Food too poor, not organized

Norwegian Pearl Cruise Review to North America

jill198751

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 4-6 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 13

Overall rating:

2 out of 5

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Vancouver, Canada to Los Angeles, USA

Sail date: September 26, 2016

Ship: Norwegian Pearl

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 5599

Traveled as: Family (older children)

Reviewed: 8 years ago

Review summary

Food has very limited options. Buffet foods are the same every day... Only the main dinning restaurant maintains good standard of food tastes, other restaurants serve very crappy foods. Limited varieties.

I don't enjoy the free style of the ship. Less organized, less fun. People come and go. The disembarkment at San Fran was chaotic. We were made to wait in line for 2.5 hours outside of the ship, in the cold outdoor.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ship tip

dont go to other restaurants to dine. It is terrible! Only stay in summer palace. This restaurant is good.

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Ports of call

Vancouver (Canada Place), British Columbia

5 out of 5

San Francisco, California

1 out of 5

Long Beach (Los Angeles), California

3 out of 5

5 Comments

mustang06 8 years ago

The only thing I like food wise was the Salmon

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cruznvacay 8 years ago

I hear people say they wait hours and hours in line for norweigan.. this will be my first cruise with ncl and we have a suite *not a mini suite* i heard that helps with boarding??? that there pis a fast boarding when u have a suite. is that true? I pray after reading about food from ur comments that the speciality food restaurants are decent as we have those for every night.

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2CrazyCruisers 8 years ago

Forget the feed back write to NCL I doubt NCL see's anything from feed back.

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mdefields 8 years ago

We thoroughly enjoyed the food options on this cruise and loved the free style aspect. Not sure I would want to cruise any other way as the herd mentality just doesn't appeal to us. We had many specific dietary needs and all were catered to very well with lots of options. Traveling with teens made us appreciate freestyle even more. Our only issue was a very pushy room steward and, while our feedback about this was provided to NCL, there has been a complete failure on their part to respond which I find unacceptable.

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caddis 8 years ago

Sailed 3 times on the Pearl. 14 meal venues is more than enough for me

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