Panama canal cruise average at best

Norwegian Star Cruise Review to Panama Canal, Central America

Cruises: 7+ cruises
Review: 1
Helpful Votes: 19

Overall rating:

3 out of 5
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Norwegian Star

14 Night Panama Canal Eastbound (Los Angeles To Miami)

Sail date: January 05, 2018

Ship: Norwegian Star

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 8036

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 6 years ago

Review summary

Was an average cruise and one of our worst! Made tougher due to length of cruise

Embarkation

4 out of 5
Nice to fill out slips at counter while rest of paperwork being processed

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

2 out of 5
Specialty restaurants... Cagneys and Tepanyaki are by far the best In both food and service! The other three were visited twice with fair service at best. Food was ok but service was sugar. The main dining room services were better than done of the specialities.

Bier Garten

4 out of 5

Bartenders were awesome! Knew your name and what you liked to drink!

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5
Bingo, different liquor tastings, pool

Entertainment

2 out of 5
The Las Vegas show and the accapella gro up were by far the best and shouldn't be lumped in but when on a 14 day cruise and only two were great....

Service and Staff

2 out of 5
Waiters were by far some of the worst we have experienced in our 10 cruise history. On the 14 days, only three staff stand out!

Ship Quality

3 out of 5
Hard t o believe it was refurbished in 2015 when seats in Stardust were torn and tattered

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Ship tip

Plan to get your own drinks 95%of time as poor wait staff service.

Ports of call

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

5 out of 5
Did an off ship excursion booked privately and had a blast whale watching! Only way to see whales is on a zodiac

Acapulco, Mexico

1 out of 5
Did ship booked excursion which was misleading. Do not plan to visit this port again!

Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala

1 out of 5
Tour group was too large. Excursion purchased on ship. Would visit Antigua again but book own excursion to tour at own pace. Did rebel and venture off for own lunch as tired of own group and had some great pizza!

San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua

4 out of 5
No excursions. Walked into town and had a blast! Beautiful city and will definitely be going back

Puntarenas, Costa Rica

4 out of 5
Ziplined in a small excursion group booked off the boat and had a blast! Tour guide very knowledgeable and answered any and all questions.. Did walk back into port after and enjoyed

Panama Canal Transit

4 out of 5
Would have enjoyed getting off of the boat if that would have been an option. Nice to have someone on board providing history of canall

Cartagena, Colombia

2 out of 5
Booked excursion through ship. Was late disembarking which shortened advertised excursion time. Booked based on ability to have 40 minutes free time at fort and had 0!! Did not even get to tour all of it with guide. Shopping on old city was promised 2 hours and was that EXCEPT guide took part of that walking to a jewelry store.

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
Of ten cruises, quickest we have done!
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