Norwegian Jewel Reviews
View Cruise DealsThe ship was great. Staff friendly, had a great holiday.
The cruise was excellent. Food was excellent, as was the service on board. Overall excellent experience.
Overall an excellent experience; the ship was to a high standard and would definitely cruise with NCL again. The whole package worked really well.
Had a lovely time.
Very impressed with Igloo everything came together seamlessly great documentation, good choice of hotels, transfers on time exceeded our expectationsNCL cruise overall very good, great suite accommodation, service & foodWe enjoyed all locations & excursions apart from Ho Chi Min city
A very enjoyable cruise. Everything went smoothly and to plan. Hotels were superb. Would definitely recommend Iglu cruises.
Some area's on the ship were far too cold for my wife and sister - air conditioning on too low.A couple of the Speciality Restaurants were not up to the desired standard, especially the Italian - La Cuccina. Disappointed at the lack of formality in the dining rooms, especially in the evenings. No formal nights, or Captains nights, being a definite disappointment.Most of the shore excursions were fully booked by the time we got on board the ship. They were also extremely expensive for what they entailed. We soon learnt that you could do the same itinerary on your own by taxi or local transport at a fraction of the cost charged by NCL.The Internet on board the ship was very slow and mainly of a poor standard.The nightly entertainment was disappointing, with only 3 live shows in 11 days taking place in the very nice theatre.The crew were mostly excellent, and the service was on the whole first class.
Thoroughly enjoyed our cruise on NCL Norwegian Jewel. Staff were helpful. The choice of food and quality in the various restaurants was excellent. Especially Cagney’s. Our Balcony cabin was first rate . We would advise anyone going on this cruise or any other to book excursions in advance. Some we would have liked to go on were sold out., which was disappointing. Having said that those we did go on were very good with great guides. The entertainment was disappointing compared to other cruise ships. We were very impressed with our hotels in Tokyo and Taipei. They were first class. The taxi pick ups in Tokyo were excellent. We had a blip at Keelung port as our names were not shown for a taxi pick up. But eventually after almost two hrs wrangling, a taxi driver took pity on us and drove us to our hotel in Taipei. We Must say that all in all our trip to Japan /Taiwan was a great success and would recommend Iglu cruise.
The ship was extremely well presented and the food was very good. However, we feel that a major part of a great cruise is the entertainment. Quite frankly the entertainment was extremely disappointing compared to other cruise lines we have sailed with. To give an example, we were onboard for 11 nights and for 3 of those NCL saw fit to show a movie in the theatre as the main attraction. It wouldn’t have been too bad if the films had all been new but one of the was Hocus Pocus, first shown in 1993! Unfortunately NCL relied too much on the permanent entertainers who are there to simply provide atmosphere in the bars. We did see the dance troupe present 2 shows during the 11 days but sadly both shows were the same - “we will rock you”.
It's our first cruise so we are very new to its The ship was very nice and the food and service was excellent.