2019 Transatlantic

Item: Norwegian Star
Rating: 2.8
Author: Cathybranch

Norwegian Star Cruise Review to Transatlantic

Cathybranch

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 43

Overall rating:

2.8 out of 5

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14 Night Transatlantic Westbound (Barcelona To Miami)

Sail date: November 22, 2019

Ship: Norwegian Star

Traveled as: Singles/Friends

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

Very disappointing experience this year ... ship resources felt lacking and cruise director staff and entertainment felt second class. While we prefer to sail on smaller ships, it appears NCL is putting all resources to larger and newer ships and that feels very wrong

Embarkation

1 out of 5

"Platinum" check in was longer and slower than "regular" check in.

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

1 out of 5

Sad fact that aside from specialty dining, the best food was in the garden cafe ... main dining rooms were just a bad experience.

Onboard Activities

3 out of 5

Some games and Karaoke were fun ... ship entertainment felt second class.

Entertainment

2 out of 5

Very weak compared to other cruises

Service and Staff

3 out of 5

Ship Quality

3 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

3 out of 5

Ship tip

Clearly Norwegian is giving all assets to bigger ships, and this makes me sad

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Ports of call

Barcelona, Spain

3 out of 5

Cadiz (Seville), Spain

3 out of 5

Funchal, Madeira

5 out of 5

Disembarkation

2 out of 5

Left standing on deck because of back log in terminal ... they should have allowed us to sit inside the ship

1 Comment

GerryBCruisin 3 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to share your review of the Norwegian Star. Sorry to hear that you did not have a good experience. The crew can certainly make or break a cruise vacation.

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