Norwegian Breakaway

NCL is amazing

NCL is still my favorite. Their staff are absolutely amazing. Awesome cruise director. Fantastic staff all over the ship. Only one bartender (seemed like he was a manager) in the theater wasn't friendly. Not bad for a 9 day cruise to only find 1 person. Cabin attendant was amazing. The ship was showing signs of age but it went to dry dock right after our trip so I'm sure that will be resolved. It is a great ship though, albeit small balconies. The food was great....of course better in the specialty restaurants. The Noodle place was amazing, and free. Service in all of the dining places was amazing. Main dining rooms were all great and the staff couldn't be more attentive and helpful. On sea days, trying to find a lounge chair on any of the upper decks was impossible after 9AM. Finally on the last day of the cruise, they started red tagging the chairs with times. If it was over 30 minutes, we just took them. The NCL beach excursions were extremely disappointing. (As a side note, a cruise I took on Encore last year, had an equally disappointing beach excursion in St Thomas). I was very much looking forward to Barbados and going to a beach, which was my favorite island until now. I got the Copacabana beach day excursion. The place was in a very run down area. The beach was too small for the number of ships that were in port that day. The "beach club" was a small room with 6 chairs. They claim there's a shower, but it wasn't indoors, so not sure where that was. They claimed there were changing facilities....well that ended up being 2 toilet stalls with no counter or hooks to place your belongings. It was either on the toilet or on the floor. The staff there weren't that friendly and when someone that was on our bus didn't want to sit on the beach where we were told we had to sit, they got combative with her. The woman just ignored them and I think they just gave up. Not customer service friendly at all. We were jammed on the beach like sardines and it wasn't much better in the water. I think there were 4 ships in port that day. But NCL should know that information when they are selling excursions. After that terrible day, we were looking forward to the afternoon beach break in Antigua. We went to the zone where our tickets said to meet. They took our tickets, counted us off about 9 times, put wrist bands on us and off we went. After an hour in a very uncomfortable shuttle bus, we began wondering how far it was to the beach. Then we started to suspect that we were on the wrong excursion. After 1.5 hours we stopped and were given 15 minutes to use the bathroom. We went up to the woman who was our "tour guide" and said we aren't going to the beach, are we? She said no, you're on a 3 hour tour of Antigua. Well needless to say, there were 4 of us in bathing suits that were not happy at all that day. After these disappointments, I am no longer going to purchase NCL excursions. I will be researching and buying my own excursions, based on reviews and info received on cruise critic. I did do a tour of San Juan through NCL and that was a great tour. Great tour guide and nice comfortable transportation. In spite of the excursion problems, I am still all in on NCL. Love this cruise line and its amazing staff. Looking forward to my next one.

A great vacation.

I would like to give a wonderful kudos to our stateroom attendant named Gerald. He took care of 14 of us friends who sailed together on this cruise. We asked him for a coffee pot for our room and instantly there it was. Our safe would not lock properly so i told him and he had a repairman there asap. He was always friendly and called me by name and asked if there was anything we needed. If my hands were full, he would walk me to my door and open it for me. He really seemed to care and want our cruise to be a joyful and pleasant one. The food was delicious every day and we enjoyed the buffet at the Garden Cafe most every day on deck 15. It is such a beautiful view there while you enjoy your meals. We loved the soft dairy ice creams too. Every day. We found ALL of the staff friendly and helpful. This was our second vacation with Norwegian Cruiselines. Thank you for the memories!!!

The best so far.. will be hard to beat.

Excellent itinerary with some very good excursions, our solo organizer Mio was above excellent, fantastic group of people , good ambiance, good show, cabin comfortable, food was good (loved the Indian buffet section) and the crepes at the night buffet that we visited often. Nice bars for our group getting together and lovely promenade where you could have your Ocean Blue meal or your Martini cuddled on chair. just a great trip on a lovely ship that left everyone in our large group smiling. this will be hard to beat according to someone who sent on 50 of them and I agree. I will be on the lookout for another one like this. I would do it again in a heart beat. so many smiles so many wonderful places and the right number of days. I came back from a great vacation having met many friendly people. the staff was also excellent.

I Love NCL Breakaway

Reading these reviews had me so nervous! I hadn’t cruised since the NCL Bliss in December 2019. Before that I had three cruises on the NCL Escape. So, this was the “oldest” ship I had been on, and the reviews were (mostly) not nice! I don’t know where these negative reviews come from, but I had a completely different experience! I had a fabulous time! Embarkation took less than ten minutes. The ship was lovely and so very clean. The staff was exceptional, and so very friendly! Bermuda was fabulous as always! My favorite parts of the ship….the arcade and casino! I’m not a foodie, so the Garden Cafe and Main Dining Rooms were great. Did treat myself to Teppanyaki on the first and last night, always so fun! Disembarkation was simple and easy. Honestly, the best NCL cruise I have been on. I can’t wait to go back! See you in 2025!