Enjoyed it but felt NCL had gone downhill since previous cruise.
Norwegian Joy Cruise Review to Canada, New England, New York
10 Night Canada & New England (New York Roundtrip)
Sail date: September 23, 2022
Ship: Norwegian Joy
Cabin number: 13839
Traveled as: Couple
Reviewed: 1 year ago
Review summary
We have just returned from the “hurricane Fiona affected” 10 day Canada cruise on Joy. Our first cruise on NCL since 2017, but we’ve done plenty of others in that time. We paid $1400 each for balcony, with drinks package, 2 specialty meals etc. Marvellous value. 👍. To be honest it was a total impulse buy when we saw the promotion. Overall we thoroughly enjoyed it, great value and the staff were lovely. Our cabin steward was amazing and we filed him as the “special person” with NCL. We would happily rebook with NCL. We thought 2 things were not as good as most of our other cruises in recent years, food and theatre entertainment. (Not the musicians in bars etc). Our first meal was “medallions of beef” and sadly it was like leather. Not all, but a lot of the meat on the ship was tough, although a chicken Parmigiana was lovely. Even the tournedos in the specialty restaurant was far from the delight we had hoped for, although very edible. Likewise much of the fish was overcooked, even the Dover Sole in the ocean blue specialty fish restaurant, which was a shame. But hey, you never starve on a cruise ship!😊 We couldn’t get to see the main Elements theatre show, it was sold out by the time we got into our cabin on day 1. So that may have been brilliant. Footloose was ok and we enjoyed that. Beatles tribute was spoiled (for me) by the Paul Macartney guy, who needs to learn how to sing, not shout! Likewise the Elton John tribute was (again my opinion) dire. We’ve probably attended 100 theatre shows on other cruise lines since 2017, but felt that NCL were the weakest by far. But overall it was a great way to spend 10 days, and NCL did their best given that 2 Canada port stops were wiped out by Fiona. Happily rebook NCL for the next trip. 👍Embarkation
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Don’t go getting excited about the food.