Awesome Carribean Cruise With Cuba Stop

Item: Norwegian Sun
Rating: 4.5
Author: lstout

Norwegian Sun Cruise Review to Cuba

lstout

Contributor Level: Purser

Cruises: 7+ cruises

Review: 1

Helpful Votes: 7

Overall rating:

4.5 out of 5

13 Night Cuba & Caribbean Adventures (Miami Roundtrip)

Sail date: October 30, 2018

Ship: Norwegian Sun

Cabin type: Balcony

Cabin number: 0225

Traveled as: Couple

Reviewed: 5 years ago

Review summary

I was really pleased with the total experience! I would not want to go to Santa Marta again and really would prefer not to have 4 days at sea again (gets really boring) but otherwise this was a great cruise!

Embarkation

5 out of 5

Ship experiences

Food and Dining

4 out of 5

Onboard Activities

4 out of 5

Sun Club Casino

2 out of 5

There was too much smoking going on in this casino for me to stay in there! Plus the smoke smell was wafting up into the 6th floor and other open areas!

Entertainment

3 out of 5

Service and Staff

5 out of 5

Ship Quality

5 out of 5

Cabin / Stateroom

5 out of 5

Ship tip

Book excursions with cruise line so you don't get left at a port! Many of them got back late!

Thumbs up

Ports of call

HAVANA, CUBA

5 out of 5

Great opportunity to visit this formerly "forbidden" country. Was amazed and saddened to see living conditions of the people and the crumbling condition of many old, but beautiful buildings!

Thumbs Up 2

Harvest Caye, Belize

5 out of 5

Reminded me of Castaway Caye, the Disney private island!

Thumbs Up 4

Coxen Hole, Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras

5 out of 5

Loved how the locals made us feel very welcome!

Thumbs Up 3

Puerto Limon, Costa Rica

4 out of 5

Was a very, very long bus ride to get to our excursion but the guide was great!

Thumbs Up 2

Colon, Panama

5 out of 5

Completely amazed at how clean and nice everything was in this country!

Thumbs Up 2

Cartagena, Colombia

4 out of 5

Beggars and street vendors were a bit too aggressive for my comfort but overall it was a good port to visit.

Thumbs Up 5

Santa Marta, Colombia

2 out of 5

Didn't care for this stop at all! The port is a shipping yard for their coal mining operation and from our balcony we had a "lovely" view of a huge pile of coal! We weren't allowed to walk on the pier at all due to all the industrial operations going on. There were very few excursions offered... luckily we were the only ship in port that day but they made no effort to stagger the buses and everyone was crowded into the museums, shows, etc. at the same time. Would not want to go here again!

Thumbs Up 3

Oranjestad, Aruba

5 out of 5

Had a blast here! Port has LOTS of shopping and many, many excursions to offer. We did the off-roading experience and it was fabulous!

Thumbs Up 9

Disembarkation

5 out of 5

Really appreciated being allowed to stay in our stateroom until time to disembark instead of being required to wait on pool deck or some other common area as other cruise ships have made us do. This, alone, will earn my repeat business from Norwegian!

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graham123 5 years ago

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