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Norwegian Spirit Cruise Review to Europe - Mediterranean

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Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 14

Overall rating:

5 out of 5
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Norwegian Spirit

12 Night Grand Mediterranean (Barcelona To Venice)

Sail date: July 05, 2014

Ship: Norwegian Spirit

Cabin type: Inside

Cabin number: 10021

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 10 years ago

Review summary

Ship, smallest ever stateroom on tenth floor next to elevators, great staff, washy, washy to keep healthy always used and available, fantastic food, great organized shore excursions. I'd rather been taken to Santorini Island so close than to Mykonos though. Just pictures show nicer looking houses. All great places to be seen, very active to go on all possible shore excursions. We had great weather, warmer every day as we went on. To see Venice from the ship was our second experience there. Leaving from Barcelona in the evening gave us the opportunity to still see the city in the morning. We flew from Tampa to London, non stop with British Airways, spend a few days there which was fantastic and assured me luggage would have less chance to be lost. Unforgetfull experience.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Fantastic shows.

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5
The smallest ever, no couch. Husband had to unpack his suitcase, put it into the closet otherwise no room. As he was in the bathwroom, I'd get to the safe or closet, etc...

Ship tip

The restaurants always had room with no hurry to sit outside. Love having part of breakfast being served outside.

Ports of call

Barcelona, Spain

5 out of 5
Hop on hop off

Toulon, France

5 out of 5
St Tropez was great to visit

Livorno (Florence & Pisa), Italy

5 out of 5
Cinque Terre, Manorola, Vernazza, MOnterosso al Mare, fantasti to be

Civitavecchia (Rome), Italy

5 out of 5
Great to stay at the pool by yourself in a very cold and salty water. Had already been to Rome before.

Naples, Italy

5 out of 5
Ice cream, visiting luxurious Capri was unexpected to me.

Mykonos, Greece

5 out of 5
Cute white houses, beach, lunch included in shore excursion, good tour guides all the time.

Istanbul, Turkey

5 out of 5
Great tour guide organization. Not that much impressed with the old city. Great to see Agha Sophia, The palace wealth and the MOsks besides learning some of this culture through the tour guide.

Kusadasi (Ephesus), Turkey

5 out of 5
Ephesus and Terrace HOuses were impressive, better carpet show watching how to get the silk thread.

Piraeus (Athens), Greece

5 out of 5
Better than expected. Well developed, clean, very congested traffic. Warmest weather of all, mainly listening at the Acropole to the 45 standing in the sun tour guide explanation having less free time to have lunch and no time left to peak into stores.

Venice, Italy

5 out of 5
Fantastic transfer to airport by Norwegian, time wise, got an earlier flight. Loved it.
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2 Comments

FrankVaughan    10 years ago

Do not try and cut it close. On our recent Norwegian Jewel cruise a group of passengers missed the departure from Juneau, and had to hire a boat (at their own expense) to chase down the Jewel at Sawyer Glacier.  Big bucks!

 

It is my understanding that if you book an excursion through the ship, they will wait if the excursion is late (the Jewel held for more than an hour in Skagway after the train derailment stranded a number of passengers).  If you book independently, you are on your own.

meganelisereed    10 years ago

My family is getting ready to go on this cruise, and I was just wondering, how much time do you get in the ports? on NCL's site it says you deboard about 2 hours after arriving in port and you have to be back on the boat 2 hours before sailing. is there wiggle room on these times? thank you!

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