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Norwegian Sky Cruise Review to Caribbean - Bahamas

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Reviews: 2
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Overall rating:

4.4 out of 5
Norwegian Sky

5 Night Great Stirrup Cay/Key West/Bahamas (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: February 13, 2019

Ship: Norwegian Sky

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 0136

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Great adult cruise. Minimal kids and all adults behaved!

Embarkation

5 out of 5
Smooth and organized

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5
We dined every option available. The buffet was where it's at for breakfast! There are 3 main buffet lines with the one in the back of the ship being hotdogs and burgers the entire time. We ate at Cagneys Steakhouse on Valentine's Day and it was good, but nothing you can't get for free in the main dining rooms. P.s...it cost two of us $104.00 for each a glass of wine, each a crab cake, a steak, a salmon, and each a dessert. We ate at the Palace main dining room which was also very good and free of charge. We also ordered once in The Local. Also good and free of extra charge. It was like dine-and-dash! All good food. You can't get bad food here.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5
We saw Showdown. Very good 30-something minute show. We also spent some hours in the casino (because I love it). Not everyone's cup of tea, but a great time spender for me.

Entertainment

3 out of 5
See above.

Children's Programs

No kids

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
All were great except the guy in guest services, ironically enough. We could not get our key cards to work right in the casino and ship store, so after 3 trips and 2 new room keys each, we made a 4th trip down to guest services in a 30 minute span. The guy with the glasses butt into our conversation with another worker and more or less shoed us away and told us it was now a casino issue and not his. Pissed off, we went to customer servicd in the casino. A younger man had patience of a saint as he sat at a machine with us and made numerous calls to customer account holdings. He got our cards to work! Love him!

Ship Quality

5 out of 5
There have been many many complaints on cruiseline of tge ship stinking and being dirty. Not once did we smell or see anything that shouldn't be there. Even the casino smelled brand new everyday when not in use, I would know because I smoke. We were very impressed.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5
Small, but clean and cool and much appreciated after a hot day on the beach.

Ship tip

Don't forget about the kiddie pool and hot tub on 12 forward! Nobody there while the pool area was overflowing.

Ports of call

Miami, Florida

3 out of 5
It was rainy and cold all day of embarkation.

Key West, Florida

4 out of 5
Set up an excursion. Not a lot to do if you don't shop.

Freeport, Grand Bahama Island

5 out of 5
Did not initially have an excursion set up, but ran into the transport vans taking people all over. We went to Taino Beach and it was by far the best day. A little expensive of a day, but worth it!

Great Stirrup Cay (Cruise Line Private Island), Bahamas

5 out of 5
Free Drinks!

Nassau, Bahamas

5 out of 5
We went to Blue Lagoon beach day and lunch. It was quite fast as we didn't get there until about 11am, then were headed back at 2:15. Perfect little beach though. It was not overly crowded or busy.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Much faster than we thought it would be. We got to the airport 30 minutes ahead of schedule.
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