Won't cruise Norwegian again

Norwegian Star Cruise Review to Europe - Eastern Mediterranean

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Cruises: 2-3 cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 69

Overall rating:

3.9 out of 5

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7 Night Greek Isles (Venice Roundtrip)

Sail date: November 03, 2019

Ship: Norwegian Star

Cabin type: Oceanview

Cabin number: 4626

Traveled as: Large Group

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

While we tried to make the best out of every change the ship made, I still won't go on another Norwegian Cruise. We had no idea about port changes until the day of. Had we known we would have cancelled. The prior cruise had an engine fire at sea, they didnt fix the issue before our cruise. Instead they changed our ports and cancelled another along the way. Don't charge me for your inability to provide what I had originally paid for. Terrible company. Pick a better cruise line like Disney. My overall rating for this cruise is a 3.9....they don't even deserve that high of a rating.

Embarkation

2 out of 5

This is when we got the notice of our port changes.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

5 out of 5

Drinks were great, food at the specialty restaurants that you pay extra for was good. Everything else was mediocre at best.

Onboard Activities

2 out of 5

Pools were closed, fitness center was packed and every other activity cost extra!

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Shows were great, Russian couple did the best job, magician was ok, only went to first show wasn't interested in seeing him again.

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Some servers did an amazing job others ignored us. Some didnt really seem to be enjoying their jobs.

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Ship seemed old, bathroom was clean but things were falling apart.

Cabin / Stateroom

4 out of 5

Size was good, cabin was clean. Our friends room was not cleaned well, they found a tshirt in the drawer that was not theirs and paper in the closet.

Ship tip

Don't do it. Pick Disney or someone else.

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Ports of call

Venice, Italy

5 out of 5

No excursion but Venice is beautiful

Kotor, Montenegro Did not visit port

Was apparently to windy that day. Had our ship actually had both engines I'm sure we would have made it just fine.

Corfu, Greece

5 out of 5

Nice place, wouldn't have chosen to go there.

Santorini, Greece Did not visit port

Again ship was broken

Mykonos, Greece Did not visit port

Ship still broken

Argostoli, Kefalonia, Greece

4 out of 5

Did an excursion which was cancelled so we picked another one. Everything was fine here, wouldn't go back.

Dubrovnik, Croatia

5 out of 5

The best port out of our while trip. We hired a driver who took us arou d and talked about the area. Best day.

Disembarkation

2 out of 5

Easy disembarktion should allow more time to eat and get out of room.

5 Comments

GerryBCruisin 3 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to share your review of the Norwegian Star.

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IzzyW 5 years ago

We were on the cruise the week before and missed Dubrovnik but we enjoyed our cruise and had great weather. Sorry for you that you missed 3 ports...

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cruisereckoning 5 years ago

Sorry for all the problems you seemed to have had.

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Cruiserike0322 5 years ago

Thanks for your review

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DerekMire 5 years ago

Never been on a cruise

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