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Norwegian Pearl Cruise Review to Alaska - Inside Passage

Cruises: 2-3 cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 17

Overall rating:

2 out of 5
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Norwegian Pearl

7 Night Alaska Glacier Bay (Seattle Roundtrip)

Sail date: July 12, 2015

Ship: Norwegian Pearl

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 9155

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 9 years ago

Review summary

I liked my other cruise lines better, was not very informative about what was going on until the last two days, confusing on what floor to get off for the excursions wasn't announced the first two days

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
It was the same stuff every day, all about exercising, it got real boring

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Loved the gentleman that cleaned, I think his name was Charlie, very very nice, he was the greatest

Ship tip

Didn't care for the food that much, it was to salty, wasn't very hot

Ports of call

Seattle, Washington

3 out of 5

Juneau, Alaska

5 out of 5

Skagway, Alaska

5 out of 5

Cruise Glacier Bay

5 out of 5

Ketchikan, Alaska

5 out of 5

Victoria, British Columbia

1 out of 5
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4 Comments

hkpben8    9 years ago

MrChocoholic    9 years ago

Wow. Makes me think that once this ship leaves Miami and the Caribbean for Alaska and the Frozen Northwest things go completely to hell. That's a shame, really, because my experience aboard Pearl as a solo cruiser was wonderful. We all know salty food sells drinks, yet I didn't particularly notice excessive salt in anything I ate. Not everything was delicious (those ground pork patties were garbage) but oversalted--no. No one seemed to have a difficult time getting on or off the ship in the Bahamas. 

PAJeannie    9 years ago

I was on the same cruise and can verify that no information was provided as to the deck location of the port debarkation gangways.  I have all the Freestyle Dailies and it wasn't listed in them.  No in-cabin announcements were made either.  Lots of people were confused and going to the wrong decks.  Other than that I thought the cruise was great.

 

CrusinTim    9 years ago

So, in other words, for the entire 8 days you never got a copy of the "Freestyle Daily" delivered to your cabin? The FD explains the things you are ranting about such as daily happenings onboard and debarkation gangways in port. There is no "Floor" (deck) for port excursions only. You leave the ship in port where everyone else does.

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