

Review summary

We really enjoyed our cruise. The weather was perfect and the ports were awesome. The food was really good overall, there were only a few meals where i didn't have something that i didn't care for. Oh, but we were annoyed by one of the complimentary restaurants called Tsar's Palace. It had the exact same food as Azura (the other complimentary restaurant) but they had a stricter dress code for seemingly no reason. My husband and I both showed up wearing jeans and t shirts for dinner because we didn't know about the dress code and they said that I could come in and sit down and wait for him to go all the way back to our room and change. So we went to the other restaurant instead. The buffet probably had the best food and the most variety for all meals. The casino was fun, but I wish they had more than one blackjack table with a $5 minimum. There were constantly people hovering around the one $5 minimum table and it was hard to get a seat. Also, although there were lots of activites on the ship, most of the ones I wanted to do all took place at the same time. Other cruises I've done would have stuff like line dance classes in the mid morning/afternoon and not at night when the evening shows are going on. We paid extra to eat at the Teppanyaki restaurant, Chin Chin (chinese) and Moderno (Brazilian steakhouse) and all three of them were definitely worth the money. Hope this helps!

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

I was surprised at how many things you had to pay extra for. I understand having to pay extra for activities like a pub crawl, but they even charged extra for a galley tour. I've never had a cruise line charge for that before.

Entertainment

5 out of 5

The activities were fun but not spaced out well. There would be hours of nothing and then two or three things I liked all at once.

Children's Programs

Don't have kids, didn't participate. Seemed to have lots of stuff for them though.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Small rooms, but that's to be expected.

Ship tip

The pools are always less crowded in the mornings on the day that we're in port. Also, the lines for dinner are always really long around 815, after the first evening show gets out.

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