Nice Northern Europe route. Be prepared to miss a couple of ports due to weather

Norwegian Star Cruise Review to Europe - Northern Europe

Cruises: 4-6 cruises
Reviews: 4
Helpful Votes: 80

Overall rating:

4.5 out of 5
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Norwegian Star

Greenland, Iceland & Norway to Reykjavik

Sail date: August 26, 2023

Ship: Norwegian Star

Cabin number: 12530

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 1 year ago

Review summary

This is a nice itinerary especially if you do not want to do these places in tow separate cruises. But I think it is slightly long and with most places looking kind of similar, you may get some "Fjord fatigue" towards the second half when you go to Icelandic Fjords. There are 6 ports that use tendering boats to get ashore and is always a pain especially when there is high winds. We skipped two ports due to bas weather. While no one was complaining as safety was the primary concern..

Embarkation

5 out of 5
I had the Suite - so it was a VIP embarkation

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

3 out of 5
Not enough choices for Vegetarian or Vegan. We also saw that the veg dishes were mixed up with a no-veg dishes and there was a lot of cross contamination which rendered the veg options useless

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Entertainment

5 out of 5
Good Shows this time

Service and Staff

5 out of 5
This was certainly the highlight - the staff were absolutely fantastic and helpful in spit of the difficulties

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5
This is probably one of the largest cabins in this category. We loved every aspect, the size, location and certainly the service

Ship tip

It is one of the smaller ships, so there are advantages with lesser people, but also some disadvantages with the ship rocking with some wind / waves

Ports of call

Tromso, Norway

5 out of 5

Harstad, Norway

5 out of 5

Alesund, Norway

5 out of 5

Bergen, Norway

5 out of 5

Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland

4 out of 5

South Queensferry (Edinburgh), Scotland

3 out of 5

Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland

5 out of 5

Torshavn, Faroe Islands

4 out of 5
The location itself was great - we just had bad weather and icy rains with wind when we were there

Djupivogur, Iceland Did not visit port

We had to skip this port due to bad weather

Seydisfjordur, Iceland

5 out of 5
Do not miss the "Chasing the Waterfalls" excursion

Akureyri, Iceland

5 out of 5

Isafjordur, Iceland

4 out of 5
Very small place, but still they made good use of the time. Excellent weather when we went there and it helped

Grundarfjordur, Iceland Did not visit port

Another port that was skipped due to inclement weather

Reykjavik, Iceland

4 out of 5

Disembarkation

5 out of 5
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4 Comments

CruzenTime    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing. Going on a similar itinerary next May.

DessertSteaks    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

Gwbigdog    1 year ago

Thanks for sharing

bubbles60    1 year ago

Interesting itinerary. Glad you had a good trip.