Ship Issues Were Disappointing

Norwegian Star Cruise Review to Caribbean - Western

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Reviews: 3
Helpful Votes: 120

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Norwegian Star

6 Night Western Caribbean (Tampa Roundtrip)

Sail date: October 19, 2015

Ship: Norwegian Star

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 5128

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 9 years ago

Review summary

The Star was supposed to leave Tampa at 4:00 pm - we were finally underway at 4:00 AM!  The soft serve ice cream machine did not work but about an hour during the whole trip!  The menus in both dining rooms were boring - quality of the food was fine but I went on a cruise and ate fried chicken and steak and spaghetti!  Not up to our usual cruise dining plans!  The bars were very understaffed - did not drink much because I did not want to spend all of my time in line!  Entertainment was "ok" - dancers were great but female lead singer was just bad (sorry).  The best entertainment on the boat was the comedian - wish we could have seen him more than once.  No sports bar on the boat so instead of watching college and pro football we watched European soccer!  One bright spot - and it was WONDERFUL- was the Mandera Spa area.  We loved the bubbly pool and the lap pool!  Staff in spa was 10+.  Had some great excursions at the ports.  The ship just did not represent the Norwegian cruise line well.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5
Menus lack variety

Onboard Activities

1 out of 5
The daily newsletter needed to list inroom movie titles and times. Often couldn't find anything to do of interest!

Entertainment

1 out of 5
Lacking

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
Mark was our cabin steward and he did a great job! Spa staff was excellent!

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
Clean and spacious

Ship tip

I was a little concerned about being on 5th floor but we had some pretty rough seas a couple of days and we slept like babies! It was actually very convenient especially when going ashore for excursions.

Ports of call

Tampa, Florida

5 out of 5

Coxen Hole, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

5 out of 5

Costa Maya (Mahahual), Mexico

5 out of 5

Cozumel, Mexico

5 out of 5
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1 Comment

tampaterri    9 years ago

its funny we couldn't understand one word the lead singer sang.

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